The New York Times provoked an outraged response after publishing an op-ed by the Hamas-appointed mayor of Gaza City.
In his essay, Yahya Sarraj condemned Israel for its military response to Hamas’s Oct 7 attack, accusing it of “unrelenting destruction”.
“The Israelis have also pulverised something else: Gaza City’s cultural riches and municipal institutions,” said Mr Sarraj, who was reportedly appointed by Hamas in 2019 after a career in academia.
Critics of the newspaper’s decision to publish the piece were swift to react.
“I wonder, would NYT also publish an op-ed from Al-Qaeda justifying 9-11? Of course not, but there is no red line to this paper’s Jew-hatred,” said Arsen Ostrovsky, an international human rights lawyer.
“Unbelievable. This is a Hamas-appointed mayor,” another critic said on social media. “They slaughtered and raped their neighbours and have the nerve to represent themselves as victims?”
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