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‘New York Times’ ends the year with an epic Israel smear
by Andrea Levin
January 1, 2019

The New York Times’ 4700-word story (A Day, a Life: When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident?) on the death of a young Gazan woman in June 2018 during border riots is a powerful reminder of the depth and breadth of bias at the paper. The hagiographic December 30th account spans a remarkable three and a half full pages of the paper, tracing Rouzan al-Najjar’s personal life and sad end. Yet it manages, in all the words and images (and online videos), not to report the nature of the violence in which she was entangled nor the murderous and implacable hatred of Israel fueling it. READ MORE