“Right-wing Zionists and anti-Semitic anti-Zionists have something fundamental in common: Both conflate the Jewish people with the Israeli state,” Goldberg writes.
After a week of ignoring antisemitic attacks across the US, The New York Times ran an op-ed by Michelle Goldberg entitled "Attack On Jews Over Israel Are a Gift To The Right."
Goldberg, the radical activist who masquerades as a journalist, began by claiming in the article that the attacks were "motivated by anti-Zionism." The attacks on the country have targeted those who appeared outwardly Jewish regardless of their feelings about the Jewish state.
Thursday night, soccer player Luca Lewis said he was the victim of an antisemitic threat in New York. The New York Red Bulls goalkeeper described the scene on his Instagram account. "A group of 6-8 Palestinian men walk up to me and asked me where I was from. I responded and said 'New York.' Then one guy asks me if I was Jewish. I pause for a moment in confusion and thought about it, then I saw them withdrawing knives." Lewis answered, "no."
Lewis continued, "The guy looked at me with such disgust in his eyes and said 'Good.' As I started walking away, I got extremely angry and felt like I had to say something. So I turned back around and said 'what if I was Jewish?'"
Lewis then writes the group of men walked up to him and the person who asked the original question threatened the soccer player, "I'll beat the f***in s*** out of you and kill you."
Waseem Awawdeh, 23, a Brooklyn man accused of assaulting a Jewish man in a hate attack in New York City on Thursday according to prosecutors told his jailers "If I could do it again, I would do it again. I have no problem doing it again."
He is accused of beating Joseph Borgen, 29, in an unprovoked attack with crutches, punching, kicking and pepper-spraying him. According to The New York Post, the Manhattan assistant added that Awawdeh called Borgen a "dirty Jew" and said, "F*** Israel, Hamas is going to kill all of you."
Goldberg turns a blind eye to the details of these and multiple other attacks across the country which had nothing to do with the victim’s feelings on the Jewish homeland and went on to state. "These apparent hate crimes are, first and foremost, a catastrophe for Jewish people in the United States, who've just endured four years of spiking anti-Semitism that started around the time Republicans nominated Donald Trump in 2016." Yet in an attempt to paint a false narrative, completely ignored the increase in antisemitic hate crimes during the Obama administration.
Goldberg also ignores legislation combating antisemitism signed by former President Trump along with multiple Middle East peace agreements brokered by his administration.
Goldberg then goes on to say that, "Right-wing Zionists and anti-Semitic anti-Zionists have something fundamental in common: Both conflate the Jewish people with the Israeli state. Israel’s government and its American allies benefit when they can shut down criticism of the country as anti-Semitic." As if coast-to-coast antisemitic attacks are viewed as an opportunity rather than tragedy.
While writing many articles on radical feminism and sex, Goldberg may have missed that many of the people currently demonizing the Jewish state fail to call out human rights violations in Myanmar, China Iran, Syria and elsewhere around the globe in their pursuit of antisemitic rhetoric. Goldberg also ignores the fact that Hamas is a terrorist organization whose charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.
Goldberg praises the efforts of progressive Jews who "have worked hard to break this automatic identification and to open up space in the Democratic Party to denounce Israel's entrenched occupation and human rights abuses." The author is alluding to and seemingly celebrating antisemitic rhetoric being tweeted by members of the "squad" in Congress. She then goes on to defend vocal antisemites like Ilhan Omar.
Goldberg appears to be drawing a moral equivalence to the Jewish state protecting it's Christian, Arab and Jewish population from rocket attacks to Hamas, which is a terrorist organization who is indiscriminately firing rockets at Israel's civilian population regardless of their religion.
Approximately a third of these rockets misfire and fall on the civilians in Gaza. They are launched from civilian hubs such as schools, apartment complexes and hospitals knowing that Israel will hesitate in retaliation in an attempt to minimize civilian casualties.
Though Goldberg describes herself as a Jew, with friends like these who needs Hamas.
After backlash, The New York Times changed the headline.
The @nytimes changed @michelleinbklyn's headline from "Attacks on Jews Over Israel Are a Gift to the Right" to "The Crisis of Anti-Semitic Violence."
GEE, I WONDER WHY? #ConservativesPounce pic.twitter.com/0u408Xbvf5
— Ian Haworth (@ighaworth)
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