Democrat Rips New York Magazine For Getting His Photo Wrong In ‘Anti-Israel Hit Piece’: ‘Not All Black People Look The Same’

(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) ripped into New York Magazine for publishing an “anti-Israel hit piece” that initially included an image of New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado (D) in his place.

“If New York Magazine is going to publish an Anti-Israel hit piece by Sarah Jones, then at least do enough due diligence to get the photo right. I am not Antonio Delgado,” Torres wrote on X on Friday. “Not all Black people look the same.”

The initial photo was included in the post from Torres, while the article itself was changed, replacing the image of Delgado with Torres. Delgado is not focused on in the article.

If New York Magazine is going to publish an Anti-Israel hit piece by Sarah Jones, then at least do enough due diligence to get the photo right. I am not Antonio Delgado.

Not all Black people look the same. pic.twitter.com/iBLCUlWksI

— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) June 14, 2024

“Shame on you,” Torres wrote to the writer of the piece, though Jones is listed as a “senior writer” and it’s not clear if she had anything to do with the photo illustration. The individual images are credited to Getty Images. A spokesperson for New York Magazine acknowledged the mistake and said it was fixed immediately in a statement to Mediaite.

“We quickly caught this mistake in the photo-editing process, which we acknowledged on the piece, and regret the error,” the spokesperson said.

“A photo-illustration in a previous version of this story incorrectly included Antonio Delgado, not Ritchie Torres,” the outlet wrote in a correction added to the article.

Also included in the story’s feature image illustration are Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY). All three lawmakers have been staunch supporters of Israel during the Israel-Hamas war and amid criticism from members of their own party.

The headline on Jones’s story dubbed the three men “the ‘progressives’ who left.”

Jones wrote about Torres:

“I didn’t leave the progressive movement; the progressive movement left me,” Representative Ritchie Torres of the Bronx recently told City & State New York. He was referring to the conflict within the left over Israel. Describing himself as a Zionist for the past decade, about “half of his posts, retweets or interactions” since October 7 have been supportive of Israel, City & State reported.

Torres is not a hypocrite. If we take him at his word, he’s been a Zionist for a long time. But he’s not being entirely truthful about the progressive movement or his place within it either. The movement didn’t leave him: He left it, if indeed he was ever fully part of it, by making a series of deliberate choices. One such choice is to support Israel despite the unbelievable brutality it has inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza.

She went on to criticize all three men for rejecting progressives not as supportive of Israel. Lawmakers like Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and other congressional “squad” members have been vocal in their condemnation of Israel’s Gaza strikes. Jones recently endorsed Bowman’s opponent instead of his colleague. Hillary Clinton also endorsed the Democrat’s primary opponent.

“There’s nothing brave about rejecting the left in a moment of great moral consequence. Nor is there anything particularly courageous about standing with Israel, a longtime U.S. ally, as it pummels Gaza into dust,” Jones wrote.

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