New York Times Faces Backlash over Doubt Israelis Victims of October 7
The line revived debate over blame for the attack that killed about 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages, Israeli authorities said.
- On Wednesday, The New York Times issued an editors' note retracting a line from a Monday report about the documentary NAZA, acknowledging the text 'inadvertently suggested' Israelis' experience as terror victims was merely perception.
- An article by Isabel Kershner about NAZA sparked the controversy Monday, when it included the statement, 'But Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7,' leading to fierce backlash online.
- Tamar Sternthal, the Israel director of CAMERA, questioned on Wednesday if the Oct. 7 massacre was 'a matter of Israeli perception and not simply fact?' while writer Eitan Fischberger condemned the phrasing on social media.
- Gen. Eyal Zamir called the documentary 'based on blood libels,' instructing Military Advocate-General Maj. Itay Offir to open an investigation Tuesday, with the IDF requesting assistance from the Israel Security Agency.
- The Guardian, which co-produced NAZA, issued a statement Monday defending the 80-minute documentary as based on years of investigative journalism, vowing to protect the team from 'attacks or attempts at censorship.
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New York Times Removes Line Appearing to Question Israelis as Victims of Oct. 7
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Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed the New York Times for an “editing error” where it stated that Israelis “view themselves” as Oct. 7 victims. Concha questioned why the New York Times is “putting into question whether Jews are the victims of Oct. 7? I mean, that’s 31 flavors of delusion,” he said on Fox […]
Jew-Hating New York Times: ‘Israelis Still Largely View Themselves As The Victims of Oct. 7’
The leopard never changes its spots. The same New York Times that whitewashed Hitler and minimized his war against the Jews is trafficking in the same Jew-hatred nearly a century later. This is not ignorance. It is institutional depravity, a newspaper once again lending its prestige and power to the demonization of the Jewish people.
New York Times Removes Line Saying Israelis ‘View Themselves’ As Oct. 7 Victims
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The New York Times removed a sentence from an article about an Israeli documentary after critics said the wording appeared to suggest that Israeli victimhood on Oct. 7 was a matter of perception. The sentence appeared in a Monday article by Jerusalem correspondent Isabel Kershner about the backlash in Israel to […]
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