A year after Amsterdam’s 2024 “Jew Hunt,” CAMERA research analysts Ricki Hollander and Gilead Ini revisit the pogrom, expose the myths that tried to justify it, and explain how it fits into the wider rise of the New Antisemitism.
The New York Times’ glowing profile of Francesca Albanese, a UN official who has trafficked in antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories, recasts an extremist as an “optimist,” transforming a dark record into light and journalism into hagiography.
The New York Times conceals pro-terror attitudes at the top of the campus anti-Israel movement, turning extremists into victims, and rewriting a story about campus free speech and fanaticism into a story only about the former.
In an open letter, experts explained that IAGS failed to accurately apply the law and facts of the war and emphatically concluded that the Jewish state is not guilty of genocide. The New York Times ignored the letter even while repeatedly platforming the "genocide" slur.
On Oct 9, 2023, at a demonstration in front of the Sydney Opera House, a crowd chanted “F**k the Jews!” Or in the words of the New York Times, there were no antisemitic slurs.
(Update: After outreach from CAMERA, the paper corrected its false claim.)
Food insecurity in Gaza is real. So is the propaganda war waged from the territory, which seeks to mislead by concealing the preexisting health conditions of those suffering most.
This second serving of Bartov in the New York Times was likely meant to promote his extreme anti-Israel narratives. And with its platform, the paper may have succeeded. But it came with a hidden cost.
Amid disturbing reports of anti-Druze massacres by Syrian forces, caution amidst the fog of war might be warranted. What we’ve seen from the New York Times is something else entirely. It is indifference to the Druze community and advocacy for the new Syrian regime.
