Pro-Palestinian Activists Target NY Times Editor over Biased Gaza Coverage


Pro-Palestinian Activists Target NY Times Editor over Biased Gaza Coverage

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Pro-Palestinian activists splattered red paint and wrote slogans outside the Manhattan residence of New York Times executive editor Joseph Kahn, denouncing the newspaper’s biased coverage of Israel’s assault on Gaza.

The protest took place early Friday at Kahn’s apartment building in Greenwich Village, where demonstrators scrawled the message: “Joe Kahn Lies, Gaza Dies”. Red paint was thrown on the entrance steps, walls and sidewalks to symbolize the blood of Palestinians killed under relentless Israeli bombardment.

Residents alerted police after discovering the scene. Authorities confirmed no arrests had been made, but acknowledged similar demonstrations had previously targeted Kahn’s home over what protesters describe as the Times’ systematic whitewashing of Israel’s war crimes.

Kahn, who became executive editor in 2022, has faced mounting anger from Palestinian rights supporters who accuse the Times of using dehumanizing language — portraying Palestinians as “terrorists” and “prisoners” while presenting Israelis only as “civilians” and “hostages.”

“While Palestinians are branded as terrorists, the massacres committed by Israel are sanitized,” said activist Ramzi Saud during a December rally outside the New York Times headquarters. Protesters then accused the paper of “manufacturing consent for genocide.” Several were detained after storming the building’s lobby.

Demonstrators also pointed to the newspaper’s double standards in reporting and its refusal to call Israel’s mass killing of civilians by its real name — genocide. At Friday’s action, the slogan left at Kahn’s doorstep echoed chants from earlier protests: “Every time the Times lies, a neighborhood in Lebanon dies.”

The targeting of Kahn follows similar actions against institutions and cultural leaders accused of complicity in Israeli crimes, including a June protest at the Brooklyn Museum director’s residence. Protesters said such tactics highlight how US institutions and media remain entangled with Israel’s military and political agenda.

Despite the protests, a Times spokesperson dismissed the actions, saying: “People are free to disagree with The New York Times’s reporting but vandalism and targeting of individuals and their families crosses a line.”

For activists, however, the message remains clear: the New York Times, through its biased reporting, is shielding Israel from accountability while Palestinians in Gaza continue to be massacred.

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