How the NYT—and Others—Do Hamas’s Dirty Work

Commentary ^ | 17 Oct 2023 | John Podhoretz

[Rummyfan]

This afternoon came word of a horrific set of explosions at a hospital in Gaza. Within minutes, Hamas propagandists were not only claiming a death toll of 500 but that an Israeli rocket had targeted and destroyed the hospital. One might perhaps think it prudent to keep one’s powder dry when a terrorist organization claims its enemy did something bad. You would think wrong. Within minutes of that, this was the headline and subhed atop the New York Times: “ISRAEL STRIKE KILLS HUNDREDS AT HOSPITAL, PALESTINIANS SAY. At least 500 dead; Israel urges caution as it investigates.”

Please note it did not read “Missile Strike Kills Hundreds at Hospital; Investigation Ongoing.” The formulation of the headline sentence was designed to make Israel the motive actor, even if the final clause acknowledges it as a Palestinian claim.

Oh, and did the entire gang of moral equivalencers go immediately to work. My favorite, or my least favorite, is of course NGO hustler supreme Kenneth Roth, who is to human rights what Gogol’s Chichikov was to dead souls. He began tweeting and retweeting the claim that Israel had committed this supposed barbarity. Not to be outdone, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who is to legislating as Joseph Goebbels was to newspapering, stated outright on X that Israel had murdered people at the hospital.

[Freest Republican]

The number of terrorists and hostages were understated by 300% & 400% two days later.

Fr Mao until now, leftists rarely allow human atrocity to go by w/o enabling, assisting and/or ignoring it.

[missnry]

The strategy should be to just refer to them as a mouthpiece for Hamas in every interview. Rashid should always be referred to as Ambassador. She is the Ambassador representing Hamas and other terrorists around the world.

[Sertorius]

Nothing new here.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/new-york-times-nazi-correspondent

[Paladin2]

Not unlike the reporting from the NYT of Stalin’s Ukraine.

[janetjanet998]

See my tagline

[Taxman]

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[bitt]

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[rightwingcrazy]

I think it’s more like Hamas doing NYT et al’s dirty work.

[kiryandil]

"The New York Times - Hamas Mouthpiece "

or

"The New Hamas Times"

[sauropod]

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[caww]

Our Universities are doing Hamas’s work as is Hollywood.....they have been planting their people throughout our country for years.....all for the Islamic Jihad in their host countries. .....students are their favorite targets!

[GOPJ]

One might perhaps think it prudent to keep one’s powder dry when a terrorist organization claims its enemy did something bad. You would think wrong. Within minutes of that, this was the headline and subhed atop the New York Times: “ISRAEL STRIKE KILLS HUNDREDS AT HOSPITAL, PALESTINIANS SAY. At least 500 dead; Israel urges caution as it investigates.”

Something really creepy about the New York Times... it's almost like they want to fall for terrorist's lies and Potemkin villages...

[csn vinnie]

I would not put it past Hamas to target the hospital in the Gaza Strip. They have already demonstrated they have no concern for noncombatants, both by targeting Israeli civilians and by using the Gaza civilians as human shields. It should at least be considered whether Hamas determined that the hospital people would be more useful to the jihad as dead images for propaganda purposes.

[wardaddy]

The Shulzbergers are Jewish only when they can play victim care

They are repugnant