The New York Times has a well documented obsession with Gazan hunger that fuels hostility toward Israel and Jews, by falsely suggesting that the world’s only Jewish state is maliciously responsible for the greatest humanitarian crisis on the planet, even though there are exponentially worse famines underway, and the blame for Gaza’s hunger is far more complex than the NYT’s coverage would suggest.
The newspaper reinforces this incorrect impression through its many failures to cover stories that exculpate Israel and/or blame others for Gaza’s food shortage. Here are thirteen notable stories reported by Israeli news organizations that give crucial moral context — where Hamas and/or aid group incompetence caused Gazan hunger — but are completely missing from “the paper of record”:
“‘The aid does not reach the nation, all the people,’ she says.
“When the journalist from the pro-Palestinian Qatari channel tells her that only a small amount of aid is coming in and it is all being distributed, she shakes her fingers at him and says: ‘All of it goes into their houses. They take it and will even shoot me or do whatever they want, Hamas.’”
“‘Unfortunately, due to the utter failure of the UN in its work with other partners in the region, they have been unable to bring in more than 125 trucks [of aid] a day,’ Herzog said in a meeting with visiting French Senate President Gérard Larcher.
“‘Today it is possible to provide three times the amount of humanitarian aid to Gaza if the UN — instead of complaining all day — would do its job,’ Herzog said.
“In recent weeks, multiple videos have circulated on social media of Gazans discovering stockpiles of aid in UNRWA facilities, and expressing anger at the organization for not distributing desperately needed supplies to citizens.”
“Israel has accused humanitarian actors of not doing enough to distribute aid since the beginning of the war. Particular criticism has been directed at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which stands accused of failing to visit hostages held by Hamas and provide them with adequate assistance.”
In addition to ignoring those thirteen stories that shift the blame to Hamas and NGOs, the NYT also hid these three stories that cast doubt on the “famine” that the paper’s skewed and alarmist reporting suggests:
Instead of covering that news, the NYT ran a headline reinforcing its preferred anti-Israel narrative: “Aid is slow to enter Gaza, despite a top U.N. court ruling demanding ‘unhindered’ access.”
That crucial information is never reported by the NYT. A search for NYT articles mentioning “Gaza” and “food” that day instead reveals ten stories about the World Central Kitchen tragedy, for which Israel apologized (even though Israel gets zero credit for such honesty, and Hamas never apologizes for anything). The coverage emphasis reinforces the NYT’s pattern of amplifying news that smears Israel while avoiding whatever vindicates it.
A particularly instructive example of the New York Times’ anti-Israel bias is from March 15, when at least 20 Gazans died around an aid convoy and the paper gave the Israeli side of the story 74 words, in the final paragraph, with too little detail to seem credible. By contrast, the Times of Israel included a far more detailed account from the IDF (totaling almost 400 words) and the aerial footage that the IDF shared in support of its claims.
With such slanted coverage, readers of the New York Times are practically presented with an alternative reality, in which Israel alone has caused Gazan misery, with some nefarious plan to worsen hunger wherever possible (despite risking Israeli soldiers’ lives to create humanitarian aid corridors), and where aid agencies don’t fail in their aid distribution tasks, and Hamas didn’t break the last ceasefire in place on October 6 and doesn’t loot humanitarian aid and shoot anyone who crosses it when trying to access food supplies.
The volume of information that would shift blame away from Israel (to Hamas and others) that the New York Times chooses not to cover dangerously fuels the antisemitism that has exploded on college campuses and in major capitals around the world. Thus, the “paper of record” has become an instrument of Hamas incitement.
Noah Beck is the author of The Last Israelis, an apocalyptic submarine thriller about Iranian nukes, Hamas, and Hezb’allah.
Image: Adam Jones via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (cropped).
How the New York Times Foments Antisemitism
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The New York Times has a well documented obsession with Gazan hunger that fuels hostility toward Israel and Jews, by falsely suggesting that the world’s only Jewish state is maliciously responsible for the greatest humanitarian crisis on the planet, even though there are exponentially worse famines underway, and the blame for Gaza’s hunger is far more complex than the NYT’s coverage would suggest.
The newspaper reinforces this incorrect impression through its many failures to cover stories that exculpate Israel and/or blame others for Gaza’s food shortage. Here are thirteen notable stories reported by Israeli news organizations that give crucial moral context — where Hamas and/or aid group incompetence caused Gazan hunger — but are completely missing from “the paper of record”:
“‘The aid does not reach the nation, all the people,’ she says.
“When the journalist from the pro-Palestinian Qatari channel tells her that only a small amount of aid is coming in and it is all being distributed, she shakes her fingers at him and says: ‘All of it goes into their houses. They take it and will even shoot me or do whatever they........
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