Journalists Accuse NFL Player of Extremism Before Checking Sources

Oday Aboushi, the 6th-round pick for the New York Jets, is a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim. This week, Yahoo Sports' Adam Waksman wrote an article about how Aboushi's anti-Semitic activism "is a potential disaster that needs to be dealt with before it becomes anything real." And MLB's new media coordinator Jonathan Mael tweeted, "The Patriots have Aaron Hernandez, the Jets have Oday Aboushi."
The problem?
The two men's source was an article at Frontpage Magazine, a blog founded by far right-winger David Horowitz. The article made accusations of antisemitism and claimed links to Muslim extremism based on a tweet Aboushi shared of a Palestinian woman being evicted from her home. There is no evidence Aboushi is anti-Semitic or a Muslim extremist.
The Yahoo! article, which did not quote Aboushi, has been removed, and Mael has apologized. But when you're looking to throw stones, why check sources?
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