{"id":1456639,"date":"2022-04-28T10:59:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456639"},"modified":"2022-04-28T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:59:55","slug":"the-anti-israel-past-of-nyt-jerusalem-bureaus-latest-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-anti-israel-past-of-nyt-jerusalem-bureaus-latest-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Israel Past of NYT Jerusalem Bureau\u2019s Latest Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-anti-israel-past-of-nyt-jerusalem-bureaus-latest-hire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456639&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The latest hire in the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018s Jerusalem Bureau doesn&#8217;t exactly have a history of scrupulous objectivity when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hiba Yazbek, a former intern for Israeli-bashing Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), called herself a victim of Israel&#8217;s &#8220;mental occupation&#8221; and said Palestinians are a &#8220;minority in our own land&#8221; in a 2020 speech.<\/p>\n<p>Yazbek, who joined the <em>Times<\/em> as a news assistant last week, deleted similar comments she had posted on Twitter, as well as posts in which she condemned Israel for killing terrorists, <a href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/reuters-confused-about-own-ties-to-journalism-institution-that-awarded-fellowship-to-terrorist-glorifying-palestinian-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the media watchdog group Honest Reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Although Yazbek deleted a number of her politically charged posts, she still has a photo of her sitting next to squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) as her Twitter background. Another photo posted on Twitter shows Yazbek posing with Tlaib. Yazbek interned in 2019 for Tlaib\u2014one of the most vocal anti-Israel members of Congress who has accused the Jewish state of &#8220;apartheid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hire is likely to fuel concerns about <em>T<\/em><em>imes<\/em>\u00a0reporting on the Middle East conflict, which pro-Israel watchdog groups claim is deeply skewed against the Jewish state. In 2019, the <em>Times<\/em> was forced to apologize after <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/on-second-try-nyt-apologizes-for-anti-semitic-cartoon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publishing<\/a> an anti-Semitic cartoon that depicted then-Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog with a Star of David on his collar, leading a blind President Donald Trump who was drawn wearing a yarmulke.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet also caught flak for publishing a glowing <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/521774-ny-times-slammed-for-glowing-farrakhan-op-ed-you-would-think-he-was-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portrayal<\/a> of Louis Farrakhan and a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nyt-podcast-neglects-to-ask-alice-walker-about-history-of-anti-jewish-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with Alice Walker that failed to mention their anti-Semitism in 2020. That same year,<em> Times<\/em> opinion editor Bari Weiss stepped down and said she had faced harassment from colleagues over her support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Israel media bias hasn&#8217;t been confined to the <em>Times<\/em>. Last year, the Associated Press hired an anti-Israel activist who accused Israel of &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; and helped organize protests against Jewish students traveling to Israel on the Birthright program, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/ap-hires-anti-israel-activist-as-news-associate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The AP later cut ties with the reporter.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/malanational\/hiba-yazbek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> by the Muslim American Leadership Alliance, Yazbek said her father&#8217;s family was &#8220;forced out of Nazareth due to the occupation&#8221; in 1948, the year Israel was founded, and moved to Amman, Jordan. She said her family later moved back to Nazareth and she has Israeli citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a minority in our own land. We experience micro-aggressions every day,&#8221; she said in the speech in 2020. &#8220;Living in your own land but feeling like a second-class and third-class citizen your entire life, I would say is a mental occupation, in the very least.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yazbek added that her &#8220;first goal is to bring awareness&#8221; to this plight.<\/p>\n<p>In another Twitter post that has since been deleted, Yazbek denounced Israeli soldiers who shot and killed a Palestinian man after he rammed his car into them at a checkpoint, a common type of Palestinian terror attack that is often followed by the driver getting out of the vehicle and stabbing the victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t stop thinking about Ahmad Erekat&#8217;s mother and sister, a bride on her wedding day, waiting for him to pick them up from the salon,&#8221; wrote Yazbek. &#8220;Could they have ever imagined that he was late because he was lying in the street bleeding to death after getting shot by Israeli soldiers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yazbek also said she was &#8220;livid&#8221; after Saber Ibrahim Mahmoud Suleiman, a Hamas commander, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, claiming that Israel &#8220;murdered&#8221; him, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camera.org\/article\/at-ny-times-jerusalem-bureau-a-new-hire-with-the-same-old-slant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to a still-available Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A serious observer, and especially a sober-minded journalist, would be expected to know the difference between \u2018murder&#8217; and a legitimate military casualty,&#8221; said CAMERA, a pro-Israel media watchdog group that flagged the post. &#8220;Yazbek&#8217;s comment, in other words, was far from serious, sober, or objective-minded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hire could also raise questions about the paper&#8217;s social media policy. Earlier this month, the outlet encouraged its reporters to reduce the time they spend on Twitter, where its journalists are already prohibited from &#8220;tak[ing] sides on issues that the <em>Times<\/em> is seeking to cover objectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> updated its social media policy in 2017, stating that its reporters &#8220;must not express partisan opinions, promote political views, endorse candidates, make offensive comments or do anything else that undercuts the <em>Times<\/em>\u2018s journalistic reputation.&#8221; Executive editor Dean Baquet went further earlier this month, encouraging reporters to &#8220;meaningfully reduce how much time you\u2019re spending on [Twitter], tweeting or scrolling&#8221; and warning that &#8220;our feeds [can] become echo chambers&#8221; in a memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest hire in the New York Times\u2018s Jerusalem Bureau doesn&#8217;t exactly have a history of scrupulous objectivity when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 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