New York Magazine blasted for ‘antisemitic,’ cover – Business News
A tone-deaf New York Magazine “hit piece” that purportedly celebrated Arab and Muslim tradition within the Big Apple – however really fixated on a so-called Israeli “genocide” of Palestinians and referred to the Jewish state as a mere “land mass currently called Israel” – has sparked fierce backlash, prompting outraged subscribers to cancel whereas insiders reveal the publication’s doubtful practices.
Monday’s New York magazine cover story titled “Habibi City” has been extensively panned for its “erasure of Jews” with ties to Arab international locations, with sources fuming over the outlet’s marginalization of Jewish people and its vilification of Israel. The timing was seen as significantly objectionable, with hate crimes hovering underneath Mayor Zohran Mamdani — and more than half of reported incidents concentrating on Jewish New Yorkers.
The magazine breathlessly ballyhooed “a blooming cultural ecosystem, led by young SWANA New Yorkers … born out of the resistance and protests in the months following October 7.”
Monday’s New York magazine cover story titled “Habibi City” has been extensively panned for its “erasure of Jews” with ties to Arab international locations. New York Magazine
The Southwest Asia and North Africa group, “bound together by shared values,” was “born out of the pain of the genocide in Gaza,” based on the outlet, a once-venerable cultural icon.
Critics accused the magazine of repeatedly noting Israel’s response to Oct. 7 whereas ignoring the precise terror bloodbath of that day, which left 1,200 lifeless and 251 kidnapped into Hamas hell deep inside the bowels of Gaza.
“I am not going to pay for a subscription to a magazine I’ve long loved – and written for – that actively seeks to negate Jewish history and identity,” journalist Jordana Horn instructed The Post.
Her cancellation over the 31-page, six-part bundle included a blistering message: “You’re deliberately stoking the flames of anti-Jewish sentiment in this city and I’m not going to help pay for it.”
Jewish teams had been furious over author Zaina Arafat’s primary piece sympathizing with SWANA New Yorkers who nonetheless “face xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Zionism — along with the repercussions of speaking out against them,” in what they branded a callous comparability of Zionism to menacing varieties of hatred.
“Treating Zionism as though it belongs in a list of identity-based hatreds erases what it actually means to millions of Jews: the belief that Jews, like other peoples, have a right to national self-determination and safety,” wrote AIPAC, the American-funded pro-Israel lobbying group that’s turn out to be a boogeyman for the ghoulish political fringes.
Red paint and anti-Israel phrasing are seen on the door and home windows of the restaurant Miriam in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Jan. 26, 2025. (Gregory P. Mango) Gregory P. Mango for NY Post
Jewish civil rights group End Jew Hatred took purpose on the “dangerous” bundle that every one however erased Jewish illustration, ripping the outlet for “increasingly defining belonging around their prescribed ‘position’ on Gaza, effectively pushing Mizrahi Jews, whose families lived across the Middle East and North Africa for generations, out of their own regional identity.”
The primary piece’s post-Oct. 7 reference to SWANA New Yorkers “living under the threat of annihilation” – with out assist to back up the declare – left End Jew Hatred livid at New York magazine for “failing to say the bloodbath of Jews that truly occurred that day and the continuing threats from Hamas, the regime of Iran, and its terror proxies.
“This isn’t harmless ‘cultural clout.’ Jewish identity is not theirs to erase, and Jewish history will not be rewritten to fit a political narrative,” the group added.
Pro-Israel activist Yardenne Greenspan echoed the criticism, ripping the magazine for deciding “they get to define who *really* counts as Middle Eastern.”
New York Magazine’s inflammatory cover article appeared to call the existence of Israel into query. Instagram/@nymag
New York immigration lawyer and Jewish Syrian native Abraham Hamra additionally fumed over the piece’s Jewish erasure.
“For a publication that prides itself on diversity and social justice, erasing more than 120,000 New York Jews whose families come from Arabized countries isn’t an oversight; it’s exclusion dressed up as inclusion,” the pro-Israel advocate instructed The Post.
“As a Syrian Jew, I know what cultural erasure looks like, and it’s particularly insulting to watch it repackaged as progress.”
Tablet Magazine, a spicy Jewish outlet, blasted the “antisemitic, absurd” situation that included a six-page piece on the throbbing Middle Eastern restaurant scene that learn more like a loaded “intifooda.”
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New York’s point out of controversial restaurant Ayat, which payments itself as serving “honest, authentic” “Palestinian soul food,” included a nod to its menu with a “cheerful, tourist-style map in which the land mass currently called Israel is titled ‘Discover Palestine.’”
An irate guide introduced in on the piece railed, “As someone who saw the behind-the-scenes of the food article being written, it was a hit piece on Jewish and Israeli chefs cloaked in middle eastern cuisine and food and culture.”
The insider instructed The Post that the fact-check course of with the magazine was “super shady.”
Former New York author Eve Barlow, who claimed that the outlet “fired” her for her stance towards Jewish hate in 2020, mentioned she’s hardly stunned by the egregious tropes and tone deafness of the difficulty.
Demonstrators at a “End Jew Hatred” rally in Manhattan on July 26, 2026. (Michael Nigro for NY Post) Michael Nigro for NY Post
“It’s been a long time coming,” she instructed The Post, including that New York “ghosted” her as soon as she began getting vocal.
“They never had complained about any of my work up until that point. In fact, they rained nothing but praise on me,” she mentioned, including that a number of employees writers and editors unfollowed her on Twitter in lockstep.
“I had a great working relationship with them, and they ghosted me.”
The outlet was even accused of utilizing the long-defunct Nazi-adjacent “Fraktur” font for the cover story, questioning its intention to ship a sure message.
New York, which has seen a regular circulation decline over time – halving its print schedule more than a decade in the past – was as soon as “at the vanguard of Manhattan publishing,” because the New York Times proclaimed in 2013.
Tablet Mag saucily summed up the infuriating version: “If you don’t think Israel committed genocide, you’re not from the Middle East.”
The Post has sought remark from New York Magazine.
