Thread by @AliAbunimah

This makes me feel bitter. For decades @nytimes has been and remains one of the leading outlets for racist Zionist propaganda dehumanizing Palestinians and justifying their murder. This does not wash their crimes away.

https://twitter.com/itranslate123/status/1398288662220128257

During second intifada of early 2000s, @nytimes and other US papers, week after week, would publish vile pieces claiming that Palestinian parents deliberately sent their children out to be killed to make Israel look bad. Nazi-style dehumanization. Will there ever be a reckoning?

I documented this horrific, routine propaganda in a chapter in the book “The New Intifada.” It was routine and normal in US, including in major papers, to represent Palestinians as a monster race that sacrifices children.

So it’s no exaggeration to say @nytimes has the blood of many Palestinian children on its hand. It has been key to manufacturing consent for US support for Israel’s atrocities. We must not allow this to be forgotten because of one “good” story.

I feel like many people are just now waking up to the extent to which Palestinians have been subject to dehumanizing propaganda to facilitate their killing by Israel. But are we supposed to forgive and forget all who took and still take part in that lethal incitement?

If you start to talk about Palestinians not as strange child-sacrificing monsters, but as humans with the same motivations as other humans, suddenly people see Israel for the aggressor and oppressor that it is. Hence the massive investment in dehumanizing them for so long.