As our own Just Mindy reported earlier, The New York Times on Wednesday published a piece about the Venice Film Festival, which managed to include the astonishing sentence, "But Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7." The Times was dragged up and down, and on Wednesday afternoon, its public relations account attributed the sentence to an "editing error."
We have added the following Editors' Note to our recent coverage of the Israeli government's reaction to the NAZA documentary: "Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article included a statement that was intended to convey Israelis’ perception of the…
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) September 16, 2026
The post continues:
… government’s military response to the Oct. 7 terror attack in relation to the attacks, but inadvertently suggested that Israelis’ experience as terror victims was a matter of perception. It has been removed from the article."
That was more than an editing error. An alleged professional journalist thought up that sentence and typed it out. That was intentional.
— Will Collier (@willcollier) September 16, 2026
You're absolute garbage.
— JWF (@JammieWF) September 16, 2026
Please explain in what conceivable context the line "But the Israelis still view themselves to be the victims of 10/7" could be the editing error you describe. What was the original text surrounding the quote before it was edited?
— lake county democrat (@lakecountydem) September 16, 2026
Funny how these “errors” always go one way
— dontcallmewave (@DontcaIlmewave) September 16, 2026
"inadvertently"
— Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) September 16, 2026
These inadvertent phrasings only go in one direction
that's not inadvertent, that's bias in action followed by lies
You seem to have a lot of this type of error 🧐
— ClevelandRocks (@cavsfan1983) September 16, 2026
You guys are a fucking parody of yourselves.
— David Ben-Gurion דוד בן-גוריון (@realbengurion) September 16, 2026
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Inadvertent my ass @nytimes , @NYTimesPR . You have no shame. You should apologize for the intentional smear of Israelis.
— Freedom Guy (@Freedomguy64) September 16, 2026
“Israelis’ perception of the government’s military response to the Oct. 7 terror attack in relation to the attacks”
— Peter C. Herman (@PeterHerman4) September 16, 2026
What in the world does this sentence mean? Speak to be understood, NYTimes.
Either arrogance or incompetence, or such an in-baked hatred of Jews allowed you to think that would get through without a response. Hard to know which is worse from a once respected newspaper of record.
— Karen Manning (@Queen_of_Gin) September 16, 2026
So your editors failed to catch the abhorrent anti-semitism of your ‘journalists’? Is that what you’re saying?
— David (@DoctorDad11) September 16, 2026
That's what they're saying, and it's not surprising that the editor who let this through didn't manage to catch the overt antisemitism in the writer's submission and remove it before publishing. The editor didn't notice anything wrong.
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