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February 28, 2024

The “New York Times” Finds New Ways to Distort the History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

Six professors, but only two opinions.

Earlier this month, the New York Times Magazine published a long article, titled “The Road to 1948,” drawn from a conversation among six professors, three Arab and three Jewish. But even the composition of the panel fits what Benny Morris terms the article’s “misleading attempt to project even-handedness,” as two of the Jewish participants betray a sharply critical attitude toward Zionism, while the three Arab scholars “almost uniformly toe the PLO (or Hamas) line, which is indistinguishable from propaganda.” Morris also notes:

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February 28, 2024

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    Making sense of Mohammad Shtayyeh’s resignation.

  2. The “New York Times” Finds New Ways to Distort the History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

    Six professors, but only two opinions.

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    Philo-Semitism, anti-Semitism, and the “almost chosen people.”

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