NYT blasted for baffling Oct. 7 terror attack take, stating 'Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims'
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Its culture minister Miki Zohar called for the Israeli co‑directors of Naza to be stripped of their citizenship on grounds of “treason against the state.”
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The offending passage appeared in the Sept. 14 article about the documentary NAZA.
The offending passage appeared in the Sept. 14 article, penned by Jerusalem-based reporter Isabel Kershner, covers the controversy over the documentary film “NAZA,” which chronicles the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and just won the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
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The documentary NAZA chronicles the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The documentary “NAZA,” which chronicles the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza
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NAZA won the Special Jury Prize at the 2026 Venice Film Festival.
just won the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Naza (documentary film) Special Jury Prize Venice Film Festival
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Israeli officials outraged by what they called “deliberate distortions of reality” in the new documentary “NAZA” floated the idea of stripping directors Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham of their citizenship.
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Then it points to the upcoming three-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks and Israel’s national election, a pair of weighty, potentially fraught events which Kershner posits have “further fueled the backlash” against the film.
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“Israelis are deeply divided over how to apportion blame for the policy, military and intelligence failures that preceded the attack and the war,” she writes.
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Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7.
“But Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7,” she continued
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CNN correspondent Scott Jennings posted on X a screenshot highlighting the offending passage.
“No words for this abomination,” CNN correspondent Scott Jennings wrote in a post on X sharing a screenshot with the offending passage highlighted
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The New York Times has garnered criticism several times in recent months over what some call its biased coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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The Grey Lady later removed the offensive phrasing from the article following the swift backlash — and included a note blaming it on an “editing error.”
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“Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article included a statement that was intended to convey Israelis’ perception of the government’s military response to the Oct. 7 terror attack in relation to the attacks, but inadvertently suggested that Israelis’ experience as terror victims was a matter of perception. It has been removed from the article,” the editors’ note read.
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Kershner quotes a statement from the left‑leaning news outlet The Guardian, which co‑produced the film, saying it was “disturbed to see the authoritarian response to ‘NAZA’ in Israel,” and vowing to “robustly defend” both the documentary and the team behind it “from any attacks or attempts at censorship.”
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The film included interviews with 24 purported Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers who spoke under strict conditions of anonymity.
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The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the uproar.
The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the uproar
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Israel is poised to slap the Newspaper of Record with a lawsuit over a recent article accusing Israeli soldiers and their dogs of raping Palestinian prisoners, which the country’s Foreign Ministry called “one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press.”
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The New York Times came under fire on Wednesday.
The New York Times came under fire Wednesday over a baffling passage that appeared in an article about an Israeli documentary — which said the Jewish state “still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7.”
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Just this week, a damning study published by Edieal Pinker of the Yale School of Management examining 1,559 of its articles published between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 7, 2024 revealed the paper displayed a clear bias against Israel by downplaying its casualties and minimizing Hamas’ role in the conflict.
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