ALGEMEINER
by Ben Cohen
November 14, 2014

When Matt Seaton, an opinion editor for the New York Times, declared on Twitter last month that his paper would refrain on commenting on Palestinian racism until the Palestinians “have a sovereign state to discriminate with,” (sic) he was reflecting a long-established editorial policy, a new study by independent media watchdog CAMERA has found.

“The New York Times is nearly seven times more likely to publish pieces primarily critical of Israel than those primarily critical of the Palestinians,” the study says. “The newspaper is also twice as likely to publish opinion pieces that predominantly support the Palestinian narrative about which side deserves more sympathy or criticism than pieces that predominantly support the Israeli narrative.”

CAMERA’s analysis, which examined staff columns and guest Op-Eds during the year period from October 5, 2013 through October 4, 2014, is based upon the 75 opinion pieces that focused on Israel or the Palestinians. “Of those, 31 were either predominantly critical of Israel or sympathetic to Palestinians; 14 were either predominantly critical of Palestinians or sympathetic to Israel; the remaining 30 did not predominantly criticize or support one side over the other, although they often suggested a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas by criticizing both in roughly equal measure,” CAMERA says……

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