The New York Times has just published a photo essay and article about supposedly starving Gazans, describing children there as “emaciated.” Elder of Ziyon takes apart these charges of mass starvation in Gaza here: “The Gaza ‘starving children’ meme, which only ACCELERATED since millions of meals have been distributed, is an orchestrated blood libel against Jews,” Elder of Ziyon, June 1, 2025:
The New York Times published a photo essay and article about supposedly starving Gazans, describing children there as “emaciated.”
According to the Gaza health ministry, the number of people who have starved to death in Gazasince October 2023 is 60. And we’ve already seen that every one of those sixty who have been described by name in the media had other health problems that were their main reasons for death.
Let’s compare the number of people who have starved to death in Gaza with other areas.
More children die in Ethiopia and Angola every day from starvation than have died in Gaza over 20 months.
Yet out of the New York Times tweets mentioning Ethiopia over the past two years, not one mentions starvation. One does point to an article that has one sentence about famine among reporting on its fighting, but there are more tweets about Ethiopian marathon runners than children starving.
I don’t see a single article about Angola’s starving children in the past five years of tweets – even though Biden administration officials, and Joe Biden himself, visited Angola in 2024.
There are four New York Times tweets that mention “famine” and “Sudan” over the past year. Compare that to 15 tweets that mention “Gaza” and “famine.”…
Look again at the table provided above showing, from the period October 7, 2023 to May 31, 2025, the total numbers of deaths from starvation in a half-dozen of the most affected countries (Ethiopia, Angola, Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, Haiti) and Gaza, as well as the numbers of those who died from starvation per 100,000. You will see that the deaths from starvation in Gaza are far fewer in absolute numbers, and fewer, as well, in the numbers of those who died of starvation for every 100,000 people in the population. Yet the world largely ignores the starvation in those countries, to judge by the number of X posts about them, while it focusses almost all of its attention on the far smaller number of deaths from starvation in Gaza.
There can only be one explanation for this disparate treatment: an enormous animus toward Israel, that is demonstrated both in the mainstream media and on social media, where every slander about the Jewish state is spread, including this “blood libel” of mass starvation in Gaza, and, alas, believed.
Karl says
Pretty convincing if you ask me.
Rick Gordon says
The NYT is living off of its previous reputation for ‘All the News that is fit to print’. Today it is a leftist propaganda outlet, sprinkled with news about Hampton estates, Manhattan dining, and luxury goods.
ploome says
the only reason these people have more children is because the rest of the world feeds them…
more population, fewer resources to go around, and more conflict
and then more “aid” so we see permanent conflict for dwindling resources and larger populations to feed
and these populations which are unsustainable migrate, and bring their intellect and cultures to your neighborhoods, so you can give them a better life
Isabella Hale says
OF COURSE. We all know Africa is a HUGE MESS and has been for years. The entire continent has been like that for CENTURIES and will never change; Remember IDI AMIN? of Uganda. now they have those crazy Marxists .. like Mandela calling the death of the South Afrikaneer white farmers who have lived there for over four hundred years. Darfur, the Congo.. and Africans are more brutal to their own people then any nation than CHINA.. that I can think of.
somehistory says
I once watched television, and it was common to see little kids poorly clothed, standing in polluted water or lying on a dirty cloth inside a shack while a man with a beard talked about how Americans could help “save the children.”
They would get food, clothing, school books and places to learn to read, etc. if we donated. It certainly pulled at the heartstrings.
I don’t watch tv any longer, so I don’t know if that ad still runs. Someone with a heart, feels for the children.
The starving ones, the sick ones, the ones being deprived of anything they might use to benefit…are all used for propaganda purposes.
And the ones in Gaza….will be used and sacrificed if it will make the Jews look like the ghouls of islime really are.
Wellington says
The New York Times is steeped in Leftism and, as Dennis Prager has often said, truth is not a Left-wing value.
gravenimage says
The Truly Starving Are Not in Gaza
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Yep–and without Hamas stealing food deliveries, there would not even b food insecurity.