The notoriously anti-Israel New York Times published an apology on Monday for blaming Israel for the explosion at a Gazan hospital last week that was subsequently proven by multiple sources, including US defense officials, to have been the result of a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group.
The pathetic apology refers to “Hamas government officials” – lending legitimacy to a band of savage terrorists who beheaded babies and carried out mass rapes and murders – and refers to another band of barbarous terrorists – the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group – as a “Palestinian faction group.” It also calls the members of the group “fighters” rather than “terrorists” – a term that even the BBC has finally agreed to use regarding Hamas.
It should be noted that both terror groups are on the official US State Department’s list of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
In response to the apology, Israel’s Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism Michal Cotler-Wunsh wrote: “The New York Times published ‘facts’ from Hamas genocidal terrorists who days before perpetrated atrocities in an assault on humanity. Murder, rape, burning alive, abduction…& published on front page of a ‘newspaper’.”
“Sorry doesn’t cut it.”
Read the apology below:
On Oct. 17, The New York Times published news of an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City, leading its coverage with claims by Hamas government officials that an Israeli airstrike was the cause and that hundreds of people were dead or injured. The report included a large headline at the top of The Times’s website.
Israel subsequently denied being at fault and blamed an errant rocket launch by the Palestinian faction group Islamic Jihad, which has in turn denied responsibility. American and other international officials have said their evidence indicates that the rocket came from Palestinian fighter positions.
The Times’s initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the blast. However, the early versions of the coverage — and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels — relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified. The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was.
The Times continued to update its coverage as more information became available, reporting the disputed claims of responsibility and noting that the death toll might be lower than initially reported. Within two hours, the headline and other text at the top of the website reflected the scope of the explosion and the dispute over responsibility.
Given the sensitive nature of the news during a widening conflict, and the prominent promotion it received, Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified. Newsroom leaders continue to examine procedures around the biggest breaking news events — including for the use of the largest headlines in the digital report — to determine what additional safeguards may be warranted.”
In addition to its lack of ethical journalistic standards evident in its reporting on the explosion, the New York Times recently rehired Gazan-based journalist Soliman Hijjy, a videographer who was let go in the past due to his social media posts praising Hitler for his hatred of Jews.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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13 Responses
What’s so surprising to do this all the time!
The question is, what is anyone with a connection to Jewdisim still support this paper ??
For those who must have a secular newspaper, buy The Wall Street Journal. Their reporting and editorial is easier on the stomach… If you still have a subscription to the NYT cancel it! Don’t allow this Hamas propaganda paper to contaminate your home. Even their apology, after causing untold harm to Israel and Jews in the US, is back handed and insufficient. The only sincere apology that will be accepted us if they change their anti-semitic stance and reflect it in the way they report news from the middle east.
Ny times coverage is based on an eagerness to fault Israel. the apology is not sufficient because they have not changed their eagerness to find fault with Israel which was and is at the root of their coverage.
If they did not have to, they would not of issued this apology because they don’t want to.
The NYT apology is obviously missing more than it contains. Yes, this anti-Semitic and immoral schmatte richly deserves to be on the receiving end of major consequences. However, we should not be fooled that boycotting the paper and cancelling subscriptions will have any impact. There is another avenue that needs to be coonsidered that will have far more impact. Look for their big advertisers, and boycott them. There is much more income coming from advertising than from subscriptions. I wish to see this schmatte go bankrupt and cease spewing and publicizing their immoral views of the world. They have proven to be a leader in media becoming liberal, woke, immoral, and anti-Jewish billboards, and an utter failure at reporting fact and news.
This is something I don’t understand. Do any of these papers actually have reporters on the ground in Gaza? Or is all there information coming from Hamas? How can I actually get unbiased news media on what’s happening in Gaza?
Call 1-800-698-4637 and demand an apology. This will help jam their lines and cost them money as it is an 800 number that they pay for incoming calls.
You had me at the change to armed militants / Hamas soldiers from terrorists.
I don’t visit ever NYT, today’s version of Der Stürmer. I only know know about their despicable practices from other outlets such as this one.
Why is the NY Times the only newspaper that the frum community, together with the Agudah, can run campaigns with outdoor advertisements and social media for it’s anti-semitic coverage during it’s reporting into the Hasidic Yeshiva system and still get surprised when they continue to print Anti-Semitic coverage ? It is no longer surprising.
To end a headline in “Palestinians say”does not make it honest journalism. Palestinians also say that Jews are vermin and must be eradicated. Printing something that is true is not journalism. Even the final version after all their emendations is still slanted
From the end of the piece, they basically are saying that their primary objective is to write attention-grabbing headlines, but they recognize that they also have to maintain “journalistic standards”.
On June 1, 2006, former New York City mayor Ed Koch
wrote an opinion piece in the [New York] Times
titled “The New York Times’ Anti-Israel Bias,”
asserting that “the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]
and the New York Times consistently carry news
stories and editorials that are slanted against Israel
and sympathetic to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.”
SOURCE: Unfreedom of the Press
(chapter 6, page 157) by Mark R. Levin,
published by Threshold Editions, year 2019, NYC,
ISBN 9781476773094 * ISBN 1476773092
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“One [New York] Times opinion editor, Matt Seaton,
even admitted last year [2014 CE] that the newspaper
has a policy of VEERING AWAY FROM CRITICISM OF PALESTINIANS.”
SOURCE: Final sentence of article titled: “New York Times Editor:
Coverage of Israel Most Criticized Aspect of Opinion Pages”
by Shiryn Ghermezian, 2015 October 14, found in: The Algemeiner.
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Rabbi Benjamin Blech said:
It is time for Jews to say to the New York Times: “we’ve had enough.”
SOURCE: J’Accuse by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, 2014/7/30 www dot AISH dot com
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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky said:
“In the genocidal war being waged against the
Jewish people, the New York Times is an accomplice.”
SOURCE:
A New Low, a blog article by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, 2015/10/29
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Mr. Dennis Prager said:
“The New York Times has been in the forefront
of the Left’s hysterical, hate-filled attacks
on police officers and whites.”
SOURCE: The New York Times and the Left
Have Blood on Their Hands by Dennis Prager,
2016 July 12, www dot JewishWorldReview dot com
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