NYT Slammed For Painting Terrorist Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah As Tolerant

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On Saturday, after the death of Islamist terror group Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was announced, The New York Times painted a picture of him as a man tolerant toward all faiths, ignoring his anti-Semitic rhetoric that had been reported for decades.

In 1997, Nasrallah reportedly referred to Israel as the “establishment of the state of the Zionist Jews, the descendants of apes and pigs, on the land of Palestine and the holiest of our holy places.” In 2002, he stated, “If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.” In 2010, he reportedly denied the Holocaust. In 2020, Nasrallah declared that all Jews must leave Israel.

Yet the Times wrote on Saturday, “Over his 32 years leading the organization, and with the support of Iran, he built Hezbollah into a domestic political force and one of the most heavily armed nonstate forces in the world. Mr. Nasrallah was opposed to Israel, which he called ‘the Zionist entity,’ and maintained that there should be one Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews and Christians. A powerful orator, he was beloved among many Shiite Muslims, a historically marginalized group in the Arab world, and created a state within a state in Lebanon that provided social services.”

Many factions in the Muslim world celebrated Nasrallah’s death. “Videos circulating on social media show jubilant crowds from the Idlib region of northwestern Syria. Upon hearing of Nasrallah’s death, celebrants in the videos pour into the streets, holding Syrian flags and handing out candies,” The Jerusalem Post reported.

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“A video posted to social media showed some women in the Islamic Republic toasting to the news,” The Times Of Israel noted. “While they did not show their faces, the speaker in the video said in Persian that they, ‘the children of Iran, send a congratulatory message to everyone for the death of Hassan Nasrallah and congratulate the Iranian nation,’ adding a thank you for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”

Additionally, some Iranians went to the Israeli embassy in London to thank the IDF for killing Nasrallah.



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