The New York Times is famously sensitive about publishing opinion pieces by personalities or on subjects that might “trigger” the progressive sensibilities of its own staff. Writing in The Economist, former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet explained how publishing a piece from Republican senator Tom Cotton in June 2020 was enough to cause a crisis and for Bennet to lose his job, as New York Times staffers took to Twitter to express their outrage. Sarraj is the mayor of Gaza City and a former rector of the University College of Applied Sciences there. After all, isn’t Sarraj a mayor in the same way that Eric Adams is the mayor of New York? As demonstrated by Israel’s military ground operation, Gaza City has operated as a Hamas terrorist base all within plain sight of its mayor.

Source: New York Times December 26, 2023 18:25 UTC