Günter Grass wrote a poem against Israel but the poem did not warrant coverage in the Times: only criticisms of the poem warrant coverage

Look at this headline.  The poem is not news: only criticisms of the poem is news.  "Günter Grass’s Poem About Israel Provokes Intense Criticism".  This was in the Arts section of the paper.  If he wrote a poem against Iran, it would be a front page story in the Times.