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                                                            June 29, 2021

I'd thought that the New York Times-- and the
NY intellectual press in general, was getting
over it's uncritical devotion to Israel.

A bit on the optimistic side, it seems:


                                       https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/speakers-palestinians-massacre/

    Philip Weiss on February 8, 2019:

    "The Times also ran an attack by columnist David Leonhardt
    on the star of the new Democratic class, Alexandria
    Ocasio-Cortez, because the Queens/Bronx representative who
    is transforming the parameters of the discourse before our
    eyes has consulted by telephone with Jeremy Corbyn, the
    leader of the Labour Party in the UK 'about building a new
    trans-Atlantic political alliance.' "


    "Leonhardt’s article was a litany of the usual innuendo
    against Corbyn for being an anti-Semite. The amount of
    namecalling from start to finish was astonishing."

Weiss supports his point with quotes from Leonhardt like so:

    "Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s
     Labour Party, has a long history of
     playing footsie with bigotry--
     specifically with anti-Semitism... In                 Seems like a lot of
     Corbyn's case, anti-Semites are clearly               verbiage doing a
     comfortable working with him. He has                  very non-specific
     been slow to apologize for cozying up                 guilt-by-association
     to them and has done so only after                    move.
     intense criticism. His approach has had
     some similarities to the wink-wink                    Side issue: I have
     relationship that some Republican                     a peeve with demands
     politicians in the United States have                 for apology from
     with white nationalists..."                           people who will
                                                           reject them under
Myself, I know little about Corbyn, but I begin to         any circumstances.
suspect Weiss is calling things right when he points       Nope, that one
out that Leonhardt calls in some peculiar support:         wasn't *sincere*
                                                           enough, try again.
     "When confronted about these instances,
     [Corbyn] has repeatedly claimed to have been
     unaware of his friends’ hatred. "Corbyn has an
     odd knack for stumbling into the arms of the
     Hebraically disinclined," my colleague Bret         BRETBUG
     Stephens has written..."
                                                     
I have trouble taking any Times columnist seriously        
that isn't trying hard to ignore the Bret Stephens.        
I wouldn't want to regard him as a "colleague" myself.     
                                                                 https://mondoweiss.net/2019/01/where-jeffrey-goldberg/
On the BretBug, Weiss comments:                           

    "Is Bret Stephens any kind of solon? Stephens wrote
    repeatedly that Obama 'betrayed' Israel, said that
    Benjamin Netanyahu dwarfed Obama as a politician and         https://www.mintpressnews.com/nyt-bret-stephens-arabs-and-africans-as-diseased-and-depraved/228081/
    man, and has gone in for Islamophobia, asserting that
    anti-Semitism is a 'disease of the Arab mind.' "


So tentatively, I'm going to presume that Weiss is right here,
and it wasn't just my imagination that Leonhardt has an anti-
Palestine bias:
                                                              
    "It's pretty clear that Corbyn’s biggest crime is the     
    same thing Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are guilty of:    
    they're too outspoken for Palestinian rights. So          
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been warned, she better be   
    careful about criticizing Israel."                        
                                                              
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And as Donald Johnson comments in another piece at "mondoweiss.net":
                                                                       https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/palestinian-special-relationship/
   "Shooting Palestinians and support for shooting them is
   entirely mainstream in the United States and in the
   pages of the Times. Nobody (or nobody who matters)
   stops to think about how outrageous this is."

   "A snarky tweet, though-- that is serious business."





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