Progressive Politics

Since October 2023, Israel has killed close to 220 journalists, leading the press freedom watchdog to describe it as "the worst enemy of journalists".

Yet, despite the severity of these findings, major western news outlets that sanctimoniously champion press freedom and human rights found little space for the deadliest year in RSF's records, much less that the overwhelming majority of those journalists were Palestinian.

And few institutions illustrate this selective outrage more clearly than The New York Times, whose editorial board had the gall last month to condemn US President Donald Trump over his meeting with Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman, citing the crown prince's "almost [certain]" role in ordering the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Alas, the NYT declared that "the realities of geopolitics have long required the United States to ally itself with foreign leaders who commit terrible deeds". You might assume they were speaking of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – but you would be mistaken. They were referring to an Arab potentate murdering an Arab journalist.