Tel Aviv Outraged at NYT’s Derogatory Tweets: “Israel” Turns to “Saving Lives” After “Killing People, Blowin

By Staff, Agencies

The New York Times caused an uproar on social media Friday after tweeting an article on the “Israeli” entity’s research efforts in tackling COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic with a caption condemned by critics as nothing short of libel.

According to the tweet, the research and development department with the entity’s War Ministry is "best known for pioneering cutting-edge ways to kill people and blow things up."

Now, however, it is turning to "saving lives," the tweet went on to add.

The wording prompted a wave of criticism online, including from the Conference of Presidents of Jewish Organizations, which said "anti-‘Israel’ bias expressed in this rhetoric misrepresents” the entity’s “research & development for the good of all nations”.

The article, which opens with the same quip used in the tweet at the heart of the outcry, was subsequently re-shared on the NYT account with a different caption.

It offers an account – hardly an unfavorable one – on the entity’s task-force taking on the epidemic and the high-tech initiatives behind the endeavor, including novel tests and patient monitoring tools.