Times of Israel Scrubs Another Pro-Genocide Blog, Blames Malicious Imposter

The Times of Israel was forced to nix another controversial blog post this week that called for the killing of all Palestinians. But in a surprising turn of events, it turns out the blog post was a hoax posted by a malicious imposter.

Heres the article in question, which has been archived:

The article, first flagged by Talking Points Memos Brendan James, described Palestinians as worthless subhuman beasts and vermin, and claimed Palestinians no right to land and are not even human beings and thus have no right to even live at all. Australian attorney Josh Bornstein was listed as the author.

After receiving backlash on social media, according to TPM, the article was scrubbed from the site and Bronsteins author page was taken down. The Times of Israel called the article an inappropriate/satire piece:

Bornstein later denied having ever written for The Times of Israel:

Hes apparently been receiving some hate mail, too:

Later, The Times of Israel posted an apology on their website, saying they were breached in an elaborate manner by a malicious hoaxerwho on Thursday posteda hateful andracist post.

The website also said the imposter establish[ed] his credibility with them by submitting some of Bornsteins previously-published articles that were all on topic and perfectly reasonable.

As TPM also notes, Jewish bloggerDaniel Sieradski was apparently able to track down the elaborate plan to fool readers that was posted on 4chan: These people believe Im really a Jew. Sieradski also noted that Bornstein had been targeted by white supremacists for his support of open immigration policy and hate crimes legislation. He had been called a subversive Jewish parasite.

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Times of Israel Scrubs Another Pro-Genocide Blog, Blames Malicious Imposter