The Media, Like Schumer, Pussyfoot Around Mamdani-Style Antisemitism #Political
It’s not a favorite topic in the left-leaning media.
The “it” in question is hard to miss if you’re not on the Left. That would be the rise of antisemitism inside the Democratic Party and beyond in the larger world of the American Left.
Not receiving much media attention is the increasingly long-term problem that is self-evident if one is actually paying close attention to the Democrats’ internals and the larger goings-on inside the Left leaning media.
For context, it would be a good idea to hop in the time travel machine and zip back to 2012.
Receiving almost zero media attention these days was a skirmish at the 2012 Democratic Convention that re-nominated President Barack Obama. Here’s a headline, tellingly not from an American media outlet but from The Times of Israel.
The night the Democrats lost control of the Israel message
Proposed changes regarding Jerusalem and the mention of God are met with boos by convention delegates
The story reports:
It all started as a Twitter gimmick by the Republican Party’s Jewish outreach arm.
The Republican Jewish Coalition began tweeting differences between the Democratic Party’s 2008 and 2012 platforms on Monday. By Tuesday morning, Republican activists were shopping those differences to reporters.
The differences were significant enough to justify stories in some Jewish outlets. While the platform still contained strongly pro-Israel language, Democrats had dropped all mention of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, cut the explicit call for Palestinian refugees to return to a future Palestine rather than to Israel, and more.
….Not only had Democrats neglected to place Jerusalem as Israel’s capital into the 2012 platform — apparently for the first time in 40 years — but they appeared on national television to be booing the restoration of the clause.
Democrats were hard at work Wednesday night playing down the incident.
After this the idea of antisemitism inside the Left mostly faded from the media.
Now a hat tip to the Wall Street Journal editorial board. This week the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial calling out U.S. Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, headlining:
Chuck Schumer’s Mamdani Test
Will the New York Senator abandon his life-long convictions?
The WSJ noted this of Schumer, the author of the new book Antisemitism in America: A Warning.
Will Chuck Schumer endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York? That’s a straightforward question, but the Senator from New York hasn’t given a straightforward answer.
Mr. Schumer is the Democratic Party’s Senate leader, and Mr. Mamdani is the Democratic Party’s candidate for mayor. Then again, Mr. Mamdani is a socialist who spoke as an Assemblyman of “seizing the means of production” and blamed Israel, not Hamas, on Oct. 8, 2023.
In his book, Mr. Schumer wrote, “Frequently used expressions such as ‘globalize the intifada’ sound to many of us like a call to not only kill the Jews in Israel, but to kill all the Jews worldwide.”
Mr. Mamdani has defended that call for violence in the streets during the campaign, recasting it as “a desperate desire for equality.” Mr. Schumer said nothing until days after the election, when he condemned the slogan via a spokesman, without reference to Mr. Mamdani.
Mr. Schumer also previously called the movement to single out Israel for boycott “a modern version of antisemitism.” The boycott movement was a Mamdani priority in the Assembly.”
There was more there. But the larger point is simple. Where is the massive, widespread media coverage of Mamdani and his on-the-record, decidedly virulent antisemitism?
That this task has been made more difficult by the advent of 21st century media itself is a certainty. The days where a handful of major metropolitan newspapers or three major TV networks ruling the communication roost are long, long gone. Now America-not to mention the larger world - is awash in social media, good, bad and indifferent. Outlets like Facebook, X and You Tube (and others!) rule the media communication roost.
A sample headline of this problem can be found here in an Israeli publication: Israel Hayom: This is Where We Stand.
TikTok's antisemitism problem
"Genocide," "concentration camps," "starvation," and "war crimes" are being widely used against Israel on Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms. This is just the tip of the iceberg confronting Israel and the Jewish people: the next generation of antisemitism.
Note well the reference to a media that includes “Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms.” And note as well that all of this represents “the next generation of antisemitism.”
Looking back in history, the temptation is always there to believe the past is the past, all over, done, time to move forward.
Alas, this is fiction - and decidedly not true. Take a look over at The Hill and one finds this headline focused on the wisdom of a Democrat Congressman from Minnesota, one-time presidential candidate Dean Phillips:
Dean Phillips: Mamdani 'grave threat' to Democrats around US
Phillips is right.
And it would behoove the Left-leaning “mainstream media” of America to understand - and cover in detail - the rise of antisemitism in America.
Because it’s not going away.
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