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All the News That’s Not Fit to Print
The New York Times, the “newspaper of record” printing “all the news that’s fit to print,” won’t publish my comments about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. That is a bit strange since I was once what the Times called a “trusted commentator.” That category of those who commented on articles at the Times has long since vanished. I guess some of us couldn’t be trusted.
My latest comment was in response to Canada, Britain, and Australia recognizing a Palestinian state. Here’s the latest in a series of my rejected comments:
Although a cliché, the recognition of a Palestinian state by Britain, Canada, and Australia is too little, too late. The Gaza Strip is a catastrophe with masses of people, including children, either dead, wounded, or starving. Some have learned the lessons of genocide from World War II, while others refuse to learn.
A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza:
A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.
It cites statements by Israeli leaders and the pattern of conduct by Israeli forces as evidence of genocidal intent (BBC, September 16, 2025).
I guess that if I was a Jewish supremacist, as are Netanyahu and his ilk, then I’d be trusted again by the Times.