The newspaper of record mentions extremism on Israel’s part, but none on the part of the Palestinian leadership.
The New York Times published an article in the wake of two deadly Palestinian terror attacks, referring to them as “spasms of violence” occurring “under the watch of Israel’s extremist” government.
One Twitter user, former speechwriter for Israel’s mission to the United Nations, Aviva Klompas, accused the Times of “describing the slaughter of Jews as a ‘spasm of violence’ that Israel had coming because of the people it elected.”
The analysis, titled “Amid Spasm of Violence, Israel’s Far-Right Government Raises Risk of
Escalation,” opens by mentioning the terror attacks immediately following the mention of an IDF counterterrorism raid on Thursday, as if the two are comparable and as if the IDF operation was to blame for the terror attack.
“Nine Palestinians were shot dead on Thursday morning, in the deadliest Israeli raid in the West Bank for at least a half-decade,” the analysis reads, and the next sentence continues with, “Then a Palestinian gunman killed seven people on Friday night outside a synagogue in Jerusalem, the deadliest attack on civilians in the city since 2008.”
The Times failed to mention that the overwhelming majority of the Palestinians killed in Thursday’s raid in Jenin were terrorists, who were in the final stages of launching a wide scale bombing attack. The piece also failed to mention that a second terror attack took place hours after the first, when a 13-year-old terrorist opened fire on a group of Israelis outside the Old City of Jerusalem, severely wounding two people, a father and son.
The piece also compared Palestinian terrorists and “violent settlers,” reporting that the Palestinian Authority had cut security cooperation with Israel over the IDF operation, which, the Times‘ said, makes “it easier for both armed Palestinian groups and violent Israeli settlers to act unimpeded,” as if Israeli vagabonds in Judea and Samaria, some of whom have caused damage to Palestinian-owned land, is somehow comparable to massive shooting and bombings by Palestinian terror groups, not to mention rocket fire.
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