WASHINGTON (JTA) — Palestinian-American congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., criticized The New York Times for a headline on a story about the recent violence on the Israel-Gaza border, saying it promotes a “lack of responsibility on Israel.” The headline read “Gaza Militants Fire 250 Rockets, and Israel Responds with Airstrikes.” “When will the world stop dehumanizing our…
The Portuguese artist behind an anti-Semitic cartoon published in The New York Times International Edition on April 25 believes that the controversy around his drawing is the result of “the Jewish propaganda machine.” António Moreira Antunes, who has been a professional cartoonist for 45 years, told CNN that the outrage around the cartoon is overblown….
NEW YORK (JTA) — The New York Times apologized for publishing a political cartoon widely criticized as anti-Semitic. In a second statement on the cartoon issued Sunday, the newspaper said it was “deeply sorry for the publication of an anti-Semitic political cartoon” that appeared in its international print edition. The image, which drew wide criticism, including…
There was a quote in The New York Times’ recent story on Representative Steve King that grabbed headlines, about his wonderment over when terms like “white supremacist” and “white nationalist” became negative, offensive. But that angle had been covered before — he has been vocal about his white nationalist viewpoints since 2006 — so that…
Larry Eisenberg, commenter supreme, Has passed away, it would seem As recorded in The Times, Which he graced with his lines, His daughter reports she’s bereaved. With his limericks sublime, Eisenberg was 99, A biomedical engineer And Sci-Fi writer who endeared, He was truly one of a kind. Born to parents Sidney and Yetta, Larry…
The New York Times’s “By the Book” column is no stranger to scandal. Male authors who participate in the feature, in which an author answers questions about the books that have formed them, tend to mention few female authors among their picks. It’s a phenomenon so notable that when Lauren Groff was a “By the…
A liberal insurgent running to topple renegade New York state Sen. Simcha Felder in next week’s Democratic primary has won the endorsement of the New York Times. The paper slammed Felder, who represents a heavily Orthodox south Brooklyn district, for tipping control of the split body to Republicans, even though he claims to be a…
The firestorm over the New York Times’ hiring of tech writer Sarah Jeong as an editorial board member, and the revelation of Jeong’s past tweets mocking white people, has become another chapter in the ongoing drama of old social media posts being used to torpedo people’s careers. But this story has also brought the spotlight…
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