November 3, 2014
Where Do New York Times Editors Think Anti-Semitism Comes From? The Sky?
A front-page story on European anti-Semitism appeared in the New York Times in September. It contained, as Matthew Continetti notes, "no breaking news, no revelations, no surprising analyses, and no startling perspectives." Nor did the paper draw any connection between its "discovery" of a resurgence of anti-Semitism and the poisoned climate of opinion fostered in European—or American—media, prominently including the Times itself, with their constant and relentless harping on the alleged sins of of the state of Israel. But that connection, writes Continetti, is inescapable and pernicious: