The NY Times continues its blood libel of Israel
Blood-libeling Israel seems to be high on the Times’ agenda, and I don’t think they have any intention whatsover of stopping; see this:
The New York Times published a photo—taking up nearly half the front page—showing what appears to be a child dying of starvation in Gaza.
It shocked the world, as it should. It was horrific, if a bit weird, since the mother for some reason seemed well fed.
After we exposed the lies and cynical exploitation of Gazan children who suffer from rare genetic diseases that cause their bodies to become severely emaciated, who have become symbols of hunger – the New York Times, one of the world’s largest newspapers that echoed this lie itself, published a clarifying tweet… The problem is that a week has passed, and after you publish the picture of a child like this on the cover, a small clarifying tweet doesn’t really help. This is how media outlets in the world that are supposed to be objective and balanced become tools for Hamas propaganda. Instead of having to apologize over and over again, take some advice – do your job, investigate, and publish only the truth and facts, even if it means that Israel is actually right.
It fed every narrative that Hamas and its supporters want you to believe, and did so in the most powerful way. Because a picture is not worth a thousand words, but millions of them. You cannot unsee a starving child. No amount of statistics can dissuade you from believing what your eyes show you, even if what they show you isn’t exactly real.
Absolutely, and the press learned this long long ago. The Times almost certainly knew the provenance of the photos it published and didn’t care. The paper has its agenda.
Its even worse than you write. The original photo showed both the mother and brother, neither of whom looked the least malnourished. But their images were either blurred or cropped out.
They cropped that photo to remove the kid’s healthy brother standing a couple feet away.
It’s such a great thing that the Trump administration stands so solidly behind Israel.
Lincoln spoke of the United States as being “the last best hope on earth.” I include Israel on that short list.
Original story published on NYT’s Twitter feed. Followers: 55 million.
“Clarification” published on NYT’s separate PR feed. Followers: 88k.
I watched an interview of an Israeli American hostage who was released in the last group. They way he was treated and used was infuriating.
The use of hostages as propaganda and bargaining chips is so calculated and cruel. If that was the only evil thing Hamas had done, it would be enough to put them on every list of savages. Yet, the NYTs and so many other organizations are blind to it all.
They cannot make the connection between Hamas and Israel’s existential security. As long as Hamas exists there is none. Any reasonable person can see that. There is only on conclusion – these are not reasonable people. They are anti-smites, and ant-Juseo Christian values. They are our enemies.
The Holocaust, the Holodomor, the Hamas pogrom–there’s a pattern at the New York Times.
The Times clearly has never had any enemies to the Left.
I have come up with waht I call the “Pallywood” corollary of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
I’m sure you’re aware of what the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is. The Pallywood corollary is this, to paraphrase Michael Crichton:
You read an article from a main stream media source — NY Times, CNN, WaPo, BBC — on Trump and Trump policies. You read the article and see the journalist suffers from Trump Derangement, or at least has absolutely no interest in understanding either the facts or the issues, because, well:”Orange man bad.” Often, the article is so wrong it actually reads like that headline from the joke about Trump saving the toddler from a lion: “Trump steals African’s lunch.”
In any case, you read with exasperation the multiple errors, gaping omissions, and outright lies in the story, and then click on a link to a story about the war in Gaza, and read it as if the rest of the news source was somehow more accurate about Gaza than the baloney you just read about Trump. You click on a link, and forget what you know.
And that is the Pallywood corollary to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
This seems too bad to be true:
https://x.com/stanfordNYC/status/1950305047516217795
For those who are still X-less, this is a poll of NY Jews on the mayoral race. Among Jews age 18-44, the poll shows that 67% support Mamdani. Even among those aged 45+, the Mamdani support is still at 25%.
Unsurprisingly, there is a lot more Mamdani support among reform, conservative, and secular Jews than there is among the Orthodox…but if this poll is correct, even the Orthodox support Mamdani at 21%.
I certainly hope that something is wrong with the poll.
Alex Berenson just realized he’s been suffering from this effect, more or less. He had realized that the NY Times’ domestic coverage was seriously flawed, but thought that their international coverage was solid. He saw the unedited photo with the mother and brother apparently in good health and saw the light.
Those at the NYT are typical of those on the left; busily sawing off the ‘civilizational limb’ upon which they sit.
there probably is, but it is distressing that he would have support among Jews that is in the single digits, but we have seen how not only the Times but an ostensibly
respectable paper, like the Journal, emphasis on the ostensibly, has done two ginger op eds on how Mamdani supporters are just misunderstood, I don’t think they were ever that delicate with tea party supporters or maga, in fact i’m sure of it,
the Times is an evil paper, whose pages might as well be written in blood, for the many times it has abetted tyranny, they know full well, they are encouraging another boulder or a dc museum incident, yet they don’t care, and yet they have acres of newsprint to regurgitate Charlottesville,
in the 80s, the likes of Tom Friedman, an easy bete noire, lavished praised on Arafat, for what reason, the lucre the latter stole from his people, ostensibly,
his family is on Circassian turkic roots, he helped craft the Oslo mirage,
David Foster on July 30, 2025 at 5:48 pm said:
I certainly hope that something is wrong with the poll.
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Nope. The majority would vote for literal Mustache Guy campaigning on the gas chambers if he was running as a Democrat. How would they be able to look their Ivy League friends and family in the eyes after voting for the Party of Unsophisticated White Trash Laborers?
Rev. Johnnie Moore, founder of GHF, distributor of food aid in Gaza, talks with Mike Doran about the story in Gaza — “Gaza: Aid, Influence, and Information War” (1:07:30): https://www.youtube.com/live/McL9vj-B6dc
Why would anyone pay a dime to read America’s version of Der Volkischer Beobachter, Der Sturmer mixed with Pravda, Trud, Novosti Press, Rude Pravo and Al-Jazeera?
I’ve also heard that the NYT claim that Hamas isn’t actually stealing aid is likely wrong (stealing/withholding aid has been corroborated by witnesses from Gaza in other outlets).
Actually, now that I look at the video posted by sdferr, it also corroborates aid being stolen/appropriated for terrorist purposes and not reaching the people it was intended for.
But John, ya’ gotta admit THAT’S a whole lotta bang for your, um, dime…
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Simply stated, the NYT was sticking to its values and standards (as well as its credo):
Clearly, the healthy brother was TOO “fit to print”….
Kate, Alex Berenson has not been paying attention. I noticed NYT anti-Israel bias *decades* ago in the early 2000s. I believe it was when “Pinch” Sulzberger took over as publisher from his father “Punch”.
Incidentally Pinch went to my high school the same time I did. But it was only for a year because he flunked out. He was a nitwit and a born loser. Would not have gotten as far in journalism as Jimmy Olsen if not for nepotism.
My take is the NYT represents the globalist, World Economic Forum (WEF) class, which isn’t antisemitic, but sees Israel and the conservative US as the largest obstacles to its global domination.
That’s why they are called globalists. They live by “the ends justify the means.”
FOAF — When the idiot who succeeded “Pinch” took over, A.G. Sulzberger, I proposed calling him “Putz.” That hasn’t caught on.
I found this tidbit about “Pinch”:
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. is sometimes referred to as “Pinch,” a mocking variation of his father’s nickname, “Punch” (probably more often by media writers looking to sound knowing than by normal humans he knows). It is a mocking nickname because almost no one who comes into contact with Sulzberger has any respect for him, as a businessman or publisher or intellect. Years ago he was undeservedly handed what was then a great prize. Now he is responsible for preserving that prize in a recognizable form for the future. It is just really, really clear that he is not up to the task.
“My take is the NYT represents the globalist, World Economic Forum (WEF) class, which isn’t antisemitic, but sees Israel and the conservative US as the largest obstacles to its global domination. My take is the NYT represents the globalist, World Economic Forum (WEF) class, which isn’t antisemitic, but sees Israel and the conservative US as the largest obstacles to its global domination.”
I think about this a lot myself. There are antisemites out there, but Israel hatred is more than that to the globalists; it is a country that will always assert its own sovereignty at the end of the day. This should be discussed more often.
Starving for the truth…
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/07/starving-for-the-truth.php
Talk about cropping out inconvenient parts of photos reminds me of a CNN crop-job from the Tea Party era. It was a photo from a TP rally that showed the torso of an attendee who was wearing a holstered pistol.
Strangely, the upper right (?) corner of the photo was diagonally cropped, ostensibly to allow room for a logo or something, as I recall. Turns out, what was cropped out was also the only area of the attendee’s flesh showing in the original photo, his forearm.
And wouldn’t you know it, that forearm was much too highly pigmented to support the narrative of racism that CNN was trying to promote!
Ray Van Dune — About forty years ago, I used to subscribe to a French photography magazine. I recall an article about cropping photos, editorializing, and journalistic integrity. The article basically tore in to photographers who cropped a photo to make it present something other than what was photographed. I remember one in particular that was of some man in fatigues with a rifle standing near another man, seated, with his hands clasped on top of his head. The photo appeared to show the man in fatigues aiming the rifle at the base of the skull of the man who was seated. The uncropped photo made it clear that the man with the rifle was just standing there, not doing anything.