New York Times sparks outrage over running op-ed by Hamas mayor: ‘You have no shame or dignity’

NY Post ^ | December 24, 2023 | Ariel Zilber

[DoodleBob]

The New York Times ran an op-ed Sunday by Hamas’ handpicked Gaza City mayor — prompting outrage on social media from Israel supporters who slammed the Gray Lady for amplifying “Jew hate.”

The essay by Yahya R. Sarraj published on Christmas Eve comes amid fury over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s social media post that denounced Israel as a violent occupying force and likened Jesus to Palestinians.

Sarraj’s op-ed — titled “I Am Gaza City’s Mayor. Our Lives and Culture Are in Rubble” — condemned Israel for “caus[ing] the deaths of more than 20,000 people” and for destroying or damaging “about half the buildings” in the Gaza Strip.

The Times’s decision to grant a platform to Sarraj, who was appointed mayor of Gaza City by Hamas in 2019 after a career in academia, sparked an immediate backlash from many on social media.

“I wonder, would NYT also publish an op-ed from Al-Qaeda justifying 9-11? Of course not, but there is no red line to this paper’s Jew-hatred,” tweeted Arsen Ostrovsky, an International Human Rights lawyer who describes himself on X as a Zionist.

“Unbelievable. This is a Hamas-appointed Mayor,” another X user wrote, adding: “They slaughtered and raped their neighbors and have the nerve to represent themselves as victims?”

Others slammed Sarraj for ignoring the Hamas massacre that led to Israel launching its assault on Gaza.

“Literally a member of Hamas, you have no shame or dignity NYT,” wrote an X user.

[DoodleBob]

Here is. Snippet from the propaganda piece/oped:

The Israeli invasion has caused the deaths of more than 20,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and destroyed or damaged about half the buildings in the territory. The Israelis have also pulverized something else: Gaza City’s cultural riches and municipal institutions.

One of my major goals after the Hamas administration appointed me mayor in 2019 was to improve the city’s seafront and foster the opening of small businesses along it to create jobs… Why did the Israeli tanks destroy so many trees, electricity poles, cars and water mains? Why would Israel hit a U.N. school?

[End Times Sentinel]

All they did was offer him an op-ed? They didn’t offer him a senior editor position?

I guess I see the outrage, but I’m sure he still censors all their articles, so calm down, liberals.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Fascists hate free speech.

I don’t agree with anything the man has to say, but I would defend to the death his right to say it and our right to dispute/disprove it.

[EinNYC]

Well boo hoo hoo on you. Drop dead.

[bitt]

p

[Telepathic Intruder]

Why is this such a surprise?

[hanamizu]

“...destroying or damaging “about half the buildings” in the Gaza Strip.”

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I guess maybe Hamas shouldn’t have put tunnel entrances/exits under ‘about half of the buildings’ in the Gaza Strip’, should it? Or does Hizoner claim he had no idea of what Hamas was doing in his own town? Oh well, Hamas FA and is now FO.

[sheik yerbouty]

IMHO, a dirt nap would suit him!

[DoodleBob]

[W.]

When bullies cry...

[Political Junkie Too]

The New York Times ran an op-ed by Republican Senator Tom Cotton and the editorial editor James Bennet was forced to resign after the rank and file staff threatened to walk out.

But a Hamas mayor? No problem...

-PJ

[GOPJ]

Gaza lowlifes can end the war they started... It’s easy. Turn over all the Hamas monsters. Boom - war is over.

If they’re not willing to turn the filth over for the war crimes they committed then Israel needs to find all of ‘em.

[Rummyfan]

Shame and dignity?!

Associated with the NY Times? They shall never meet!

[Newtoidaho]

Would the NY slimes print an op ed by al queda?

Undoubtedly yes, if al queda had sent one in to the scumbags.

[Uncle Miltie]

Settler Colonist baby roasting rapist kidnapping terrorist arabs should go back to their Arabian homeland from which they launched their wars of conquest against the indigenous Jews and Christians of the Holy Land they were granted by G-d.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting.

[Clutch Martin]

May he wipe his ass with his eating hand...

[Wilderness Conservative]

You would risk/give your life for this guy to spew his bs? Think about that noble yet naive statement.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You either believe in free speech or you don’t.

Are you so inferior that you think you can’t refute what the guy says?

You must be inferior.