The nation’s leading newspapers were under fire this weekend after publishing opinion pieces seen as “Bigoted,” “Islamophobic,” “Racist,” and “Reckless.”
A Wall Street Journal opinion piece published on Friday afternoon read ‘Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital.’
And on Saturday, The New York Times published a piece by long-time columnist Thomas Friedman titled “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom.” Dearborn,
Dearborn, Michigan, a city with the largest Muslim population in the US, has increased its police presence, fearing hate attacks after the Wall Street Journal branded it America’s ‘jihad capital.’ The Islamaphobic article was written by Steven Stalinsky, who is a commentator on’ terrorism’ and has served as executive director of the pro-Israel Middle East Media Research Institute based in Washington, DC.
Friedman’s piece in the New York Times entitled, “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom,” posited Iran as a metaphorical “parasitoid wasp” with proxies in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria as caterpillars. Friedman claimed, “We have no counterstrategy that safely and efficiently kills the wasp without setting fire to the whole jungle,” suggesting that the US militarily destroys the entire Middle East to annihilate Iran and its allies. He concluded that he could “contemplate” the Middle East by watching Animal Planet.
The animal comparision are so appaling, if this text was in German it probably would have come from Josef Goebbels, Hitlers minister for propaganda.
They’re psyop prep for the coming conflict; the Guardian, in the UK, has started publishing pro-conflict opinion pieces. Very odd, considering it’s seen as a left leaning organization.
Depends on your definition of “left”
Western news outlets criticizing others of pro-israel bias be like"
Step 1. Dehumanize the enemy.
I’ve changed the “&” sign in the title to “and” because formatting somehow changes the “&” to “& amp;”. Possible bug there.
I’ve noticed that happens all over Lemmy. A silly bug for sure.
Dearborn, Michigan, a city with the largest Muslim population in the US, has increased its police presence, fearing hate attacks after the Wall Street Journal branded it America’s ‘jihad capital.’
The Islamaphobic article was written by Steven Stalinsky, who is a commentator on’ terrorism’ and has served as executive director of the pro-Israel Middle East Media Research Institute based in Washington, DC.
Just because Muslims live there, Israeli propaganda calls it the “Jihad capital of America”…
And Bidens’s unflinching support of Israel’s genocide is going to hurt him there, and other battleground states.
But that’s not enough for him to stop funding a genocide.
Biden is better than trump, but we deserve a hell of a lot more.
I like how Jewish people are digging tunnels in New York and trying to physically stop officers from going in them, but then also call a different religous group in a different city extremeists. Thats some shakey ground to stand on, and not just because someone dug underneath it.
That’s a super right-wing faction tho…
Like, the only time they criticize Israel is to say they’re not grabbing land fast enough.
Don’t lump all of any religion in with their crazy fringe groups.
Truth is always painfull. Wake up Hamas terrorists and look thruth in Eyes. Hamas deserve to be analiathed and will be, like Al-Qaeda and other terrorists groups. In civilized world there is no place for terrorists.
How do you suggest we annihilate the terrorist IDF?
in a civilized world, there is no place for human rights abuses and literal genocide.
You seem like the kind of person to judge someone because of their community.
