The terrorist sympathizers at the New York Times got in hot water Monday, after readers rightly noted an op-ed published in Monday’s paper was written by a convicted murderer and terrorist, yet the article did not make that plain. Its author, former leader of the Tanzim wing of the Palestinian Fatah terrorist movement Marwan Barghouti, used the space given to him by the Times to demonize Israel and draw sympathy for his anti-Israel agenda.
The article which appeared Sunday night online and in Monday’s print edition, shared nothing about the author’s crimes, other than Barghouti’s admission that he had been imprisoned by Israel for the past fifteen years. Of course Barghouti portrays himself as a freedom fighter, wrongly jailed by a corrupt government. It was the New York Times’ responsibility to reveal that the author was involved in dozens of terrorist attacks over decades, and was serving multiple life sentences for murder and terrorism. But they didn’t do that. Instead, the Times simply described Barghouti as this:
Marwan Barghouti is a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian.
After rightly receiving backlash for the glaring omission, an editor’s note was added sometime later Monday to the online version to say the following:
Unfortunately this isn’t the first time the New York Times has revealed its true colors by hosting pity pieces for Palestinian terrorists. Despite Israel being our long-time ally, the paper frequently chooses instead to draw sympathy for terrorist organizations that hate Israel and the West.
