“I claim responsibility for the Israeli crimes against humanity because I am an American and American monies made these atrocities possible,” the poet and activist June Jordan wrote in 1982. “I claim responsibility [...] because, clearly, I have not done enough to halt heinous episodes of holocaust and genocide around the globe. I accept this responsibility and I work for the day when I may help to save any one other life, in fact. I believe that you cannot claim a people and not assume responsibility for what that people do or don’t do. You cannot claim to be human and not assume responsibility for the value of all human life.”

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Writers dissect The Times
March 14, 2024

There are many ways to build a case against The Times. One can gather data. One can look to history. One can dissect language. One can debunk shoddy reporting. And then, of course, one can turn to writers who indict The Times in their own singular voices.

In this section of “New Writing,” we present the first entries in an ongoing series of such voices. We have spoken to scholars, journalists and activists. We have translated essays by Palestinian revolutionaries into English. And, we hear about why The New York Times owns a stolen Palestinian house.