A freelancer whose work covering the Israel-Palestine conflict has been published by the newspaper giant reportedly praised Adolf Hitler on Facebook as recently as 2018. Palestinian filmmaker Soliman Hijjy, who contributed to the Times between 2018 and 2021, shared a photo of himself with an Arabic caption that roughly translates to “in a state of harmony like Hitler was during the Holocaust,” according to the pro-Israel media watchdog . HonestReporting website. Soliman Hijjy, a Palestinian filmmaker, reportedly praised Hitler in a post on his Facebook account in 2018.LinkedIn In a 2012 Facebook post, Hijjy wrote “How great you are, Hitler” in Arabic, HonrestReporting said. Times freelance photographer Hosam Salem is also accused of making anti-Semitic social media posts, according to the media watchdog. Salem, whose work has been featured in The Gray Lady just this month, has repeatedly cheered Hamas. In 2014, he expressed joy at the killings of four rabbis and a policeman in Jerusalem and praised the capture of IDF soldier Oron Shaul by Hamas, who was later killed. He applauded two attacks by Hamas, and in 2018, he reportedly “called for more violence,” according to HonestReporting, after an attack that killed two IDF soldiers in the West Bank. In 2020 and 2021, Salem reportedly praised suicide bombers Mohamed Salem and Nabil Masood, whose attacks killed ten Israelis. A spokesperson for the Times told HonestReporting that it is reviewing the two freelancers’ social media posts. The pro-Israel site’s reporting on anti-Semitic online posts by another Times freelancer, fixer Fady Hanona, led the paper to cut ties with the producer earlier this month. Hanona called for the killing of Jews in social posts, according to HonestReporting. “I do not accept a Jew, an Israeli or a Zionist or anyone else who speaks Hebrew. I am with killing them wherever they are: children, elderly and soldiers,” Hanona wrote in Arabic, according to the watchdog. Times freelance photographer Hosam Salem expressed his joy at the killings of four rabbis and a policeman in Jerusalem in his social media posts.LinkedIn “At the end of the day, the Jews are sons of dogs and I’m all for killing them and burning them like Hitler did. I would be extremely happy,” she wrote alongside two smiling emojis. Hanona has since deleted his social media accounts. “The New York Times had only been working with this freelance reporter for the past several weeks,” a Times spokesman said. “We don’t do that anymore.”
