Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Attacks The New York Times

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Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, delivered a speech at a Chabad gathering in New Jersey and attacked The New York Times. According to him, the paper promotes blood libels against Israel.

Leiter disclosed that he held a meeting with 21 of the paper's editors. He said that "Hitler did not grow in an empty space," and that decades of demonization and delegitimization of Jews preceded him.

Leiter claimed that "we are confronting an aspiration for total annihilation." He compared a publication in the paper to anti-Semitic propaganda from the past and said that "we must call a child by its name."