New York Times, AP glorify head of Hezbollah terrorist organization after his assassination

Mainstream media outlets including The New York Times and the Associated Press were slammed for their glorifying of the founder and head of the Hezbollah terrorist organization after he was killed in a targeted airstrike by the Israel Defense Forces.

The New York Times claimed that Hassan Nasrallah (64), who advocated for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of Jews, was a champion of “equality” for all religious groups in the Middle East. In an article published Saturday entitled “Protesters Mourn Nasrallah’s Death Around the World,” the anonymous piece described the mass murderer as a “powerful orator” who “maintained that there should be one Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews and Christians.”

The Grey Lady claimed Nasrallah was “beloved” by Shiite Muslims for providing “social services” in Lebanon trying to whitewash his attacks on Jews and Americans around the world. This is despite Nasrallah having been quoted in the outlet in a May 23, 2004 article where he said, “If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”

The Associated Press was equally ridiculed after publishing an article following Nasrallah’s death, describing the terrorists as "charismatic and shrewd." The article also described the Nasrallah as a "fiery, charismatic leader."

The article mostly ignored his violent past, waiting until the 14th paragraph before referring to the organization’s terrorist designation by the US, calling Hezbollah a "Lebanese militant group," and "one of the most powerful paramilitary groups in the Middle East."

The AP and outlets such as The Seattle Times that published the wire service’s article were slammed before the title of the article was eventually changed to “Who was longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah?"

Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut on Friday. Since Oct. 7, 2023, the terrorist organization has launched thousands of rockets at Israel, causing the Jewish state to evacuate approximately 80,000 citizens from its north.

Nasrallah co-founded Hezbollah in 1982, and by 1992, was the sole head of the terror group. The Iran-backed Islamist fanatics have been responsible for many deadly terror attacks against Jews and Americans over the last 40 years, including the bombing of the US Marine barracks and embassy in Beirut in 1983 killing hundreds of Americans, and the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires which killed 85 people.

Hezbollah routinely carried out suicide bombings in Israel targeting civilians in the early 2000s. One of the terrorists’ rocket strikes this summer that hit a soccer field in Israel killed at least 12 people, many of them children.

The New York Times and the AP were among several outlets that had freelance photographers embedded with Hamas during the October 7 atrocities that allegedly participated in the massacre. Israeli-Americans and Americans who survived the Oct. 7 attack on the Nova music festival in Israel, as well as the families of some who didn’t, sued the Associated Press for aiding and abetting the terrorists for hiring the freelance photojournalists, who were part of Hamas.