The New York Times ‘Don’t Know Much About [Jewish] History’
Oct 6, 2021 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald 3 Comments
So many stories in the New York Times about Israel have been misleading or worse in recent years; it’s become virtually a full-time activity for CAMERA to rebut the mistakes in the Times’ coverage of Israel and demand corrections. I well remember the story in 2013 by then-Jerusalem Bureau Chief Jodi Rudoren, who falsely stated that the United States considered as “illegal” the West Bank settlements on land taken by Israel in the 1967 war. The American government has at times regarded the settlements as unwise, but never as “illegal.” It would have taken a minute’s Internet searching to discover that; apparently neither Rudoren nor her editors and fact-checkers in New York could spare the time.
In its coverage of the May war in Gaza, the Times published dozens of photos of Palestinian children (and two Israeli children) under the headline “They Were Only Children” on the front page of its May 26, 2021 edition, children who were killed during the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization. In the piece, the Times alleged that the children were killed by Israeli airstrikes. One of the photos, of a young girl supposedly killed during the May 2021 war, was a reprint of a photo from 2017. Another photo turned out to be of a Hamas terrorist. It further turned out that many of the children were killed not by Israel, but by some of the 680 Hamas rockets that fell short, and landed inside Gaza. But the New York Times never bothered to correct that part of their coverage.
Here were a few of the questions I posed to the New York Times at the time:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/10/the-new-york-times-dont-know-much-about-jewish-history
