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Source: https://www.camera.org/article/in-ny-times-hagiography-of-a-hatemonger-misinforms-readers/
New York Times Misrepresents Palestinian Hatemonger
(CAMERA) Gilead Ini - On November 16, the New York Times wrote about a Gaza poetry professor, Refaat Alareer, who uses Israeli poems to teach about the "humanity" of Israeli Jews. But the story is fiction. On social media, Alareer reveals himself as a man overflowing with hate. "Zionists are scum," he insists. "Zionists are the most despicable filth." "Zionism is a disease." Israel is "far worse than Nazi Germany," reads one of his Twitter posts. "Israel is using Nazism to do to Palestinians what the Nazis did." According to the widely adopted IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism, "drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis" is an example of anti-Semitism. This is the man cast as a bridge-builder by the New York Times.