UPDATE
After being contacted by HonestReporting, the New York Times modified its article to clarify that Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar was convicted of incitement and of being a member of an illegal organization. The Times also included a link to a December, 2015 article, which reported that Jarrar is “a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a secular faction that opposes peace with Israel.”
In response, HR CEO Joe Hyams says:
HonestReporting continues to lead the way in monitoring of international media for anti-Israel bias. We know that our work to expose bias where and when it occurs keeps journalists and media organizations on their toes.
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What happened?
This week in her New York Times column called “Ramallah Journal,” Diaa Hadid examined corruption and intimidation within the Palestinian Authority legislature. The article was as important as it was unusual, in shining a spotlight on the problems in Palestinian government that create challenges for Israelis and Palestinians alike. New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has addressed the importance of this kind of coverage: pointing out that New York Times Readers were not receiving the full context about how Palestinian leadership actually triggers much of the violence that Israelis and Palestinians face.
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Yet even in a piece about Palestinian government, Hadid took a detour to criticize Israel, and in doing so fell short of accepted journalistic standards. Referring to Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar, Hadid wrote, “…the Israeli military issued an order limiting her movement. (She was later arrested on charges that have not been made public.)”
What’s the Truth?
It turns out that Khalida Jarrar was charged by Israel with inciting violence and being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is designated as a “terror organization” by: Canada, Israel, and the United States, and the PFLP “General Command” is also so designated by the United Kingdom.
By way of background, this is the same designation those countries give to groups such as Islamic State (ISIS), Al Qaeda and Boko Haram.
Among many other attacks, the PFLP claimed credit for the 2014 Jerusalem synagogue massacre, in which terrorists attacked worshipers with a gun and butcher knives, ultimately taking eight lives.
What’s the Penalty for Joining a Terror Organization?
Last month, a British woman who joined the Islamic State was sentenced by the UK to six years in prison. A South Carolina teenager who “was influenced by Islamic State” was sentenced by the United States to five years in prison.
Jarrar’s penalty?
Fifteen months in jail and a fine of 10,000 shekels (about $2,600 USD), based on a plea bargain in which Jarrar admitted to membership in the PFLP terror organization.
Taking on the Palestinian Authority is No Excuse for Shoddy Journalism.
Diaa Hadid wrote an important column about corruption and intimidation of lawmakers within the Palestinian Authority. Yet when she criticized Israel, Hadid failed to meet journalistic standards by leaving out critical information: the lawmaker Hadid was so eagerly defending was also an admitted member of an international terror organization, that proudly claims credit for horrific attacks against Israelis.
New York Times readers deserve all the news that’s fit to print, not just the portions that fit a specific, and misleading, agenda.
We have contacted the New York Times requesting a correction. Watch this space for updates.
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Great article! Great service! Thanks for all you are doing to promote truth.
NYT is part of the problem like many liberal Jews.
We need people like you.
You really believe the NY Times is interested inthe truth or Jews?
The NY Times has a selective morality.
Gloria Steinem wrote, “Literally, I’ve spent most of my life working in the media. That has made me hyperaware of how it creates for us the idea of normal, whether or not the normal is accurate.”
NYT executive editor, Max Frankel, on the pressure on the Pulitzer Prize board’s decision to give their reporter John Burns an award despite his not being recommended by the selection jury:
“We didn’t hide our disappointment. we went around muttering about it…
“The advisory board, in its wisdom, reached around the jury.”
Michael Oren, Israel former ambassador to the U.S. called the Times editorial-page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor, about an op-ed by Abbas who startlingly claimed—despite the facts to the opposite—the Arabs had accepted the UN Partition Plan of 1947.
“When I write for the Times” Oren said, “fact checkers examine every word I write. “Did anybody check that Abbas has his facts exactly backward?”
“That’s your opinion,” Rosenthal replied.
“I’m an historian, Andy, and there are opinions and there are facts. That the Arabs rejected partition and the Jews accepted it is an irrefutable fact.”
Rosenthal smugly said,
“In your view.”
Oren then mockingly asked, “Tell me, on June 6, 1944, did Allied forces land or did they not land on Normandy Beach?”
Rosenthal replied, “Some might say so.”
Arthur S. Brisbane in his final column as The New York Times public editor (ombudsman, a position solely created in the wake of the Times 2003’s Jayson Blair scandal) said this,
“Across the paper’s many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.”
Jill Abramson, new editor of the New York Times 2011 said,”In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.”
She was unceremoniously fired later on.
That’s what you get for believing in false gods.
“READ “All The News Unfit To Print” by Eric Burns, expert media analyst, of how the Times inaccurately reports events.
The New York slimes has been a enemy of the Jewish people literly for the last three generations…so much so that they helped FDR and reform rabbi wise block Jewish refugees from the nazis….and the state depts work in the refusal to bomb the death camps or the RR tracks….this paper should be shunned..
For the record…the ny slimes publisher is arthur ochs Sulzberger jr…his grandpa was Jewish…but less then a rat..when it came to his fellow Jews….his son was even worse…married out…the bum now heading the slimes …is Sulzberger jr…full out right anti Semitic goy…at least not there is not a self hating Jew beating up on Israel….a small difference