{"id":79198,"date":"2020-06-24T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=79198"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T08:37:25","slug":"02-05-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=79198","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Revives Apartheid Charge Against Israel Amid Anti-Annexation Push"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New York Times Revives Apartheid Charge Against Israel Amid Anti-Annexation Push<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ira Stoll<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A taxi passes by in front of The New York Times head office, Feb. 7, 2013. Photo: Reuters \/ Carlo Allegri \/ File.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/em> New York Times<\/em> is up to its old tricks \u2014 and even some new ones \u2014 in a no-holds-barred campaign against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s West Bank annexation plans.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bias and tendentiousness of the Times<\/em>\u2018 news coverage is clear right from the subheadline of a recent news article<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The subheadline warns, \u201cUnilaterally taking territory the Palestinians have counted on for a state could cement Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s legacy. It could also destabilize the region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em>\u2018 obsession with stability, rather than freedom or justice, is one of its many double standards imposed on Israel. It\u2019s actually a quadruple standard, or a double double standard.<\/span><\/p>\n

One way is that the Times<\/em> isn\u2019t worried about stability when it comes to causes the Times<\/em> supports, such as the Black Lives Matter protests or even demonstrations in favor of the rule of law in Hong Kong. It\u2019s only Israel and the surrounding Arab dictatorships where the Times<\/em> makes a fetish of stability.<\/span><\/p>\n

A second way is that the Times<\/em> often bemoans the status quo in the Middle East, for which it often blames Israel. Yet when Israel considers a policy choice the Times<\/em> opposes, such as annexation, all of a sudden anything that might disturb that status quo is a threat to the treasured stability.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> article uses adjectives to signal sneakily which side Times<\/em> readers should support. The article reports that \u201ca growing chorus of respected former Israeli military, intelligence and diplomatic officials is denouncing any unilateral annexation as a grave risk to Israel\u2019s security.\u201d It also refers to \u201ca prominent group of opponents, Commanders for Israel\u2019s Security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Opponents of annexation get \u201crespected\u201d and \u201cprominent,\u201d while proponents get showered with no such admiring treatment. This is a classic Times<\/em> trick: we\u2019ve noted in the past<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that the Times<\/em> describes the foreign minister of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, as \u201cthe urbane, American-educated diplomat,\u201d while usually neglecting to mention Netanyahu\u2019s American education. Instead Netanyahu is described as \u201cbrash,\u201d as well as \u201c<\/em>loquacious\u201d and \u201cusually taciturn,\u201d two diametrically opposed terms.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> article about the possibility of annexation goes on to report that \u201cthe German foreign minister flew to Jerusalem last week to urge Israel to stand down.\u201d The Times<\/em> does not stop for a second to take note of the irony that Germany has Poland as a buffer to stop Russian tanks from rolling in from its east, plus a NATO garrison that consists largely of U.S. troops. Not to mention the gall of Germans, who exterminated 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, second-guessing Israel on national security.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> goes on to say that, \u201crelegating the Palestinians to self-government in confined areas \u2014 places Israeli critics have likened to \u2018bantustans\u2019 \u2014 could close the door to a viable state, forcing Israel to choose between granting Palestinians citizenship and leaving them in an apartheidlike second-class status indefinitely.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s unusual to see the \u201capartheidlike\u201d accusation in the Times<\/em>\u2019 own voice in a news article. This one ran on page one in some editions. It shows how far the Times<\/em> has traveled on the issue: Back in 2007, when former President Jimmy Carter published his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid<\/em>, a Times<\/em> review<\/a><\/strong><\/span> justifiably faulted Carter for \u201cthe word \u2018apartheid\u2019 in the title, with its false echo of the racist policies of the old South Africa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And the Times<\/em>\u2019 own op-ed columnist, Bret Stephens, has written<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, \u201cthe comparison of Israel to apartheid South Africa is unfair to the former and an insult to the victims of the latter.\u201d It\u2019s a revival of the Soviet-era \u201cZionism is racism\u201d lie, and a lie that is particularly pernicious in the current era of heightened consciousness against racism in America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reasonable people may have different views of whether Netanyahu should go ahead with annexation. But it shouldn\u2019t be controversial that paying New York Times<\/em> readers should be able to obtain news coverage of the issue that doesn\u2019t abandon journalistic neutrality and veer instead into outright cheerleading for the opponents of annexation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ira Stoll<\/strong> was managing editor of The Forward and North American editor of The Jerusalem Post. His media critique, a regular Algemeiner feature, can be found <\/em>here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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