New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman had a piece in the Point (2/2/24), an online Times feature the paper describes as “conversations and insights about the moment,” that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It’s the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide. The Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and Kataib Hezbollah are the eggs that hatch inside the host—Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq—and eat it from the inside out. Surely editors at the New York Times are aware of this history. ACTION ALERT:Please ask the New York Times why it allowed Thomas Friedman to use analogies that have repeatedly been used to justify genocide.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2024 18:33 UTC