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The New York Times has been criticised over an article that claimed Hezbollah terror boss Hassan Nasrallah was a ‘gifted orator’ who wanted ‘equality’ for all religions.
The article, titled ‘Protesters Mourn Nasrallah’s Death Around the World‘, was uploaded onto the publication’s website on Saturday and quickly began receiving a flurry of backlash, criticism, and mockery across social media.
The short article – which comes in the wake of Nasrallah’s assassination – praised the Hezbollah terror boss, calling him a ‘powerful orator’ who was ‘beloved among many Shiite Muslims’, in part for providing ‘social services’ in Lebanon.
It also stated Nasrallah ‘maintained that there should be one Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews, and Christians’.
But the terror leader notoriously believed in the destruction of the Jewish state and his radical Iran-backed militant organization carried out several deadly attacks on Jews around the world.