Top: New York Times building (Getty Images) Bottom: Law enforcement vehicles in the Temple Israel parking lot (Getty Images)
The New York Times is drawing bipartisan condemnation for its coverage on the terrorist attack on Temple Israel in Michigan. Readers could be forgiven for thinking that the Times‘s print news article—published Saturday and headlined “Synagogue Attacker Lost Family Members in Lebanon Airstrike”—was a tacit effort to justify the attack. The report failed to mention that, according to the IDF, at least one of those “family members” was a Hezbollah terrorist. Online, the Times quoted an anonymous Lebanese official as well as an anonymous Hezbollah terrorist, both of whom said the family members were not affiliated with Hezbollah. The Free Beacon’s Ira Stoll writes:
That may seem like a subtle detail, but it generates a totally different storyline. The Times headline and storyline basically conveys “grieving guy takes revenge for innocent family members killed by Israel.” The other would be more like, “would-be murderer in Michigan was a terrorist fanatic like his brother in Lebanon.”
Don’t just take it from me: The State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism during the Biden administration, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, wrote that the Times headline “suggests that because he lost family members in Lebanon trying to kill Jewish children is sorta ok.”
The “Synagogue Attacker Lost Family Members” story came on the heels of another Times headline about the same attack that prompted widespread outrage.
“Temple Israel was founded in 1941, Dedicated to the Formation of a Jewish State,” was one online Times headline in the aftermath of the attack. “Extremely dangerous and disgraceful. The @nytimes continues to spew antisemitic propaganda,” wrote Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican of New York.
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