Posted on 05/02/2019 4:57:11 PM PDT by SJackson
The blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon published by the New York Times in its international edition this past week has provoked widespread outrage. The criticism has been so intense that the Times even allowed one of its columnists, Pulitzer Prize winner Bret Stephens, to author an op-ed column blasting the newspaper for publishing it.
According to Stephens, the cartoon managed to slip past the Times’ editors because many in the media aren’t sensitive enough to anti-Semitism, not noticing it as quickly as expressions of bigotry against other minorities.
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Stephens is being much too kind. The fact is that the Times itself has repeatedly published the exact same sentiments as those depicted in the cartoon in the writings of Stephens’ colleague, Times star op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman.
Let’s compare the cartoonist and the columnist. The cartoon showed a blind President Trump, wearing a yarmulke, being led by a vicious dog with the face of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. In other words, the Jews control the president.
Now let’s recall a few of Thomas Friedman’s writings on the same subject. In his February 5, 2004 column, Friedman asserted that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has “had George Bush under house arrest in the Oval Office…surrounded by Jewish and Christian pro-Israel lobbyists” who are “all conspiring to make sure the president does nothing [regarding Israel].”
On December 13, 2011, he claimed that the standing ovations Prime Minister Netanyahu received in Congress were “bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.” And on November 19, 2013, he wrote that “many American lawmakers [will] do whatever the Israel lobby asks them to do in order to garner Jewish votes and campaign donations.”
In short, the editors of the Times long ago legitimized the anti-Semitic Israel-controls-America accusation.
And left-wing Jews apparently have little problem with it either. From their silence, it’s evident that J Street and Americans for Peace Now were never bothered by Friedman’s hate-columns, and they’re not troubled by the Times’ anti-Semitic cartoon, either. Their hatred for Prime Minister Netanyahu is so obsessive and passionate that they apparently don’t mind the anti-Semitic imagery of such a cartoon.
American Muslim groups whom Jewish leaders keep telling us are “moderate” certainly won’t condemn the cartoon, either. Why not? Because they agree with it. They’ve been railing against “Jewish control of Washington” for years.
Don’t expect many Democrat members of Congress to be bothered by the cartoon either. Some of them – think Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – undoubtedly agree with the cartoon. Other Democrats, who genuinely disagree with it, are too afraid of Omar, Tlaib, and Cortez to speak up.
Remember how they could not bring themselves to condemn Omar when she expressed exactly the same views as the cartoonist? Sensing that their base has turned against Israel, they find it politically expedient to tolerate “Jewish control”-themed bigotry.
The heart of the problem, then, is not this one cartoon, and not some careless or insensitive editor at the New York Times. The problem is that the mainstream American left – including many on the Jewish left – have embraced the most hateful sentiments and have chosen to turn a blind eye to anti-Semitism coming from their camp.
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Most of they staff, who will giggle their way through sensitivity training.
The tie between Trump and Netanyahu parallels the growing consciousness of ties between evangelical (and some other) Christians and the Jewish race.
The New Testament began as a book about beliefs into which some 1st century Jews had come. Although this church quickly grew to embrace many gentiles and ultimately became numerically dominated by gentiles, the spirit of Christ has never forgotten about that initial tie.
Whoever complains about this has got both the Old and New Testaments to complain to.
Schmuckie Schumer’s fault...
I don’t disagree. At the same time one could argue it’s just a matter of two leaders who recognize reality and don’t spend their time chasing rainbows. No disrespect to our former President and his rainbow flags, I was thinking of the mythical pot of gold rainbows.
I will put this as simply as I know how. Barack Obama was the single most anti-Israel/anti-Jewish President that I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, and it’s not even close.
And as far as Trump being “blind” — it sounds like baloney. Modern evangelical Christian ideas (with which Trump has surrounded himself as part of his vision for MAGA) about the return of Jews to Israel rhyme with modern goals of return of Jews to Zion. Trump isn’t a slave to Netanyahu — he sees a picture just fine, and he agrees with it. It’s a picture that even goes beyond the Presbyterian faith of his youth (which tries to factor out the Jewish people as a people), to something that’s closer to Southern Baptist.
The cartoon was very Goebbels like. Even the style was reminiscent of the grotesque caricatures the Nazis favored in their own propaganda.
If the cartoon dog was Putin would the New York Times apologize for being Russophobic
Had this been a cartoon of the false prophet mudman, it would have never gotten past the imam’s on the NYT’s editorial board!
You must not have been around in the Carter days. In many ways Obama wasn’t far out of the lefts mythical middle east playbook, the local Arabs can make a state if Israel just lets them. Which frankly Obama’s predecessors did as well, irrespective of party. Iran, I don’t know his motivation, that puts him in a class of his own, though his motivations may not have been the destruction of Israel. Plenty of leftists, including Jewish leftists, believe if we’re just nice to evil, they’ll come around to our side. Heck, GWB thought Iraq would become a thriving democracy if only the could vote. With no one to keep order, didn’t happen. With no one to restrain her, violently if necessary, Iran will become a nuclear power.
I don't recall Carter overthrowing Egypt, Libya, and attempting to overthrow Syria to empower an Islamic state that was allowed to grow in Iraq in a vacuum created by the early and announced withdrawal of U.S. forces there, while simultaneously transferring billions of dollars to Iran, while allowing them to set their own required actions to police their nuclear weapons capabilities.
Carter was inept, but wasn't outright plotting against Israel.
But then, maybe I just don't remember things so good anymore....
Had the left in America seen a cartoon of Obama being guided by Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Irans Hassan Rouhani, it would have actually been ideologically more accurate, but the left would have burned America to the ground in one weekend.
You might give Obama too much credit, he didn’t create the Arab Spring, just threw in with it since it fit his anti Colonialist worldview and thought he could use it to his political advantage. It wasn’t about Israel, and naturally he threw in with the wrong side in each instance. But don’t forget Iran, a larger threat to the US. I can’t say hostility to Israel, Obama was clearly hostile, didn’t enter into his calculations. And Iran is a clear threat to American interests, which he clearly opposes. But from the perspective of American foreign policy, Carter sided with the mullahs. Who went to war with us by invading our Embassy. And a couple years later attacking our Embassy and Marines in Lebanon, through Hizbollah. As well as establishing a presence in our hemisphere, thorough their embassy’s and Hizbollah. I’ll give them a tie. Carter supported unleashing Iran on the world, Obama the Muslim Brotherhood and Isis. Not that much difference in their worldview, Iran has just been more successful in subverting American interests.
By featuring such blatantly anti-Semitic cartoons, the New York Times International Edition will be able to add large numbers of international anti-Semites to its subscription rolls — while at the same time it will be able to keep its many liberal Jewish subscribers from cancelling their U.S. subscriptions merely by having a columnist make lame, mealy-mouthed pseudo-apologies whenever anyone expresses outrage at the Times’s new Josef Goebbels-like approach to news reporting.
The only thing missing in the cartoon was the ‘hook nose’. If responsible news organizations want to criticize the Israeli Government that is ok. it’s the Anti Semitism they cannot contain. We know them by their actions.
[The problem is that the mainstream American left – including many on the Jewish left – have embraced the most hateful sentiments and have chosen to turn a blind eye to anti-Semitism coming from their camp.]
Spirit of antichrist. This sets up the world for the eventual 7-year rule of the Antichrist who will wage unbelievable war on the nation of Israel.
But first, a “peace” deal.
These things, unfortunately, are not surprising at all.
Yep.
And the Left loved him for it.
nazis
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