It’s not that the New York Times gets a lot of stories regarding Israel completely wrong.
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lot → ’ → Israel
It’s that every one of its “mistakes” happens to skew in the exact same ideological direction.
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one → ’ → direction
It’s a statistical miracle.
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It → ’ → ?
“Breaking News,” the New York Times posted on X this week, “a plane flying from Dubai to Israel was diverted after an altercation between the pilot and co-pilot, Israeli officials said.”
The “altercation” entailed what looks to be a radicalized Islamist Flydubai pilot stabbing his Indian co-pilot and attempting to hijack a plane filled with around 180 Israelis aboard and crash it.
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pilot → post → it
He nearly succeeded.
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He → succeed → ?
While the plane plummeted over 17,000 feet, passengers and crew got into the cockpit — reportedly the door had been opened by the wounded captain — and neutralized the terrorist.
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door → plummet → terrorist
One passenger, a doctor, worked to save the captain.
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passenger → work → captain
Another passenger took over the controls and landed the plane.
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passenger → take → plane
The New York Times responded to criticism about its misleading headline, contending that live coverage contained “all the facts we’re able to confirm” at the time.
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we → respond → time
“Unlike activists and partisans, we don’t publish speculation or unverified information.”
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we → publish → speculation
Of course it does.
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it → do → ?
The New York Times could not have known all the details at the time, but it immediately downplayed the potential terrorist angle.
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it → know → angle
It’s what the New York Times has been doing for decades.
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Times → ’ → decades
Last year, for instance, after a Hezbollah-inspired Islamist attempted to massacre a daycare filled with 4- and 5-year-old Jewish children, the New York Times published stories with headlines such as, “The Michigan Synagogue Attacker Was a Quiet Restaurant Worker” and “Family Members of Michigan Synagogue Attacker Died in Airstrike in Lebanon.”
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Members → inspire → Lebanon
Last week, the paper’s Jerusalem reporter, Isabel Kershner, lamented that Israelis “still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7.”
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Israelis → lament → Oct.
Israeli officials had not made any definitive statements about what had happened on the Flydubai, nor had they settled on an account.
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they → make → account
But the New York Times grabbed the most convenient theory and passed it along as the definitive account of events.
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Times → grab → events
The paper’s first instinct is to whitewash and rationalize anti-Jewish terrorism.
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instinct → whitewash → terrorism
And it has gone on far longer than people might realize.
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people → go → ?
It is often forgotten that the New York Times, which had famously whitewashed Stalin’s famine in Ukraine, also downplayed the Holocaust.
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which → forget → Holocaust
Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, a German Jew who assiduously avoided any connection to his faith or culture, didn’t want the New York Times to be seen as offering any special pleadings.
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Times → avoid → pleadings
During the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, for instance, the New York Times published an entire editorial avoiding the words “Jew” or “Jewish” with the same conviction it now avoids referring to Islamist suicide as terrorists.
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it → publish → terrorists
It merely noted that “500,000 persons” had been “herded into less than 7 percent of Warsaw’s buildings” and that “400,000 persons were deported.”
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persons → note → buildings
Where were they deported?
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they → deport → ?
As the modern Zionist movement picked up momentum, the New York Times editorial page relentlessly rallied against a prospective Jewish state, and it has never stopped.
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it → pick → state
“I have been trying to instruct the people around here on the subject of the word ‘Jews’, i.e., that they are neither a race nor a people, etc.,” Sulzberger wrote to his Washington Bureau Chief in 1942.
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Sulzberger → try → 1942
The paper even railed against wartime rescue missions that would have sent Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe to British Palestine.
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that → rail → Palestine
When the Roosevelt administration was looking for a Jewish liaison in 1942, Sulzberger lobbied to ensure that the post didn’t go to “some Zionist or active Jewish Nationalist.
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post → look → Zionist
Nothing has changed.
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Nothing → change → ?
The opinion page is filled with “anti-Zionists,” including an outsize number of self-hating Jewish editorialists and op-ed writers.
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page → fill → editorialists
For decades, the New York Times even refused to send Jewish reporters to cover Israel.
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Times → refuse → Israel
At the same time, the paper had no problem employing Arab correspondents and reporters to cover the Islamic world.
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paper → have → world
These days, many of them are histories of pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitic rhetoric, including praising Hitler.
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many → include → Hitler
Over the years, the New York Times’s news coverage regularly oscillates between blatant propaganda and vile moral relativism.
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coverage → oscillate → propaganda
In one famous 2000 piece, the paper ran a photo of a bloodied young man being dragged by a baton-wielding Israeli policeman.
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paper → run → policeman
The caption identified the man as a Palestinian who had been beaten at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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who → identify → Jerusalem
In reality, the man’s name was Tuvia Grossman, a Chicago yeshiva student, who had been dragged out of a taxi and stabbed by a Palestinian mob.
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who → drag → mob
The Israeli police officer was protecting him.
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officer → protect → him
In another loathsome 2002 piece, “2 Girls, Divided by War, Joined in Carnage,” the New York Times ran side-by-side portraits of Rachel Levy, a 17-year-old who was murdered while doing some last-minute shopping before Sabbath, and Ayat al-Akhras, a suicide bomber who killed her, treating them both as victims.
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who → divide → victims
You can fill a book with similar coverage.
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You → fill → coverage
…and 31 more, not listed.
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