{"id":529499,"date":"2021-05-20T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529499"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:20:47","slug":"new-yorker-magazine-union-posts-anti-semitic-tweet-in-solidarity-with-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-yorker-magazine-union-posts-anti-semitic-tweet-in-solidarity-with-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker Magazine Union Posts Anti-Semitic Tweet in Solidarity With Palestinians"},"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%2Fnew-yorker-magazine-union-posts-anti-semitic-tweet-in-solidarity-with-palestinians%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=529499&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 <em>New Yorker<\/em> Union posted a tweet Wednesday that used an anti-Semitic trope to express solidarity with the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Solidarity with Palestinians from the river to the sea who went on a 24-hour strike yesterday for dignity and liberation. #palestineonstrike,&#8221; the union wrote on its Twitter account Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1477905 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NYer-Union-Palestine.png\" alt width=\"636\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NYer-Union-Palestine.png 636w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NYer-Union-Palestine-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The union deleted the tweet three hours later and posted a tweet apologizing for engaging in the anti-Semitic trope. It added that it did not intend for its endorsement of the elimination of Israel to distract from its &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We stand in solidarity with the Palestinians who went on strike for dignity and rights. We\u2019ve removed our original post, which used a phrase with connotations that distracted from our intended message of solidarity,&#8221; the union wrote. &#8220;Solidarity is important\u2014and so is accountability. We apologize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.516483516484\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We stand in solidarity with the Palestinians who went on strike for dignity and rights. We\u2019ve removed our original post, which used a phrase with connotations that distracted from our intended message of solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New Yorker Union (@newyorkerunion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newyorkerunion\/status\/1395141188525690880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The phrase &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; invokes an anti-Semitic trope that advocates for erasing the existence of the state of Israel. The phrase calls for a Palestinian state that runs from the Jordan River, which borders Israel to the east, to the Mediterranean Sea, which borders Israel to the west. The phrase is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.org\/translatehate\/From-the-River-to-the-Sea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rallying cry<\/a> for Palestinian terror groups such as Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the media have invoked the trope before in discussing the conflict. CNN was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/.premium-cnn-contributor-fired-for-endorsing-palestine-from-the-river-to-the-sea-1.6701104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut ties<\/a> with Marc Lamont Hill, a professor and network contributor who gave a speech calling for &#8220;a free Palestine from the river to the sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New Yorker<\/em> Union&#8217;s tweet was posted as violence between Israelis and Palestinians appears to be approaching a ceasefire. Days of rocket attacks from both sides have prompted pro-Palestinian activists to repeatedly call on Israel to back down from its attacks on terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>The violence has prompted political clashes within the United States Congress. House Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/house-democrats-vote-against-hamas-sanctions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> overwhelmingly Tuesday to block the placing of sanctions on Hamas. House Republicans then <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/house-republicans-warn-biden-against-aid-cuts-to-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressed<\/a> the Biden administration to resist calls from congressional Democrats to cut financial support for Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker Union posted a tweet Wednesday that used an anti-Semitic trope to express solidarity with the Palestinian people. &#8220;Solidarity with Palestinians from the river to the sea who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312470,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NYer-Union-Palestine.png","fifu_image_alt":"New Yorker Magazine Union Posts Anti-Semitic Tweet in Solidarity With Palestinians","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NYer-Union-Palestine.png","fifu_image_alt":"New Yorker Magazine Union Posts Anti-Semitic Tweet in Solidarity With Palestinians","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529499","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=529499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}