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Israel's UN Envoy Slams International Community IDF AID Opinion. Tradition. TEAM 'INDEFENSIBLE' LABAN HEADS TIMES COVERAGE THE TO OF CHIEF RABBI ARAMEAN ALBANIA A2. A9. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2019 | 8 KISLEV 5780 VOL. XLV NO. 2433 Israel’s UN Envoy Trump Says Iran Is Killing Slams International Thousands for Community for Adopting Protesting ‘Palestinian Way’ BY REUTERS & ALGEMEINER STAFF US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran was killing thousands of people for protesting and urged the world to take more notice. Disturbances in Iran began in mid-November over gasoline price hikes but quickly turned political, with demonstrators demanding the removal of the top leaders of the country in the bloodiest anti-government protests since Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Photo: UN Photo / Loey Felipe. People walk near a burnt bank, after protests against increased fuel prices, in Tehran, Iran, Nov. 20, 2019. Photo: BY ALGEMEINER (i.e. the “Partition Plan,” which as it encourages the Palestinians Nazanin Tabatabaee / WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters. recommended the division of to refuse direct negotiations,” he STAFF & AGENCIES British Mandatory Palestine into added. “Th e international commu- Israel’s UN envoy called out independent Jewish and Arab nity should be able to criticize the 1979 Islamic Revolution. the international community on states), Ambassador Danny the Palestinians when they do “Iran is killing perhaps thousands and thousands of Tuesday for adopting a “one-sided Danon said the world had over something wrong, in the same way people right now as we speak, that it why they cut off the approach” that perpetuated his the past seven decades “gone from that it doesn’t hesitate to do so internet so people can’t see what is going on,” Trump said country’s confl ict with the Pales- holding a pragmatic approach to when it believes Israel has acted during a visit to London for a NATO Summit. tinians. Speaking a plenary session fully embracing the Palestinian in error.” “Not just small numbers which are bad, big numbers marking the 72nd anniversary method and perspective.” Danon also drew attention to which are really bad, and really big numbers … It is a terrible of the UN General Assembly’s “Th is new approach — call the plight of Jewish refugees from thing and the world has to be watching.” 1947 passage of Resolution 181 it the ‘Palestinian way’ — stands around the Middle East. in the way of ending the confl ict Continued on Page A6 Amazon ShabbatCalendar Parshat VAYEITZEI Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 4:11pm | Shabbat Ends: 5:14pm פרשת ויצא Removes Ornaments P.O.B. 208 East 51st St, Suite 185 New York, NY 10022 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2019 e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2019 Opinion. New York Times Faulted for ‘Irredeemable and Indefensible’ Coverage of British Chief Rabbi When an Orthodox rabbi warns against Here is the Times reporting in September antisemitism on the left, the Times bends over 2019 about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s IRA STOLL backwards to undercut his authority. Contrast fl oating the idea that he would annex parts of BOSTON it to how the Times, in three recent news the West Bank: “‘Th ese are unilateral moves articles, handled a Reform rabbi’s criticism of endangering Israel as a Jewish and democratic decisions by the Israeli and American govern- state and further limiting the possibility of a ments or politicians. two-state solution,’ Rabbi Rick Jacobs, presi- Th eNew York Times is drawing criticism Here is the Times reporting in December dent of the Union for Reform Judaism, said in for its handling of a warning by British Chief 2017 about reaction to President Trump’s a statement. ‘Such serious pronouncements Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis about antisemitism in decision to move the American embassy in don’t belong in the fi nal week of a heated the British Labour Party. Israel to Jerusalem: “‘Jerusalem has always campaign.’” Again, Reform Rabbi Jacobs, criti- Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Britain’s chief Th e Times news article reported that been the most delicate issue in every discus- cizing Netanyahu, escapes the treatment the rabbi, on Remembrance Sunday, at Th e “Rabbi Mirvis leads a body of Orthodox sion about peace,’ said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, Times visits upon Orthodox Rabbi Mirvis, Cenotaph in Westminster, London, Nov. congregations not only in Britain but across president of the Union for Reform Judaism, criticizing Labour and Jeremy Corbyn. Again, 10, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Simon Dawson. the Commonwealth; in Britain, those the largest branch of American Judaism. ‘So the Times doesn’t say how many American larger community. You have to go out of your synagogues account for just over half of total we’re very concerned that the announce- Jews Rabbi Jacobs does or doesn’t repre- way to be this inaccurate. Th is shows how bias synagogue membership, according to a 2010 ment will either delay or undermine the very, sent, and it doesn’t report about how not all often manifests. Take a hot-button subject report.” Th eTimes went on, “Not all British very important resuming of a serious peace American Jews recognize his authority. and portray an exact balance of opinion on Jews recognize the chief rabbi as the leader of process.’” Nothing from the Times in that Th eTimes ’ heavy-handed, inconsistent it among a community that is *not* evenly their communities.” article about how many American Jews Rabbi treatment of Rabbi Mirvis attracted plenty divided. Th e only way NYT could present this Th eTimes also reported, “some people Jacobs does or doesn’t represent or about how of negative attention on Twitter. Th e execu- as even is if they talked to *literally* no one on warned that Rabbi Mirvis had sidestepped a not all American Jews recognize his authority. tive editor of the Washington Examiner the majority side.” greater threat posed to Jews and other British Here is the Times reporting in July 2018 Magazine, Seth Mandel, asked, “Is it just me Mandel went on, “this kind of reporting minority groups by Prime Minister Boris on reaction to the new Israeli law declaring or does this @nytimes story on Chief Rabbi is just completely ethically irredeemable and Johnson, who has himself been accused of Israel the nation-state of the Jewish people: Mirvis’ denunciation of Labour’s antisemitism indefensible.” Th e Times reporter, Benjamin making racist and Islamophobic remarks “‘We will use all of the legal means avail- include zero British Jews supporting it, only Mueller, replied to an email from the Algemeiner and energizing parts of the far right similar to able to us to challenge this new law and to Jews opposing it?” seeking a response to Mandel’s criticism by those responsible for recent attacks on Jews promote Reform and Progressive Judaism in Said Mandel, “Th e NYT is just printing referring the Algemeiner to an earlier article of in the United States.” It attributed this view to Israel,’ said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the bald antisemitic propaganda, of the sort you’d his that quoted a wider array of British Jews. “an organization called Jews Against Boris.” New York-based Union for Reform Judaism.” see on Iranian state tv in response to Mirvis.” A former editor at the Times, Mark Th eTimes didn’t say how many members Nothing from the Times in that article, either, He went on, “it shows how misinformed you Horowitz, responded to Mandel by writing, Jews Against Boris has, or what proportion of about how many American Jews Rabbi Jacobs are if you read the NYT. Th e paper takes token “I didn’t believe this could be true, but then British Jews it represents. does or doesn’t represent or about how not all dissenting voices in the Jewish community read the article and he’s right. Very odd given It’s a classic Times double standard. American Jews recognize his authority. and presents them as representative of the Continued on Page A12 How to Understand the US Failure in the Middle East Gaza in 2005. Oh, and both Jordan and the case. Obama was not evenhanded; he was the Palestinians signed peace agreements without more sympathetic to the Palestinians, who Algemeiner Journal MITCHELL BARD requiring that Israel evacuate any settlements. had never insisted on a freeze. Despite Israel NEW YORK Th ey also neglect to mention the impact of freezing settlements for 10 months, the Pales- (USPS 927800) is published weekly George H.W. Bush’s decision to link loan guaran- tinians refused to negotiate. (except for the week of Passover tees to Israeli settlement construction. First, it Miller and Kurtzer leave out inconve- and Succos) did not stop Israel from building settlements. nient truths because another tenet of Arabist Subscription rate $40 per year I’ve written about the malevolent infl u- Second, it angered the Israelis, and third, it did thinking is that Israel must be forced to ence of Arabists in the US government. After Algemeiner Journal not advance the peace process one iota, in part adopt the policies they believe are in Israel’s leaving public service, many seek to infl u- because of its one-sided punishment of Israel. best interests. Arabists argue this is neces- 208 E 51st Street, Suite 185 ence policy and public opinion. One example Other examples they give also leave out sary because the confl ict impedes US-Arab New York, N.Y.
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