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New York Times publishes op-ed by convicted jihad murderer, calls him a “Palestinian leader”

Apr 17, 2017 7:41 pm By Robert Spencer

But would the New York Times ever publish an op-ed by a foe of jihad terror who spoke honestly about the terrorists’ motivating ideology? Don’t be silly. That would be “Islamophobic.”

“New York Times Publishes Op-Ed by Convicted Terrorist, Describes Him as a ‘Palestinian Leader,’” by Alex Griswold, Washington Free Beacon, April 17, 2017:

The New York Times published an op-ed Monday written by a convicted terrorist, without informing readers that he is serving five life sentences in prison for helping murder five people and launch a failed suicide bombing.

The op-ed, titled “Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons,” was penned by Marwan Barghouti and appeared both online and in the print edition of the International New York Times. The Times author bio described Barghouti as “a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian.“

“Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners,” Barghouti writes. “After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike.”

Throughout the op-ed, Barghouti only vaguely alludes to the reason he is in prison.

“Israel has tried to brand us all as terrorists to legitimize its violations, including mass arbitrary arrests, torture, punitive measures, and severe restrictions,” he writes. “As part of Israel’s effort to undermine the Palestinian struggle for freedom, an Israeli court sentenced me to five life sentences and 40 years in prison in a political show trial that was denounced by international observers.”

In reality, Barghouti was sentenced in 2004 to five consecutive life sentences for masterminding a series of terrorist attacks on Israeli police and civilians, including a Greek Orthodox priest. Barghouti was also found responsible for a failed suicide bombing that ended up killing the terrorists instead.

Despite his claim of a “show trial,” Israeli judges actually acquitted Barghouti of most of the charges against him. Israeli authorities believed he was directly responsible for as many as 37 attacks, but judges ruled they lacked sufficient proof of his involvement in many of those cases.

Israeli media and American Jewish figures castigated the Times for omitting the full details of Barghouti’s activities.

“Shame on NYT for printing libelous op-ed by convicted killer Barghouti, the Palestinian Dylann Roof,” wrote former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren. “Americans would be horrified. So are we.”….

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  1. Rick says

    Apr 17, 2017 at 8:20 pm

    I hope he never eats again and slowly disappears to hell!!!!!

  2. gravenimage says

    Apr 17, 2017 at 8:31 pm

    New York Times publishes op-ed by convicted jihad murderer, calls him a “Palestinian leader”
    ………………….

    *Repulsive*. But what else would one expect of the NYT?

    • The Confessions says

      Apr 18, 2017 at 5:42 am

      The New York Times obviously has no interest in, nor care of, history. Their neglect of basic facts and even worse, their whitewashing of evil, proves they have failed humanity stupendously.

      ==================================
      https://theconfessionsweb.wordpress.com/

  3. Manny says

    Apr 17, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    I don’t know who is more despicable, this low life terrorist or the New York Times editorial staff.

    • David Barrett says

      Apr 18, 2017 at 9:06 am

      WELL SAID

  4. Stan Lee says

    Apr 17, 2017 at 9:56 pm

    I think that if an honest comparison could be made between the NY Times and Pravda as its most efficient Communist Party self, the despicable, Marxist NY Times would eclipse Pravda for dishonest Communist propaganda at any time in the past twenty-five years.
    Unfortunately, that “honest comparison” will never be made by the NY Times! As a news and commentary organization, Vladimir Lenin would have been proud of it.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 17, 2017 at 11:26 pm

      NYT is now the HOUSE ORGAN OF HAMAS… a terrorist organization.

      If the NYT shills for Hamas, a terrorist organization with GENOCIDE in its CONSTITUTION, nothing NYT writes may be considered credible.

  5. mortimer says

    Apr 17, 2017 at 11:23 pm

    “Shame on NYT for printing libelous op-ed by convicted killer Barghouti”

    Indeed, shame on NYT for not telling readers about the 5 LIFE SENTENCES.

    OOPS!

    Fake news comes in sins of omission.

  6. 30 cash Mir cheated Jesus says

    Apr 18, 2017 at 3:24 am

    In Kerala Jewish Christian community they are the core of the Islam. Muslim Mahdi came years back. Iran’s Al Mahdi is just a man or evil or Al ex under the Great. True King is Jesus and xtian followers. Others are all Kafirs/Jews.

  7. 30 cash Mir cheated Jesus says

    Apr 18, 2017 at 3:28 am

    Already 12*365 David star completed in 2014. Pope knows that. Koran and Islam are bull shit or 3.14 or devils. Better merge them into Judo christian values.

  8. 30 cash Mir cheated Jesus says

    Apr 18, 2017 at 3:32 am

    Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II can decide that. He can merge Muslims to orthodox xtianity.

  9. gabi says

    Apr 18, 2017 at 10:01 am

    There isn’t any “Palestinian”, but “Arab” of a kind or another. There isn’t a “Palestinian language”, but at most an Arab dialect. There are Christian Arabs, Druze Arabs and mostly Muslim Arabs, mixed in different countries – countries that exist only from the end of WW 1 or WW 2. All my respect for them, but why do you, an Arab, pretend you are something else?

  10. Tom says

    Apr 18, 2017 at 10:04 am

    Well this only tells us, and anyone with a brain cell that is active, that the New York Times acknowledges (inadvertently of course) that the Palestinian leadership consists of terrorists.

    I hope that one of their readers would point this out in a letter to the editor, which of course would never get printed. Am I a bit too harsh and cynical? Surely the main stream media isn’t biased and agenda driven (sarc off).

  11. ele says

    Apr 18, 2017 at 12:19 pm

    This is the Editor’s Note Appended:
    Editors’ Note: April 17, 2017

    This article explained the writer’s prison sentence but neglected to provide sufficient context by stating the offenses of which he was convicted. They were five counts of murder and membership in a terrorist organization. Mr. Barghouti declined to offer a defense at his trial and refused to recognize the Israeli court’s jurisdiction and legitimacy.

  12. Paul says

    Apr 18, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    Time for a boycott of NY Times by all who want Israel to survive and be safe.

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