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Does 'The New York Times' Hate Jews and Israel?
The is an anti-Jewish, pro-Arab bent to the New York Times lately. The latest example supports a malicious bias against the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
Why does The New York Times hate Jews and Israel? There is no other explanation for a front page article in the Sunday, March 4, 2012 edition titled "U.S. Backers of Israel Pressure Obama Over Policy on Iran" and the content therein. The pattern at the Grey Lady has been anti-Israel, pro-Arab and pro-Muslim. This article shines a harsh light on that publishing bias.
From the article: “From the corridors of Congress to a gathering of nearly 14,000 American Jews and other supporters of Israel here this weekend, Mr. Obama is being buffeted by demands that the United States be more aggressive toward Iran and more forthright in supporting Israel in its own confrontation with Tehran.”
The author, Mark Landler, by using the word buffeted implies that President is being harassed, abused, or otherwise forced by this small group into a tough stance toward Iran.
If I was a casual reader my only conclusion would be that 14,000 Jews in the United States are single-handedly pushing this country toward war with Iran. This is a factually incorrect conclusion but the biased article misses all of the other parties and information that might be leading toward a confrontation. Great Britain, France, and many other countries are participating in strong sanctions against Iran. Is the tiny Jewish minority in Great Britain pushing that country to sanctions against Iran? Is the tiny Jewish minority in France leading that country against Iran? Is the tiny Jewish minority in the United States really responsible for the policies of this country against Iran? No, no, and no.
A reader from Santa Cruz might also be mislead as there has been so much Israel hatred on the UCSC campus. There is the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights investigation of anti-Israel sentiment and a hostile place for Jewish students. There have been the angry, hateful, anti-Israel protests (seen in accompanying video). There have been swastikas and messages in bathrooms at UCSC. And more anecdotal evidence of general anti-Jewish and anti-Israel statements around town. So it would be easy to see why the record needs to be set straight regarding the United States policy toward Iran.
Iran had a violent Islamic Revolution in 1979 with strong anti-West and anti-Judeo-Christian sentiment. Since then, the leaders in Iran have repeatedly villianized and targeted via nomenclature: the United States is the Great Satan and Israel the Little Satan. Their leaders have threatened to wipe Israel off the face of the planet and threatened to destroy the United States. And now even the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is acknowledging that Iran is likely pursuing nuclear weapons. The oft-repeated anti-Israel and anti-US canard that intelligence got it wrong about Iraq so we shouldn’t believe anything we hear about Iran does not hold up when even the UN, Britain, and France state that Iran is going for the “special weapons”.
In light of the variety of facts regarding Iran’s nuclear weapon ambitions, repeated threats against Israel and the United States, along with total intransigence regarding the rest of the world, why is the New York Times blaming 14,000 American Jews for the US government’s stance regarding Iran? Much worse is how this type of widely published article feeds the Jew and Israel haters around the world. Venomous publications like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which has been thoroughly debunked as a forgery and pure malicious lies, suddenly have new life when its hateful, bigoted supporters can point to a New York Times article as supporting their position.
How is it that the readers of the Times are so happily complicit in this modern scapegoating of the Jews? Time for the Times to reset their orientation on the topic of the Jews and Israel.