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The New York Times' Crusade Against Israel

(JNS) Mitchell Bard - With a steady stream of slanted reporting and a roster of columnists united by their hostility to Israel (with the lone exception of columnist Bret Stephens), the New York Times has transformed itself from a paper of record into a platform for moral inversion. The journalistic trick for looking credible while advancing a political agenda is to choose sources that support your point of view. It is particularly effective when those sources are anonymous. On the op-ed page, "As a Jew" pieces by academics or activists who use their identity to launder moral attacks are a staple. While it includes detractors accusing Israel of "genocide," Israel has never had any interest in the destruction of the Palestinian people. How else can you explain the growth of the population of Palestinians from 1.3 million during the British Mandate to roughly 4.6 million in the disputed territories? And in Israel, the population of Israeli Arabs has grown from 156,000 in 1948 to more than 2 million today - one-fifth of the population. If Israel were engaged in genocide, it has been a dismal failure. Genocide is not committed by countries that warn civilians to evacuate and allow in humanitarian aid. Furthermore, if Israelis wanted to eradicate the Palestinians, why did they agree to coexist beside a Palestinian entity on at least 10 separate occasions from 1937 to the present - opportunities that the Palestinians consistently rejected? Look at any Palestinian map or the logo of the political organizations, and you can see that it is the Palestinians who wish to erase the Jews' presence. Yet this fundamental truth is what the New York Times refuses to confront, opting instead for a willful inversion of moral responsibility and historical facts.
2025-07-20 00:00:00
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