{"id":540588,"date":"2021-05-25T19:35:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T23:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540588"},"modified":"2021-05-25T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T23:35:50","slug":"arguing-anti-semitic-attacks-on-jews-are-a-gift-to-the-right-nyt-columnist-proves-that-fighting-conservatives-comes-before-all-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arguing-anti-semitic-attacks-on-jews-are-a-gift-to-the-right-nyt-columnist-proves-that-fighting-conservatives-comes-before-all-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguing Anti-Semitic Attacks On Jews \u2018Are A Gift To The Right,\u2019 NYT Columnist Proves That Fighting Conservatives Comes Before All Else"},"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\">42<\/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%2Farguing-anti-semitic-attacks-on-jews-are-a-gift-to-the-right-nyt-columnist-proves-that-fighting-conservatives-comes-before-all-else%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=540588&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-1319139139-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Michelle Goldberg, an opinion columnist for The New York Times who is in a constant gun battle with The Washington Post\u2019s Jennifer Rubin for most ridiculous columnist in print media, provided readers with the latest \u2014 and, arguably, most absurd \u2014 version of \u201cconservatives pounce\u201d to date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Goldberg, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/24\/opinion\/israel-palestine-zionism.html\">piece<\/a> titled, \u201cAttacks on Jews Over Israel Are a Gift to the Right,\u201d argued that the waves of leftist anti-Semitism in recent days are bad \u2026 in part because they offer an opportunity for the Right. The title was later changed after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/after-furious-backlash-nyt-changes-headline-of-column-attacks-on-jews-over-israel-are-a-gift-to-the-right\">angry backlash<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Goldberg began her piece by assuming the premise that recent \u201cflagrant public assaults on Jews\u201d \u2014 which she claims are \u201cmore reminiscent of the sort of anti-Semitic aggression common in Europe\u201d \u2014 are motivated not by a hatred of Jews, but by anti-Zionism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This presumption is the entire foundation of Goldberg\u2019s cynical and fundamentally dishonest attempt to use violence against Jews by leftists and Muslims as a weapon to wield against conservatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Describing a variety of obviously anti-Semitic attacks as \u201capparent hate crimes,\u201d Goldberg immediately referenced \u201cfour years of spiking anti-Semitism that started around the time Republicans nominated Donald Trump in 2016,\u201d again tying conservatism to the rise in anti-Semitism as if black anti-Semitism, Muslim anti-Semitism, and leftist anti-Semitism simply don\u2019t exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Goldberg then reached the crux of her argument: that \u201cthis violence also threatens to undermine progress that\u2019s been made in getting American politicians to take Palestinian rights more seriously,\u201d and that \u201cRight-wing Zionists and anti-Semitic anti-Zionists have something fundamental in common: Both conflate the Jewish people with the Israeli state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, the Israeli state is inextricably \u201cconflated\u201d with the Jewish people because Israel is the Jewish state. That doesn\u2019t mean, of course, that Jewish people are obligated to support Israel or its government, but to attempt to erase the inherent link between Israel and Judaism is to both undermine the very nature of self-determination for Jews and the historical and religious foundation of Israel itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\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,\u201d wrote Goldberg. However, the Times columnist made one \u2014 perhaps intentional \u2014 mistake: there was already more than enough space in the Democratic Party \u2014 and the American Left more broadly \u2014 to \u201cdenounce\u201d Israel\u2019s so-called \u201coccupation.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Goldberg presented leftist Jews\u2019 embrace of anti-Zionism and the Democratic Party\u2019s criticism of Israel as a chicken-and-the-egg scenario, as if one were impossible without the other. Instead, the reality is that the Left, for a variety of reasons, has increasingly aligned with anti-Semites as Jews fall down the hierarchy of intersectionality, and many secular Jews are happy to ignore this fact as long as their membership to the American Left remains intact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis wave of anti-Semitic violence will increase the difficulty of that work,\u201d argued Goldberg. \u201cThe 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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Again, Goldberg is \u2014 whether through ignorance or cynicism \u2014 ignoring the central point: people terrorize Jews not out of rage at Israel, but out of rage at Jews. People hate Israel because they hate Jews. It is the double standard applied to Israel \u2014 the world\u2019s sole Jewish state \u2014 which makes criticism anti-Semitic, not the criticism alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Perhaps most appallingly, Goldberg then defended Ilhan Omar, an outspoken anti-Semite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNot surprisingly, there\u2019s been a rush to blame left-wing Democrats like Ilhan Omar, who <\/span><span>described<\/span><span> Israeli airstrikes killing civilians in Gaza as \u2018terrorism,\u2019 for inciting anti-Jewish hostility,\u201d Goldberg stated, then citing&nbsp;<\/span><span>a tweet from Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor at Newsweek.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.598784194529\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you blamed violent attacks against Asian Americans on Trump calling covid the &#8220;Chinese virus&#8221; but you can&#8217;t see how congresswomen accusing Israel of terrorism might result in Jews being attacked by pro Palestinian mobs, you either can&#8217;t think or you have a problem with Jews.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bungarsargon\/status\/1395406180135153665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cBut by this logic, those of us concerned about hate crimes against Asian-Americans shouldn\u2019t denounce China\u2019s genocide of the Uighurs,\u201d spewed Goldberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Again, the issue is not the existence of criticism, but the validity of criticism. Goldberg presumably knows this, and yet spins this absurd propaganda to promote the Left\u2019s entire narrative that China\u2019s \u201cgenocide of the Uighurs\u201d is synonymous with Israel\u2019s targeted defense against a terrorist group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Goldberg then assumed the accuracy of the Human Rights Watch\u2019s declaration that Israel was an apartheid state, noting that \u201cIt\u2019s awful irony, but anti-Semitic violence helps shore up this system by strengthening the taboo against calling it what it is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI get the sense that some people on the left find talking about violence by Palestinian sympathizers embarrassing; it certainly doesn\u2019t receive the same sort of attention as white nationalist attacks,\u201d Goldberg continued, before concluding that&nbsp;<\/span><span>\u201cIt would be a disaster if [Jews hiding their faith out of fear in Europe] were to happen here, and not just for Jews.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, Goldberg is actively enabling the system under which religious Jews are finding it necessary to hide their faith. She is effectively explaining away \u2014 perhaps even excusing \u2014 the violence against Jews by validating the \u201crage\u201d against Israel, and implying the existence of a political justification for such bigotry to cease, beyond the fact that anti-Semitism is wrong in all forms.<\/p>\n<p><span>Like so many other Leftist Jews, Goldberg\u2019s reasoning is clear. When it comes to fighting anti-Semitism or fighting conservatism, anti-Semitism will always take a back seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>@ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Goldberg, an opinion columnist for The New York Times who is in a constant gun battle with The Washington Post\u2019s Jennifer Rubin for most ridiculous columnist in print media, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313031,"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-1319139139-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Arguing Anti-Semitic Attacks On Jews \u2018Are A Gift To The Right,\u2019 NYT Columnist Proves That Fighting Conservatives Comes Before All Else","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540588","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-1319139139-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Arguing Anti-Semitic Attacks On Jews \u2018Are A Gift To The Right,\u2019 NYT Columnist Proves That Fighting Conservatives Comes Before All Else","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540588","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=540588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}