By: Lenny Ben-David – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org
While the “Gray Lady” may have hired a new Jerusalem correspondent to cover Palestinian affairs, the paper continues to pump out the same old anti-Israel narrative.
In her April 16 New York Times article on Israel’s response to the deadly terror wave the country has suffered in recent weeks, Jerusalem correspondent Raja Abdulrahim fails to mention that the majority of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces were members of terrorist groups.
The article, titled, “‘We’re Exhausted’: Palestinians Decry Israeli Raids as Collective Punishment,” decries the Israeli “killings” of Palestinians “in response” to terror attacks that claimed the lives of 14 Israelis.
Given that the terrorists’ local obituaries include pictures of them in uniform or carrying weapons, this omission raises troubling questions.
These questions are not new; the Times has been guilty of journalistic malpractice in its Israel-related reporting on many occasions. In June 2021, for example, the paper published an anti-Israel blood libel purporting to document “Gaza’s Deadly Night: How Israeli Airstrikes Killed 44 People.”
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https://www.jns.org/opinion/libeling-israel-the-new-york-times-is-at-it-again/