Antisemitic attacks scrawled outside the offices of prominent journalist: 'F--k Israel', 'F--k Jews'
Bari Weiss wrote such threats will not 'intimidate me' or her fellow journalists
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Free Press Editor and former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss says her outlet won't be intimidated after she shared pictures of antisemitic expletives written outside its offices.
"F--k Israel" one message read. "F--k Jews," another message read.
"This was scrawled outside of our offices this week," Weiss wrote. "If the antisemites who did this think it will intimidate me and the journalists of [The Free Press], they don’t know me, they don’t know us, and they have no idea what we stand for."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Free Press Editor and former New York Times reporter Bari Weiss shared pictures online of antisemitic expletives written outside the publication's new offices. (Getty Images // Reuters)
Other journalists, commentators and columnists supported Weiss for standing up in the face of discrimination.
"This is shocking and horrible," author and journalist Michael Shellenberger wrote in response to Weiss's post. "I'm so sorry to hear this. I expect and hope there is a proper police investigation."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"They say it’s just about Israel but it’s really about Jew hatred," writer David Weissman said.
Weiss has used her massive internet following — she has around one million followers on X alone — to share stories of victims of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel since the assault on Oct. 7. She also bashed the "legacy press" for trusting Hamas after an Oct. 17 explosion at a hospital in Gaza City that the group blamed on Israel; U.S. intelligence and other media reporting has subsequently found it was more likely an errant rocket from Islamic Jihad, another terrorist group operating in Gaza.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"On Tuesday night, October 17, an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital rocked Gaza City," The Free Press wrote in a post on Oct. 19. "Almost immediately, news organizations— Reuters, the AP, New York Times, & the Washington Post— blamed Israel, citing claims by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. But Israel denied any role in the explosion, and in the coming hours, it became clear that the explosion was caused by a misfired Hamas rocket. News organizations issued half-hearted retractions, but the narrative had echoed the globe, leading to violent anti-US and anti-Israel protests."
The New York Times admitted "editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation" of the explosion that occurred at a Gaza hospital last week after the paper "relied too heavily on claims by Hamas." (DAWOOD NEMER/AFP via Getty Images)
The New York Times admitted on Monday that "editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation" of the explosion that occurred at a Gaza hospital last week after the paper "relied too heavily on claims by Hamas."
The Times published a lengthy editor’s note on Monday explaining its mistakes.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"The Times’s initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was investigating the blast. However, the early versions of the coverage — and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels — relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified. The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was," Times editors wrote.
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