Ira Stoll
ARTICLES BY: Ira Stoll
New York Times Stealth-Edits Morgenthau Obituary to Add Jewish Angle
The New York Times has “stealth edited” its obituary of longtime district attorney of New York County Robert Morgenthau after The Algemeiner pointed out the...
New York Times Morgenthau Obituary Oddly Omits His Jewish Identity
The very long New York Times obituary of Robert Morgenthau, the longtime Manhattan District attorney, manages to omit entirely Morgenthau’s Jewish identity, which was strong. Morgenthau...
The New York Times Improves Its Iran Coverage — Up To a Point
Sometimes The New York Times responds to criticism with improvement. So it is — up to a point — with the newspaper’s Iran coverage. Last month, I...
New York Times Touts ‘Gay and Once Divorced’ Rabbi
The New York Times, having recently devoted its “Saturday profile” slot to an admiring profile of a Palestinian diplomat that pushed an Israel-apartheid theme, went...
Netanyahu, Trump Policies Succeed in West Bank, New York Times Concedes
Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump have succeeded in calming violence in the West Bank, the New York Times concedes in a news article that...
New York Times Profile of Palestinian Diplomat Pushes Israel-Apartheid Theme
A New York Times “Saturday Profile” of the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations is the latest in a series of Times articles that links...
‘We Are All Jews,’ David Brooks Claims, Stretching Definition to Breaking Point
“We are all Jews,” New York Times columnist David Brooks claimed in a recent column. By which he meant, all modern Americans are “creative minorities.” The full...
New York Times Grills Presidential Candidates About Israel’s Human Rights Record
The New York Times asked 18 questions to 21 Democratic presidential candidates. Only one of the questions was about human rights overseas. That question dealt with...
One Sentence From a New York Times Letter About Birthright Israel Packs In Three Inaccuracies
A front-page New York Times article earlier this month about Birthright Israel problematically echoed the “Zionism is racism” myth. Now the Times has compounded the...
New York Times Blames Trump for US-Iran Tensions
One of the most important choices in telling any story is deciding when it begins. In its coverage of the latest tensions in the Middle East,...
New York Times Birthright Israel Article Echoes ‘Zionism Is Racism’ Myth
The New York Times gave a front-page platform this week to a news article about a handful of anti-Israel activist who walked off a Birthright...
New York Times Promotes Palestinian Cookbook With False Refugee Claim
The New York Times has already devoted not one but two food-section articles to boycott-Israel-promoter Yasmin Khan’s book of “recipes and stories from the Palestinian...
New York Times Faces a Brisket Brouhaha
The cover story in this week’s New York Times food section asserts, “Brisket remains oddly off limits for one large segment of the population: home...
New York Times Editorial Blames Netanyahu for European Antisemitism
The New York Times is using an editorial denouncing antisemitism in Europe as an opportunity to take a cheap shot at the Israeli prime minister. In...
Iran’s Economy to Shrink 9.5 Percent This Year Amid Tighter US Sanctions, Says IMF
Scrambling to Limit Damage, Trump Tells Turkey to Stop Its Syria Invasion
Turkish Assault in Syria Weakens Iraq Kurds, Strengthens Regional Powers