New York Times Publishes Op-Ed From A Member of HAMAS

The New York Times is facing major backlash after the news outlet published an op-ed written by a member of Hamas.

On Sunday, The New York Times published an article written by the mayor of Gaza Yahya Sarraj.

According to DNI, “Hamas has been the de facto governing body in the Gaza Strip since 2007.”

In the op-ed, Sarraj talks about Israel’s retaliation to the Hamas terror attacks.

Sarraj wrote, “The Israelis have also pulverized something else: Gaza City’s cultural riches and municipal institutions.”

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Here’s what MSN exported:

The New York Times is facing backlash after publishing an op-ed written by the Hamas-backed mayor of Gaza City describing the state of the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group that broke out in early October.

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The news outlet published the op-ed on Sunday, written by Yahya Sarraj, mayor of Gaza, of which Hamas has been the de facto governing body for more than a decade. The essay laments the actions of the Israeli military, particularly after its invasion of the Gaza Strip on Oct. 27 in retaliation to the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.

More than 20,000 people have died in Gaza since Israel began its counterattack, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, and troops have destroyed roughly half of the buildings in the area. But Sarraj faulted the Israeli military for something greater: the loss of the Gazan culture.

“The Israelis have also pulverized something else: Gaza City’s cultural riches and municipal institutions,” Sarraj said. “The unrelenting destruction of Gaza — its iconic symbols, its beautiful seafront, its libraries and archives and whatever economic prosperity it had — has broken my heart.”

The op-ed criticized Israel for the destruction of many of the city’s features, including its zoo, the main public library, the Children’s Happiness Center, and more. Sarraj accused the Israeli military of “destroying life” in Gaza, lamenting the country’s “blockade of Gaza” that he says unfairly affects the Palestinian population.

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Per The New York Post:

The New York Times ran an op-ed Sunday by Hamas’ handpicked Gaza City mayor — prompting outrage on social media from Israel supporters who slammed the Gray Lady for amplifying “Jew hate.”

The essay by Yahya R. Sarraj published on Christmas Eve comes amid fury over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s social media post that denounced Israel as a violent occupying force and likened Jesus to Palestinians.

Sarraj’s op-ed — titled “I Am Gaza City’s Mayor. Our Lives and Culture Are in Rubble” — condemned Israel for “caus[ing] the deaths of more than 20,000 people” and for destroying or damaging “about half the buildings” in the Gaza Strip.

The Times’s decision to grant a platform to Sarraj, who was appointed mayor of Gaza City by Hamas in 2019 after a career in academia, sparked an immediate backlash from many on social media.

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“I wonder, would NYT also publish an op-ed from Al-Qaeda justifying 9-11? Of course not, but there is no red line to this paper’s Jew-hatred,” tweeted Arsen Ostrovsky, an International Human Rights lawyer who describes himself on X as a Zionist.