New York – The New York Times editorial board said in an editorial published Tuesday that the newspaper’s publishing of “an appalling political cartoon” is “evidence of a profound danger — not only of anti-Semitism but of numbness to its creep.”
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The newspaper also acknowledged its own contributions to the rise of anti-Semitism, saying that: “In the 1930s and the 1940s, The Times was largely silent as anti-Semitism rose up and bathed the world in blood. That failure still haunts this newspaper.”
The editorial said that “anti-Semitic imagery is particularly dangerous now,” citing Saturday’s attack on the Ponway of Chabad synagogue and the release Tuesday of the Anti-Defamation League’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic incidents, which shows that the number of assaults against American Jews more than doubled from 2017 to 2018.
“Jews face even greater hostility and danger in Europe, where the cartoon was created,” the editorial also said.
The editorial also acknowledged that criticism of Israel can be couched in anti-Semitic terms.
“This is also a period of rising criticism of Israel, much of it directed at the rightward drift of its own government and some of it even questioning Israel’s very foundation as a Jewish state. We have been and remain stalwart supporters of Israel, and believe that good-faith criticism should work to strengthen it over the long term by helping it stay true to its democratic values. But anti-Zionism can clearly serve as a cover for anti-Semitism — and some criticism of Israel, as the cartoon demonstrated, is couched openly in anti-Semitic terms,” the editorial said.
It also accused President Donald Trump of doing “too little to rouse the national conscience” against anti-Semitism, saying: “Though he condemned the cartoon in The Times, he has failed to speak out against anti-Semitic groups like the white nationalists who marched in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 chanting, ‘Jews will not replace us.’”
The cartoon, which appeared Thursday in the opinion section of the newspaper’s international print edition, depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dachshund-breed guide dog wearing a Star of David collar and leading a yarmulke-clad President Donald Trump.
The newspaper in a first statement acknowledged that the image was “offensive” and “included anti-Semitic tropes.” A second statement on Sunday said the newspaper was “deeply sorry” and that the decision to publish the image was the product of “a faulty process” resulting in “a single editor working without adequate oversight.”
Not enough they need to relaize that when a Palestinian terrorist attacks jews at a hotel during pesach or butchers a family during a friday night seuda that its A) not a conflict. Its terror. B) There is no justification for such an attack. Don’t spend 3 quarters of the article justifying the attack by depicting the poor plight of Palestinians. You cheapen jewish blood.
And by the way those articles and all the kvetching for the Palestinians occurred when Ehud barak a left wing politician was in charge. We offered Arafat yimach shimo everything under the sun.
The failing NYT has been festering this for years. It was fake news way before Trump.
I hope that this is sincere teshuva. But to be honest, criticism of Israel in the midst of terrorits and those that want to destroy Israel, is anti-semitism…
Any Jew who still subscribes to, or even reads the NY Times, should be ashamed!
I don’t subscribe, but in the subway, I will stop looking over the shoulders of others that do subscribe to read their newspaper…
The time has come for the Jewish community to respond. C M S. Cancel My Subscription. Then identify those companies that advertise in the NYT. Let them know that their association with the NYT is unacceptable to the Jewish community.
Companies do not want to be in the limelight of protests or boycotts.
Two thoughts: One–why the apologizes now? Because they fear loss of subscriptions and ad revenue…..money. After years of bashing Israel (i.e.: Jews), they finally crossed a line that few, except the most virulent anti-Semite, would be willing to support.
Two: I find it ironic that they have the audacity to blame President Trump for not doing enough to rouse the national conscience to combat anti-semitism. What a nerve. First they contribute to a problem and then blame the President for not doing enough to address it. Mendacity at its finest.
I have not bought the NY Times in years, and I have no intention of doing so anytime soon.
The NY Slime Whitewashes the Holocaust and makes Anti-Semitic Cartoons. FEH
Basically they’re saying we’re Jew hating anti Israel scum but it’s Trumps fault. What a bunch of leftist Democrat Jew hating anti Israel scum.
The lying Jew haters are still pushing the Charlottesville hoax, read the transcript or watch the video Trump condemned the
neo-nazis and white nationalists and continues to condemn Jew hatred all the time unlike the Jew haters at the NYT which lie and attack Jews and Israel and support Jew hating leftist democrats.
“a single editor working without adequate oversight.”
and the editor’s name is ___________ and they will be taking an unpaid leave of absence for how long?