The New York Times faced widespread criticism and ridicule when it published an article that critics said tried to soften the image of those killed Hezbollah founder Hassan Nasrallah – Claiming the terrorist leader who advocated Israel’s destruction was a champion of “equality” for all religious groups in the region.
The article, titled “Protesters around the world mourn Nasrallah’s death— published without a byline on Saturday — praised Nasrallah as a “brilliant speaker” who “insisted that there must be a Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews and Christians.”
Nasrallah believed strongly in the destruction of the Jewish state – and his organization carried out a number of horrific attacks on Jews around the world.
The article described how Narsalla was “beloved” by Shia Muslims for providing “social services” in Lebanon.
Nasrallah was 64 years old Killed in massive aerial bombardment by Israeli forces in Beirut on Friday. He co-founded Hezbollah in 1982 and became the sole leader of the terrorist group by 1992.
The Iran-backed Islamic terrorist group has been accused of carrying out a number of deadly terrorist attacks targeting Jewish people over the past 40 years, including Bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994 in which 85 people were killed and a plane crash the next day that killed 21 people, many of whom were Jews.
During the 2000s, Hezbollah carried out numerous suicide bombings within Israel, regularly targeting large groups of civilians gathered in restaurants, buses or other public places.
This summer, Hezbollah rocket attack on a football field At least 12 people aged between 10 and 20 were killed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
“The Times’s readership is now limited to liberal elites, politicians, communists and Islamists,” one X user wrote in response to a post highlighting parts of the article that has been viewed nearly 250,000 times.
“it’s so embarrassing. How does anyone take the NYT seriously anymore?” Another user asked.
Another accused the Gray Lady of “spreading jihad” and “attempting to turn a clarion call for genocide into something positive”.
Although he often claimed to be an anti-Semite and not an anti-Semite, Nasrallah was Quoted in a Times article From May 23, 2004 in which he said, “If all the Jews gathered in Israel, it would save us the trouble of going after them around the world.”
The New York Times did not respond to a request for comment.
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