Washington Post Slammed for Tweet Criticizing Parents of American Hostage for Not Talking About ‘Israel’s Assault on Gaza’

While the Post removed the tweet and called it ‘unacceptable,’ it has not removed identical language from the article itself.

AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file
The offices of the Washington Post in 2019. AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file

The Washington Post is facing intense backlash on Friday after it posted, from its official X account, a tweet criticizing the desperate parents of an American hostage kidnapped by Hamas. The tweet was meant to accompany the paper’s largely sympathetic article about the parents’ efforts to win their son’s freedom.  

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