Only three paragraphs from the end of a story about the battle over Iran between Obama and Sen. Menendez does the NYT mention the Israel lobby: “pressure from pro-Israel groups that back a hard line against Iran”. Well at least they mentioned it!
You’ve never seen such a straightforward account in the NYT of Israeli war crimes as today’s article on B’Tselem’s new report on Gaza. Brace for the hasbara counter-attack
A portrait of a rightwing Israeli lawyer in the Times is a transparent effort to show Israel supporters who monitor the paper closely that the Times takes rightwing Zionists more seriously than it does leftwingers or Palestinians.
Palestinians are going too far and too fast in their quest for statehood, a frontpage NYT analysis argues– and says that Palestinians have not made the “concessions” they have long avoided.
The NYT demonizes Hamas in promoting a bridge-building effort to bring 37 Gaza war orphans to visit Israel so as to see it in a positive light. The main function of the feel-good exercise is to make liberal Zionists feel better about themselves while doing nothing to end open-air prison conditions in Gaza.
The NYT tries to make the occupation seem normal. That’s why it’s devoting 16 paragraphs to a story about the time difference between Israel and Palestine when it could be covering the crisis in US-Israeli diplomacy over illegal settlement building and the detention of Palestinian children
In recent days, many journalists, including Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and Ronan Farrow…