The New York Times appeared to subtly change a headline about the abduction and murder of an Abu Dhabi rabbi after garnering intense backlash on social media over the weekend.
Israel confirmed the death of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, 28, who was living in the United Arab Emirates before his wife reported him missing last Thursday. His body was discovered on Sunday morning, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on X.
Kogan, a citizen of both Moldova and Israel, relocated with his family to Dubai in 2022 to lead the Jewish community there. Israel said it had been given information “indicating that this is a terrorist incident,” calling the murder “an abhorrent act of antisemitic terrorism” in a statement.
The New York Times first covered Kogan’s death with the headline, “Israeli rabbi who disappeared in Dubai is found dead.” Online critics immediately pounced on the outlet for seeming to downplay the kidnapping and terrorist element involved in Kogan’s death. The Times later updated its headline to read, “An Israeli Rabbi Is Abducted and Killed in the U.A.E.,” but not before social media took them to task for their initial reporting.
“Rabbi Kogan was not ‘found dead’, he was murdered,” former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote on X. “There is a disturbing pattern whereby some in the media — and particularly the @nytimes— downplay antisemitic acts. It must be called out and addressed.”
Rabbi Kogan was not “found dead”, he was murdered. There is a disturbing pattern whereby some in the media — and particularly the @nytimes — downplay antisemitic acts.
It must be called out and addressed. pic.twitter.com/pZ7XxOsltz
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) November 24, 2024
“Contrary to the NY Times, Rabbi Zvi Kogan did not just ‘disappear’ in Dubai,” Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., commented. “He was abducted and murdered because he was a Jew. The media should call the kidnapping and killing of Rabbi Kogan exactly what it is: an act of antisemitic terror.”
Contrary to the NY Times, Rabbi Zvi Kogan did not just “disappear” in Dubai. He was abducted and murdered because he was a Jew.
The media should call the kidnapping and killing of Rabbi Kogan exactly what it is: an act of antisemitic terror. pic.twitter.com/Quta6jgMb1
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) November 24, 2024
“Excuse me @nytimes, the rabbi didn’t “disappear.” He was abducted and then killed. He was targeted & killed because he was Jewish. It was an act of terrorism. Be better than this New York Times,” former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh said.
The United Arab Emirates announced that three suspects were arrested in connection with Kogan’s murder and vowed to use “all available legal powers to deal severely and without leniency with anyone who dares to take any actions or acts that seek to destabilize society or threaten its security.”
Kogan was an emissary of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a prominent and highly observant branch of Hasidic Judaism based in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood in New York City.
The Rimon Market, Dubai’s only Kosher grocery store that Kogan managed on the busy Al Wasl Road, was shut Sunday, according to the Associated Press. It had been a target of anti-Israel protests.
Trump was right all along media is the enemy of the people .
Reportedly, Congressman Ritchie Torres is thinking of running for Governor or perhaps Mayor. Respectfully, we need him to run for Senator. We have two useless Senators, one of which comes from the Jewish community and has become a shameless protector at best, of the antisemites in the Democratic Party. We need a courageous man like Rep Torres to be there instead. Please, congressman, make a run for the position.
we are only allowed to vote for republican’s, even if hes looking like hes standing for whats right
Why quote the disgraced “LOWLIFE” Cuomo who killed thousands of Nursing Home patients during Covid.
He is only saying this because he wants to CH”V get back into politics.
The New York times has always been antisemitic, at least since the 1940’s
What would you expect from The New York times?
Vdal
Mashiach will fix this too
Mashiach now!
To cross out a literal fact is so corrupt ,no point in reading a paper with fake news agenda
The NY Slimes is not even fit to line a bird cage or cat litter.
The NYTimes is just another of the FAKE news. But also excels in being ultra anti semitic. I would never bring that into my home.