COMMENTARY
The Times Declare History is Bunk
by Jonathan S. Tobin
October 9, 20/5
…By treating lies denying the historical ties of Jews to Jerusalem as being deserving of a fair hearing, the [New York] Times is calling into question more than claims about who gets to pray on the Temple Mount. The reason why Palestinians say such things isn’t because they have a solid historical case, but because their goal is to treat Jews and Judaism as alien to the place where the Jewish history began. The stakes here are not about archeology but about the right of Israel to exist. The Times has a long history of journalism malpractice with regard to Israel and Jewish issues dating back to the Holocaust. READ MORE