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NYT deletes line suggesting Israeli October 7 victimhood was merely a matter of perception after backlash

From the Newshound archive · first published 19 September 2026.

The site of the Hamas attack on the Supanova festival on 7 October, which the New York Times initially described as something Israelis "still largely view themselves as the victims of" — wording the paper later blamed…
The site of the Hamas attack on the Supanova festival on 7 October, which the New York Times initially described as something Israelis "still largely view themselves as the victims of" — wording the paper later blamed…
The paper blamed an "editing error" after removing a line that cast Israeli victimhood on 7 October as a matter of perception, days after rejecting accusations of skewed Gaza reporting.
The paper blamed an "editing error" after removing a line that cast Israeli victimhood on 7 October as a matter of perception, days after rejecting accusations of skewed Gaza reporting.

The New York Times removed a sentence from a piece about the Israeli documentary 'NAZA' without announcement after critics argued it framed Israelis' status as victims of the October 7 massacre — in which Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people and abducted roughly 250 — as a subjective self-perception rather than an objective reality. The deleted line read: "But Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7." Media researcher Eitan Fischberger posted a screenshot on X asking "What the f**k is this, @nytimes?" — a post that drew more than a million views.

The NYT blamed the sentence on an "editing error," explaining it was meant to address how Israelis regard the government's military conduct, not to question whether they were victims of the attack itself.

Tamar Sternthal of media watchdog CAMERA demanded: "If they're not the Oct. 7 victims, then what are they?"

A peer-reviewed study out this month, drawing on 1,559 NYT articles published after October 7, concluded that the paper's coverage leaned heavily toward depicting Palestinians as victims while casting Israel as the aggressor.

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