In the US, most media coverage of antisemitism focuses on the left
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
A US study conducted by Media Matters concludes:
- “Given the right-wing politicization of anti-Semitism, it’s especially important for media to portray anti-Semitism accurately. By focusing on rhetoric from the left as much or more than deadly right-wing anti-Semitic acts, media mislead viewers and readers into a false equivalency between the two and play into right-wing strategies to deflect attention from their own anti-Semitism.”
Why aren’t we surprised?
This article was originally published by Media Matters on Thu 24 Oct 2019. Read the original here.
As Trump and the GOP weaponize charges of anti-Semitism, media has covered anti-Semitic rhetoric more than actions
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This whole concept of false equivalency goes to the heart of the matter viz a viz the current relationship between Israel and Palestine.
The Israeli regime has deliberately fostered the false equivalency agenda.
It has become so established that the US mass media now endorses it too.
I am reading “Bad News for Labour”, which suggests it is applied here too.
We are living in an era of untrustworthy, lying and corrupt mass media.
I think it’s rather simple. People on the right of politics who are antisemitic, hate Jews for being Jews. And of course for people like that support for Israel is natural because it provides a home for Jews and reduces the number of Jews everywhere else. And there is a kind of synergy since this real antisemitism’ is a principal justification for Zionism and the State of Israel.
My impression is that the number of people on the left of politics who hate Jews for being Jews is vanishingly small. “Antisemitism” on the left is almost wholly concerned with.an opposition to racism and a disgust at a state that owes it’s existence to violent racism.
So in fact right.and left have diametrically opposed objectives. Anti semites on the right want Jews to emigrate to Israel but so called antisemites on the left would prefer Jews stayed at home.