NY Times columnist is an anti-zionist

Sharona Schwartz

theblaze.com

The New York Times earlier this month announced “an important expansion” of its opinion offerings, adding more than two dozen new contributors from around the world slated to write monthly columns.

Among them is Egyptian best-selling author Alaa Al-Aswany, quoted frequently in the English-language media and described as a “liberal” Egyptian voice, as well as “The Face of Egypt’s Uprising” and a“defender of democracy” during the so-called Arab Spring demonstrations against then-President Hosni Mubarak’s rule.

But an Egypt scholar has now revealed Aswany’s other points of view, geared to an Arabic-speaking audience.

According to Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Aswany is “among Egypt’s most prolific conspiracy theorists, and he often uses his very public platform to reinforce some of Egypt’s most popular bigotries,” The New Republic notes.

Because Aswany voices his more controversial opinions in Arabic, the Western press doesn’t notice.

For example, Aswany told Egyptian television that a “massive Zionist organization rules America,” thus “Obama is not able to go against Israel’s desires.”

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