{"id":2213063,"date":"2024-04-04T14:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrity-chef-jose-andres-is-an-anti-israel-dupe\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:13:48","slug":"celebrity-chef-jose-andres-is-an-anti-israel-dupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrity-chef-jose-andres-is-an-anti-israel-dupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s Faces Criticism Over Stance on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fcelebrity-chef-jose-andres-is-an-anti-israel-dupe%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=2213063&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>The World Central Kitchen \u200cmission\u2064 in Gaza \u2064faced\u2064 a tragic loss as seven aid workers were\u200c killed in an Israeli attack. Chef Jos\u00e9 \u200bAndr\u00e9s, accused Israel of targeting the workers deliberately. Despite the accusations, Israel actively works\u2062 to protect civilians and denies such\u2062 claims. Andr\u00e9s&#8217; stance \u200con \u200cthe conflict has raised questions about his understanding of the situation and his demands for a ceasefire.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Seven aid workers at the World Central Kitchen mission in Gaza were tragically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/food\/2024\/04\/03\/world-central-kitchen-gaza-attack-aid-safety\/\">killed<\/a> this week in an Israeli attack while delivering trivial amounts of food, bolstering imaginary accusations of \u201cfamine\u201d and \u201cgenocide.\u201d The man who sent them into a war zone, celebrity chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/jose-andres-accuses-israel-of-deliberately-targeting-world-central-kitchen-members\">contends<\/a> the workers were \u201ctargeted deliberately\u201d and \u201csystematically killed\u201d by Israel. The war in Gaza, he says, is \u201cnot a war against terrorism anymore\u201d but a \u201cwar against humanity itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One might forgive Andr\u00e9s, who is likely racked with guilt, for spreading this slander. But there isn\u2019t, of course, a scintilla of evidence to back up the accusation. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1760390009\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0be1a23b68d4d1e0e28c0fad171c9d9e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0be1a23b68d4d1e0e28c0fad171c9d9e\"><\/div>\n<p>Israel has absolutely no logical, tactical, or military reason to target aid workers. For ethical reasons, Israel does not kill innocent civilians, nor would it want to hand Jew-haters and anti-Israel activists more fodder. Israel is a liberal democracy with civilian oversight of the military, where investigations into military misconduct regularly occur, and the guilty are punished. <\/p>\n<p>Whatever mistakes it makes, Israel fights to preserve life. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/israel-implemented-more-measures-prevent-civilian-casualties-any-other-nation-history-opinion-1865613#:~:text=Despite%20the%20unique%20challenges%20Israel,any%20other%20military%20in%20history.\">does more<\/a> to protect civilians than perhaps any military, despite its enemy intentionally putting civilians in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p>And the best way to protect Palestinians and Jews is to destroy Hamas. Recall, though, that Andr\u00e9s called for a \u201cceasefire\u201d only <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1775696278422233464\"><em>a week<\/em><\/a>  after the mass murder, rape, and kidnapping of more than 1,000 Israeli civilians \u2014 before Gaza had even invaded. \u201cCeasefire,\u201d obviously, is a euphemism for Israel\u2019s capitulation. That is what Andr\u00e9s demanded.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Andr\u00e9s has harsher words for the Jewish state than for Hamas, the entity wholly at fault for propagating this conflict and bringing misery to its people. What am I saying? In a New York Times column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/03\/opinion\/jose-andres-let-people-eat.html\">headlined<\/a> \u201cLet People Eat,\u201d Andr\u00e9s doesn\u2019t <em>even bother mentioning<\/em> Hamas by name.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-da3e8a304c5607149a5ff3edb2b5bdd9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-da3e8a304c5607149a5ff3edb2b5bdd9\"><\/div>\n<p>The day Andr\u00e9s published his self-aggrandizing essay, 217 trucks of humanitarian aid were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Israel\/status\/1775604826161754563\">delivered<\/a> to Gaza with 179 food packages carrying more than 150,000 meals. I wonder if any of the women who have been kidnapped and sexually tortured by Hamas will get one? <\/p>\n<p>As with other celebrities, it\u2019s highly probable Andr\u00e9s was just a naive ignoramus on the issue, rather than the kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/ishaan-tharoor\/\">mendacious<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarenAttiah\/status\/1775588281112989720\">Jew-baiting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shadihamid?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Hamas apologist<\/a> who writes for the Washington Post or inhabits the <a href=\"https:\/\/mosaicmagazine.com\/picks\/politics-current-affairs\/2024\/03\/candace-owens-and-the-specter-of-rightwing-anti-semitism\/\">far right<\/a> of social media. But once you accuse those who defend themselves of engaging in a \u201cwar against humanity\u201d while giving a truly barbaric terror army a pass, you become a fellow traveler.<\/p>\n<p>Many Democrats have taken to cynically spreading this blood libel to help Joe Biden mollify the (un-mollifiable) pro-Hamas faction within the Democrat Party. David Axelrod, who helped Barack Obama turn the mainstream left towards Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidaxelrod\/status\/1775541263741473100\">says<\/a> Israel had no right to \u201cindiscriminately kill innocents or valiant men and women who are working to save them from starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Does Axelrod believe that Obama haphazardly killed innocents when the United States <em>repeatedly<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/death-toll-accidental-u-s-airstrike-kunduz-hospital-even-higher-n478976\">bombed<\/a> a Kunduz hospital, leading to the death of 42 civilians including aid workers, in 2015? Or is it only the Jewish state that exhibits this kind of wanton bloodlust? He does not say.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-880ff134a8fd8c67ae2eced55b514289 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-880ff134a8fd8c67ae2eced55b514289\"><\/div>\n<p>Biden, too, who contends to be \u201coutraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers,\u201d went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/04\/biden-jose-andres-world-central-kitchen-killed-gaza-1235874330\/\">imply<\/a> that Israel did nothing to protect civilians. Why was Biden not \u201coutraged and heartbroken\u201d when the French <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSKBN2BM1US\/#:~:text=BAMAKO%20(Reuters)%20%2DA%20French,only%20Islamist%20militants%20were%20hit.\">accidentally<\/a> killed 19 civilians at a Mali wedding in 2021? We don\u2019t know. Probably because there aren\u2019t many Malian voters in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Or why was the president not \u201coutraged and heartbroken\u201d when his administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/u-s-drone-strike-targeting-isis-afghanistan-kills-10-civilians-n1278062\">killed<\/a> 10 civilians, seven of them children, in a face-saving political-theater droning in response to his botched Afghan withdrawal? We do not know, because the president has never said. At the time, Gen. Mark Milley not only referred to the strike as \u201cvalid\u201d and \u201crighteous\u201d but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/17\/us\/politics\/pentagon-drone-strike-afghanistan.html\">lied<\/a> about a \u201csecondary explosion\u201d and a plethora of other evidence justifying the bombing. <\/p>\n<p>Neither the United States nor Israel nor France targets civilians, although that is the goal of Islamists in Afghanistan, Gaza, and Mali. Of course, there has never been a war where innocents do not tragically suffer. But Israel is held to a higher standard than any other country, even by its allies. <\/p>\n<p>Israel does not target aid workers, engage in genocide, or cause famine. It fights Hamas, Iran, and all the multitude of enemies who refuse to live in peace.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5fe07fb487df69b670e49540aad28d02 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5fe07fb487df69b670e49540aad28d02\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in Gaza, seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen mission tragically lost their lives in an Israeli attack. The incident has sparked accusations of &#8220;famine&#8221; and &#8220;genocide.&#8221; Celebrity chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, who sent them to the area, claims the workers were deliberately and systematically targeted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2213064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-04-at-1.07.03%E2%80%AFPM-1024x636.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-04-at-1.07.03%E2%80%AFPM-1024x636.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213063","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}