In 2013, the Times published the obituary of a woman whose three sons died in attacks against Israel.
The chart was removed from its online version after an outcry. In 2015, the Times published a chart labeling Democratic lawmakers opposed to the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran as “Jewish?” or not. The list could fill several columns, but here’s a sample. There are more subtle jabs at Israel and Jewish people in the newspaper’s stories. In its news stories, editorials and columns, the paper often portrays Israel as the obstacle to peace because it won’t surrender to Palestinian demands to forfeit more land and support a two-state solution, by which the Palestinian leadership means a one-state solution achieved by the eradication of the Jewish state. The Times’ coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is clearly pro-Palestinian. There is much history of the news-paper’s “coverage” of Jews and Israel that proves him right.ĭefenders of the Times claim a difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, but this is like saying “I don’t hate black people, I am just opposed to recognizing their civil rights.” The Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, responded to the cartoon, calling the newspaper “a cesspool of hostility” toward Israel. The criticism goes double when it comes to the editorial pages, whose overall approach toward the Jewish state tends to range, with some notable exceptions, from tut-tutting disappointment to thunderous condemnation.”
That might be acceptable were the incident an aberration, but Bret Stephens noted in a scathing column for his own newspaper, “The Times has a long-standing Jewish problem, dating back to World War II, when it mostly buried news about the Holocaust, and continuing into the present day in the form of intensely adversarial coverage of Israel. The dog wore a Star of David around its neck.Īt first the Times blamed a single editor and poor oversight, but on April 28 the newspaper issued a formal apology. It took a few days, but the New York Times finally got around to apologizing for publishing in its international edition a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon depicting a blind President Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke and being led by a dog resembling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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