Why? Can you think of a better way to remind people that Santa Claus died for our sins?
At the Islamic school where I work, some of my pupils brought up Palestine, but the only odd thing I've heard is one 9-10 year old kid (who's a bit of a comedian/naive) claim "WW3 is coming"...They live streamed this on YouTube, Facebook, etc. Completely comfortable broadcasting this hate for everyone to see.
Again, this is under spoiler tags as it's slightly off-topic)It probably varies depending on how hardline or extremist the Muslim school in question is. One of the reasons I really wish they would revoke tax exempt statuses for religious organizations.
NYT again, having to append a five paragraph long correction from the editor, like nothing I've ever seen before, saying one of their recent articles about Gaza had just been entirely wrong.
NYT walks back story on Israeli poetry in Gaza; it needed ‘more extensive reporting’
Article portraying professor 'calmly teaching' Yehuda Amichai poem 'did not accurately reflect' Refaat Alareer’s views; he's on video branding it horrible and dangerouswww.timesofisrael.com
A New York Times reporter who came under fire last year for a praising Adolf Hitler in multiple resurfaced Facebook posts was rehired by the Gray Lady to cover the Israel-Palestine war.
Palestinian filmmaker Soliman Hijjy hailed the Nazi leader as recently as 2018 in a post on Facebook, when he shared a photo of himself captioned that he was “in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust,” per a translation from Arabic by pro-Israel media watchdog site HonestReporting.
That same year, Hijjy was hired by the Times as a freelance journalist and worked on a slew of “visual investigations” published by the organization through 2021, including one on an Israeli airstrike that killed 44 people.
Hijjy’s 2018 post — including a 2012 Facebook post where he wrote, “How great you are, Hitler” in Arabic alongside a photoshopped image of Hitler seemingly taking a selfie — were unearthed last year, when pro-Israel outlets called out the Times for hiring antisemitic journalists as freelancers.
Hijjy’s byline has appeared in the publication nearly every day since Oct. 12, with his latest story from Gaza published on Thursday.
Hijjy wrote a piece titled, “At a hospital in southern Gaza, a backup generator becomes a critical lifeline,” about a facility two miles from the Ahli Arab hospital bombing by a Palestinian terrorist organization that falsely blamed Israel for the attack.
A Times spokesperson defended the outlet’s decision to rehire Hijjy.
“We reviewed problematic social media posts by Mr. Hijjy when they first came to light in 2022 and took a variety of actions to ensure he understood our concerns and could adhere to our standards if he wished to do freelance work for us in the future,” the rep said.
That might explain in part actions on the American centre-left, but speaking as a British person, I’ve become incredibly aware in the last 7-8 years how much deep antisemitism there is baked into the more radical left. It’s just there, but unspoken about on the surface, utterly taboo to even mention as an recognisable problem.You know what I'll bet it is, at least partially? White guilt over the 2000s culture of racism against Arabs. Left-leaning media outlets are terrified of looking less than friendly towards middle easterners, but narrow-minded enough to assume that hating Jewish people is just something they all do, so they don't put any effort into vetting the ones they hire or promote.
You know what I'll bet it is, at least partially? White guilt over the 2000s culture of racism against Arabs. Left-leaning media outlets are terrified of looking less than friendly towards middle easterners, but narrow-minded enough to assume that hating Jewish people is just something they all do, so they don't put any effort into vetting the ones they hire or promote.
I know it's the kind of take that makes me sound like those right-wingers who use the term "identity politics" unironically and rail against affirmative action because they think it means strict hiring quotas and Blizzard-style diversity charts, but it makes more sense to me than "left-leaning media outlets are run by secret Nazi sympathizers."