Israeli consul in NYC cancels New York Times subscriptions over ‘incitement against the Jewish state’

Israel’s firebrand consul normal in New York solely shared with The Post that he’s fed up with the hostile New York Times — and canceled all of the Upper East Side consulate’s subscriptions to the publication.

“Ofir Akunis, Israel’s Consul General in New York, ordered a cancellation of the Israeli Consulate’s New York Times subscription on Friday,” according to a assertion solely shared with The Post. 

“The cancellation comes after what he described as the paper’s series of false blood libels and ongoing incitement against the Jewish state,” the assertion added.

Israeli Consul General Ofir Akunis canceled all subscriptions to the New York Times, citing “ongoing incitement against the Jewish state.” Helayne Seidman

Akunis himself minced no phrases.

“The New York Times has crossed every red line. This is no longer ‘journalism’ but a well-oiled, coordinated machine spreading blood libels against the Jewish state. Enough is enough!” he said in a assertion shared solely with The Post.

“The New York Times is a newspaper that routinely publishes false blood libels and has, over many years, consistently incited *hate* against the State of Israel,” Akunis continued.

“It hides behind the cover of ‘anonymous sources,’ which on several occasions have been exposed as terrorists and Hamas operatives. I have instructed the consulate staff to immediately cancel our subscription to this newspaper,” he concluded, without elaborating on the quantity of subscriptions concerned.

“We respect and accept criticism, but we will not lend legitimacy to the spread of hatred and falsehoods against the Jewish state. This incitement and these blood libels are fueling the surge in antisemitism and the rise in violent attacks against Jews in the United States.”

The Times was cool on the Israeli consulate’s subscription change.

“The New York Times’s breadth of coverage on Israel and the Middle East has been deeply reported and fair,” a spokesperson for the paper told The Post.

 “The consul’s office is obviously free to cancel any subscriptions it likes, but the main result of turning one’s back on independent news reporting is ultimately knowing far less about consequential events.”

Akunis has been a fierce critic of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has turn out to be infamous for his controversial rhetoric about the Jewish state.

Pro-Israel demonstrators protest at the New York Times’ workplaces in May. Michael Nagle for NY Post

The Times has come under hearth for its reporting in the wake of terror group Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist assaults — notably its columnist Nicolas Kristof, who explosively accused Israel of widespread abuse of Palestinian prisoners, including the training of rape canines.

Netanyahu threatened to sue the Gray Lady in May over the roundly maligned Kristof column. The transfer got here after 2025 threats to sue over the paper’s defamatory claims about Israel’s prosecution of the conflict in Gaza.

In January, The Post reported that a Gaza “doctor” who penned blistering anti-Israel op-eds in the Times following Oct. 7 was really a colonel with Hamas. “We are suffering and paying the price of the genocide that is happening to our people here in the northern Gaza Strip,” Hussam Abu Safiya, who was seen sporting a Hamas camo army uniform while at a gathering of Hamas elites in 2016, wrote in a single piece.

International calls for Safiya’s release persist after Israel arrested him in 2024 on suspicion of being a “Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists,” according to the Israel Defense Forces. 

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