{"id":1779951,"date":"2022-12-19T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779951"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:18:28","slug":"ny-times-publishes-crossword-resembling-swastika-on-first-day-of-hanukkah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-publishes-crossword-resembling-swastika-on-first-day-of-hanukkah\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Publishes Crossword Resembling Swastika on First Day of Hanukkah"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-times-publishes-crossword-resembling-swastika-on-first-day-of-hanukkah%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779951&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0came under fire Sunday for publishing a crossword puzzle resembling a Nazi swastika, with readers pointing out its appearance coincided with the first day of the festival of Hanukkah, which commemorates the liberation of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Donald Trump Jr. blasted the image as \u201cdisgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOnly the <em>New York Times<\/em> would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle,\u201d\u00a0Trump Jr. wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I\u2019ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people\u2026 exactly zero,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"a8d-pre twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle. Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I\u2019ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people\u2026 EXACTLY ZERO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eZHr0SQbT4\">pic.twitter.com\/eZHr0SQbT4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1604572235695415296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pro-Israel group S.A.F.E. CUNY wrote, \u201cToday\u2019s Crossword Puzzle from the <em>New York Times<\/em> for Chanukah. Pretty much sums up the @nytimes for the past few years in regard to Jews and Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NYC Council member Kalman Yeger wrote, \u201cA hidden Happy Chanukah message in today\u2019s @nytimes crossword?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others noted that while the swastika silhouette may have been unintentional, it came a day after the <em>Times<\/em> published a blistering editorial warning that Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s incoming government poses a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/12\/18\/nyt-new-netanyahu-led-government-significant-threat-to-israel-biden-must-rein-it-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significant threat<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the day of the crossword puzzle\u2019s release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/12\/19\/netanyahu-to-nyt-ill-continue-to-ignore-your-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netanyahu responded to the editorial, charging the <em>Times<\/em><\/a> with \u201cdemonizing Israel for decades\u201d and attacking its sordid history\u00a0hiding the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">In a Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netanyahu\/status\/1604595303230889991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">thread<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday, Netanyahu accused the newspaper of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2021\/04\/18\/exclusive-explosive-new-book-reveals-how-nyt-is-godfather-of-fake-news\/\">burying the Holocaust for years<\/a>\u00a0on its back pages and demonizing Israel for decades,\u201d and charged that it now \u201cshamefully calls for undermining Israel\u2019s elected incoming government.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhile the NYT continues to delegitimize the one true democracy in the Middle East and America\u2019s best ally in the region, I will continue to ignore its ill-founded advice and instead focus on building a stronger and more prosperous country, strengthening ties with America, expanding peace with our neighbors, and securing the future of the one and only Jewish state,\u201d Netanyahu wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The editorial, titled \u201cThe Ideal of Democracy in a Jewish State Is in Jeopardy,\u201d argued that while Netanyahu \u201cclearly has the support of the Israeli electorate,\u201d the concessions he is offering his \u201cultrareligious and ultranationalist\u201d partners jeopardize the country\u2019s democratic values.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22858288\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-534234118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22858288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-534234118-1022x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"992\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>File\/World War II pinback showing a frowning Hitler, complete with swastikas with the text, \u201cWanted For Murder\u201d. His father was Alois Schickelgruber, who changed his name to \u201cHitler\u201d before Adolph\u2019s birth. The name of his father was used to ridicule Hitler, who recognized the negative implications of having a comical name. (David J. &#038; Janice L. Frent\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The editorial goes on to note the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0\u201chas been a strong supporter of Israel,\u201d despite its long record of\u00a0anti-Israel bias, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/30\/exclusive-michael-oren-terror-against-israel-is-working-because-nyt-sugarcoats-it\/\">sugarcoating Palestinian terrorism<\/a>, to accusing\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/world\/middleeast\/100000007787471\/israel-airstrikes-gaza.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Israel of war crimes,<\/a>\u00a0to spreading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/04\/25\/israeli-pm-naftali-bennett-accuses-cnns-amanpour-of-lying-in-heated-interview\/\">outright lies<\/a>, such as a recent article about the plight of Gazan fishermen which the publication later\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2022\/12\/06\/new-york-times-walks-back-false-report-on-gaza-fishing-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">admitted was almost entirely fabricated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s editorial said Netanyahu\u2019s government poses \u201ca significant threat to the future of Israel \u2014 its direction, its security and even the idea of a Jewish homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>Continuing with a non-sequitur to prove its point, continued: \u201cFor one, the government\u2019s posture could make it militarily and politically impossible for a two-state solution to ever emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The editorial does not explain how a two-state solution will secure the security of the Jewish state, and many experts now agree that the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldisraelnews.com\/failure-dump-two-state-solution-not-in-eus-interests-says-european-think-tank\/\">notion should be scrapped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was not the first time\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> has published a crossword with an uncanny resemblance to a swastika.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>A Twitter account belonging to\u00a0<em>New York Times Games <\/em>in 2017 posted a response to similar outrage after another swastika crossword was published.\u00a0 \u201cYes, hi. It\u2019s NOT a swastika. Honest to God. No one sits down to make a crossword puzzle and says, \u2018Hey! You know what would look cool?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u00a0came under fire Sunday for publishing a crossword puzzle resembling a Nazi swastika, with readers pointing out its appearance coincided with the first day of the festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,10209,7660,10207,10245,3819,10246,10210,4126],"class_list":["post-1779951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-crossword","tag-day","tag-hanukkah","tag-publishes","tag-report","tag-resembling","tag-swastika","tag-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}