by Ace
A New York Times reporter who came under fire last year for a praising Adolf Hitler in multiple resurfaced Facebook posts was rehired by the Gray Lady to cover the Israel-Palestine war.Palestinian filmmaker Soliman Hijjy hailed the Nazi leader as recently as 2018 in a post on Facebook, when he shared a photo of himself captioned that he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust,” per a translation from Arabic by pro-Israel media watchdog site HonestReporting.
That same year, Hijjy was hired by the Times as a freelance journalist and worked on a slew of “visual investigations” published by the organization through 2021, including one on an Israeli airstrike that killed 44 people.
Hijjy’s 2018 post — including a 2012 Facebook post where he wrote, “How great you are, Hitler” in Arabic alongside a photoshopped image of Hitler seemingly taking a selfie — were unearthed last year, when pro-Israel outlets called out the Times for hiring antisemitic journalists as freelancers.
And note, he was hired twice.
At the time, Hijjy didn’t appear to be working for the Times anymore, and had since taken down his controversial pro-Hitler posts.However, the Times rehired the antisemitic freelancer last week.
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A Times spokesperson defended the outlet’s decision to rehire Hijjy.
“We reviewed problematic social media posts by Mr. Hijjy when they first came to light in 2022 and took a variety of actions to ensure he understood our concerns and could adhere to our standards if he wished to do freelance work for us in the future,” the rep said.
“Mr. Hijjy followed those steps and has maintained high journalistic standards. He has delivered important and impartial work at great personal risk in Gaza during this conflict.”
In other words, the Times told him to post his Hitler Admiration posts from an alt-account.
They don’t object to him loving Hitler — they just don’t want to be embarrassed by him posting his love for Hitler.
And note that they believe that this literal Hitler Fan can report fairly on a dispute involving the, you know. The people that his hero Hitler was not a big fan of.
No one should be surprised this is the very same leftists rag that covered up for Stalin back in the 1930’s they covered up for Hitler Castro the Viet Cong and are behind this 1619 Project this leftists rag should be on everybodies Boycott List
Dad and 3 uncles fought Japs. One uncle banned NYT because it said we were only killing Japs because we were racist isolationists. Did not believe.
In 1959 while doing research in library got some microfilm of NYt 1943. Found 4 articles saying Americans killed jabs because we were racist isolationists; Pearl Harbor , what pearl Harbor?.Found 4 more in 1944 and again in 1945 saying Americans killed jabs because we were bad! Stopped on each year after reading 4 “news” articles saying Americans are racist isolationist! My uncle was right!
again for emphasis
IN 1943,44 and 45. NYT SAID WE KILLED JAPS BECAUSE WE WERE RASCIST! NO MENTION OF PEARL HARBOR!
Times has been part of American last UNIPARTY for almost 100 years!
HE took it down? You mean, Facebook left it up? A friend of mine got thrown into Facebook jail, Jan. 6th style, for posting a meme with Hitler on it saying, “I did Nazi that coming!”. Just a joke. Plus, he was locked up about 6 months after it was posted. But, if you openly PRAISE Hitler, you get the option to voluntarily take it down if you need to virtue signal for a job on the NYT?
I guess that means standards at least as high as the rest of the NYT “journalists”. Which is NO standards. But, they all sign the card, sing “Horst Wessel” and share the cake every April 20th. It’s a leftist thing.