NYT anti-Israel?

From Richard Baehr
There is no reason why any Jew who professes to be a supporter of Israel should be paying for the New York Times. The newspaper , long owned by a German Jewish family that has become Episcopalian over the years, could never be bothered to report the Holocaust, and has never cared much for Israel. The likes of Yassar Arafat, Ali Abunimah, Rashid Khalidi and many venomous anti-Israel leftist professors have regularly filled their opinion pages. Their "news" reporting on the Middle East is not as biased and distorted, as that of NPR and the BBC, but that is not saying much either (kind of like arguing your NBA team is better than the 2-28 New Jersey Nets). Sunday marked a new low for the Times, when a rabidly Israel hating journalist - Patrick Cockburn, reviewed a new book by a rabid Israel hater, Joe Sacco, about an alleged massacre in Gaza in the Suez War of 1956. Jonathan Tobin provides the gory details. The author of this "history" book had an odd view of history and truth when interviewed about his new book by Haaretz:
"In the Haaretz newspaper interview published just two days before Cockburn's claim that the author combined his art "with investigative reporting of the highest quality," Joe Sacco says quite frankly that he "doesn't believe in journalistic objectivity" and that he is purposefully trying to balance what he sees as the "United States pro-Israel bias." Finally, Sacco said he places himself into his books because he wants his readers to see and feel what he does. Not exactly the stuff of "investigative reporting" of any quality."