After years of pretending that former President Donald Trump is Hitler and his supporters are Nazis, the New York Times has made a rather questionable move. The news outlet rehired alleged journalist Soliman Hijjy to cover the war between Israel and Hamas. The move has elicited criticism for a very compelling reason: He praised and admired Adolf Hitler.

Before I continue, I’ll have to hand it to the New York Times. Reaching this level of blatant hypocrisy is no easy task.

NEW: The New York Times has rehired a reporter who has a history of publicly praising Adolf Hitler.

Soliman Hijjy, a Palestinian reporter, has contributed 9 articles for the New York Times since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Back in 2018, Hijjy took to Facebook to voice his… pic.twitter.com/swz2lRN56q

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 20, 2023

Hijjy wrote posts on Facebook between 2018 and 2022 in which he openly voiced his admiration for Hitler. In one instance, he posted a picture of the dictator with the caption: “How great you are Hitler.”

In another post, he said he was “in tune like Hitler during the holocaust.”

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, slammed the news outlet over the move. “Spreading Hamas propaganda and rehiring a Holocaust-praising terror supporter, actively stokes antisemitism,” he wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

The @nytimes has just rehired a NAZI

Let that sink in.

Soliman Hijjy praises Hitler, and the NYT rehired him.

We all saw how the NYT immediately parroted Hamas’ lies regarding the al-Ahli hospital (which Hijjy contributed to) and still refuses to retract these fabrications.… pic.twitter.com/7WaCDm2YdX

— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 20, 2023

Predictably, the New York Times defended the move.

In a statement responding to the criticism, The New York Times says, “We reviewed problematic social media posts by Mr. Hijjy when they first came to light in 2022 and took a variety of actions to ensure he understood our concerns and could adhere to our standards if he wished to do freelance work for us in the future.”

“Mr. Hijjy followed those steps and has maintained high journalistic standards. He has delivered important and impartial work at great personal risk in Gaza during this conflict,” the statement adds.

Now then, let’s hop into Dr. Brown’s Delorian and take a trip back to when Trump was in office. During that time period, the news outlet published a plethora of hysterical pieces trying to convince its audience that the former president was the second coming of Der Führer.

When Trump referred to the press as the “enemy of the people,” the Times published a piece arguing that it was somehow reminiscent of Hitler.

The invocation spawned a flurry of articles on the history of the use of “enemy of the people,” which may have been used against the Roman emperor Nero to denounce his rule. The phrase was adopted in Nazi Germany — “If someone wears the Jewish star, he is an enemy of the people,” Hitler’s propaganda minister wrote — and, perhaps most famously, in the Soviet Union under Stalin, when being labeled an enemy of the people amounted to a death sentence.

When Trump highlighted the issue of illegal immigration, the Times published another piece linking him to the Nazi leader.

Mr. Trump has long had a Hitler fascination, according to biographers, news articles and books about his presidency. His bedside table once held a copy of Hitler speeches called “My New Order,” a gift from a friend, which Ivana Trump, his first wife, said she had seen him occasionally leafing through.

During a trip to France in 2018, Mr. Trump told his chief of staff John F. Kelly, “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things,” according to the journalist Michael C. Bender, now a New York Times reporter, in a 2021 book on the Trump presidency. Mr. Trump denied making the remark.

According to another book on the Trump presidency, by Peter Baker, another New York Times reporter, and Susan Glasser, the former president also complained to Mr. Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, that American generals didn’t treat him as loyally as Hitler’s generals had. “Why can’t you be like the German generals” of the Third Reich, he demanded, the authors wrote.

These are only a few instances in which the New York Times linked Trump to Hitler. But not only is this a clear display of hypocrisy, it also sheds light on where the Gray Lady stands on the war in the Middle East and how little it cares about journalistic integrity.

It is highly doubtful that Hijjy’s reporting on the conflict will be balanced. As someone who digs Hitler, it can be expected that he will skew in favor of Hamas and the Palestinians. Perhaps this is the real reason why the Times rehired him.