How the Western media minimizes Islamic Jew hatred
Caroline Glick reports that the Western media has two approaches to minimizing Islamic Jew hatred. The Western media has two basic approaches to their non-reporting of Islamic Jew-hatred and its significance for international security. The first approach is to ignore the issue because it is ideologically inconvenient.Read the whole thing.
The New York Times, like every other major Western media outlet except The Wall Street Journal, is of the opinion that the Islamic world should be appeased. The Muslim Brotherhood and Iran should be accommodated.
If they gave Islamic Jew-hatred coverage commensurate with its actual significance, they would be undermining their ideological agenda. In light of their ubiquitous and vituperative obsession with Jewish people, it is obvious that it is impossible to appease the Muslim world.
The second approach to contending with Islamic Jew-hatred is to justify it by claiming that Israel has earned all the hate coming its way. It's "political" they say. The Islamic demonization of Jews is understandable given the Palestinians and all that.
Obviously, both of these approaches to the story of Islamic Jew-hatred are appalling. The former approach involves a breach of the very concept of objective journalism. After all, the purpose of journalism is to report on the world as it is, not as we would like it to be.
And the latter approach is no less bigoted than the hatred it serves to whitewash. The European diplomat's gut reaction to Rahimi's speech, "Why are we supporting any cooperation with these people?" was entirely rational.
AND IF Rahimi's hatred had been directed against any other people, race, creed, state or color, no one would support cooperation with "these people."
No one would support the Palestinian national movement if its inherent, overwhelming hatred was directed, say, against the black state rather than the Jewish state.
Demonizing and delegitimizing Israel is the core goal of the Palestinian national movement.
To this end the Palestinian Authority's Information Ministry published a style guide to instruct Palestinians what terms they should use to avoid legitimizing Israel.
Labels: anti-Israel media bias, Islamic anti-Semitism, mainstream media, New York Times
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:42 PM
1 Comments:
I tend to disagree. If Rahmi shouted "exterminate all the Niggers!!" a million times, it wouldn't get reported seriously either because the western media is infatuated with Iran and has been for a long time. Whether it's because they're paid to give Iran the full girlfriend experience, or they just love anyone who hates Jews and the west and the US as much as they do is of no matter. They just speak with the same voice.
I mean for God's sake Glenn Greenwald was on MSNBC this morning. This is a guy who's practically a holocaust denier who claims that Jews secretly rule America if not the whole world. And wouldn't it be better if Israel were wiped off the planet because of their threat to the peace and stability of the world, particularly the peaceful peace loving Persians of peace. (PS Greenwald is an openly gay man who defends Iranian mass executions of gays because they're 'zionist spies')
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