"Harvest the skulls of the Jews!" That was the exhortation of a Hamas spokesman broadcast on Palestinian television – but The New York Times never reported it. Genocidal incitement against Israel is almost totally ignored by the publication.
CAMERA has long deplored the failure of The Times to cover such calls for genocide against the Jews by Hamas and other Palestinian groups. Only very rarely is the pervasive propaganda reported and then almost always it’s couched in qualifying language dismissive of its deep influence on the attitudes of the Palestinian people.
Dehumanizing Jews and exhorting Palestinians to annihilate Israel and the Jewish people obviously thwarts achievement of genuine peace on many levels. Having educated their people to believe Israel is illegitimate and an entity to be destroyed, instead of educating them to accept a legitimate neighboring nation, Palestinian leaders -- if they want a peace agreement -- will have difficulty selling compromise and an end of the conflict.
Had The Times not grossly neglected this central issue and instead given it the attention warranted, the American public would be far more aware of the nature of Israel’s adversaries and the challenges in arriving at a durable peace. Also, importantly, shining a journalistic light on the bigoted attacks might very well have helped to diminish them.
CAMERA’s second ad (see below) in an ongoing series focuses on The Timesdereliction in almost entirely ignoring the incidence of genocidal incitement. Three examples – from 2011, 2012 and 2013 underscore the pattern of neglect.
The Ad appeared in Friday’s New York Metro and in today’s New York Post and AM New York. Many more are to come.
