The Sunday before last as the Gaza crisis raged billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch wondered aloud (in something called silly enough a “tweet”) “Why is the Jewish-owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?” The backlash was as Commentary’s Jonathan Tobin wrote “instant and ferocious.” By Monday Murdoch had issued an apology to the Anti-Defamation League in which he wrote that “I feel very strongly about the righteousness of Israel’s cause. I do get very upset when I see coverage that I feel is unfair…. But I should have stuck to the substance of the issue and not bring in irrelevant and incorrect ethnic matters.”
Too bad. Murdoch allowed himself to be conned by the folks who run the apology racket known as the ADL — think of it as the Jewish analogue to racial racketeers Jackson and Sharpton just without the extortion of millions from large corporations with threats of violence — and its media abettors. Every now and then some public figure will say something the Jewish establishment bigwigs deem offensive to Jews and the drumbeat of “He must apologize” begins continuing until the victim du jour publicly humbles himself and kisses the pinky ring of some “Jewish leader.” If the offense was severe enough he’s advised to enter a six-month program teaching “sensitization” or “tolerance.”
It makes no difference to these self-appointed enforcers of PC (and lovers of PR) that Mr. Murdoch is a staunch long-standing defender of Jews that his 100% true remark was itself in defense of Jews and no one else will say it if he doesn’t. The New York Sun led off an editorial in support of Murdoch with a great anecdote about Robert Bartley the late long-time editor of the Wall Street Journal who was once asked “how he managed to defend Israel with even more verve than some of the Jewish newspapers. ‘Oh I had it easy ’ Bartley was quoted as replying ‘I’m not Jewish.’$$$Seperatequote$$$”
But all that matters to these monitors of proper speech is that Murdoch used one of the bad words in this case “Jewish-owned.” It’s right there in the lexicon of the forbidden alongside “Holocaust” and “Nazi.” These all can only be uttered by certain types of Jews or by non-Jews only when and for the purposes that the “Jewish leaders” say they can.
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