The New York Times seems to be showing-up as the epicenter of anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and Hitler fans. Just within weeks of sacking a Gaza-based reporter who expressed support for “killing and burning Jews like Hitler did”, a media watchdog Honest Reporting has now exposed another extremely disturbing fact about a 2012 Facebook post by a Times videographer, Soliman Hijjy, who Honest Reporting said wrote, “How great are you, Hitler”. Hijjy also shared variants of the post again in 2018 and 2020, Honest Reporting said.
Following the second exposure, NYT told Honest Reporting that it reviewed the concerns and “took appropriate action”. Media insiders said, shifting through decade-old social media posts to wield against Times journalists might seem like a case of cancel culture at its worst.
One might be inclined to cut the Times some slack and judge the journalists by what they do for the newspaper, not by what they wrote on social media years ago.
One might be so inclined—except for that the Times itself has been practicing similar tactics against Republican political candidates. A July 6 news article in the Times was headlined: “The Strident Writings of a Young Blake Masters Dog His Senate Run”. The sub-headline says, “As a Stanford student in 2007, the Arizona candidate, now 35, chose a CrossFit chat room to express his opposition to US involvement in World War II and downplay Al Qaeda as a threat to Americans”.
In the video of Soliman Hijjy titled ‘Gaza’s Deadly Night: How Israeli Airstrikes Killed 44 People’, which was made for the New York Times proves it to be not just the social media post, it is the nexus between the social media posts and the hate-filled agenda that filters through into the NYT journalism.
