[ April 26, 2024 ]
He is too kind.
New York Times Is ‘Cesspool,’ Israeli Ambassador to US Says
By Ira Stoll, Algemeiner, April 29, 2019:
Story continues below advertisementIsrael’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, has called The New York Times “a cesspool of hostility towards Israel.”
In remarks posted to his official Facebook page and prepared for delivery at a Holocaust memorial event at the US Capitol, Dermer spoke of what he called “the Jew-hatred of growing parts of the intellectual class.”
“The same New York Times that a century ago mostly hid from their readers the Holocaust of the Jewish people has today made its pages a safe-space for those who hate the Jewish state,” Dermer said. “Through biased coverage, slanderous columns and antisemitic cartoons, its editors shamefully choose week after week to cast the Jewish state as a force for evil.”
In describing the Times as a “cesspool,” Dermer said that the newspaper’s treatment of Israel “goes well beyond any legitimate criticism of a fellow, imperfect democracy.”
The Israeli diplomat was taking a side in a rift that is splitting The New York Times: Was the publication last week of a cartoon that even the Times eventually apologized for and conceded was antisemitic an aberration, the “error” of “a single editor,” as the Times claimed? Or was it rather, as I have argued and as the Times’ own Pulitzer-prize winning op-ed columnist, Bret Stephens, subsequently wrote, part of an ongoing pattern? Stephens called it “the almost torrential criticism of Israel and the mainstreaming of anti-Zionism, including by this paper, which has become so common that people have been desensitized to its inherent bigotry.”
Dermer’s remarks made heroically clear how the government of Israel viewed the matter. The New York Times, however, is having a hard time coming to grips with this criticism. One Times columnist, Michael Powell, took to Twitter to describe the Stephens column as false. “the NYT, news pages & opinion, has absolutely not mainstreamed anti-Zionism or published anti-Semitic arguments & claim is absurd,” Powell wrote in a Tweet that was “liked” by Times reporters Clifford Kraus, Steve Lohr, Jim Dwyer, John Schwartz, and Mathew Goldstein, and also by a former New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief, Clyde Haberman.
In a separate tweet, Powell described the gist of Stephens’ column as “simply untrue.” Powell wrote, “No one is mainstreaming anti-Zionism or anti-Semitic argument. It’s hardly as if our pages resemble those of Der Sturmer …”
When the Times is in the position of publicly insisting that its pages do not resemble those of Der Sturmer, maybe it’s a signal that the paper’s leaders should stop digging, denying and defending and instead begin the long overdue process of sincere self-examination and improvement?
Even Powell conceded the cartoon “was terrible.”
A spokeswoman for the Times didn’t immediately reply to an inquiry from The Algemeiner seeking a response to Dermer’s comments.
In other developments in the fast-moving, escalating scandal over the cartoon:
- The curator of Harvard University’s Neiman Foundation for Journalism, Ann Marie Lipinski, seized on the situation to call on the Times to restore its “public editor,” a position the newspaper abruptly eliminated in May 2017. “I wish they’d reconsider,” Lipinski wrote, linking to the Stephens column about the cartoon controversy.
- Critics of the Times scheduled an in-person protest for Monday outside the newspaper’s 620 Eighth Avenue headquarters. Those scheduled to attend included a former New York state assemblyman, Dov Hikind. An advisory press release for the event said those gathered would call for the firing of those responsible for the cartoon’s publication. They also said they would hold signs saying “Shame On The New York Times,” “NYT Has Jewish Blood On Their Hands,” and “Fire the Anti-Semites.”
- An author and former US government official, Dan Senor, noted that the Times international edition also published a second cartoon featuring a “blind” Netanyahu. “Is the Times obsessed with Israel’s prime minister?” Senor asked. A former Times editor, Mark Horowitz, tweeted, “Please tell me the Times didn’t run a SECOND Netanyahu cartoon in the International Friday- Saturday edition, one day later! It can’t be, right?”
Among the developments that argue in favor of seeing the cartoon as part of a pattern rather than as a single mistake were a 2015 Times graphic that used a yellow color to identify Jewish members of Congress opposed to the Iran nuclear deal. A subsequent Times editor’s note said, “Many readers and commenters on social media found that aspect of the chart insensitive. Times editors agreed and decided to revise it to remove the column specifying which opponents were Jewish.”
The Times has used octopus imagery to describe Jewish settlers in the West Bank that the newspaper itself called “an Anti-Semitic symbol” when it was used by the National Rifle Association to depict Michael Bloomberg.
The Times has blamed measles in New York on “powerful” Jews spreading a “highly contagious” disease. That echoed what the Holocaust Encyclopedia of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said was a “recurrent theme in Nazi antisemitic propaganda … that Jews spread diseases.” Meanwhile, the newspaper has ignored recent mumps outbreaks with no apparent connection to Jews.
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27 Comments
4 years ago
No, “powerful Jews” are not spreading measles or any other contagious disease. Notice the concentration of measles are and in what state. – you’ll find high numbers of illegal aliens. They come here diseased.
They don’t care if you get sick or even die from what their diseases. They don’t like you.
National measles outbreak caused by ILLEGAL ALIENS!
The Measles Outbreak Is A Giant False Flag & A Hoax
Apr 28, 2019 by News Wars
CDC admits that every major outbreak of measles has been caused by ‘migrants’ ie illegal aliens
http://www.educationviews.org/the-measles-outbreak-is-a-giant-false-flag-a-hoax/
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
they also spread rape, murder, honor killings, satan’s cult shitslam, need I go on?
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
What you say is an absolute truth, but you also know that these evil creatures of filth never need an excuse, lie or reason to attack us Jews.
4 years ago
Moralizing with the NYT staff will never work and at best will just be to placate the critics. The only real way to hurt these SOBs is financial. Cancel your subscriptions and better yet do not spend your advertising dollars with these skanks. There are other papers and vehicles to advertise with.
4 years ago
Is FOX news NYT light?
No measles is not at an all time high because of ANTI- VAXXERS!
It is at at an all time high because of record breaking ILLEGALS, FAKE ASYLUM SEEKERS, “MIGRANTS” and “ABANDONED KIDS” being released into our country or sneaking in illegally.
Dr. Marc Siegel shameless LIES and blames anti-vaxxers! NO it’s ILLEGALS according to the CDC!
“Abandoned kids” are held for 20 days only and released as required by law. – the Flores decision.
The swamp, both DEMS and GOP refuse to change this law!
Dr. Marc Siegel: Measles —– FOX NEWS!
4/30/19
“The anti-vaxxers, ignoring multiple studies showing that the MMR vaccine is safe, and fueled by a defrocked doctor whose study on 12 autistic children was invalidated and ultimately withdrawn, have caused actual harm, banging open a door for measles resurgence that has long been closed. It is only a matter of time before measles takes root here before we have more to worry about than simply stopping travelers from seeding an under-vaccinated population. It is starting to look like this year may be the tipping point to a sad return towards our pre-vaccine past.”
Marc Siegel, M.D. is a professor of medicine and medical director of Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Medical Center. He is a Fox News Medical Analyst.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dr-marc-siegel-brady-bunch-star-trek-and-the-measles
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
FOX resides in the bowels of America’s MSM. Indeed, illegals, it is verified, are the greatest culprits of the measles breakout. No one, within the inner-workings of the media or the Federal or State governments has the temerity, chutzpah to report this fact. Anti-vaxxers are also part of the ongoing spreading of the disease but minimally as opposed to the influx of migrants and others.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
It’s terrible!
Agree!
Murdoch wants open borders and mass immigration.
Anti-vaxxers = “abandoned kids”, “migrants” , illegals and fake “asylum seekers”.
The tiny amount of people who oppose vaccines are miniscule and not having a NATIONWIDE EFFECT as the ILLEGAL INVADERS ARE!
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
If this is permitted to occur; America will become what the Democrats, Globalists, and the Fascist Left endeavor, a Venezuela on a grander scale. The Left, meaning all of this political perversity, are bent on America’s downfall. People wonder why there is talk about a coming civil war on the horizon; their wonder, ignorance only confirms they are a vacuous herd of sheeple.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Well stated, Felix 1999. However, there is a misspelling. It isn’t FOX News, it is FAUX News.
4 years ago
Check out this cartoon:
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4 years ago
Reply to
Underzog
Here ya go!
Cartoon by Shay Charka (Makor Rishon/Twitter)
Israeli cartoonist Counters-New York Times
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
On target, sir. I’m sure a movie cannot be too far in the future, or at least a Faux News special hosted by Sheppie Smith and the repulsive legend-in-his-own-mind, Cavuto.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I once saw a MEMRI video of an Egyptian television ‘documentary’ that illustrated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as historical fact and dramatized a Jewish rabbi who sought the blood of gentile children for his Passover matzoh. The portrayal of the Jewish rabbi hit every antisemitic meme with enthusiasm.
4 years ago
CNN = Communist News Network
4 years ago
This cartoonist is Portuguese and unfortunately our compatriot. https://amigodeisrael2.blogspot.com/2019/04/carta-aberta-ao-cartoonista-nazi-antonio.html
4 years ago
As stated in this article, the mere fact that the NYT is being castigated, rightly or wrongly, is evidence itself that the NYT has a serious problem with its staff and should be reevaluating how the paper is being administrated. Yet, there is another finding that comes out of the outrage expressed, and that is the reaction and manner of those who challenged the paper. In this instance, the challenge was a verbal and/or written response calling out the paper for its purported wrong doing, not a call for a fatwa to cause a violent reaction as is the way of the Islamic’s, anti-fa, and some of the elected democrats. That should be noted. When the NYT starts recognizing the differences in how groups are acting, and properly report those obvious differences, maybe, just maybe, this paper will see to its own salvation.
4 years ago
Shhhhh…. you’re not supposed to know this…
You must blame, Jews and legal American citizens for being “anti-vaxxers”.
That’s what FOX news is peddling.
Over 2000 Illegals Quarantined in US Detention Centers Due to Spreading Disease
March 11, 2019
New reports indicate that more than 2,000 illegal aliens currently detained in the Unites States have been quarantined due to the spread of disease outbreaks.
As of March 7th, 2019, data shows that more than 50,000 illegal aliens remain in US custody, with 2,287 migrants remaining allegedly quarantined.
Over the past year, 236 cases of mumps in 51 facilities were found, with 423 detainees being determined to have influenza and 461 more found with chicken pox.
…
(All immigration lawyers are worried about is ACCESS to their ILLEGAL CLIENTS.
Remember it is highly contagious!)
The number of people amassed in immigration detention under the Trump administration has reached record highs, raising concerns among migrant advocates about disease outbreaks and resulting
quarantines that limit access to legal services.
…
CE health officials have been notified of 236 confirmed or probable cases of mumps among detainees in 51 facilities in the past 12 months, compared to no cases detected between January 2016 and February 2018.
https://magavoter.com/over-2000-illegals-quarantined-in-us-detention-centers-due-to-spreading-disease/
4 years ago
Not just New York Times! New York University is not so much better, pro-Israel Jewish students there have recently filed a complaint alleging extreme anti-Semitism on the campus:
https://www.newsweek.com/pro-israel-jewish-nyu-students-extreme-anti-semitism-1407159
4 years ago
When was the paper upgraded to cesspool?
4 years ago
CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, et al, are all funded and supported by the Russian Government and the Democrat-Communist-Islamic-Nazi Terrorist Organization. We all want to remember this when the Civil War begins so we obtain our news elsewhere else.
4 years ago
New York is cesspool
4 years ago
btw NYT is owned by the Sulzbergers
