A row has broken out over allegations of antisemitism at the New York Times, America's most vaunted name in journalism and a newspaper with a large Jewish readership.
The storm centres on a column about Jews in Iran written by New York Times journalist Roger Cohen and a cartoon attacking the recent war in Gaza.
The newspaper, and Cohen in particular, has been accused of being too critical of Israel and an apologist for Iran and its leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Cohen's column was written from Iran about the country's small Jewish minority. His piece acknowledged the difficulties the group experienced and portrayed them as part of an Iranian society that he said was more tolerant, democratic and sophisticated than many American critics allowed.
Such sentiments might seem uncontroversial, but in America no one touching on issues around Israel or antisemitism escapes close scrutiny. Cohen was attacked by Jewish writers and bloggers. The Jerusalem Post dubbed him "misled", while the Atlantic Monthly called him "credulous". Others went much further. "The Nazis had Theresienstadt, their 'model' concentration camp used to 'persuade' the gullible that Jews and others who aroused the ire of the Nazis were being treated well. Would Roger Cohen have had no problem portraying that favourably as well?" fumed writer Ed Lasky on the American Thinker website.
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There is a narrative that flows through modern history; a script, if you will. And when someone "misspeaks" their lines, the producers of that narrative reveal themselves by becoming unreasonably hysterical.
The reaction to American jews to the New York Times article is a story in and off itself.
It is a momentary unmasking.
For one thing it demonstrates the narrowness of jewish pity as the predominantly jewish media have continuously fawned over Casto's Cuba in spite of the countless horror stories of torture and mass murder that have come from eye witness testimony over the past 40 years.
And books and movies on the murder of tens of millions of Christian gentiles in the Soviet Union are still few and far between (if not non-existent).
Secondly, it reveals how important the notion of persecution is to the jewish identity. Despite the fact that jews are the single most powerful and influential ethnic group on planet earth, they still cling desperately to the notion that 'the whole world is out to get them' as a means to justify their uber ethnocentric mindset and to disposes The West of its Civilization in order to keep the "anti-Semites" at bay.
Thirdly, it shows that the purpose of media is not present the truth, but rather, a truth.
And so we come back to the narrative which has been ongoing since at least before WWII.
Where is the current "story" headed?
Considering the power of the Israel Lobby and the influence of the neo-cons, I'd say another "war of liberation" is highly possible.
Consider where the narrative of the past led us,
Rabbi Wise's Address
'There are 6,000,000 living, bleeding, suffering arguments in favor of Zionism. They come not to beg, but ask for that which is higher than all material things. They seek to have satisfied the unquenchable thirst after the ideal. They ask to become once again the messengers of right, justice, and humanity."
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The New York Times June 11 1900, page 7
MILLIONS IN DIRE DISTRESS
Jacob H. Schiff, Meyer London, and Dr. Enelow Plead with the Rich to Give.
"Louis Marshall, speaking at a meeting in Temple Emanu-El last night, deplored what he termed the failure of the Jews of America, particularly of New York, to realize the terrible calamity that has overtaken the millions of Jews whose homes are in the eastern theater of the European war.
...more than 6,000,000 are in the heart of the war zone; Jews whose lives are at stake and who today are subjected to every manner of suffering and sorrow..."
The New York Times January 14 1915
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Germans Let Jews Die. Women and Children
in Warsaw Starving to Death
"Through the Intelligence Department of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense, the Provisional Zionist Committee last night made public a letter describing conditions among Jews in Warsaw under German rule....It is witnessed here all over, in every street, in every step, in every house. Jewish mothers, mothers of mercy, feel happy to see their nursing babies die; at least they are through with their suffering.....The veracity and authenticity of the letter is vouched for by the Zionist Committee,"
The New York Times August 10 1917
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PRESIDENT GIVES HOPE TO ZIONISTS
"Approval of the plans of Zionist leaders for the creation of a national Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine was given tonight by President Wilson to a delegation of representative American Jewish Leaders who spent an hour at the White House in conference with the President over the international status of Jews around the world.....Rabbi Wise spoke of the aspirations and hopes of American Jews and of Jewry around the world, told of his recent visit to Paris, in its bearing on the Peace Conference, and discussed the League of Nations, predicting that it would be part of the final Peace Treaty......The real question now is whether we will form a League of Nations, whether we will stay where we are and help keep the peace of the world, or come back here and have to go back and make war again."
The New York Times March 3 1919, page 1
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Russian Revolution?
"It is probably unwise to say this loudly in the United States, but the Bolshevik movement is and has been since its beginning, guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest type...
A table made up in 1918, by Robert Wilton, correspondent of the London Times in Russia, shows at that time there were 384 commissars including 2 Negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen, 22 Armenians and more than 300 Jews. Of the latter number, 264 had come from the United States since the downfall of the Imperial Government."
Captain Montgomery Schuyler, military intelligence officer in Russia
U.S. National Archives. Record group 120: Records of the American Expeditionary Forces, June 9, 1919.
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FELIX M. WARBURG TELLS
SAD PLIGHT OF JEWS.
"Felix M. Warburg, Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, who returned several days ago from a trip to Europe for that organization, made public yesterday some of his findings.....'The successive blows of contending armies have all but broken the back of European Jewry,' he said, 'and have reduced to tragically unbelievable poverty, starvation and disease about 6,000,000 souls.."
The New York Times November 12 1919, page 7
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JEWS ASK PUBLIC TO AID WAR VICTIMS
Non-Sectarian Appeal for $7,500,000 Starts Today with Sermons in All Churches.
"A famished child upon the auction block, a mother in the foreground pleading for aid, death with outstretched arms lurking near and the legend, 'Shall Death Be the Highest Bidder?'
...$7,500,000 to be raised here this week by the Greater New York Appeal for Jewish War Sufferers.....'Hunger, cold rags, desolation, disease, death - Six million human beings, without food, shelter, clothing or medical treatment"
The New York Times May 2nd 1920, Section 2 page 1
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THE CRUCIFIXION OF JEWS MUST STOP!
By MARTIN H. GLYNN
(Former Governor of the State of N.Y.)
"From across the sea SIX MILLION men and women call to us for help, and eight
hundred thousand little children cry for bread....six million men and women are dying from lack of the necessaries of life.....In this threatened holocaust of life....."
The American Hebrew October 31 1919
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SAYS JEWS OF WORLD WILL BACK LEAGUE; DR. SOKOLOW TELLS ZIONIST CONGRESS JERUSALEM WILL BE INTERNATIONAL PEACE CAPITAL."CALSBAD, Aug. 27 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).--"The League of Nations is a Jewish idea, and Jerusalem some day will become the capital of the world's peace," declared Dr. Nahum Sokolow, Chairman of the Zionist Exocutive Committee, at a special meeting of the Zionist Conference today."
The New York Times August 27 1922 page 10
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'JUDEA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY'
Ran the Front page headline from the Daily Express, March 24 1933, promising a boycott of German Goods.
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