Yesterday, the failing New York Times published an Op-Ed written by Yahya R. Sarraj, the Hamas-appointed mayor of Gaza City. In the piece titled ‘I Am Gaza City’s Mayor. Our Lives and Culture Are in Rubble,’ Sarraj attributed the destruction in Gaza since the Hamas massacre of October 7 to Israel. He claimed over 20,000 deaths, without specifying that this figure includes combatants and terrorists, and accused Israel of damaging or destroying half of the buildings that stood in Gaza before October 7.
Sarraj avoided condemning the massacre and downplayed Hamas’ role in using human shields, civilian sites for military purposes, stealing humanitarian aid, and killing its own people.
The decision of The New York Times to publish an Op-Ed by a Hamas-appointed official faced strong criticism on social media for providing a platform to spread antisemitism.
International Human Rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “Oh, nothing to see here. Just @nytimes publishing an op-ed by Hamas appointed mayor of Gaza, Yahya Sarraj. 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.”
Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy asked: “Is the first line of this, “and as the mayor who oversaw the biggest ever construction boom in Hamas terror infrastructure under schools, mosques, hospitals, homes & UN facilities, I take responsibility for the disaster this inflicted on my people and resign”?”
Users on social media pointed out the perceived double standard, noting that left-wing Times staffers forced the resignation of then-Opinion Editor James Bennet in 2020 for publishing an Op-Ed by Republican Senator Tom Cotton. The article called for the activation of the National Guard in response to riots following the killing of George Floyd. Despite finding Senator Cotton’s words controversial, the paper published the Op-Ed by an official appointed by an organization committed to the annihilation of the Jewish people.
Last week, The New York Times faced criticism for an article with the headline: ‘Gaza deaths surpass any Arab war losses in 40 years.’ Readers noted the discrepancy, pointing out that the Syrian Civil War had claimed over 300,000 civilian lives, more than ten times the number in Gaza. Other Middle Eastern wars in the past 40 years with higher death tolls included the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq War, Yemen Civil War, war against ISIS in Iraq, and the First Gulf War.
{Matzav.com}
Remember what they did to that jewish reporter.. openly antisemitism