newspaper on fire The left’s fight over language isn’t about ‘precision.’ It’s about politics. Share
In keeping with the tone of the rest of the corporate media, features writer for New York Magazine’s Intelligencer Eric Levitz tripped over himself over the weekend to label the reports that Israeli babies were decapitated an “overstatement.”
Levitz openly acknowledged in an X thread that “babies were found headless” but stopped shy of accusing Hamas of beheading them. In fact, he said babies being found without their heads “does not prove” they were beheaded.
“(The verb behead has multiple definitions, and is sometimes used to mean decapitate; the report indicates that Hamas did behead babies in that sense,” Levitz added in a parenthetical. “But the term can also connote a form of execution using a knife, and we do not have confirmation of beheading in this sense).” After facing an avalanche of criticism, Levitz later […]
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