{"id":530180,"date":"2021-05-20T15:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=530180"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:36:20","slug":"new-yorker-union-uses-phrase-that-champions-destruction-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-yorker-union-uses-phrase-that-champions-destruction-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker Union Uses Phrase That Champions Destruction Of Israel"},"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\">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%2Fnew-yorker-union-uses-phrase-that-champions-destruction-of-israel%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=530180&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1277398046.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, The New Yorker Union, representing employees of the leftist magazine The New Yorker, quoted a phrase <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishjournal.com\/commentary\/blogs\/242943\/palestine-river-sea-always-call-annihilation-not-liberation\/\">commonly used<\/a> by the enemies of Israel calling for the destruction of the state and the possible genocide of Jews: \u201cFrom the river to the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New Yorker Union tweeted, \u201cSolidarity with Palestinians from the river to the sea who went on a 24-hour strike today for dignity and liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.34375\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The New Yorker Union (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newyorkerunion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@newyorkerunion<\/a>) expresses \u201csolidarity\u201d with Palestinians by quoting a phrase\u2014\u201cfrom the river to the sea\u201d\u2014commonly understood as a war cry for Israel\u2019s destruction. [They later deleted it with a mea culpa.] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u6L5MmgaA0\">pic.twitter.com\/u6L5MmgaA0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnpaulpagano\/status\/1395157514686279682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The New Yorker Union later issued an apology, writing, \u201cWe 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. Solidarity is important\u2014and so is accountability. We apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Solidarity is important\u2014and so is accountability. We apologize.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New Yorker Union (@newyorkerunion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newyorkerunion\/status\/1395141873879093249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Both the initial tweet and the display of \u201caccountability\u201d were met with additional blowback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New Yorker Union deleted its call for war and genocide and replaced it with a statement of solidarity with those pursuing war and genocide. Important distinction,\u201d Noah Pollack, the executive director of the Alliance Initiative wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.6422413793103\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The New Yorker Union deleted its call for war and genocide and replaced it with a statement of solidarity with those pursuing war and genocide. Important distinction. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fnPYSVCdba\">https:\/\/t.co\/fnPYSVCdba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoahPollak\/status\/1395196905626341377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>National Review\u2019s David Harsanyi: \u201cOh, the slogan about pushing the Jews into the sea distracted from your solidarity message?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.8527607361963\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh, the slogan about pushing the Jews into the sea distracted from your solidarity message? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q4yglDqsSy\">https:\/\/t.co\/q4yglDqsSy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/status\/1395164072849575938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The New Yorker has evidenced anti-Israel bias before. In 2018 it ran a headline that read \u201cIsrael Kills Dozens of Unarmed Protesters in Gaza as Jared Kushner Speaks of Peace, in Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camera.org\/article\/the-new-yorker-refuses-to-correct-grossly-misleading-headline\/\">CAMERA<\/a>&nbsp; pointed out, \u201cAs the article itself notes, however, the IDF stated that \u2018the rioters are hurling firebombs and explosive devices at the security fence and at IDF troops and are burning tires, throwing rocks and launching flaming objects with the intention of igniting fires in Israeli territory and harming IDF troops.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile many other of the \u2018protestors\u2019 may have been unarmed, it\u2019s unclear how the&nbsp;<em>New Yorker<\/em>&nbsp;knows whether those killed were armed or unarmed,\u201d CAMERA continued. \u201cThe IDF&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/i-was-at-the-gaza-border-we-did-all-we-could-to-avoid-killing\/\">follows<\/a> rules of engagement and does not fire indiscriminately. It seems far more likely, then, that of the tens of thousands of protestors\/rioters\/those trying to breach the fence, most of the approximately 60 who were killed were the ones who were armed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CAMERA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camera.org\/article\/the-new-yorker-repeats-btselems-claim-that-israel-is-judaizing-the-land-of-israel\/\">noted in February<\/a> that The New Yorker had written a piece about the anti-Israel organization B\u2019Tselem.&nbsp;CAMERA wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22.346855983773\">\n<p><em>Masha Gessen\u2019s piece in the&nbsp;New Yorker&nbsp;is essentially an uncritical summary of B\u2019Tselem\u2019s report, which is titled, \u201cA regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid.\u201d \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mashagessen\/status\/1275529666246426625\">Gessen<\/a>&nbsp;uncritically quotes B\u2019Tselem Executive Director Hagai El-Ad saying, on a zoom call, \u201cthe international community has \u2026 silently communicated that permanent subjugation of Palestinians was O.K. as long as it wasn\u2019t spelled out in law \u2026. The discourse has been untethered from reality, and this undermines the possibility of change.\u201d But it is El-Ad and Gessen who are untethered from reality \u2013 Israel has offered Palestinians their independence in&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.camera.org\/article\/palestinians-rejected-statehood-three-times-claim-frustration-with-israel\/\">2000, 2001<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetower.org\/exclusive-olmert-i-am-still-waiting-for-abbas-to-call-will-abbas-ever-say-yes\/\">and 2008<\/a>. It is the Palestinians that rejected those opportunities, and who walked away from negotiations again in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium.MAGAZINE-exclusive-obamas-plans-for-mideast-peace-revealed-1.5481322\">2014<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gessen also ignores the intifadas and numerous terror attacks that necessitate some of the security measures about which Gessen and B\u2019Tselem complain.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday afternoon, The New Yorker Union, representing employees of the leftist magazine The New Yorker, quoted a phrase commonly used by the enemies of Israel calling for the destruction &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312503,"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\/GettyImages-1277398046.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"New Yorker Union Uses Phrase That Champions Destruction Of Israel","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530180","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\/GettyImages-1277398046.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"New Yorker Union Uses Phrase That Champions Destruction Of Israel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530180","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=530180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}