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New York Times: Insulting Jews is Fine, Insulting Muslims Isn’t
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On January 9, 2015 @ 11:41 am In The Point | 38 Comments
The New York Times. All the anti-Semitism that’s fit to print, but mocking Mohammed is off limits.
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet decided that his paper would not publish Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad primarily because he did not want to insult the paper’s Muslim readers.
“Ultimately, he decided against it, he said, because he had to consider foremost the sensibilities of Times readers, especially its Muslim readers,” Times public editor Margaret Sullivan reported Thursday. “To many of them, he said, depictions of the prophet Muhammad are sacrilegious; those that are meant to mock even more so. ‘We have a standard that is long held and that serves us well: that there is a line between gratuitous insult and satire. Most of these are gratuitous insult.’”
Yet in August 2010, the Times published this item about a Holocaust-denying Iranian cartoonist with an image of a cartoon that featured, in the Times’ words, “anti-Jewish caricatures.” Four years earlier, in 2006, the Times published this article about an Iranian exhibition of “anti-Jewish art,” which featured a photograph of three anti-Semitic cartoons, one of which included a swastika. (Our thanks to Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal for both of these.)
In an email to POLITICO, Baquet noted that he wasn’t executive editor when the two pieces were published, and added, “I obviously don’t feel an obligation to follow anyone else’s edict.”
Except of course that the New York Times under Baquet continues to be equally anti-semitic. Recently the New York Times ran an okayish piece on how Orthodox Jews in Lakewood cope with the obligation to give charity and professional beggars.
The comments on the piece were largely anti-Semitic rants and many of them had Times Select gold stamps on them.
The New York Times sources material from Failed Messiah, an anti-Semitic hate site dedicated to collecting negative stories about Jews and even ran a profile of the bigot behind it. It cited other anti-Semitic material as well. It ran a piece from Max Blumenthal, a guy who calls for the ethnic cleansing of Jews in Israel.
So it’s safe to say that the New York Times has no problem offending Jews. It has no problem offending Christians. It does have a problem offending Muslims.
And that is its real problem.
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