Israel Matzav

The New York Times and the Jews

We've all known for years that the New York Times was anti-Israel. But in this lengthy article, Ed Lasky at the The American Thinker shows that the Times is also anti-Semitic. (Note - this is the second of two articles. I could not get the link to the first article to work).

Instead a questionable pattern emerges:

1) the paper offers support, praise and prizes for people who “indulge in anti-Semitism”;

2) the paper has warned anti-Semitic hate groups of imminent investigations and raids;

3) the paper, which refused to run the Danish Mohammed cartoons for fear of offending Muslims, has run a series of ads and cartoons laden with anti-Semitic imagery;

4) the paper casts doubt about the veracity, loyalty and honesty of Jews; or, refuses to combat anti-Semitism as other major papers and media outlets have;

5) the paper dismisses fears of a genocide by using the service of an “expert” who repeatedly has been accused of anti-Semitism

The charge of anti-Semitism is one that should never be made lightly. At best, the Times practices might be dismissed with the formulation that former Harvard President Lawrence Summers used when he criticized campus efforts to demonize Israel as acts that are “anti-Semitic in effect, if not intent.”

However, the paper is the paragon of virtue when it comes to reporting or editorializing on behalf of every other minority it seemingly can find (and some non-minorities, such as women). The paper must endlessly scour drafts of material before they are published to remove any trace of prejudice (“All the news that is fit to print”). Yet a casual reader can find a pattern of sins of commission and omission when it comes to the Times’ attitudes towards Jews, and cannot find similar examples of the same treatment given to blacks or Muslims (for example). This same pattern is not noticeable in any other major newspaper. Perhaps the treatment afforded by the Summers formulation is too generous.

Read it all.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:58 AM