I have not called you antisemitic once. I have stated that your pattern of posting on this topic reflects well known and unfortunately influential antisemitic tropes, and I’ve encouraged you to re-consider the basis for these tropes by looking at their origins and the type of people who propagate them. These tropes include the belief in Jewish control of the media; belief in a nefarious Jewish collective agenda; and vague allusions that this agenda is anti-American, i.e. in supporting Israel Jewish-Americans are acting on behalf of their narrow tribal affiliation rather than the broader national interest. You may not be conscious or aware that these tropes have a long and damaging history, and may want to consider for a start the
Jerusalem Declaration on antisemitism, a serious effort to conceptualize and provide commonly encountered examples of contemporary antisemitism by a collection of serious scholars.
Both myself and previously
@africanspur have very much addressed your “points”. You have repeatedly claimed that the people running all the major media organizations in America are Jewish,
and have not provided any evidence for this, while we have both responded by showing that, in many/most cases, they are not. No response from you. In your most recent post on the topic you basically reduced this to the NYT and Guardian. Well I’ve had a look at the Guardian board beyond a quick scan of their surnames and could only find evidence online that two of the fourteen names listed are Jewish. There may be more but I haven’t found evidence for it (and like I said, I really hate that I’ve felt prompted to investigate this). By the way, I did discover that the current editor-in-chief of the Guardian previously co-edited a play celebrating the life of Rachel Corrie, make of that what you will.
You have also stated that the Jewish identity of the people you believe run the media organizations provides the explanation for what you see as the media's pro-Israel agenda. Both
@africanspur (directly to you) and myself (in other posts which, in fairness, you may have missed) have argued in response that there are many alternative and more convincing explanations for the reflexively pro-Israel stance adopted by many influential institutions in America, including media and government institutions. These include the general and genuine cultural affinity felt for Israel across the American mainstream, Israel’s historical strategic value to America, the evangelical religious factor, historical American animosity towards Arabs and Muslims, post-Holocaust guilt, and the general success and familiarity of Jewish-America within the broader story of modern America. These would all need to be considered and weighed in order to reach a sober conclusion on the matter. On the other hand, you haven’t shown any indication that you have engaged with these aspects of the topic.
