New York Times Defends Rehiring Pro-Hitler, Pro-Terror Freelancer in Gaza
10th November 2023
For most normal businesses or organizations, an employee expressing support for Adolf Hitler is a clear red line with no second chance. Not, however, for the New York Times, which has rehired a freelancer previously exposed by HonestReporting for his pro-Hitler, pro-terrorist social media posts.
In 2022, HonestReporting’s investigative work exposed several journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as being virulent and unapologetic antisemites. As a result of our reporting, several mainstream media outlets decided to cut ties with them.
This included freelance filmmaker Soliman Hijjy (also spelled Sulaiman Hejji) who we uncovered as having praised Adolf Hitler on Facebook in 2012. “How great you are, Hitler,” Hijjy wrote on the social media site, sharing a meme featuring the Nazi mass murderer. Six years later, he doubled down: in a caption accompanying a picture of himself, Hijjy stated he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust.”