New York Times: Annual Feature Misrepresents Israel -- Again

Ricki Hollander
CAMERA Media Analysis
03 January '11

The New York Times is known to have an Israel problem. Its bias is not confined to its editorial and Op-Ed pages. It manifests itself in many ways – including inappropriate editorializing in news stories, double standards, and distorted news coverage. The Times Jerusalem bureau chief and Op-Ed columnists do not even bother to hide their animus toward Israel. .

No surprise then that the Times' annual "Year in Pictures" feature, published in the Sunday "Week in Review" print edition, included no photographs of the Arab riots that ensued as a result of Israel's rededication of the Hurva synagogue in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter 62 years after it was destroyed by Jordanian forces, or photographs of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas declaring that he would never recognize Israel as a Jewish state, nor any of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at a Gaza rally proclaiming Palestinians would never recognize Israel and that all of Israel belongs to Palestine.

Instead, there were three photos of Israel with captions distorted to fit the New York Times' apparent editorial policy of consistently blaming Israel in the Arab-Israeli conflict, while concealing aggression against the Jewish state. The largest photograph was of a relatively minor skirmish in Umm El Fahm, certainly not one newsworthy as a picture of the year. Moreover, the large Getty photograph by Uriel Sinai, featured on page 10 in "Week in Review" misrepresented the events depicted by completely ignoring the role of the Arab participants.

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