@Haaretz@nytimes@presspectiva It's unclear why @nytimes editors took the unprecedented step of publishing a front-page piece featuring the children killed in the recent fighting between #Israel and #Hamas, when to the best of CAMERA's knowledge, never before in any conflict in the world has the paper done so.
CAMERA's search for a similar front-page item in the last 20 years featuring the names, ages, and photographs of Iraqi or Afghan children killed by US forces turned up no results.
It's worth asking whether editors took into account the increasing attacks against American Jews, or the fact that accusations of Jews murdering children is a classic antisemitic trope that has resulted in hatred & murder of Jews for centuries, when they chose to run this piece.
.@Haaretz, meanwhile, chose to run the @nytimes's piece in Hebrew on its own front page.
But while the Times identified 66 Gazan children and two Israeli children, Haaretz deleted the Israelis, apparently finding that only the Gazan children's deaths were worth featuring.
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@NickKristof@GileadIni Purporting to offer arguments for how Israel could deal with Hamas's attacks "more judiciously," @nytimes's @NickKristof ends up offering justification for Hamas's war crimes.
He describes #Hamas, a dogmatically antisemitic terrorist group with a long history of precisely targeting children with suicide bombs, as merely "shelling Israel," but tells readers that the Jewish state is guilty of "killing children."
@NewYorker Pankaj Mishra echoes Said's misrepresentations of his own past, writing: "In Jerusalem, Said went to St. George’s, a boys’ school for the region’s ruling castes. In Cairo—where his family moved in 1947, shortly before Jewish militias occupied West Jerusalem..."
Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935, but his family home was in Cairo and he spent his childhood there, not in Mandatory Palestine.
They didn't move to Cairo from Palestine in 1947.
Furthermore, there's no evidence Said actually attended St. George's.
@TamarSternthal Under headline "In thrice-demolished village, a Mideast battle of wills," @AP reported that after its initial demolition in November, the Jordan Valley Bedouin encampment was demolished again on Feb. 2 and a third time Feb. 4.
What other village in the world is demolished one day, magically rises phoenix-like from the wreckage the next, and is demolished again the following day?
CAMERA continues to urge the NY Times to correct two errors about past US policy — including the false assertion that Pompeo's announcement that settlements are not illegal reversed "four decades of American policy." @Rogene@halbfinger@meslackman
But for emphasis: Here's Seymour Maxwell Finger, described in a NYT obituary as "a recognized authority on foreign affairs," noting in 1983 the Reagan position that settlements are "not illegal."
@UMassAmherst@dextervanzile@JNS_org Chancellor Kumble "Subbaswamy and other officials at UMass have been presented with evidence about inaccuracies in Jhally’s movie and about abuse of his authority and time in the classroom, but for one reason or another they have refused to act." @KSubbaswamy@UMass
"To make matters worse, Subbaswamy ignored any of the specific points raised in CAMERA’s letter (which can be seen our website camera.org). All Subbaswamy did was point to UMASS policies, which he does not enforce."