NYT slammed for claiming Hezbollah founder Hassan Nasrallah wanted equality for all religions
The New York Times faced widespread criticism and mockery after it published an article critics said tried to soften the image of slain Hezbollah founder Hassan Nasrallah — claiming the terror leader who advocated for the annihilation of Israel was a champion of “equality” for all religious groups in the region.The article, titled “Protesters Mourn Nasrallah’s Death Around the World” — published Saturday without a byline — heaps praise on Nasrallah as a “gifted orator” who “maintained that there should be one Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews and Christians.”Nasrallah fervently believed in the destruction of the Jewish state — and his organization carried out numerous horrific attacks on Jews around the world.The article describes how Narsallah was “beloved” by Shiite Muslims, in part for providing “social services” in Lebanon.Nasrallah, 64, was killed in a massive aerial bombardment by Israeli forces in Beirut on Friday.
He co-founded Hezbollah in 1982, becoming the terror group’s sole leader by 1992.The Iran-backed Islamist militant group has been accused of perpetrating numerous deadly terror attacks targeting Jewish people over the last 40 years, including bombing a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994 which killed 85 people and causing a plane crash the next day that killed 21 people, many of them Jewish.Throughout the 2000s, Hezbollah perpetrated scores of suicide bombings within Israel, routinely targeting large groups of civilians gathered at restaurants, on buses or other public places.This summer, Hezbollah launched a rocket strike at a soccer field in Israel-controlled Golan Heights which killed at least 12 people between the ages of 10 and 20.“The Times readership is now down to liberal elites, politicians, Communists and Islamists,” one X user wrote in response to a post highlighting portions of the article viewed nearly 250,000 times.“This is so embarrassing.
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