Ira Stoll
ARTICLES BY: Ira Stoll
New York Times Focuses on ‘Gentrification’ as Cause of Antisemitic Attacks
The New York Times has a news article reporting on antisemitic violent attacks against Orthodox Jews in New York. The Times article offers one explanation for...
New York Times Falsely Claims West Bank Settlements ‘Alienated Much of the World’
A New York Times report from the United Nations inaccurately claims that Israeli settlements in the West Bank have “alienated much of the world.” The Times...
Ruth Wisse’s Jewish Power Is on Display in New Edition of Her Groundbreaking Book
“Is this the prophet Ruth Wisse?” I ask over the phone to the professor emerita of Yiddish literature at Harvard. I mean it, only half-joking, in...
New York Times Bares Its Bias in Peace Plan Coverage
President Trump’s new peace plan and meetings this week with Israeli politicians are turning into a fresh opportunity for The New York Times to display...
New York Times Editors Press Democratic Presidential Candidates on Shutting Jerusalem Embassy
Democratic presidential candidates hoping to win the endorsement of The New York Times are being interrogated by Times editors about whether they’ll commit to shutting...
Aharon Appelfeld’s ‘To The Edge of Sorrow’ Asks the Right Questions
The Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld died in 2018. His novel To the Edge of Sorrow, published in Israel in 2012, is out this week in...
View From New York Antisemitism Rally: ‘No Fear’ Theme Resonates, From Soviet Era To US Today
Journalists usually report on marches and rallies rather than participate in them. I made a rare exception to that rule for last Sunday’s “No Hate,...
New York Times Iran Coverage: ‘Mind-Boggling,’ ‘Impossible To Parody’
President Trump’s decision to kill Qassem Soleimani is offering The New York Times an opportunity to put all its worst habits on display — and the...
Will American Jews Flee to Israel?
JERUSALEM — The blood was barely dry from the attack by a machete-wielding assailant who wounded five Jews at a Monsey, New York Hanukkah party...
New York Times Editors Falsely Blame Bret Stephens for ‘Mistake’ in Column on Jewish Genius
The New York Times has published an “Editors’ Note,” inaccurately accusing the newspaper’s own star columnist, Bret Stephens, of committing a “mistake” by “uncritically” citing...
Times Columnist Fantasizes Falsely About ‘Very Large Segment’ of Anti-Israel US Jews
It was easily missed amid the blizzard of New York Times coverage of President Trump’s executive order on antisemitism, but Max Fisher’s Interpreter column on...
New York Times Tilt on Trump Antisemitism Story Hints at Influence of ‘Repeated … Poor Judgment’ Editor
“Unease at Trump’s Order To Tackle Anti-Semitism” is the print headline over a New York Times news article focused on the American Jewish reaction to...
Rabbi Denounces Krugman New York Times Column as ‘Noxious,’ ‘Bigoted’
“Donald Trump is bad for the Jews,” a headline over an article by New York Times opinion columnist Paul Krugman declared recently. The column accused Trump of...
New York Times Faulted for ‘Irredeemable and Indefensible’ Coverage of British Chief Rabbi
The New York Times is drawing criticism for its handling of a warning by British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis about antisemitism in the British Labour...
Warren, Sanders, Bloomberg and Buttigieg — Israel’s Standing in Today’s Democratic Party
Al Pacino’s Israeli Ex-Girlfriend Says Couple Split Because Actor Was ‘So Old’
British Comedian Confronts Holocaust Denier in New Documentary
As Belgian City of Aalst Readies for 2020 Carnival, Experts Warn Against Crude Antisemitic Caricatures
New Film Explores the ‘Virus’ of Global Antisemitism