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Spoken before their second Der Sturmer style cartoon of the week.
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Posted on 04/30/2019 4:58:01 PM PDT by SJackson
One of the weapons of hate against Jews deployed by Nazi Germany were cartoons and caricatures that depicted Jews as subhuman animals, often as dogs or spiders. So when The New York Times international edition published a cartoon over the weekend portraying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog wearing a Star of David, its editors should not have been surprised at the outraged reaction to the controversy.
The New York Times is not some marginal newspaper that traditionally peddles bigoted cartoons. It is known for its careful editing and sensitivity concerning race and ethnicity. Its international edition is the American newspaper of record around the world, and particularly in Europe. So when it published a cartoon employing anti-Semitic tropes at a time of increasing anti-Semitism in Europe, that decision became newsworthy.
To be sure, the Times has now acknowledged that the decision was wrong and has apologized. But that is not enough. Its editors must explain how this bigoted cartoon made it into the print edition. Which editors approved its publication? What was their reasoning? Has there been accountability for what the Times acknowledges was a mistake? What steps have been taken to prevent a recurrence of this?
The reason this a big deal is not only that this was published in the Times. It is also because the cartoon is a sign of the times. Both in Europe and the United States, but especially in Europe, we see a dangerous phenomenon of increasing tolerance, especially on the left, of anti-Semitic tropes, images, and stereotypes so long as they are directed against Israel.
Even some left-wing Jewish publications are not exempt from this virus. The Forward published an opinion piece justifying a crude cartoon that ran in the official University of California at Berkeley newspaper, depicting me as a predatory spider stomping on innocent Palestinians. The headline on the Forward column was “No, that Alan Dershowitz cartoon wasn’t anti-Semitic.” The reason its editors gave is the cartoon is “true” because Israel does kill Palestinians and defenders of Israel, like me, are “deceptive.”
I am sure the editors of Der Sturmer, a Nazi propaganda tabloid published in Germany during World War II, offered similar justifications that there are some deceptive and violent Jews. The real issue, avoided by the Forward and by the Times editors who authorized publishing the cartoon, is the use of Der Sturmer type imagery dehumanizing Jews by depicting them as dogs and spiders that control the world by deception and violence.
Context is critically important. In Europe and in Berkeley, the context is increasing anti-Semitism that is deemed acceptable by many on the left as long as it is directed at the nation state of the Jewish people and its leaders and defenders. Today, Israel is the Jew among nations and has increasingly become the object of historic anti-Jewish stereotyping.
The distance between the offices of The New York Times international edition and the Chabad synagogue in San Diego, which a gunman attacked on Saturday, is growing smaller as the reach of the internet is growing larger. Both the extreme right and extreme left dehumanize Jews, and it is far easier to kill a dehumanized stereotype than a real person.
Jews have been killed by extremist right wingers and by extremist Muslims, but not by hard left haters, at least not yet. Why focus so much attention on the “benign” anti-Semitism of anti-Israel extremists on the hard left? For one obvious important reason: The violent anti-Semitism of the hard right, as represented by the murders of Jews at prayer in San Diego and Pittsburgh, is universally condemned by all decent people, including conservatives. The “benign” anti-Semitism of the hard left, which often is disguised as anti-Zionism, get a pass from many liberals.
Consider the anti-Semitic remarks of Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, South African bishop Desmond Tutu, or British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbin. Many liberals have defended them. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is among the worst offenders, actually went to London to show support for his fellow socialist Corbin despite the history of anti-Semitism by Corbin.
This tolerance for anti-Semitism from the left is most pronounced at universities, where our future leaders are studying. For that reason, hard left tolerance of anti-Semitism, disguised as anti-Zionism, is our future, unless we can stop it. Hard right anti-Semitic violence, no matter how destructive, is hopefully a discredited remnant of the dark past. Both are dangerous. But we cannot allow the condemned violence of hard right anti-Semites to close our eyes to the tolerated hard left anti-Semitism.
We cannot wait until some nut with a gun is incited to violence by a dehumanizing left wing cartoon depicting Jews as dogs and spiders.
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Spoken before their second Der Sturmer style cartoon of the week.
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The Despicable Times made Roosevelt turn away a boatload of Jews that went to the gas chamber, who is surprised by them at all?
I am absolutely sickened at what is happening here. What is wrong with people, how could they forget so soon?
Its editors must explain how this bigoted cartoon made it into the print edition..
Er, the the company provides an atmosphere where it is more than OK to hate Israel?
And the part about leftists not having killed Jews...there Must be an occasion when one did.
Or maybe not. Would find it hard to believe.
Wasn’t the Holocaust enough??
Is any of this vile antisemitism surprising in light of end times Biblical prophecy?
“Dershowitz: Anti-Semitic cartoons, anti-Semitic synagogue shootings”
But Dershoschmuck will keep voting democrat to his dying day. Go figure. Big Fox guy now,
The Neu Der Sturmer is the chief islam butt kissing propaganda outlet in the U.S. The grubby little book of the mohemmadans equates Jews with apes and pigs. Depicting Jews as animals comes easy to the NDS propagandists.
"Extremist Muslims"?
Allan like a lot of Jews just doesn't seem to understand the mission of Islam as laid out by Allah in the Koran, and the examples set by Muhammad.
What is wrong with these people? - Tom
Dersh is on the cusp of getting his mind right. He needs to sit down with David Horowitz to push him over the edge.
Obviously Prof. Dershowitz still has one foot in an alternate reality.
Just to be clear, the nyt is a leftist propaganda rag the editors of which embody a visceral repugnance to anything true or good.
They were not. They were Leftists. National Leftists vs International Leftists.
The Left uses this to offer us a false choice. National Leftists vs. International Leftists.
The right is composed of those who favor stability and restraint of government.
The extreme right are anarchists, who favor no government.
Dershowitz is a dupe. The Times is slimes. Any apology is not. Any truth is fiction. Could they exterminate the Jewish religion (and Christianity) they most certainly would.
The enemy in our midst.
Dersh has always been a lefty on every issue EXCEPT those lefty beliefs that conflict with Israel or the Jews. That doesn’t mean he’s some kind of conservative ally, rather it makes him a disgusting hypocrite.
“Dershowitz: Anti-Semitic cartoons, anti-Semitic synagogue shootings”
But Dershoschmuck will keep voting democrat to his dying day. Go figure. Big Fox guy now,
Dersh is a lost cause. He said if he had known that Obama had appeared in a photo he would have "supported him less enthusiastically."(???!!!)
Dersh is one of those idiots who 1)subscribes to a non-Theistically based moral code, and 2)actually believes that the Jewish mission is to promote liberalism.
Most western Jews seem to believe that the world began two thousand years ago with a war between "conservative" chrstianity and rebellious, subversive Judaism. The idea that the so-called "Jewish leadership" is made up of people who seem totally unaware that Judaism pre-existed chrstianity and that its original form was Theocratic (and completely unconcerned with political correctness) shows how sick the western Jewish community is. All these "leaders" need to be kicked to the curb and replaced with the Torah Sages.
He'll never change. He's too wed to his groundless non-Theistically based ideals.
I agree.
Leftist secular Jews are a lost cause, just like the 70% of Jews in Egypt whom G-d killed during the three days or darkness, the worshipers of the golden calf, and the partisans of Qorach, Datan, and Aviram.
Write them off and support the creation of a Theocratic Jewish community under Halakhah.
The rabbi involved in that Poway, CA shooting seems to have his head screwed on okay....at least from the few clips I’ve seen. Need a few thousand more like that.
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