{"id":539986,"date":"2021-05-25T14:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=539986"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:05:44","slug":"nyts-op-ed-these-attacks-on-jews-are-especially-bad-because-it-makes-republicans-look-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyts-op-ed-these-attacks-on-jews-are-especially-bad-because-it-makes-republicans-look-right\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT\u2019s Op-Ed: These Attacks On Jews Are Especially Bad Because It Makes Republicans Look Right"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fnyts-op-ed-these-attacks-on-jews-are-especially-bad-because-it-makes-republicans-look-right%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=539986&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-1230974699-scaled-e1621961731704.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The New York Times revised a headline on an opinion piece published Monday that appeared to claim that, while the recent spike in antisemitic attacks are bad, they\u2019re even worse because they help Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Goldberg initially published the piece with the title \u201cAttacks on Jews Over Israel Are A Gift to the Right.\u201d Her piece began circulating on Twitter afterwards, receiving criticism from some insinuating that her article deflected from the situation at hand: Jewish people being beaten.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.4362139917695\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I know this may be a controversial take, but perhaps the main problem with domestic street violence against American Jews is domestic street violence against American Jews <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ZiOGSAoZD\">pic.twitter.com\/9ZiOGSAoZD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iowahawkblog\/status\/1397185682242785286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ben Shapiro said the article was one of Goldberg\u2019s worst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichelle Goldberg\u2019s column is routinely a steaming pile of horseshit. This one, however, is the Mt. Everest of steaming piles of horseshit.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.0189573459716\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michelle Goldberg\u2019s column is routinely a steaming pile of horseshit. This one, however, is the Mt. Everest of steaming piles of horseshit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XGd2kLvsup\">pic.twitter.com\/XGd2kLvsup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1397143895990022153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Democratic New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind said \u201cMichelle Goldberg should cancel herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.3333333333333\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michelle Goldberg should cancel herself. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rElPUZL4Vp\">https:\/\/t.co\/rElPUZL4Vp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HikindDov\/status\/1397054494551285761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman called the piece \u201cidiotic.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.688760806916\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In this idiotic piece, Michelle Goldberg pines for a world in which Israel can be called an apartheid state without Jews being assaulted. Sorry, no such \u201cutopia\u201d exists because 1) the accusation is a vile lie, and 2) antisemites don\u2019t discriminate in their hatred. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nxq7qLyBq9\">https:\/\/t.co\/nxq7qLyBq9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidM_Friedman\/status\/1397182382709649415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New York Magazine reporter Jonathan Chait defended Goldberg, arguing that the actual piece \u201cdoes not minimize the moral harm of anti-Semitic violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.7745454545455\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Right-wingers are making truly stupid dunks on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michelleinbklyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@michelleinbklyn<\/a> by screenshotting her headline, hoping you won\u2019t read the piece, which clearly does not minimize the moral harm of anti-semitic violence <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eitAZUHcBA\">https:\/\/t.co\/eitAZUHcBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanchait\/status\/1397199492575805455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/24\/opinion\/israel-palestine-zionism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a>, which has since been changed to \u201cThe Crisis of Anti-Semitic Violence,\u201d Goldberg does note that \u201cfirst and foremost\u201d these hate crimes are a \u201ccatastrophe for Jewish people in the United States.\u201d But Goldberg then appears to argue the real tragedy of these antisemitic attacks is that anti-Zionist Jews\u2019 arguments are weakened and that Palestinians\u2019 rights are taken less seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this violence threatens to undermine progress that\u2019s been made in getting American politicians to take Palestinian rights more seriously,\u201d Goldberg writes. \u201cRight-wing Zionists and anti-Semitic anti-Zionists have something fundamental in common: Both conflate the Jewish people with the Israeli state.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/24\/nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer-anti-semitic-hate-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Schumer, Pelosi Slow To Condemn Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany progressives, particularly progressive Jews, have worked hard to break this automatic identification and to open up space in the Democratic Party to denounce Israel\u2019s entrenched occupation and human rights abuses. This wave of anti-Semitic violence will increase the difficulty of that work. The Zionist right claims that to assail Israel is to assail all Jews. Those who terrorize Jews out of rage at Israel seem to make their point for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg also claims the violence is \u201cmotivated by anti-Zionism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zionism is a movement that supports a Jewish state. While in some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/21\/anti-semitic-hate-crime-jewish-man-beat-up-times-square\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent attacks<\/a> the perpetrators have called <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/20\/los-angeles-jewish-anti-semitic-attack-pro-palestine-mob-twitter-sushi-fumi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jews<\/a> \u201czionists,\u201d it is important to note that not all Jewish people are Zionists. Goldberg\u2019s critics pointed out that attributing the recent spike in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/23\/jewish-boys-assaulted-brooklyn-pro-palestinian-mob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/23\/jewish-boys-assaulted-brooklyn-pro-palestinian-mob\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622048623888000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFJECpO83cX59Zkb8lNkRIEIp9cAQ\">hate crimes<\/a> to the anti-Zionist movement arguably obscures the central issue, which is that these attacks appear to be motivated by antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller has reached out to the NYT but had not received a response at the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times revised a headline on an opinion piece published Monday that appeared to claim that, while the recent spike in antisemitic attacks are bad, they\u2019re even worse &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312970,"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-1230974699-scaled-e1621961731704.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"NYT\u2019s Op-Ed: These Attacks On Jews Are Especially Bad Because It Makes Republicans Look Right","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539986","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-1230974699-scaled-e1621961731704.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"NYT\u2019s Op-Ed: These Attacks On Jews Are Especially Bad Because It Makes Republicans Look Right","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539986","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=539986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}