NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — The New York Times is on a jihad against orthodox Jews, and for a change, the community is not rolling over or remaining silent.
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Members of the Jewish community have responded to the latest Times’ hit pieces against Chassidic yeshivas. They have blasted the biased reporters, Eliza Shapiro and Brian Rosenthal, on social media, pointing out their obsessive, nonstop distortions about the orthodox Jewish community.
The past fifteen articles written by Eliza Shapiro were all hit pieces targeting the orthodox Jewish community.
Twitter users have observed that if the Times treated any other minority the way it treats Jews, it would be labeled racist and bigoted. They also point out the danger of the newspaper’s vicious rhetoric, distortions, and lies, increasing antisemitism at a time when it is already surging.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Managing Director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, tweeted: “Don’t miss the fact that the community targeted by @elizashapiro is also targeted by hate crimes more than all other minorities in NY combined. So these lies are not harmless, but bigotry and hate. Shapiro is a bigot, and @nytimes is the sort of outlet that gives hate a platform.”
Don't miss the fact that the community targeted by @elizashapiro is also targeted by hate crimes more than all other minorities in NY combined. So these lies are not harmless, but bigotry and hate. Shapiro is a bigot, and @nytimes is the sort of outlet that gives hate a platform. https://t.co/8Egq8cEEB4
— Rabbi Yaakov Menken (@ymenken) March 5, 2023
Another Twitter user with a large following known as “AG” tweeted: “Enough. NYT has had this one reporter (Shapiro) obsessively and weekly targeting the small NY Hasidic community with one hit piece after another. She tries to make every story as an attack on that community. It’s insane the NYT is giving a platform to her hateful obsession.”
He added, “Seriously, imagine how dishonest and hateful you have to be to have Julia Salazar calling you out.”
Here are the 7 articles before that. Every single article Eliza Shapiro has written for the NYT since February 2022 is basically a hit piece on NY’s Jewish Orthodox community.
How does anyone think that makes sense or is acceptable? pic.twitter.com/s1bSBx0ris
— AG (@AGHamilton29) March 3, 2023
Joel Petlin, Superintendent of the Kiryas Joel school district, and a vocal defender of the orthodox community, tweeted: “The Hasidic obsession by the @nytimes is not limited to a single reporter. It’s a team mission to attack a group of Orthodox Jews that would never be tolerated by any other minority community.”
The Hasidic obsession by the @nytimes is not limited to a single reporter. It's a team mission to attack a group of Orthodox Jews that would never be tolerated by any other minority community.
Thank you, @AGHamilton29, for adding your voice of support. https://t.co/i4kQxTGtzb https://t.co/QuS2Hd98BJ
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) March 5, 2023
There is no indication that the newspaper will let up anytime soon. Unless we unite to boycott the outlet’s advertisers and make it suffer financially, their irrational addiction to targeting Jews only seems to be gaining more steam, which is both disgraceful and frightening.
It would strengthen our case, giving solid support to the claim of bias, if specific cases of falsehood or exaggeration would be cited.
But it’s ALL true
If even half these stories are partially true (which we know some are) than we deserve to be called every stereotype we are called.
The USA felt bad & took in Chasidish Survivors & the govt was repaid with fraud, shtik & not adhering to regulations required of private schools.
Sad but true. If we want these problems to go away we need to do better & not keep deflecting & calling everyone an “Anti-Frum” agitator.
Yes we need to boycott them
So what is factually wrong in their reporting? All students are entitled to an education substantially the same as that offered in the public schools. Some of these private schools do not provide that. They need to be shut down.
Can we engage in a boycott of their advertisers or is that wishful thinking? I think the latter!
We need to employ the same tactics that they use for trump or mtg. Protest where it counts. While she is eating out etc.