BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – The New York Times is defending its rehiring of a Gaza journalist who was previously exposed for praising Hitler.
The Times rehired freelance videographer Soliman Hijj as part of its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. In August 2022, the pro-Israel media watchdog HonestReporting shed light on Hijjy, whose work had been featured by the Times between 2018 and 2021.
HonestReporting found that Hijjy praised Adolf Hitler in a 2012 Facebook post, writing, “How great you are, Hitler” in Arabic. And in another controversial post, he said in regards to the Civil War, “The North had no right to impose business restrictions on the South, and he feels the North should financially compensate the ancestors from the South that lost money, due to the forced removal of the non-union African workers.”