The NYT view of "what it means to be Israeli today: “tensions," "inequities,” “divisions,” “unrest,” “fury,” “ambivalence,” “illegitimacy,” “alienation,” “injustice,” “discrimination,” “bias,” “abuse,” misfortune, “slums” & “shabby” “tired” “garish” towns. camera.org/article/ny-tim…
2/ Israel is consistently ranked among the very happiest in the world. It is home to what Time Out says is the "funnest" city in the world.
No wonder the guy in Time Out's photo looks so sad. #SadSadIsrael
3/ A few years ago I had the misfortune of randomly stumbling upon this parade of sadness in the Druze town of Dalyat al Karmel. #SadSadIsrael
4/ One Friday afternoon, I stumbled upon these strangers sitting on a hill overlooking Jerusalem's Old City walls, strumming and singing classic songs about the city. I took them up on their invitation to sit with them, and snapped a pic of their tears of sadness. #SadSadIsarel
5/ Even the graffiti in Israel is sad. #SadSadIsrael
7/ Was paging through an old family album, and confirmed that the abject misery documented by the NYT preceded our generation. #SadSadIsrael@nytimes
8/ Here is #SadSadIsrael's place at the top of the World Happiness Index.
(Considering how miserable they made Israel appear, I shudder to think how the @nytimes would capture the zeitgeist of the 137 countries ranked lower than Israel. The streets would be flooded with tears.)
But in Israel, the sun's rays contain harmful UV radiation. Probably has something to do with their nuclear research. (Right, @nytimes?) @SadSadIsrael.
The online campaign to blame Jews for what attackers characterized as a "Jew hunt, which included miscaptioned video that spread on X, made its way to mainstream media.
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⇝ The New York Times insisted it had video of Israelis chanting that there are no children in Gaza. Were they duped by the widely circulated miscaptioned video?
After initially stonewalling, the paper informed @CAMERAorg it had no such video, and published corrections. 🧵
⇝ The Media Line claimed it had video of the same chant. After @CAMERAorg called for substantiation, it admitted it had no such video. It quietly corrected its piece to refer to a "reported" chant.
⇝ Same claim, and same stealth correction from the Jewish Chronicle. 🧵
1/ Among those hired by the @nytimes to cover Israel-related topics:
* The "How great you are, Hitler" guy
* Someone who denied Hamas murders civilians
* Someone who said she can't even look at Israelis and that her “objectivity got thrown out the window"
And now introducing…🥁
2/ Another radical anti-Israel hire by the @nytimes.
Bora Erden, an anti-Israel activist, who was hired days after the Oct. 7 massacre to cover Israel and anti-Israel activists.
Who is Erden?
3/ In May 2021, after a round of fighting prompted by Hamas's launch of indiscriminate rockets into Israel, Erden signed a letter to support the so-called "Palestinian struggle against Israeli colonial rule and its apartheid system." socialtextjournal.org/free-palestine…
1/ The @nytimes regularly sanitizes anti-Israel protests.
Its coverage of Saturday's protest in D.C. conceals that demonstrators held a banner supporting Al Qassam—Hamas's armed branch behind the Oct. 7 slaughter—while chanting that Hezbollah should "kill another Zionist now."
2/ Also ignored by the NYT is a sign that said "stand with Hamas."