By Erick-Woods Erickson
I have been really outraged by the Washington Post’s growing sympathies for Hamas and Jew killers. The paper, you should note, has several reporters who have openly complained the paper is too friendly to Israel. But this paper, just the other day, lamented the dead Gazans when Israel rescued its hostages. Time and time again, the paper defaults to Hamas worship.
It reminds me of a story I commented on back in 2021 that has gone viral again. That WaPo story’s headline was, “Israel’s Iron Dome defense system protects Israeli lives. It also perpetuates the Israel-Gaza conflict.” Editorially, the Washington Post has been on the side of killing Jews for quite some time, but the growing antisemitism of the left makes the paper more comfortable serving as a propaganda organ for Hamas.
Relatedly, I continue to think CNN’s web operation gives the whole network a bad name. To whatever extent you think the on-air product of CNN is leftwing (and I think it is far fairer than most would say, even as I take issue with it), the online CNN is far worse. Consider just two headlines:
“Israel alleges journalist held hostages in Gaza, without providing evidence”
“Yesterday marked Gaza’s deadliest day in 6 months, Palestinian health ministry says.”
The “Palestinian health ministry” is Hamas and even the United Nations is walking back its body counts. Also, a journalist did hold hostages in Gaza.
The left/media’s embrace of Hamas is really something.
It is more notable because much of the Ameican press corps sought to tie all of Trump’s supporters to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA. At the time, Donald Trump actually did denounce the neo-Nazis and white supremacists, but noted there were “some very fine people on both sides” of the argument in Charlottesville arguing over the fate of confederate statues. He specifically excluded the racists from that.
“What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, at the alt-right?”
Trump said. “Do they have any semblance of guilt?”
“I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me,” he said.
“You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists,” Trump said. “The press has treated them absolutely unfairly.”
“You also had some very fine people on both sides,” he said.
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Though originally accurately reported, the left and media together shifted the truth and suggested Trump was referring to the neo-Nazis as “very fine people.” That’s not true.
But what is notable is that the press corps and left, working in concert, sought to villify all of Trump’s supporters. To this day, it is a regular talking point in the mainstream media that right-wing white nationalists are the biggest domestic security threat in America.
Meanwhile, on a daily basis, the left is engaged in what amounts to a daily “Unite the Right” Charlottesville style protest calling for death of the Jews. In New York City yesterday, at yet another rally, the protestors chanted “Long Live October 7th.”
Outside the White House, the leftwing protestors were chanting, “Kill all the Zionists.”
Joe Biden claims what happened in Charlottesville, VA provoked his run for the presidency in 2020. But now, Joe Biden cannot denounce the anti-semitic left because he needs their votes. He will, at best, both sides it with calls against Islamophobia too. There will be no Sister Souljah moment.
Instead, Biden is out slurring his words again making subtle references to the GOP being the second coming of the KKK. This is the same man who said Mitt Romney would put black people back in chains.
Biden’s petty demagogery against the right is allowing antisemitism to fester on the left. The leader of the free world could boldly denounce the left’s antisemitism. But he views Donald Trump as a bigger threat to democracy than his party and the American press corps rooting for terrorists and their sympathizers.
