The Washington Post may not be shameless, but it can at least be embarrassed.
of Newspapers fail and struggle Washington drew heavy criticism on Friday over a social media post it removed that criticised American-Israeli parents being held hostage by Israeli forces. Hamas Barbarians.
The Washington Post pointed out that the parents apparently did not show enough sympathy for Israel’s and America’s enemies.
In a since-deleted post on social media platform X, someone from The Washington Post’s social media team wrote, Hostage Omer NeutraA Palestinian family held captive since Oct. 7 is speaking out for their son, but “they won’t talk about the Israeli offensive to Gaza that has killed more than 38,000 Palestinians, according to local officials, while experts warn of a looming famine.”
The parents of Israeli-American hostage Omer Neutra have only one goal: to free their son from Hamas captivity.
That’s all they have to say.
Why was this tweet posted? Shame on you. @WashingtonPost For questioning Neutra’s morality. pic.twitter.com/ogx95SfV0C
— American Jewish Committee (@AJCGlobal) July 19, 2024
So does the Post think that the parents of an Israeli hostage (who was an IDF tank crew member) are the ones who should be publicly weeping over the consequences of a terrorist attack that claimed the life of their son?
To make matters worse, the report cites “local authorities” in the Gaza Strip as some kind of neutral arbiter, even though the only “local authorities” are the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip, who are indeed terrorists. Caused the war It has caused a lot of suffering.
After an outrage on social media, the Post replaced X’s post with another, calling the original wording “unacceptable” and claiming it had “taken appropriate action in relation to this incident.”
An earlier post mentioning the story below was unacceptable and did not meet our editorial standards, so The Post has removed it. The reporter for the story was not involved in creating the tweet. We have taken appropriate action regarding this incident. …
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 19, 2024
Many social media users pointed out that the original social media post was more or less a quarter of a paragraph from the article, and therefore linked to an article that appeared to be biased even in the revised version.
But at least there was a reason for that paragraph.
of Article published on Thursday It profiled hostage Omer Neutra’s father and mother, Ronen and Orna Neutra, who spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday.
The article pointed out that the Neutras said little about the civilian toll of the war (and, indeed, did mention the “Gaza Ministry of Health,” a Hamas euphemism), and also included a totally unnecessary reference to “hunger.”
However, this could also be interpreted as mainly a quote from Ronnen Neutra to put the whole situation in perspective.
“The terrorists are not only holding our son hostage, they are also holding the people of Gaza hostage,” he said.
And that just makes the initial social media post look worse.
Not only did the person who wrote this have to dig deep into the article to find the inflammatory words, they also had to ignore the quotes that followed.
The line, “Hamas is also holding the people of Gaza hostage,” would have been used in the original social media post as well: it would have been intriguing, it would have been provocative, and above all, it would have been true.
But that won’t sit well with the left-wing audience catered to by establishment media outlets like The Washington Post, who view Jew-hatred as an abhorrent segment of the nation and the world. Kingdom Coins.
The Post’s revised version calls the original wording “unacceptable.”
The real problem is that Jew-bashing is all too acceptable to too many of the Post’s readers.
Fortunately, editors at the Washington Post were able to back out of the embarrassment this time.
Next time, and there will be a next time as surely as there is a God in heaven, it may be a different story.
This article was originally published on Western Journal.
