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.
Has Israel destroyed the entire global legal order? That’s the grave charge leveled in Suzy Hansen’s New York Magazine essay, “Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.” To make her case, Hansen must resort to falsehoods and half-truths.
Last week we noted Morning Edition’s featured guest promoted the genocide claim against Israel. This week, the same program turns to another featured guest to further fuel the genocide canard.
Just two days after the New York Times published an op-ed by Omer Bartov claiming that Israel was committing a genocide, NPR’s Morning Edition featured an interview with him to reiterate the same points.
If other scholars don’t agree with Bartov, perhaps it is because they recognize that Israel's calls to destroy Hamas are not evidence of genocidal intent.
The 10,000-word feature called "Crimes of the Century" by Suzy Hansen is not investigative journalism; it’s agitprop that fits right into Hamas’ campaign to vilify the Jewish state as genocidal and guilty of shattering the entire global legal order. Filled with factual errors, distortions and misrepresentations, the piece projects Hamas’ genocidal mission onto its victims.
The false accusation of genocide is made for one reason: to attempt to pressure Israel to end the war without removing Hamas from power, so that the terror organization can rebuild and attack Israel again, as it has pledged to do and as history shows it has a record of doing.
As a music magazine, Rolling Stone has no obligation to cover these events at all. Yet it not only chooses to do so, it chooses to do it in a manner that misinforms and misleads its readers. This is the last of a three-part series.
