{"id":316278,"date":"2026-08-07T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316278\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:02:09","slug":"israeli-consul-in-nyc-cancels-new-york-times-subscriptions-over-incitement-against-the-jewish-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316278\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli consul in NYC cancels New York Times subscriptions over ‘incitement against the Jewish state’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel\u2019s firebrand consul general in New York exclusively shared with The Post that he\u2019s fed up with the hostile New York Times \u2014 and canceled all of the Upper East Side consulate\u2019s <\/a>subscriptions to the publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfir Akunis, Israel\u2019s Consul General in New York, ordered a cancellation of the Israeli Consulate\u2019s New York Times subscription on Friday,\u201d according to a statement exclusively shared with The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cancellation comes after what he described as the paper\u2019s series of false blood libels and ongoing incitement against the Jewish state,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n

\"OfirIsraeli Consul General Ofir Akunis canceled all subscriptions to the New York Times, citing \u201congoing incitement against the Jewish state.\u201d Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n

Akunis himself minced no words.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New York Times has crossed every red line. This is no longer \u2018journalism\u2019 but a well-oiled, coordinated machine spreading blood libels against the Jewish state. Enough is enough!\u201d he said in a statement shared exclusively with The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New York Times is a newspaper that routinely publishes false blood libels <\/a>and has, over many years, consistently incited *hate* against the State of Israel,\u201d Akunis continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hides behind the cover of \u2018anonymous sources,\u2019 which on several occasions have been exposed as terrorists and Hamas operatives. I have instructed the consulate staff to immediately cancel our subscription to this newspaper,\u201d he concluded, without elaborating on the number of subscriptions involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe respect and accept criticism, but we will not lend legitimacy to the spread of hatred and falsehoods against the Jewish state. This incitement and these blood libels are fueling the surge in antisemitism and the rise in violent attacks against Jews in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Akunis has been a fierce critic of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has become notorious for his controversial rhetoric <\/a>about the Jewish state.<\/p>\n

\"Pro-IsraelPro-Israel demonstrators protest at the New York Times\u2019 offices in May. Michael Nagle for NY Post<\/p>\n

The Times has come under fire for its reporting in the wake of terror group Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks \u2014 particularly its columnist Nicolas Kristof, who explosively accused Israel of widespread abuse of Palestinian prisoners<\/a>, including the training of rape dogs.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu threatened to sue the Gray Lady<\/a> in May over the roundly maligned Kristof column. The move came after 2025 threats to sue over the paper\u2019s defamatory claims about Israel\u2019s prosecution of the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In January, The Post reported<\/a> that a Gaza \u201cdoctor\u201d who penned blistering anti-Israel op-eds in the Times following Oct. 7 was actually a colonel with Hamas. \u201cWe are suffering and paying the price of the genocide that is happening to our people here in the northern Gaza Strip,\u201d Hussam Abu Safiya, who was seen wearing a Hamas camo military uniform while at a gathering of Hamas elites in 2016, wrote in one piece.<\/p>\n

International calls<\/a> for Safiya\u2019s release persist after Israel arrested him<\/a> in 2024 on suspicion of being a \u201cHamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists,\u201d according to the Israel Defense Forces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Post has sought comment from the Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s firebrand consul general in New York exclusively shared with The Post that he\u2019s fed up with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3862,3895,288,60,1208,9,11,10,49,51,50,980,1076],"class_list":["post-316278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-antisemitism","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-business","tag-israel","tag-media","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-times","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}