If one has read only the New York Times in the past week, it would be easy to think the most high-profile antisemite in America is Republican billionaire Elon Musk.
I counted 11 articles from the paper since Nov. 15 covering Musk’s “endorsement of an antisemitic post” containing “white nationalist conspiracy theories” on X, formerly Twitter. The scandal has earned him condemnation from advertisers, the White House, and the Times itself, which accuses him of promoting ideas “that had fueled the Tree of Life synagogue killer in 2018.” (READ MORE: Why the Media Are Mum About White Flight 2.0)
The user Musk responded to had argued that liberal Jews “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” He mocked Jews for welcoming “hordes” of migrants from Arabic countries that “don’t exactly like them too much.” Musk then responded, “You have said the actual truth.” This hypocrisy is a reminder that when the liberal media stir up a moral panic about something, it is almost never sincere.
The left has smeared Musk for the mere observation that Jews do, in fact, overwhelmingly align with the left, which champions mass migration and pushes what many see as anti-white hate. Musk quickly clarified in subsequent posts that “this does not extend to all Jewish communities,” condemned “groups who push … racism of any kind,” and said that activists don’t give the West enough credit for supporting Israel. The Times does not emphasize Musk’s clarifications in its coverage because it would ruin its attempt to drum up a scandal.
If Musk’s measured, non-hateful comments meet the threshold for antisemitism, the Times has crossed it by leaps and bounds.
Like other outlets, the Times peddled the now-debunked story that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital and killed 500 people last month. It turned out that the blast came from a misfired Palestinian rocket, hit a parking lot, not a hospital, and the death count may have been as low as 50, according to intelligence and reports from around the world.
Gaza-based freelance journalist Soliman Hijjy assisted in the Times’s coverage, which parroted Palestinian officials’ claims of “hundreds” of deaths as fact. The editorial board later admitted that this reporting “relied too heavily on claims by Hamas, and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified.”
Hijjy and the Times share the same goal of demonizing Israel. That’s why he still has his job despite posting, “How great you are, Hitler” on Facebook in 2012 and other positive comments about the Nazi leader.
Hijjy “has maintained high journalistic standards,” the outlet said last month in defense. It hilariously claimed that the Nazi sympathizer is capable of “impartial” reporting on a war involving the Jewish state. (READ MORE: Women in the Conservative Media Vanguard)
As if nothing ever happened, the paper trudges along with its coverage blaming Musk for online “hate speech” against Jews and “misinformation.” Yet it trusts and pays someone who is guilty of both. The Times believes it can maintain “standards” for Hitler-loving Hamas propagandists, so nothing to see here. Move on.
This hypocrisy is a reminder that when the liberal media stir up a moral panic about something, it is almost never sincere. It is usually a selective narrative meant to smear specific people who are political targets.
