[ April 15, 2024 ]
The New York Times has found a new way to criticize Israel while building up the mostly Muslim communities that want nothing more than to see the Jewish state wiped from the face of the earth — use the food section to take antisemitic shots and endorse the Nazi BDS movement. This is typical of the enemedia: relentless anti-Israel propaganda, no matter how fact-free. No one should read the New York Times expecting to find actual news, and the only people who still do are leftist lemmings. Yet for the Times, there is no downside: its readers, including Jewish readers will continue to subscribe, the ADL will not say a single solitary word (after all, Trump isn’t involved), and the Jewish Federation will continue to focus only on the threat from white supremacists.
“New York Times Food Section Joins the Boycott-Israel Movement,” by Ira Stoll, Algemeiner, February 7, 2019 (thanks to Mark):
The New York Times, which favors trade with Iran and Cuba, has recently been throwing its institutional weight behind the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel.
Story continues below advertisementThe newspaper published an official Times staff editorial critical of steps to counter the BDS movement. The Times news columns issued a command that readers “celebrate” the election of a BDS-supporting congresswoman. On the op-ed page, one regular columnist, Michelle Alexander, praised a church pension fund’s boycott of five Israeli banks as act of “moral clarity” in the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. Another regular Times columnist, Michelle Goldberg, insisted, “Anti-Zionism Isn’t the Same as Anti-Semitism.” Goldberg defended the BDS movement — “a movement of nonviolent resistance,” she called it, ignoring that it operates in parallel and alongside violent terrorism — in a Times podcast.
Now even the Times food section is getting into the BDS act.
It started small, almost imperceptibly. The print Times began identifying its contributor Yotam Ottolenghi as a “British chef,” suppressing his Israeli heritage.
Then, on January 23, 2019, the Times published an article with a recipe for what the newspaper called “pearl couscous with creamy feta and chickpeas.”
Times readers in the comments noted that they were confused by the terminology; previous Times articles calling for that ingredient, like one in 2014 for “spicy couscous salad with tomatoes, green beans, and peppers,” hadn’t been afraid to refer to “Pearl couscous, also called Israeli couscous.” As recently as October 2018, the Times had written, “Pearl couscous, also known as Israeli or giant couscous.”
I thought of writing about that change, but I held back, figuring I might be viewed as overly sensitive to minor slights of the Jewish state. I asked the recipe author, Melissa Clark, what to make of the shift in terminology, but she didn’t respond to the query I sent via her website.
This week, though, the Times food section crossed the line, dispelling any remaining doubt about where its heart lies. It published an adoring feature, beginning on the section front and continuing to a full page inside the section, about Yasmin Khan. The article is headlined, “A Writer Describes Palestinian Cuisine, and the World Around It.”
The Times article reports, “Ms. Khan fell in love with Palestinian food when she first found herself in the West Bank 10 years ago, in her past life working in human rights with War on Want, a British charity committed to anti-poverty initiatives. (Ms. Khan left the group in 2011. In 2018, it was one of 20 organizations Israel blacklisted because of its support of an economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel.)”
That’s an unhelpful and tendentious Times passage. War on Want’s “anti-poverty initiative” was to boycott the Jewish state, which it conspiratorially and inaccurately held entirely at fault for the poverty of Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza. The Times doesn’t ask or say whether Khan still favors a boycott of Israel, though it does allow that she “made a point not to quote Israeli sources in the book.” The Times misleadingly makes it sound as if War on Want’s BDS activities only became an issue long after Khan left the organization. In fact, though, Khan’s role at the organization while she worked there involved advocating for a boycott of Israel. In a 2009 video, Khan is seen speaking at a public event about “the crimes of Israel against the Palestinian people” and telling an audience, “I want you all to get involved in the BDS movement.” Describing War on Want as a “human rights group” is naïve, since it appears to have no regard for the rights of the Israelis it is boycotting. It might be more accurate to describe the organization as an anti-Israel hate group….
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5 years ago
5 years ago
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Ziggy46
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5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Don’t suppose Halal News will go into detail of Halal’s animal cruelty and unsanitary food preparation practices which ARE CARRIED ON TODAY IN 2019 JUST LIKE WIFE BEATING, HONOR KILLING, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AS ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS PRECEPTS! Muhammad was the “perfect” man but their desert derived food practices designed for migrants on the go along with a justification for theft, genocide and other crimes did not lend itself to sophisticated cuisine culture or civilized processes of nation building! Fact is all the great cultures of Islam were those belonging to nations the Islamics conquered like Persia and Egypt replacing indigenous religions of the natives’ own making!
Sad truth is here in San Antonio, TX, Halal restaurants are going up everywhere now even though Muslims are a relatively small minority with their 15 plus mosques of which approximately 85% of mosques in TX are funded by other nations especially Wahabi, Saudi influence. There is not one Kosher deli in SA but the SA Jewish community like the community of NYC that Pam Geller mentions are impotent and have been for years. NYC Jewish community should fricking boycott “The NY Times” and restaurant personalities, institutions that advertise in it then this anti-Zionist, anti-semitism would stop! I have yet to meet an anti-Zionist yet who wasn’t fundamentally anti-semitic and I speak as a dude who due to his mixed pedigree can go around many types of folks which I have and there are anti-semitic Nazis around who of course are also anti-Zionist believers in a fake theory of “Jew Communism” that derived from a forgery of “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” manuscript that owed a lot of its origin to one shameful Yevno Azef who took ideas from the Communist Manifesto and radical Socialist Democratic Party then subscribed it to Jews as their conspiracy. As a double agent in Tsarist Russia for the last Tsars secret police, The OKAHNA, he gypped the Russian Imperialist government for years creating terrorist incidents for pay-offs and since he was an ethnic Jew played on Czarist officials prejudices to keep them believing that what he said was true and was a wretched anti-Jew Jew. The anti-Zionist Jew is an anti-Jew Jew and they shamefully exist too! George Soros is probably the best example of one today although I believe it ran in his family for quite a long time!
5 years ago
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R. Arandas
The left, being miserable professional cowards, are simply afraid of the Muslim violence. That is why these low lifes are trying to appease them and are crawling up their arses.
5 years ago
This once again makes propaganda terms “Jew York Times” absurd.
All this comes from irrational madness. “Jewnited Snakes of America”
“Jewnited Kikedom”. It is the old attempt to relieve oneself of one’s
guilt by seeking and finding a scapegoat. The old same scapegoat.
5 years ago
The Jews are for me the living example that paranoia attracts misfortune.
All the more reason for them to practice positive thinking and confidence.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
This includes the unconditionality not to make a morbid death cult
out of their terrible past, or even to define their identity through it!
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
And that means for all other nations to
respect Jews, cause “the Jews” are us!
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
With “Anti-Semitism” it’s very similar to misogyny: although women-haters possess
completely functionless nipples, they deny the female part of their nature and split
it off in a pathological way. They forget that they themselves were born by women.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
If you take a closer look at things, fascism and Islam are
the denial of and the fight against femininity in ourselves.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Although even the ancient Chinese knew that
the hard breaks and the soft hollows the stone.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
I respect people with substance, inner maturity and beauty. But I
despise clowns and actors a la “hard shell and no core” who dress
up in uniforms (one form for all) and only feel “strong” in the group.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
It’s always about personality. Personality is not interchangeable,
negotiable, or for sale, but personal. Individuality is not divisible.
5 years ago
An early BDS-ler was Hitler.
Unjust Muhammad too of course.
No matter how much democratic votes Muhammadists achieve through deception, the unjust Muhammad-war, law & tyranny is unacceptable.
We must free the Middle-East & the whole world from Muhammadist tyranny & free the enslaved Africans, the tortured atheists & the forcibly declitorized girls.
Today Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (see Wikiislam).
5 years ago
My birds will NOT tolerate the NYT. Their excrement is FAR too good for that rag.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
I’d never force a canary to defecate on the NYT. It would not even make for good toilet paper.
5 years ago
So much for New York being a friend and safe haven for the Jewish people….
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
New York Jews side with the leftists and muzzloid jihadis. They don’t believe any harm will come to them. They do not believe history repeats.
5 years ago
Those who are against GODs chosen people will be known to the LORD .
My blessing on Israel and the people of Israel
5 years ago
Who the hell reads the NYT’s any more? Apparently, everybody. Why the fascistnation with this communist paper? Move on, everybody uses real toilet paper now.
5 years ago
It is ironic the NYT has become the leading propagandist for the war on Israel and the most rabid antisemitism found anywhere in the West. Yet,it is quoted and honored by the elites and supported by advertisers and readers that were once supporters of Israel.
5 years ago
This is not new; the NYT has been fervently anti-Israel for many decades. The Sulzberger family, which owned the paper, is Jewish, but in recent interviews admitted they had the paper take an intentionally anti-Israel, anti-Jewish stand explicitly to avoid having the Gentile elite to whom they were marketing their allegedly superior journalism, think of the NYT as a “Jewish paper.” So they went overboard in the other direction. The NYT is also unfairly critical of local Jewish issues, such as conflicts involving ultra-orthodox Jews, as well.
