The New York Times’ Leading Apologist for Israel is Still at It |
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“There is no nation that feeds its enemies. The British didn’t feed the Nazis nor did the Americans feed the Japanese, nor do the Russians feed the Ukrainians now.”
– Amichay Eliyahu, Israel’s Heritage Ministry, July 24, 2025
“How many times can a man turn his head/and pretend that he just doesn’t see.”
– Bob Dylan, “Blowing in the Wind,” 1962
“Israel is prolonging the war, even though we do not see where further progress cans be made.”
–Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, 2025
Last week, Bret Stephens, the New York Times’ leading warmonger and apologist for Israel, penned a lead editorial that denied Israel was committing genocide in Israel. The editorials and articles in the NYT’s have always favored Israel, but no NYT’s columnist compares to Stephens, whose writings are chauvinistic and bellicose. Stephens, a former editor of the Jerusalem Post and a supporter of all Israeli policies, left the Wall Street Journal to join the Times in 2017 because he believed Israel was not getting a fair hearing in the mainstream media. In doing so, he joined other Jewish columnists at the Times (Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Paul Krugman, and Roger Cohen). However, while these men bring some objectivity to the problem of Israel, Stephens has no limits in his support of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Stephens limits his definition of genocide to assault against innocent civilians, which allows him to ignore the international definition developed during World War II that........