Several hundred people gathered on one day’s notice in Midtown Manhattan at The New York Times office building to send the publication a strong message: Jews will not tolerate the mainstreaming and globalization of antisemitic hatred in any form be it overt or disguised as cartoon social commentary.
The Times on Monday published a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu descending a mountain with a selfie-stick in one hand and a stone tablet with a Star of David in the other hand — just after saying it was “deeply sorry” for publishing a cartoon of Netanyahu as a dachshund (dog) wearing a Star of David collar and leading a blind and skullcap-wearing U.S. President Donald Trump.
Speakers included Dov Hikind, Professor Alan Dershowitz and radio talk show host Sid Rosenberg. Dershowitz suggested there was something deeply wrong with the “newspaper of record” which spends so much of its space every day attacking Israel, the Jewish State.
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Hikind sent the following statement to YWN:
“Any time Israel defends itself, whether it’s on the borders of Gaza against Hamas, the borders of Lebanon against Hezbollah or along the Syrian border against Iran, the number one critic of the people of Israel defending themselves is, and has for the longest time been, The New York Times. Shame on them!
Between 1939 and 1945 there were over 30,000+ articles on the Times’ front pages, and more than 18,000 of those were about World War II. But only 26 (26 for G-d’s Sake!) were about the Holocaust! 26 were about our people being gassed in Auschwitz and murdered all over Europe! They couldn’t find any more space.
The Nazis were the radical Right and they were to blame then. What does the liberal far-Left New York Times have as an excuse in 2019? They have now joined Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in mainstreaming antisemitism in the ridiculous guise of anti-Zionism. The Times’ history of distorting the news about the Jewish people the world over continues in the present and seems to be going strong and unabated.
Enough is enough! Enough Jewish blood spilled at synagogues in Poway & Pittsburgh. Enough blatant and virulent anti-Semitism from the @nytimes! Enough naked Anti-Semitism from @IlhanMN! Enough complicit silence by leaders of the Democratic Party! Enough!! pic.twitter.com/t9JyaiBQKz
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) April 30, 2019
Let us not be surprised, then, when the next round of atrocities against Jews are overlooked and downplayed by the Times and others on the Left, while the Right continues to stamp out antisemites from amongst its ranks.
Shame, Shame, nothing but Shame on The New York Times and their kind!”
Alan Dershowitz addresses The NY Times protest. pic.twitter.com/1NFhivB0cU
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) April 29, 2019
Protest outside The NY Times offices. pic.twitter.com/QZgABVRCsM
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) April 29, 2019
Huge crowd in front of the @nytimes building in NYC sending a clear message: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! pic.twitter.com/xEuTs8tMgs
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) April 29, 2019
SILENCE IS DEADLY: Join me in loudly protesting against the @nytimes for publishing a vile antisemitic cartoon only days before a terror attack against Jews!
NYC – Today – 5:30pm
@ The NY Times building on 8th Ave and 41 St. pic.twitter.com/xBd4Yp0RdL— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) April 29, 2019
.@sidrosenberg spoke up for the Jewish people yesterday and we thank him. He joined @AlanDersh @HikindDov , Jeff Wiesenthal in front of #NYTimes . Why does antisemitism still exist? To see the video in full go to Our @bernieandsid Facebook page or Sid’s! pic.twitter.com/l3HWaY3E4Q
— Sid & Friends In The Morning (@sidandfriends77) April 30, 2019
With the great attorney @AlanDersh at the protest outside the @nytimes building here in midtown. Never again!!! @bernieandsid @bernardmcguirk3 @77WABCradio #Sidizens pic.twitter.com/91qbSgAxXB
— Sid Rosenberg (@sidrosenberg) April 29, 2019
The @nytimes owes its readers more than an apology. We are to entitled to an investigation and explanation: how did the anti Semitic cartoon get published? Who approved it? What steps are being taken to prevent a recurrence? https://t.co/BXfA1iLt30
— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) April 28, 2019
https://www.facebook.com/chany.berkowitz/videos/10216283222224587/
https://www.facebook.com/sidrosenberg/videos/10157414859632122/
The New York Times has apologized for the terrible Anti-Semitic Cartoon, but they haven’t apologized to me for this or all of the Fake and Corrupt news they print on a daily basis. They have reached the lowest level of “journalism,” and certainly a low point in @nytimes history!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2019
We stand with Israel and we condemn antisemitism in ALL its forms, including @nytimes political cartoons. https://t.co/tPbGqDBwza
— Vice President Mike Pence Archived (@VP45) April 28, 2019
In case you are wondering what the @nytimes (antisemitic) cartoon (which replaced another antisemitic cartoon) is supposed to mean.
Here is the original cartoon from the same cartoonist before it was ’sanitised’ for the @nytimes.
Bibi is supposed to be Moses.
HT. @JerylBier pic.twitter.com/sPh6vvORVV
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) April 29, 2019
Even if unintentional, the left has normalized anti-semitism under the guise of criticizing US-Israel foreign policy. It is radicalizing people.
NYT was latest example along with their weak-at-best apology. pic.twitter.com/dPctp2OrQ8
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) April 27, 2019
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9 Responses
sid rosenberg? That druggie????? he is your idol???
C’mon, Neteurei Karta could’ve made a larger protest than this.
I guess Berlin wouldn’t give anyone a second chance (except for a dem)
Rehab isn’t good enough for him
lets recreate this cartoon with the writer of this article as the dog and the ceo of nyt as the carrier.
The Nazis were the radical Right and they were to blame then. What does the liberal far-Left New York Times have as an excuse in 2019?
The Nazis were not the radical right, they were the radical left. They were socialists, exactly like their main opponents, so voters had no real choice. By the 1930s the German right had almost disappeared.
Nazis and Soviets were radical left. Germans are the core of liberalism.
rabbiofberlin and he did something more positive than you today.
rabbiofberlin,
What’s your problem?! Did he say something wrong, anything inaccurate? Did he hurt your feelings? I’m so terribly sorry. You still haven’t learned what your liberal friends are all about.
I wonder what you would’ve done had you indeed been the Rabbi of Berlin in the 1930’s. Probably sat at home.
Do something that will really hurt the NYT. Little protests are here today gone tomorrow. Someone who is familiar with that anti-Semitic paper (I stopped reading it 20 years ago) must publish or put out a list of ALL Jewish owned businesses that advertise in the NYT. That includes the UJA who takes out full page ads. I have some colorful language ready for the UJA people when they mail me their next fundraising letter.