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Deborah E. Lipstadt

Deborah E. Lipstadt is the University Distinguished Professor and Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. She served as the US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism from 2022 until 2025. She is the author, most recently, of Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch (Yale University Press).

The Gray Lady and the Jewish State

The Gray Lady and the Jewish State

By: Deborah E. Lipstadt

Jerold Auerbach’s archly titled new study Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel, 1896–2016 is a well-researched and, for the most part, damning brief of the Times’s news coverage and editorial attitudes toward Zionism and Israel for over a century.