by HAMID DABASHI
Genocidal Zionists supported by the ‘paper of record’ have long attempted to silence the world through false charges of ‘antisemitism’. It no longer works
I read The New York Times daily as a barometer – as a farmer would heed a bellwether, or an old-fashioned European anthropologist would stare at the behaviour of a faraway tribe – to see which way the liberal Zionist wind is blowing.
I strongly recommend that people with a smidgeon of sanity left in them in this exceedingly diabolical political culture do the same: never read the Times or its ilk for news and analysis, but as the archival evidence of the liberal savagery that has long sold itself as “the world order”.
Consider the big song and dance that Times editors, reporters and columnists made about “antisemitism” in Amsterdam in the aftermath of a gang of Israeli hooligans singing and dancing to genocidal chants, and challenging decent human beings either to confront them or else run for cover.
Before and after a Uefa Europa League football match in Amsterdam on 7 November between Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch club AFC Ajax, militant Israeli thugs exported their habitual savageries and unleashed them on a European capital for the whole world to see.
What is an Israeli football team doing in a European football game?
Well, of course, where else should a European settled colony play football, except in the continent that created the garrison state?
True to their habitual behaviours inside the settler colony, these platoons of Israeli louts had torn down a Palestinian flag from the facade of a building and burned it, attacked and vandalised taxis with Arab drivers, while all the while chanting, “Let the IDF [Israeli army] win, we will fuck the Arabs”, “Fuck you Palestine”, and “Why is there no school in Gaza? There are no children left there.”
Just take the words “Arab” and “Palestinian” out of these slogans for a second, and replace them with “Jews” and “Israelis” – and see what happens.
Enter The New York Times
As soon as news of the Israeli thuggery in Amsterdam broke, the Times went into high gear to distort, deviate, manoeuvre, meander and rush to place the word “antisemitism” in headlines.
“What to Know About the Attacks on Israeli Soccer Fans in Amsterdam,” read one headline of an 8 November article, explaining that “Dutch and Israeli officials described the clashes after a soccer match as antisemitic”.
By the following day, The New York Times had joined officials in Israel and Amsterdam to declare the Amsterdam incident as ‘antisemitic’
Bret Stephens, one of the two chief pro-Israel columnists gainfully employed at the Times, was immediately called into action that same day to decry: “The Age of the Pogrom Returns”.
Stephens begins by invoking the memory of his grandparents, who
experienced antisemitic violence. (Apparently, only Zionists have
grandparents. Palestinians never have any grandparents slaughtered by
Zionists. They were born and are killed as terrorists.)
He goes on to quote a Dutch official, who wrote on X: “Barbarians on
scooters are riding through our capital city hunting Israelis and Jews.”
It seems that what the Israeli hooligans were doing in the streets of
Amsterdam was not considered barbarism, but those who resisted them were
barbarians.
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