At least two New York Times writers have signed a letter that blames Israel for Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and accuses the Jewish state of “genocide” and “apartheid.”
Times Magazine writers Jazmine Hughes and Jamie Lauren Keiles are listed as signatories on an Oct. 26 letter by the group Writers Against the War on Gaza. The letter says that Israel caused the Oct. 7 terrorist attack against itself and commits “genocide against the Palestinian people.” The signatories accuse Israel of being an “apartheid state” for fighting terrorists and say they stand with Palestinians’ “anticolonial struggle.”
Hughes for years made racist and anti-Semitic comments on social media, even after the Times hired her, Breitbart reported in 2019. In one post that is still up on X, formerly Twitter, Hughes invoked anti-Semitic tropes and wrote that “jews are inDEED good with money.” She also wrote for the Times‘s 1619 Project, an “antiracist” series of articles that makes what historians say are false claims about American history.
The Times in recent days has faced multiple accusations of anti-Semitism. The paper late last month reenlisted a Gaza-based freelancer, Soliman Hijjy, with a history of praising Adolf Hitler and Hamas’s attacks against Israel. The Times told the Washington Free Beacon that Hijjy “understood our concerns” about his Hitler praise and has “delivered important and impartial work.”
Free Press editor Bari Weiss, meanwhile, revealed other anti-Semitic scandals at the Times. The paper in an Oct. 26 story cited an “expert” who called the date of Hamas’s attack on Israel a “sweet day.” Before that, the Times published a “flattering profile” of an op-ed by Palestinian professor Refaat Alareer, who has joked “about whether or not an Israeli baby, burned alive in an oven, was cooked ‘with or without baking powder,'” Weiss wrote on X.
The Free Beacon reported in Dec. 2021 that the Times issued an “epic” correction of its Alareer profile, noting that the professor has said Israeli poetry “brainwashes” readers into thinking that Israelis are “innocent.”
More recently, the Times acknowledged last week that it mistakenly regurgitated Hamas’s claims that Israel bombed a Gazan hospital on Oct. 17, the Free Beacon reported. Evidence showed that a Hamas-affiliated terrorist group was likely responsible for the attack.
“What’s going on here” is “pretty simple,” Weiss wrote in her X thread. “This is what happens when a newspaper is overrun by reporters and editors, trained at elite schools, who have embraced a ‘decolonial’ worldview. Reader, beware.”
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