Overview

• Yale Daily News, the student newspaper at Yale University, retracted a series of editor's notes that claimed reports of Hamas raping women and beheading men were 'unsubstantiated.'
• The newspaper received significant backlash after editors removed such references from a student's op-ed questioning if a pro-Palestinian group on campus was a hate group, without notifying the author about the edits.
• The editor-in-chief, Anika Seth, acknowledged that the paper was wrong to publish the corrections, citing several prominent outlets, including Reuters, which had verified these reports related to Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
• Seth apologized for any unintended consequences the editors' notes may have caused, emphasizing the newspaper never intended to downplay the brutality of Hamas's attack.
• The controversy sparked heated debates on campus and amongst alumni, drawing sharp criticism from those who consider the retractions a form of Holocaust denial.