...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, Joseph Kahn, was vandalized by anti-Israel activists Friday, with red paint splattered across his apartment building’s walls and front steps.
The vandalism in Greenwich Village apparently took place overnight.
A message scrawled on the pavement read, "Joe Kahn lies Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
dies."
Pro-Paleostine protester splatters paint all over New York Times editor’s home https://t.co/YwiominhmX
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 29, 2025
The paper’s headquarters in Manhattan was defaced last month with red paint and a similar message.
"Disagreement with our reporting is acceptable, but vandalizing property and threatening individuals and their families is unacceptable," Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander told outlets. "We will work with authorities to address it."