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Michael Goodwin: The New York Times’ hate-filled agenda drags on

It’s not as if the ranks of antisemites were thinning and reinforcements are needed.

Nevertheless, haters of Israel and President Trump, in the media and elsewhere, have a new rationale for their condemnation of America’s involvement in the Iran war.

According to the latest blame-the-Jews- bile, Trump was persuaded to attack the Islamist regime only by a deceptive “hard sell” from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Otherwise, we are supposed to believe that peace would be breaking out in the Middle East instead of yet another war.

A chief peddler of this fable is, predictably, The New York Times.

A font of misinformation and biased reporting about everything Trump, starting with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax in his first term.

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The paper was also a leading proponent of the false claim that Israel committed “genocide” in Gaza and was intentionally starving children.

It saw no evil either in Hamas or a murderous Ayatollah seeking nuclear weapons and is now combining its obsessions to push distorted allegations against Trump and Israel over Iran.

The “evidence” comes from two Times’ reporters who claim they got an exclusive view of a crucial February meeting of American and Israeli leaders in the top secret White House Situation Room.

Because the room is supposedly secure, anyone who gave the paper details and even direct quotationes, assuming they are accurate, had to have been there– — and probably likely committed a federal crime.

The story included descriptions of who sat where and who said what, including the reactions of Trump and members of his national security team to a presentation by Netanyahu.

The story also revealed details of a supposed second meeting held the following........

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