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  1. New York Times toilet paper is harsh and abrasive and can lead to both proctological as well as psychological maladies with dire and long lasting consequences.

    Nevertheless, highly superior human beings (not vulnerable to the incorrect thoughts that ordinary schlemiels foolishly think) continue to use NYT as their bathroom tissue of choice.

  2. The New York Times has blamed the publication of this cartoon on a single editor downloading it from a syndicate. What they don’t point out is that the syndicate is their own news service. (According to Wikipedia: “CartoonArts International is a cartooning newspaper syndication service based in the United States, distributed by The New York Times Syndicate.”)

    In other words, the Times doesn’t just publish this type of material for international readers and hope they don’t get caught. They also routinely sell it to other publications — presumably ones with even less oversight or distaste for antisemitism than the Times itself has.

  3. International NY Times making the pogrom an international feature, that’s their program.

  4. One can only wonder how much longer it will take for the ivy league, once again, to prohibit Jews from matriculating.

    And all this from a paper once owned by and currently run by a Jew. Must be a lot of self-loathing there, and as I get older, I find that generally anyone, who is self-loathing most often should be.

  5. But none of the anti-Semitism obvious in the cartoon would be likely to register with a European at this point—or even an American leftist. They have lost the ability to see what the cartoon looks like to others, because they are so used to what’s being expressed there.

    i don’t think that is it..

    No one wants to care for people who do not care for them!

    Hiliel the elder said, the whole of the torah could be summed up by:
    Do unto others what you would have done to you

    well, by erasing, and using their priveleged position in politics, press, arts and more
    they gave no european a reason to remember they were victims too
    in fact, they gave them plenty of reason to NOT tell the story
    why?
    why tell your children a story that would make them upset and see the ungrateful

    My son doesnt know the history, we could not tell him our people died next to the jews

    but are erased by them, you wont see them say anything… but want everyone to remember THEM
    they erase others who shared the experience (go to a jewish ceremony like this weekend and note that as they celebrate the survival of the last of the holocaust… they mention NOTHING as to others.. and there are others that were in the holocauyst that were not jewish, and still alive… but they are erased)

    while they talk, as in you sentence of they have lost the ability to see
    well the jewish people never had ability to see how some of their choices as people make their bed
    and this is one of them

    The burning of the Riga synagogues occurred in 1941, during the first days of the World War II Nazi German occupation of the city of Riga, the capital and largest city in the country of Latvia. Many Jews confined in the synagogues died in the fires, and many other anti-Semitic measures were launched at the same time, ultimately followed by the murder of the vast majority of the Jews of Latvia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_Riga_synagogues

    they loaded jews into the synagogues, and set them on fire…
    but this was AFTER The russians… and before their return..

    Thirty-five days after the Riga ghetto was established, 24,000 of its inhabitants were force marched out of the city and shot at the nearby forest of Rumbula

    But what of the others who shared their fate? women like ann franke? Ruta U? etc?

    how many were jewish and escaped, forgetting their jewish past and having erased connections?

    -=-=-

    Several hundred Jews in the Riga ghetto organized resistance activities against the Germans. Small groups sought to escape from the ghetto and join partisans in the surrounding forests.

    oh. so the forest brothers, who saved them are not remembered!!!

    and its hard too…as the russians are helping erase the history, and mkaing the people who helped, into nazis that murdered them!!

    After NATO published an online short film about the Baltic resistance movement that followed World War Two, called “Forest Brothers. Fight for the Baltics”, a hysterical reaction from Russia, which has not subsided to date, followed. Among different accusations and inventions, the especially outstanding news was entitled as follows: “Expert: Forest brothers killed 80% of the Jews in the Baltic States”. This article was initially posted on RIA Novosti news agency’s website, and was later published by several other websites.

    “As simple as that, an imaginary figure has been chosen to ensure that it sounds loud and horrible. One hundred percent could not be written, the sound of it would be too banal, but 80%, 85%, 90%, whatever fits. The “expert” clearly lacks any documents or research results – it is just a loud phrase to be used for propaganda purposes,” the historian Zigm?rs Tur?inskis responds.

    but… since they erased the heroes. the forest people, the history..

    what do the children think of saving them again gven the history?

    Father: oh, well, your grandfather died saving them… saving others…
    Son: that never happened… the schools say otherwise, the celebrations dont remember them either
    Father: thats cause the jews erased our help, our history

    ok. try it again
    Father: oh, well, your grandfather died saving them… saving others…
    Son: that never happened… the schools say otherwise, the celebrations dont remember them either
    Father: i cant tell you why they dont rememer us or care given what happened later

    ok. try it again
    Father: oh, well, your grandfather died saving them… saving others…
    Son: that never happened… the schools say otherwise, the celebrations dont remember them either
    Father: what grade did you get?

    and now, who cares? they arent the only peoples to lose!
    there are only 2 million latvians in all the world….. there are over 8 million jews in the US
    we are now more concerned with saving a smaller population than helping people who forgot us..

    but but you think the war was over in 1945?
    we continued to fight for freedom… till 1995

    where were they?

    J?nis P?nups: a Latvian Soldier for Whom the Second World War Finished in 1995
    Armia Krajowa: 75 years ago was founded the largest resistance movement of the WW2
    The Red Flag Was Not the Only One in Berlin in 1945: What the Soviet Propaganda Concealed

    But before you know his story, let’s look at the context. The Baltic republics were included in the secret protocol of the Ribbentrop-Mólotov Pact, signed by Germany and the USSR in August 1939. This protocol established that the northern border of Lithuania -that is, the line separating it from Latvia- would be the limit of the respective spheres of influence of the two powers. Recall that after being part of the Russian Empire, Latvia had declared its independence on November 18, 1918, a week after the end of World War I.

    the USSR directed its propaganda against Latvia and began to try to destabilize the small republic using the Latvian communists. On June 15, 1940 Stalin left theaters and invaded Lithuania. The next day he did the same with Estonia and Latvia,

    the new parliament, dominated by that single party, voted to annex Latvia to the USSR on July 21, 1940. Between the invasion and subsequent deportations and executions, the communists killed almost 300,000 people in a country that did not arrive To 2 million inhabitants.

    By the end of World War II, in 1945, the Jewish population of Europe had shrunk to 3.8 million, or 35% of the world’s 11 million Jews

    15% of latvians were doomed.. and that was the first of FOUR events
    the next were the germans
    the next after that were the russians
    the next after that, betrayed at yalta
    and forgotten

    The Soviet repression had been so brutal that the Latvians saw the German soldiers as liberators.

    However, the liberators were not such: Latvia went from one dictatorship (communist) to another (the nazi). The Germans began a campaign of mass extermination of Latvian Jews and Gypsies and threatened anyone who rebelled against the Third Reich by executing or sending them to a concentration camp. As with the USSR, thousands of Latvians (more than 200,000) were forced to join the German Army. In addition, more than 87,000 Latvian volunteers joined the Latviešu Le?ions (Latvian Legion) of the Waffen SS, consisting of two divisions of grenadiers.

    so we lost another 15% or so… by loosing our people who were jewish..
    by losing the people who were conscripted… with stalin murdering 100k of them

    but.. wait.. more to come
    The Germans were cruel and implacable in their reprisals: they destroyed 99 villages, deported 6,000 villagers and executed 3,600 only at the beginning of 1943. After the arrival of the Red Army to Latvia in August 1944 the Latvian resistance, this time against the Soviets, became even more intense.

    in May 1945, about 4,000 members of the Latvian Legion went into the country’s forests to move on to the guerrilla struggle against the Soviet occupation. Latvian anti-Soviet resistance came to count on about 10,000 combatants, receiving the support of a network formed by 40,000 people.

    cont to avoid deletion

  6. ….at age 19 he was forcibly enlisted in the Red Army on August 26, 1944. He was given a brief military training in Aiviekste, Latvia, and was sent to the front in September, ordering his companions and him to attack the German tanks with no more weapons than their rifles.

    My old last name, was Aiviekste…

    Hidden for decades in a barn and in the woods
    The last ‘Forest Brother’ 50 years after the end of the war

    J?nis was convinced that the communists would disappear from Latvia. He did not believe in Soviet power and he was convinced that Latvia would be free again. So it was. With the fall of communism, Latvia declared its independence on May 4, 1990. The USSR deployed military, police and KGB forces in Latvia. In January 1991 thousands of Latvians took to the streets and formed barricades, registering clashes with the Soviet Police. After the Moscow coup d’état in August 1991,

    The last Russian military left Latvia in August 1994, and P?nups only dared to emerge nine months later, at the age of 70. He was the last “Forest Brother” of the Baltic republics.

    On May 9, 1995, 50 years and 2 days after the German surrender in World War II, J?nis P?nups entered the Pel??i Police Station to inform the agents that he had been hiding for half a century. He was granted Lithuanian citizenship and went to live with his sister Veronika, because he had no family left. He was initially told that he was not right to a pension, but later his services to the Latvian nation were acknowledged. He never considered himself a hero, and always attributed to God the fact that he had survived hidden for so many years: “I go to church every Sunday,” he declared in his last years of life. Veronika died in 2004, and J?nis was left alone in his home. He died on June 15, 2007, at the age of 82.

    -=-=-=-=-=-=-
    Nevertheless, there were also Latvians who risked their lives in order to save Jews. One such, J?nis Lipke, helped to save several dozen Jews of the Riga ghetto by providing them with hideouts.

    Lipke, a dock worker in the port of Riga, was determined to help save Latvian Jews from capture by the Nazis after witnessing actions against them in the streets. He retrained in order to become a contractor for the Luftwaffe, and then used his position to smuggle Jewish workers out of the Riga ghetto and camps in and around Riga, whom he concealed with the aid of his wife Johanna until the arrival of the Red Army in October 1944.[1] The Lipkes and their various helpers saved forty people in this way, one fifth of the approximately 200 Jews who survived the war in Latvia.

    When he died in 1987, the Jews of Riga arranged his funeral, and he is honoured as one of the Righteous among the Nations.

    -=-=-=-=-=-=-

    the Righteous is only for those who are known..
    if someone did something for someone, and both died… too bad..
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDanis_Lipke_Memorial

    so many…
    but as hilliel said..
    and i guess that is what the world IS doing… isnt it?

    .

  7. Yes. A great deal of “progressive” behavior is explained by their desire to emulate the superior (as they view it) Europeans. I suspect this syndrome goes back to the American Revolutionary era.

  8. Artfldgr:

    You blame the Jews for talking about the Holocaust, and what happened to the Jews?

    No one is stopping the Latvians—or the Poles, for that matter, who also suffered greatly during WWII—from talking about the horrors that happened to them at the hands of the Nazis. In fact, on this blog you have gone into the horrific things that happened to the Latvians at the hands of the Nazis before.

    It is offensive to blame the Jews for the fact that people know much less about the Latvians, although you have done that before, too. I have never seen a single Jew say “we are the only ones who suffered; no one else is allowed to talk about their suffering.” That would be absurd. But in fact the attempt was to wipe the Jews out, and it almost succeeded in terms of European Jews, and was overwhelmingly cruel.

    I have also written about the fact that the Nazis wanted to ultimately wipe out other groups as well. Not just the Jews and gypsies, although they were first—but many of the Slavic peoples. I don’t have time now to look for where I wrote it, but the information is here:

    The Generalplan Ost (German pronunciation, abbreviated as GPO, was the Nazi German government’s plan for the genocide and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale, and colonization of Central and Eastern Europe. It was to be undertaken in territories occupied by Germany during World War II. The plan was partially realized during the war, resulting directly and indirectly in the deaths of 9.4 to 11.4 million ethnic Slavs by starvation, disease, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, or extermination through labor, including 4.5 million Soviet citizens, 2.8 to 3.3 million Soviet POWs, 1.8 to 3 million Slavic Poles, 300 to 600 thousand Serbs and 20 to 25 thousand Slovenes. Its full implementation, however, was not considered practicable during the major military operations, and was prevented by Germany’s defeat.

    The plan entailed the enslavement, forced displacement, and mass murder of most Slavic peoples (and substantial parts of the Baltic peoples, especially Lithuanians and Latgalians) in Europe along with planned destruction of their nations, whom the ‘Aryan’ Nazis viewed as racially inferior. The program operational guidelines were based on the policy of Lebensraum designed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in fulfilment of the Drang nach Osten (drive to the East) ideology of German expansionism. As such, it was intended to be a part of the New Order in Europe.

    The Nazis had plenty of evil to go around. The Jews, however, were targeted more completely during the war; the plans for the other groups were only partially carried out, which was bad enough. Evil is evil, and the Nazis executed evil against many many many groups. It’s not a competition. Nor is it the Jews’ fault that they were targeted in a more complete way, and that they talk about it.

  9. And all this from a paper once owned by and currently run by a Jew. M

    Rubbish. Adolph Ochs was a Jew. There has been enough intermarriage in that family in the last 90 years that the term is misleading applied to his great-great-grandson. (Same deal with the Meyer clan who owned the WaPoo from 1933 to 2016).

  10. i don’t think that is it..

    No one gets paid to listen to you. Why not aspire to keep your contributions to 200 words, properly formatted into sentences and paragraphs?

  11. anti-Zionist cartoon rather than an anti-Jewish one,

    Except among the Haredi, the distinction between these two stances is notional.

  12. Q: why do you publish offensive cartoons about Jews and Christians, but not about Muslims?
    NYT: because all they do is kvetch about it.

  13. “none of the anti-Semitism obvious in the cartoon would be likely to register with a European at this point—or even an American leftist. They have lost the ability to see what the cartoon looks like to others, because they are so used to what’s being expressed there.” neo

    Combine the above with the fact that in their 2017 Presidential election Macron garnered 66.1% of the French votes.

    It’s difficult to not conclude that they deserve what Islam is going to do to them.

  14. Did someone already post this?
    I get all my not-really-so-fake news from the Bee.

    https://babylonbee.com/news/new-york-times-apologizes-for-cartoon-that-offended-passover-worshipers

    “The paper also committed to hiring consultants from among the “tiny hat guys” who could tell them if they were publishing a cartoon that looks like it could have been published in Germany in the 1930s. “The people with the funny 8-candle thing will help us to better understand anti-semitism and what, if any, bad effects it’s had in the past.

    The very next day, over 27 racist cartoons were published, forcing dozens more pseudo-apologies, apology retractions, and subsequent more sincere apologies to offended Passover worshipers.”

  15. A huge number of Europeans, including in Slovakia, remain anti-Jewish and believe in some form of excessive Jewish influence/ control of world affairs, especially thru banks. Many Jews are smart enough to follow the money and make money in smart ways.

    The Jews note and push for remembering the 6 million Jews being murdered by the Nazis; the number I’ve long heard and believed about the death camps was those 6 of a total of 10 million murdered. But that number seems far more fuzzy, deniable, with less evidence of being killed in death camps as compared to shot in the forest or on the edge of mass graves or before getting on a train or just another fighting death.

    The growing anti-Semitism is also part of the growth of socialist envy, envy against those whose talents plus behavior are making them more successful than others. For hundreds of years, the Jews have been smarter and more successful, by small or large amounts, than their neighbors.

    America since WW II has been far closer to the MLK dream of judging people on their character, including Jews, than most other Euro or other countries. This has allowed many Jews to become wildly successful, a disproportionate number. There is even a feeling that it’s an unfair number. Perhaps it’s not yet been named “social injustice”, yet the SJWs oppose excess success.

    Now Dems want to change this merit path to success, and stop judging people by their character, but instead by some tribal identity.

    Many of these Dems pushing such terrible ideas have received huge amounts of donated money … from Jews. High IQ Jews were also stupid enough to think, with Zionism, that socialism could work – Israel started out as a Jewish-socialist idea. It’s deeply ironic, and sad, that so much emotional support for socialism, so often supported intellectually by Jews, comes from envy, yet that same envy also drives the hatred of the excessively successful Jews.

  16. Tom Grey:

    I don’t know where you get those figures (6 million in camps and 10 million overall) but they do not conform at all to anything I’ve ever heard claimed. The basic figure of 6 million is total, and not all in camps.

    If you want to see the figures, go here.

    Also, a great many people committed suicide even before being rounded up and they are not counted as far as I know.

  17. That vile cartoon about Sharon was first cleared of charges of anti-Semitism by the UK’s press watchdog group, and then it went on to win that prize.

    The Israeli embassy, with the backing of Mr Sharon, complained to the press complaints commission in March about the cartoon by Dave Brown, which showed the Israeli prime minister biting off the head of a Palestinian child.

    Anthony Julius of law firm Mishcon de Reya, who handled the complaint, described the cartoon as “anti-semitic, in a fantastically irresponsible way, at a particularly volatile time”.

    The complaint was brought under clause 13 of the PCC’s editorial code of conduct, which outlaws discrimination.

    However, Simon Kelner, the editor of the Independent, vehemently denied the cartoon was anti-semitic, insisting it made a purely “anti-Sharon” comment.

    The PCC, rejecting the complaint, said it was “reluctant to come to a decision that would in any way compromise the ability of newspapers to make critical or satirical comments about nations or governments through the use of cartoons”.

    Mr Sharon’s solicitor said representing the prime minister in this way alluded to the classic “blood libel” that Jews prey on Christian children.

    Brown insisted he had never intended this meaning and his cartoon was inspired by the Goya painting Saturn Devouring one of His Children.

    The PCC accepted Brown’s explanation, saying it did not consider the cartoon was particularly prejudicial to Mr Sharon’s race or religion.

    What’s with that “particularly”? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/may/22/theindependent.pressandpublishing

  18. Art Deco said, above, in response to T, that the current NYT leadership is not Jewish. I find he is correct. Wikipedia says the current chairman of the NYT Co., Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., is the son of a woman of English and Scottish origin, and is therefore not Jewish. He was raised Episcopalian. (This is like left-wing activist Tom Steyer, who is also Episcopalian and not of Jewish maternal ancestry.) The largest shareholder, Carlos Slim, is a Mexican of Maronite Catholic ancestry.

    Ancestry does not explain the NYT’s disgusting behavior. Leftism does.

  19. “New York Times Drops Syndication Service That Supplied Anti-Semitic Cartoon”:

    The New York Times decided on Monday to cease the Times’ relationship with the syndication service that supplied an anti-Semitic political cartoon that ran in last Thursday’s international print edition of The New York Times. …

    A Times spokesperson told The Daily Beast exclusively about the paper’s decision to stop using syndicated cartoons, especially from CartoonArts, the New York-based syndicator that has been providing the Times and other newspapers with more than 30 cartoons weekly through the Times Licensing Group for several decades.

    The announcement came after The Daily Beast conveyed to the Times a complaint from Jonathan Greenblatt, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, about a second cartoon published over the weekend by the paper’s international edition.

    This one depicted Netanyahu dressed as the Old Testament prophet Moses, sporting sunglasses as he descends from a mountain while holding a selfie stick in one hand and, with the other, hoisting aloft a stone tablet graced by the Jewish Star.

    “It looked like the Ten Commandments,” Greenblatt told The Daily Beast, “It might not be as blatantly anti-Semitic as the first cartoon, but it was clearly insensitive and absolutely offensive after the first piece of propaganda.” …

    The ADL is preparing to issue a report on Tuesday showing an alarming increase in anti-Semitic incidents, year over year, in the United States.

    “The New York Times sets the tone of the public conversation,” Greenblatt said, adding that the publication of the first cartoon “is an example of the normalization of anti-Semitism that we worry so much about at ADL. And in an environment where anti-Semitism is on the rise…where people like the shooter this weekend are taking inspiration from these conspiracy theories that Jews have excessive control, that Jews manipulate events—to then see The New York Times publish a piece of propaganda that clearly communicates that Jews have excessive control, or that Jews manipulate events, is unconscionable.”

  20. I think the Antunes Moreira cartoon from 1983 is much nastier than the one from a couple of weeks ago.

  21. Give ’em a break.

    They can’t attack Moslems. Can’t even mock them. (Besides, they’re victims. Always. Of somebody, some time, somewhere. And one doesn’t want to make them, um, angry. Ornery. Jittery. NOSSIRRREEE. Since they just might….)

    And since “cartoon” = “mock”, they can’t even draw cartoons about ’em. (Or barely.)

    Gotta be able to slime somebody. A little slander. A little character assassination. A little blood libel. All in good fun…. Ha ha!

    So that leaves us with….

    Let’s see. Hindus are a bit esoteric. Buddhists—well, everyone just loves Buddhists. Scientologists? Too easy.

    But Jews—ah Jews—they fit the bill very nicely. Israelis are even better. And, of course, Christians, too. Wouldn’t want to forget Christians.

    (But Jewish Israelis—Bibi supporters!! Trump supporters!!!!—Holy Leftist, Batman!! They’re the best of all worlds!!)

    Gotta be able to slime somebody…. If you can’t then what is the West coming to?

  22. Blaming “the Jews” for preventing—for blocking—Europeans (especially Eastern Europeans) from recognizing and honoring and commemorating the truly heroic efforts of their own resistance/partisan groups to not only fight the oppressor under terrible conditions (be that oppressor Nazi? Soviet?…. This may be a bit confusing…) AND help save Jews (that is, while OTHER resistance/partisan groups of those same countries valiantly did their best in ridding their countries of Jews) is truly ingenious.

    One must get the word out immediately to all the usual suspects (assuming they haven’t yet independently come up with such a glorious conception). No time should be wasted on this virtuous effort.

    (Might one say that the Internet was created precisely for this purpose?….)

    But wait! One also has the responsibility to demonstrate just how truly diabolically racist, how demonically twisted, “the Jews” are—if any such proof is really needed: yes, those “Jews” who ONLY consider a person who saves “Jews” as worthy of mention, of honor, of respect….
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_Among_the_Nations

    Diabolically racist….

  23. From a NYT article yesterday:

    “In New York, an epicenter of the outbreak, city officials closed two more schools for Orthodox Jewish children for failing to comply with an order to exclude unvaccinated children.”

    A commenter at Ace’s site:

    “Last week I noted that the ONLY disease outbreak where the Authorities jumped up to tell everyone where it came from was the measles outbreak that Orthodox Jooz brought home from the Zionist Entity.

    Every other one? A mystery. No one may ever know where they came from or who spread them.

    But this ONE outbreak – why we have precise knowledge of where it came from and – by extension – WHO TO BLAME FOR THE DEATHS.

    Coincidence?”

  24. Ann on April 29, 2019 at 7:47 pm at 7:47 pm said:
    That vile cartoon about Sharon was first cleared of charges of anti-Semitism by the UK’s press watchdog group, and then it went on to win that prize.
    * * *
    Nicely explained by Barry’s exposition of the Principle of the Conservation of Sliming: if you can’t attack certain exempt groups, you have to throw all the slime at the prescribed groups.

    I had the fleeting thought that this Law of Bigotry probably also applies to television and movies. Since conservatives are no longer watching network tv, particularly the comics and newscasters, and are flocking away from Hollywood’s more tendentious offerings, the producers and “talent” can freely mock conservatives (and by extension Rebublicans, observant Jews and Christians, patriots, and fly-over Americans in general) with no fear of losing audience-share, but mocking the genuinely-mockable Leftist groups would generate nasty tweetstorms & boycotts.
    Of course, it helps that most of them share the ideology of the mocking-hordes, but the pursuit of lucre* & fame is also operative.

    *I was going to write “It’s all about the Benjamins baby” — just a little casual mockery — but, given the recent cartoons about Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, that remark of Omar’s has a certain double-entendre resonance.

  25. “I am a strong believer in freedom of speech and the New York Times has a right to continue its biased reporting and editorializing. But despite my support for freedom of speech, I am attending a protest in front of the New York Times this afternoon to express my freedom of speech against how the New York Times has chosen to exercise its.” – Dershowitz

    The last honest liberal.

  26. “In recent years, it has become more and more difficult to distinguish between the reporting of the New York Times and their editorializing. Sometimes its editors hide behind the euphemism “news analysis,” when allowing personal opinions to be published on the front page. More recently, they haven’t even bothered to offer any cover. The reporting itself, as repeatedly demonstrated by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), has been filled with anti-Israel errors.” – Dershowitz

    There may be a reason why the Paper of Fake Record eliminated their ombudsman position and most of their fact checkers.

  27. “Having said this, I do not support a boycott of the New York Times. Let readers decide for themselves whether they want to read its biased reporting. I, for one, will continue to read the New York Times with a critical eye, because it is important to know what disinformation readers are getting and how to challenge that disinformation in the marketplace of ideas.” – Dershowitz

    To his credit, despite his differing ideology, he calls out disinformation about the Right as readily as he would about the Left — with the caveat that even The Dersh lives in a bubble, just a bigger and more transparent one.

  28. “Finally, there is some good news. One traditional anti-Semitic trope is that “the Jews control the media.” People who peddle this nonsense often point to the New York Times, which is, in fact, published by a prominent Jewish family, the Sulzbergers. Anyone who reads the New York Times will immediately see the lie in this bigoted claim: ” – Dershowitz

    The family connections and ideologies of the current NYT owners/publishers has been noted above by Kate; they are only barely, just nominally, Jewish in any meaningful sense.

    However, even if “the Jews,” in the person of one family, did control “the media,” in the instance of one newspaper, they did it to the detriment of their religious community, not in support of it, as Dersh concludes:

    “Yes, the New York Times has long been controlled by a Jewish family. But this Jewish family is far from being supportive of Jewish values, the nation-state of the Jewish people or Jewish sensibilities. If anything, it has used its Jewishness as an excuse to say about Jews and do to Jews what no mainstream newspaper, not owned by Jews, would ever do.”

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14165/what-if-the-new-york-times-cartoon-had-depicted

  29. Sharon W on April 30, 2019 at 11:27 am at 11:27 am said:

    “But this ONE outbreak – why we have precise knowledge of where it came from and – by extension – WHO TO BLAME FOR THE DEATHS.

    Coincidence?”

    * * *
    Another corollary to the Principle of the Conservation of Sliming: if you cannot, for political or ideological reasons, name a certain group for a problem, double the blame for the group you can slime.

    They are also more likely to get compliance from generally law-abiding Jews who object to one statute, than from generally lawless groups that ignore all of them.

    One attack is happenstance.
    Two is coincidence.
    Three or more are enemy action.

    We are well beyond two, when the target is a Jew.

  30. If you think about it, it’s a wonder that the international NY Times took so long to get with the program.

    You misspelled “pogram”.
    Fixt it fer ya…

    De Nada. <—Is this 'cultural appropriation'??

  31. Nonetheless, all facetiousness aside(!?)—i.e., while “sliming” is indeed important, it’s NOT, actually, the main issue.

    The essential problem, the elemental problem (some might even say, the basic problem…the core problem?) is that no matter how you cut it, the Jewish State (AKA the Zionist Entity….AAKA “that sh**ty country”), since the heady years of Oslo, the eye-opening “second intifada”, and a whole slough of mini-wars with Hamas, as well as (if you will) the continuing slow-burn conflict with the PA, has increasingly concluded that it must refuse, absolutely refuse, adamantly refuse, categorically refuse….to “make peace” with a “partner in peace” whose goal it is to destroy said Jewish State (which destruction is, in fact—-surprise!!—the definition of “peace” for Israel’s “partner in peace”).

    IOW, since Israel (i.e., the majority of Israel’s voters—though still, only a bit more than half of the electorate) has decided that it will not agree, or least not yet agree, to be destroyed by its “partners in peace”, the country must therefore be vilified by all decent, intelligent, caring and concerned people as an intransigent, anti-peace, war mongering, beyond-the-pale, colonialist, White, oppressive, Nazi—ZIONIST—apartheid state.

    As such, Israel must be “helped” by all those decent, intelligent, caring and concerned folks to see the light, to change its mind, to alter its direction—to make “peace” with its “partners in peace”…so that peace can break out throughout the region and throughout the world.

    And to “help” Israel see the light, all the decent, intelligent, caring and concerned people have the DUTY—the RESPONSIBILITY—to hold Israel’s feet to the fire (via tendentious articles, boycotts, attacks, slanders, defamations, blood libels—all, of course, for the right reasons, for the best of reasons, for purely moral reasons) until Israel is prepared to make “peace” (with its “partner in peace”, for whom “peace” means Israel’s disappearance…but I repeat myself).

    Thus, the KEY is to believe, truly and absolutely, that Israel’s “partners in peace” genuinely wish to live alongside Israel in “peace” (as the word is understood in the West).

    IOW, the KEY is to persuade oneself—i.e., to thoroughly delude oneself to believe—that Israel’s “partners in peace” do NOT wish to destroy Israel. Absolutely not.

    Once all the decent, intelligent caring and concerned people are able to believe THAT—and it’s incredibly easy to do, quite obviously!!—then the State of Israel will be—must be—held entirely responsible (or almost entirely responsible) for the absence of “peace”, for the fact that “peace” is “elusive”, for the plaintive warning that “peace” is dying….or that the “window of peace” is fast closing.

    And everything done to counter the State of Israel is legitimate. Is necessary. Is ethical. Is the epitome of morality.

    And so everything goes…until “peace” (AKA Israel’s destruction) is achieved.

    (All this, of course, gives the Palestinians every incentive to continue what is essentially a war of attrition…until Israel disappears—not that they need any incentives. But since all the above is most certainly not part of “the narrative” then one can basically ignore it…while labeling anyone who does believe such absolute “nonsense” a war-monger, zio-nazi, fantasist, racist, fascist, etc.)

    Remember: the KEY is to deny that the goal of Oslo (as all else before Oslo) is Israel’s destruction. After that, anything is possible…and everything is permissible.

  32. Most Muslims, and many other people, have not, and will not, ever recover from the shock of seeing Jews who will not submit or die, as they are supposed to. Too bad!

  33. Why do people still quote the New York Times… Americans disbelieve fake news except the 85% of the time that they believe in MSM fake news?

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