The Question Here Is Why Didn't The New York Times Know That Their Gaza 'Fixer' Was A Rabid Antisemite?

By Charles Susswein | Wednesday, 17 August 2022 05:15 AM
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The Question Here Is Why Didn't The New York Times Know That Their Gaza 'Fixer' Was A Rabid Antisemite?

The New York Times has cut ties with a Palestinian freelancer who supposedly advocated killing Jews and “burning them like Hitler did” on social media.

Fady Hanona lost his gig as a fixer in the Gaza Strip after pro-Israel watchdog Honest Reporting exposed the violent posts.

He had donated to reporting on the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians as recently as last week.

“The New York Times had worked with this freelance reporter only in recent weeks. We are no longer doing so,” a spokesperson for the Gray Lady explained to The Post.

The Times did not reply to inquiries regarding whether Hanona was vetted and how many articles he contributed to.

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Hanona has since erased his social media accounts and could not be reached by The Post.

Fixers are typically on-the-ground freelancers who assist foreign journalists in coordinating logistics and translating.

In screenshots of the claimed posts, Hanona encouraged violence against Jews, stating he backed “the culture of fighting and killing Israelis.”

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“I don’t accept a Jew, Israeli or Zionist, or anyone else who speaks Hebrew. I’m with killing them wherever they are: children, elderly people, and soldiers,” Hanona wrote, according to the watchdog.

The Post was unable to verify the messages.

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The freelancer further supposedly wrote, "Jews are sons of the dogs … I am in favor of killing and burning them like Hitler did. I will be so happy.”

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Honest Reporting did not specify when all the posts were made.

Hanona further seemed to have worked with the BBC, Vice and the Guardian.

Along with sharing a video of armed Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin, Hanona announced that Palestinians should return to “the culture of fighting and killing Israelis.”

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“I don’t accept a Jew, Israeli or Zionist, or anyone else who speaks Hebrew. I’m with killing them wherever they are: children, elderly people, and soldiers,” Hanona announced in the post, according to Honest Reporting.

“The Jews are sons of the dogs… I am in favor of killing them and burning them like Hitler did. I will be so happy,” he said. The date of the post was unclear.

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In 2014, amid a brutal war between Israel and the Hamas terror group in Gaza, Hanona threatened to murder Ghassan Alian, an Israeli Druze officer who at the time commanded the military’s Golani Brigade, and called for Hamas to reject a ceasefire and continue its rocket assaults on Tel Aviv.

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In another post during that war, Hanona published a questionable quote attributed to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, according to the report. “As Hitler said, give me a Palestinian soldier and a German weapon, and I will make Europe crawl on its fingertips,” the post read.

A spokeswoman for the Times told The Algemeiner news site on Friday that, “The New York Times had worked with this freelance reporter only in recent weeks. We are no longer doing so.”

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