Ira Stoll
ARTICLES BY: Ira Stoll
What the New York Times Left Out of Its ‘Starving Gaza Children’ Story
A front-page story in Sunday's New York Times accuses Israel of starving Gazan children to death. The story, though, is missing crucial context. The Times reports, "Obtaining...
New York Times Opinion Piece Paved Way for Oscar Night Comparison of Israel to Nazis
On Oscar night, British director Jonathan Glazer used his movie about the Holocaust to condemn Israel's "ongoing attack on Gaza" as an example of the...
Holocaust ‘Shutting Down Debate’ About Treatment of Palestinians, New York Times Frets
The real problem with the Holocaust is that it is "shutting down debate about Israeli treatment of Palestinians." That's the argument getting respectful attention in a...
Reuters Distances Itself From Photographer for “Unacceptable” Behavior Caught on Oct. 7 Video
The Reuters wire service is distancing itself from a freelance photographer after a pro-Israel journalism watchdog organization found an Instagram video of the photographer on...
In Nasser Hospital Coverage, New York Times Underperforms the Babylon Bee
Will the New York Times ever stop falling for the Gaza “hospitals threatened” Hamas publicity stunt? The New York Times of Thursday February 15 resumed the...
Bias-as-a-Business-Strategy Won’t Rescue the New York Times
A long front-page article in the New York Times faults Israel for killing journalists in Gaza, claiming that has inhibited the world from seeing what...
New York Times Airs a Grievance Against the Passover Seder
Of all the many strange and egregious things the New York Times has done since October 7, 2023—rehiring an openly Hitler-praising Gaza stringer, misquoting Israel’s...
Social Media Watchdogs Shame New York Times for ‘Rank Dishonesty,’ ‘Statistical Manipulation’
An encouraging development in the Israel-Hamas war is that the online pro-Israel press watchdogs finally seem to be getting the upper hand over the New...
New York Times Corrects Widely Mocked Headline That Exaggerated Gaza Death Toll
The New York Times has corrected a print headline that erroneously claimed more people had died in the current war in Gaza than in any...
New York Times ‘Investigation’ of Israel’s 2,000-Pound Bombs Shows Blatant Bias
A recurring theme in recent criticism of the New York Times by former longstanding employees such as James Bennet and Judith Miller has been that...
New York Times Falls for Hamas Propaganda at a Third Hospital, Where Terrorists Hid Weapons in Incubators
Of all the many egregious embarrassments of the New York Times in its flawed coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, hospitals consistently have been at the...
The Fear Trap: What’s Missing From the Current Campus Antisemitism Debate
An underappreciated but crucial dimension of the campus antisemitism wars is how much of the discussion turns on the idea of fear by Jewish students....
New York Times Kids Section Insists Hamas Wants a Two-State Solution, Blames Israel for ‘Crime’ of Starving Gaza
It's terrible enough when the New York Times inflicts biased, factually inaccurate coverage of Israel on its adult readers, who are presumably able to see...
New York Times Deplores Israeli Rhetoric While Denouncing Israeli Settlers as a ‘Cancer’
It's a classic antisemitic double standard. When Israelis use heated rhetoric about Hamas, the New York Times raises alarm bells. But when American "progressives" call...
