On Thursday, Mr Wright Piersanti said he had “deleted tweets from a decade ago that are offensive. I am deeply sorry.”
Congressman Lee Zeldin, a Jewish Republican Congressman for New York’s first Congressional District, called for Mr Wright Piersanti to be fired for his remarks.
“This isn’t an intern. It’s an editor”, Mr Zeldin tweeted.
“Someone should walk over to his desk, tell him to pack up & escort him out.”
On Thursday the NYT confirmed it was aware of the tweets in question, which it described as “a clear violation of our standards” and said the paper was “reviewing next steps.”
Just a couple of weeks ago the paper demoted its Deputy Washington editor, Jonathan Weisman, over tweets about Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar it described as “serious lapses in judgement”.
