{"id":84680,"date":"2021-03-22T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=84680"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:03:22","slug":"30-05-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=84680","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Who Needs the Daily Stormer When You\u2019ve Got the New York Times?\u2019: An Excellent Question"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018Who Needs the Daily Stormer When You\u2019ve Got the New York Times?\u2019: An Excellent Question<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

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

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The headquarters of The New York Times. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A Jewish organization worked tirelessly with non-Jewish allies to help win clemency for indigent prisoners, including many non-Jews, who had been sentenced to excessive sentences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather than praising it, the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0targeted it on the Sunday front page with what the paper itself described as \u201can investigation.\u201d The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0inaccurately smeared the work as an effort for \u201cwealthy or well-connected people,\u201d the product of what the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0called a \u201cnetwork\u201d of \u201cinfluential\u201d \u201cOrthodox Jewish leaders\u201d operating \u201cbehind-the-scenes.\u201d As if anyone could miss the point, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0illustrated the article with a Protocols-of-Elders-of-Zion diagram in light blue and mustard yellow showing how all these rabbis have their tentacles in President Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

A\u00a0thread of tweets<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0editor Batya Ungar-Sargon did a fine job of assessing the situation, likening the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0investigation to neo-Nazi propaganda. \u201cWho needs the Daily Stormer when you\u2019ve got the New York Times? An Orthodox Jew helps free more than 4,000 Black men from prison. NYT: A LOOSE ALLIANCE OF ORTHODOX JEWS USED THEIR MONEY TO UNDERMINE JUSTICE AND PUPPET MASTER THE PRESIDENT. Anyone else who had done as much to mitigate mass incarceration would be lauded as a hero. But when Orthodox Jews do it, the whole enterprise is tainted by their \u2018lobbying,\u2019 their \u2018lawyers,\u2019 their \u2018loose network;\u2019 and of course, the crime of being Orthodox Jews to begin with! You can\u2019t bring yourself to write about the First Step Act? Fine. You can\u2019t bring yourself to admit Kushner did something good? Fine. But you don\u2019t get to use your institutional allergy to reporting the facts to spread disgusting anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, the same\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0reporter responsible for Sunday\u2019s embarrassment \u2014 Kenneth P. Vogel \u2014 was as recently as 2018 assailing another \u201cloose network\u201d that criticized George Soros. \u201cEmploying barely coded anti-Semitism, they have built a warped portrayal of him as the mastermind of a \u2018globalist\u2019 movement,\u201d Vogel wrote for the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0of efforts to smear Soros, which he said included notions of a \u201cshadowy Jewish cabal\u201d and a \u201ccommon anti-Semitic trope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vogel has gone from reporting on barely coded antisemitism and antisemitic tropes to, as Ungar-Sargon accurately described it, himself perpetuating it.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0article itself concedes, the Orthodox Jewish groups \u201cwere not the only ones who had success with Mr. Trump.\u201d Yet the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0doesn\u2019t launch an investigation of the other groups, diagram them, or single them out by labeling them with their religion. It\u2019s a double standard \u2014 bias on display.<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes a \u201cnetwork,\u201d by the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0definition? The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0reports, \u201cThe leaders of Aleph, Tzedek and their allies played a role in helping build support for a sweeping rewrite of federal sentencing laws in 2018.\u201d By this definition, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0itself is part of this network and should be added to its Protocols-of-Elders-of-Zion-style diagram. The paper\u00a0editorialized<\/a>\u00a0in 2018: \u201cliberal backers of the First Step Act, like Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat who is sponsoring the bill, argue that it\u2019s better than nothing, especially in the current political environment. \u2018We have a Republican president. Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Senate,\u2019 Mr. Jeffries wrote in letter to his colleagues on Friday. \u2018Those are the facts.\u2019 He\u2019s right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0editorialized<\/a>\u00a0again in 2019 that 91% of those who had benefited from the First Step Act\u2019s sentence reductions are black, concluding, \u201cThe president can be proud of the passage of the First Step Act.\u201d Were the paper\u2019s editorialists part of the \u201cloose network\u201d? Why not launch a big front-page Sunday \u201cinvestigation\u201d of them? The reason is that they are not Orthodox Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t bold enough to explicitly argue that the people who won clemency under Trump belong in prison at taxpayer expense, separated from their families. It marshals no evidence that these people pose any threat to society. Instead of that kind of substantive argument, which would be weak even if the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0had attempted it, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0makes a process-based argument to assert the existence of a network. The evidence of the network is that two of the organizations used some of the same professional service providers. That\u2019s a stretch. The New York Times Company has used McKinsey as a consultant. So did Purdue Pharma. Does that mean the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0is in a \u201cnetwork\u201d responsible for opiate addiction? By adding the word \u201cloose\u201d to the word \u201cnetwork,\u201d the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0has an expansive enough phrase that it can use it readily to tar anything within range with investigative innuendo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of investigating the prosecutorial abuses such as the trial penalty and \u201covercharging\u201d and nonsensical mechanistic formulas that lead to long-term sentences for nonviolent first-time offenders, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0trains its heavyweight investigative power on the entirely non-scandalous fact that some Orthodox Jews are involved, and effectively so, in the cause of criminal justice reform. What\u2019s the scandal? The real scandal is that any editor at the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0is foolish and bigoted enough to have green-lighted this investigative project and signed off on putting it in the paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

The context is that the editorial staff at the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0is on hair-trigger alert against racial bigotry, to the point where the editorial page editor was ousted after staff tweeted that an article made them unsafe, and a star reporter was recently forced out for repeating a slur word in an educational setting. As a Jew,\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0journalism like this \u2014 falsely depicting Jews as secretly manipulating government actions on behalf of wealthy interests \u2014 makes me unsafe. Which\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0editor will be canceled as a consequence? If the answer is not a single one, it is fair to conclude that Orthodox Jews are one of the few groups against which, at the\u00a0Times<\/em>, bigotry is acceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ira Stoll<\/strong> was managing editor of\u00a0The Forward\u00a0and North American editor of\u00a0The Jerusalem Post. His media critique, a regular\u00a0Algemeiner\u00a0feature, can be found\u00a0<\/em>here<\/a>. A company he operates has consulted for the Aleph Institute and Tzedek Association.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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