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New York Times using Palestinian terrorist to write articles

The New York Times is now using a Palestinian terrorist to bash Israel. That’s how thin the leftist media filth have gotten. Marwan Barghouti, the New York Times’ latest trend in writing has spent time in jail for murdering five Israelis. You really know how to pick ’em New York Times. What’s next from the New York Times? Are they going to hire recently released Gitmo terrorists to write article for them?

New York Times using Palestinian terrorist to write articles
New York Times using Palestinian terrorist to write articles

The New York Times has given precious space on its op-ed page to a Palestinian man leading a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. But the essay, from Marwan Barghouti, leaves out one crucial fact: he is in prison because he was convicted of killing five Israelis in terrorist attacks more than a decade ago.

A footnote to the op-ed describes Barghouti only as “a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian,” omitting any reference to his 2004 terrorism conviction.

In the piece, Barghouti, a leader in Fatah, a Palestinian political party, decries what he says is Israel’s unjust judicial system and inhumane conditions in Hadaram Prison, where he currently resides.

“I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike,” Barghouti writes.

The 57-year-old Barghouti says that he has been in and out of prison since the age of 15. He claims he was tortured by Israeli police at the age of 18 and that he has been targeted because of his political opposition to the Israeli government. He also glosses over his most recent conviction, failing to note that it was for terrorism and that it was the product of a “show trial.”