Ira Stoll
ARTICLES BY: Ira Stoll
New York Times Faults One of Its Own Editors for Repeated ‘Poor Judgment’
A New York Times editor is in trouble for what the Times calls repeated poor judgment on social media. The editor, Jonathan Weisman, works in the...
David Brooks Seizes on Mass Shootings to Disparage Jewish Particularism
Under the headline “The Ideology of Hate and How to Fight It,” New York Times columnist David Brooks blames the recent mass shootings on what...
New York Times Tries to Tie Lox to Cancer, But Readers Resist
Just before Hannukah, the New York Times published an article warning of the health risks of eating fried potatoes. In May, the same newspaper prompted...
‘Is BDS Anti-Semitic?’ The New York Times Inquires
The New York Times devotes a full page in its Sunday newspaper to a deeply flawed look at the movement to boycott, divest, and sanction...
New York Times Stealth-Edits Morgenthau Obituary to Add Jewish Angle
The New York Times has “stealth edited” its obituary of longtime district attorney of New York County Robert Morgenthau after The Algemeiner pointed out the...
New York Times Morgenthau Obituary Oddly Omits His Jewish Identity
The very long New York Times obituary of Robert Morgenthau, the longtime Manhattan District attorney, manages to omit entirely Morgenthau’s Jewish identity, which was strong. Morgenthau...
The New York Times Improves Its Iran Coverage — Up To a Point
Sometimes The New York Times responds to criticism with improvement. So it is — up to a point — with the newspaper’s Iran coverage. Last month, I...
New York Times Touts ‘Gay and Once Divorced’ Rabbi
The New York Times, having recently devoted its “Saturday profile” slot to an admiring profile of a Palestinian diplomat that pushed an Israel-apartheid theme, went...
Netanyahu, Trump Policies Succeed in West Bank, New York Times Concedes
Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump have succeeded in calming violence in the West Bank, the New York Times concedes in a news article that...
New York Times Profile of Palestinian Diplomat Pushes Israel-Apartheid Theme
A New York Times “Saturday Profile” of the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations is the latest in a series of Times articles that links...
‘We Are All Jews,’ David Brooks Claims, Stretching Definition to Breaking Point
“We are all Jews,” New York Times columnist David Brooks claimed in a recent column. By which he meant, all modern Americans are “creative minorities.” The full...
New York Times Grills Presidential Candidates About Israel’s Human Rights Record
The New York Times asked 18 questions to 21 Democratic presidential candidates. Only one of the questions was about human rights overseas. That question dealt with...
One Sentence From a New York Times Letter About Birthright Israel Packs In Three Inaccuracies
A front-page New York Times article earlier this month about Birthright Israel problematically echoed the “Zionism is racism” myth. Now the Times has compounded the...
New York Times Blames Trump for US-Iran Tensions
One of the most important choices in telling any story is deciding when it begins. In its coverage of the latest tensions in the Middle East,...
