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The New York Times is lying to you about genocide.

JL;DR SUMMARY Joshua Hoffman critiques The New York Times for publishing an op-ed by Omer Bartov, which accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HamasGazaNew York TimesGenocideJournalismOmer BartovBiasMedia Criticism

Places mentioned

San Diego, California, United States
"As a teenage journalism student at San Diego State University, I used to be in awe of The New York Times."
New York, United States
"It seemed like the gold standard, the newspaper every professor held up as the model of integrity, accuracy, and fearless reporting."
Rhode Island, United States
"It was written by Omer Bartov, an Israeli-American historian and the Deans Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"In this op-ed, Bartov accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, cloaking his arguments in the moral authority of his academic title and the historical weight of the word genocide."
Israel
"The Times amplified his claim without hesitation, feeding the narrative that Israel, a nation born in the ashes of an actual genocide, is now guilty of the very crime that defined Jews in the 20th century."

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