A screenshot of the headline and accompanying picture and article that was deemed offensive by Jewish groups.
Popular internet newspaper, The Huffington Post, is under fire yet again for a headline and accompanying image that offended major Jewish groups.
Both the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) criticized the article, headlined “Saboteur Sen. Launching War Push,” which featured a picture of New Jersey’s Senator Robert Menendez addressing pro-Israel lobby the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
In the article, the publication attacked Senate leaders who backed a bill which calls for new sanctions against Iran in response to the country’s nuclear program. The bill threatens “to push the United States toward war with Iran,” the paper claimed.
Confident that the choice was a deliberate “editorial decision,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center sharply criticized the presentation as reminiscent of anti-Jewish tropes.
“It goes back to the age old canard,” he told The Algemeiner, “that certain people have never seen a war that they can’t find a way to blame on the Jews.”
“Conscious or subconscious it just screams out ‘there they go again,’ meaning Jews, ‘they are bringing the country to war,’” he added.
The AJC said it was “dismayed” and “appalled” by the article, and spoke out in defense of Senator Menendez.
“The Huffington Post has launched a shameful, unjust assault on Senator Menendez,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris.
“Why this incendiary attack on a respected and experienced legislator, who has every right to express his viewpoints, without being depicted in such toxic terms?” Harris continued. “Senator Menendez believes, as do many of his Senate colleagues and a majority of the American people, that the best way to reach a diplomatic solution with Iran is through a hard-nosed, clear-eyed approach to a dangerous and wily adversary. So do we.”
The Huffington Post has often been accused of anti-Israel bias and tolerating anti-Jewish sentiment. Two anonymous blogs, HPMonitor and Huff-Watch have extensively recorded the allegations.
The site “has become a home to a sub sect of commentators expressing anti-Israel hate speech and anti-Semitism,” says the mission statement of HPMonitor. Huff-Watch goes a step further, writing: “…for at least the past two years, Israel and Jews have been HuffPost’s secondary ‘targets.’”
Earlier this year Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff told Israel’s channel 2 that the publication was planning to open an Israeli branch of the site.
WarSclerotic 
December 20, 2013 at 4:49 PM
In a sense, this is a good thing. What we’re seeing today is the ‘left’ emerging from the shadows and showing the world just what kind of crap they’re made of. We see their relentless attacks on religion, free speech, and moral values. We see them opening seemingly endless fronts in their coordinated drive to destroy our way of life.
These ‘demons’ are emerging in droves and attacking everything we hold sacred. They feel empowered by their elevation in society, their widespread deception, and political power. Now, the world can take a good look and see them for what they are. Hopefully, we will rise before it’s too late. It is imperative that we end their destruction before they run back into the shadows to escape the blinding light. For they will surely emerge another day.
December 21, 2013 at 9:05 AM
Israelophobia
by Fiamma Nirenstein:
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/israelophobia.html
In other incredible events, when, in Germany, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Badische Zeitung published a cartoon by Horst Haitzinger in which a snail with the head of a dove goes to the peace talks with Iran, in a classic case of anti-Semitic slurs in which Jews are cast as poisoners, saboteurs and warmongers, Israel’s Prime Minister,Binyamin Netanyahu is shown on the phone saying, “I need poison for doves and snails.”
There seem three main reasons why Israelophobia exists:
The worldwide spread of a Muslim presence never before seen, including its globalization on the Internet, its proliferation of anti-Israel propaganda, and its power in institutions.
The spread of the culture of “human rights,” in which anyone who appears to be an underdog must be “good,” and anyone who appears not to be an underdog or victim must therefore be “bad.”
The current government of the United States of America.