I’ve spent time around the world with influential people. One thing is clear and very important: They get their news from the New York Times. Journalists, around the world, also get their news from the N.Y. Times.
The two things in the headline to this blog that need explaining: ‘Jews’ and ‘Responsible.’
Jews. The New York Times has been on its last legs, financially, for nearly a decade. Even the most recent online readership recovery due to puzzles and games has not relieved the financial finale. What would destroy the New York Times, in a week, would be if most New York Jews canceled their subscriptions.
Responsible. The greatest surprise to me and nearly everyone else was the October 8th discovery that much of the world and nearly all of American academia hates Israel.
The U.N. has always reflected this global hatred of Israel with little consequence (except for the recent UNRWA troops in Hamas.) The United States has always stopped the U.N. calumny. Except for Obama’s last minute expression of vitriol.
The New York Times has been consistently an Israel hater and a Jew hater. The Jew hatred has been evident since the 1930’s when Arthur O. Sulzberger was the publisher and tried to pass for an Episcopalian. Arthur O. denied the Holocaust and was strongly anti-Israel before and after its founding. This has continued with A.O. Sulzberger, Jr. It can’t be missed by accident. Every Israel based reporter has written false and defamatory articles for the Times. Every article about American Jewry, for decades, has been malicious, such as the recent coverage of Haredi education.
New York Jews just march on as if it didn’t matter.
But it does. The New York Times has been the fertile soil for global Israel hatred. New York Jews could have stopped it.