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The New York Times Can't Stop Lying About Israel
Here is everywhere if you are Jewish today - a defaced home in Germany, a synagogue attack in Tunisia, my children's elementary school in Manhattan. Last week, a student verbally harassed one of his classmates for displaying a small Israeli flag on her backpack.
Jews are scared, and we should be. But so should everyone else. The moral and political failures that facilitated Hamas' attacks on Israel have kicked into warp-speed as the 1,400 dead fade from the news cycle and the fate of 200 hostages is further weaponised by their captors.
Israel is clearly responsible for many of those failures - most notably the failure of its sacrosanct security apparatus. But then there are the rest: culture-makers, media-folk, donors, funders and creators. The past quarter century has seen companies and philanthropists from every sector blindly invest in the people who now openly call for Israel's destruction.
In the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020 major media companies aggressively elevated progressive voices with little care for actual authority or impact. How do I know? Because I did it myself. During my time at Conde Nast, where I helped lead digital operations for one of its top brands, I witnessed how the obsession with virtue signalling diversity campaigns saw editors scramble for social justice-focused stories, many featuring the very same dubious figureheads now leading the digital global jihad.
Back during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, The New York Times ran story after story about everything from "self-care" during times of protest to the influence of "queer-led" Black voices to "gift-guides" highlighting African-American-owned businesses. A similar hodge-podge of identity-focused content emerged from every other major publisher during this period.
Besides a single article on Israeli fashion students sewing for their troops, the Times has almost zero similar features about Israel (though they have detailed how the Gaza-Israel conflict will impact global warming). At least that's better than other media heavies such as Vogue, which also breathlessly covered BLM-related topics, but was reporting on acne and Meryl Streep's potential divorce early this week as Hamas held over 200 Israelis and foreigners hostage.
The past decade has seen every major social justice movement celebrated and legitimised by pliant media giants terrified of the consequences of not speaking out. Today, these same companies sit imponent and indifferent to the most important social justice movement of the 21st century - the movement to prevent further Jewish slaughter.
Today, no editor has taken the fall for the Times' shoddy reporting around the explosion at Gaza' al-Ahli Hospital on October 17th - and there appears little indication that anyone will. The allegation, which was quickly cast into doubt, has since been discredited by everyone from Pres. Biden to the Times itself.
Back when the Cotton piece appeared, the Times went into mea culpa overdrive, describing its own editing as "rushed and flawed" considering the "life and death importance" of the topic." Times editors added that the piece should ultimately "have been subject to further substantial revisions - as is frequently the case with such essays - or rejected."
This week, however, the Times' offered no such conditions or stridency when explaining their failings in Gaza - a situation that truly was "life-or-death" in importance, caused Pres. Biden to miss a crucial summit with King Abdullah of Jordan and resulted in an explosion of mob violence across the Islamic world, much of it focused toward American embassies.
"Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation," they wrote earlier this week. Neither do they say what steps are being taken to ensure similar blunders are prevented - particularly if and when Israel's ground assault into Gaza commences and accurate reporting becomes far more difficult, yet far more essential. Unlike Conde Nast, the Times, which tallied an 11 per cent increase in revenue last year, can certainly afford it. The problem, most likely, is whether their woke staffers will allow it.
Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal - whose parent company owns the New York Post where I am employed as an editor - produced a comprehensive video package detailing the true story behind the horrific blast which clearly came from within Gaza.
There is little doubt that truth, ethics, veracity and integrity are still standard at The New York Times and other premium legacy media brands - their overall output confirms it. But the standards demonstrated during the Israel- Gaza conflict display the byproducts of a decade of decadence that has allowed simmering antisemitism to boil over into outright journalistic misconduct.
Of course readers can ultimately vote with their smartphones and swipe onto other news sources instead. But why should they? Major media have proven more than effective at translating their commitment to social justice into fair and equitable reporting - I certainly did so. But whether it's Jewish or Arab blood now being spilled, they must make the same commitment while reporting the conflict in Gaza today.
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Joe Biden Is More Racist Than Republicans
"Americans can't distinguish "between a South Korean and someone from
Beijing." - Joe Biden
Yup... they all look alike, Joe.
Old-Rich-White-Religious Freak, Joe Biden Bragged About His Ability to Work With Racists
Old-Rich-White-Religious Freak, Joe Biden Brags About a Segregationist Democrat Not Calling Him "Boy" Like He Did Others
Used Racist Term "Roaches" to Describe Black Kids Who Felt His Hairy Legs
Praised Democrat Segregationist Sen. John Stennis(D) as "Man of Character"
"Segregation Is Good for Black People" - Joe Biden
"(The) Democrat Party Needs More People Like Racist Democrat Governor George Wallace." - Joe Biden
Gave Speech About What's "Good for the Negro"
"... if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black..." - Joe Biden
"If my opponent wins, they're going to put y'all back in chains." - Joe Biden
Funny, since Democrats have been KEEPING Blacks "in chains" for 60 years, and PUT them there, in the first place. Lincoln and Frederick Douglas and H.R. Revels, Benjamin S. Turner, Josiah T. Walls, Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. De Large, Jefferson H. Long, R. Brown Elliot were ALL Republicans
http://www.wordfoundations.com/wp- content/uploads/2016/08/First_Colored_Senator_and_Representatives.jpg
"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle." - Joe Biden
Jungle: Slang term for a city or urban area.
"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." - Joe Biden
Only people from India can work at 7-11?
"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids" - Joe Biden... as opposed to "White Kids"? That would imply all poor kids are Black.
"I do not buy the concept, popular in the '60s, which said, "We have suppressed the black man for 300 years." - Joe Biden
Seems that THAT'S exactly what Democrats have been saying, ever since they found out that they could buy their votes so easily with free shit.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean." - Joe Biden
What... they're not SUPPOSED to be?
"We (Delawareans) were on the South's side in the Civil War." - Joe Biden
"I mean these Shylocks (Jews) who took advantage of, um, these women and men while overseas." - Joe Biden (Not "racist", per se, but still...)
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