{"id":10203,"date":"2019-04-30T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10203"},"modified":"2019-04-30T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:00:50","slug":"exaggerated-sensitivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10203","title":{"rendered":"Exaggerated sensitivities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/i> (international edition) recently published a cartoon widely construed as anti-Semitic, and the newspaper has apologized. The cartoon is below.<\/p>\n

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Sorry, but I’m not seeing it. Granted, the cartoon offers unflattering and critical portrayals of Netanyahu and the First Felon — but how is it specifically anti-Semitic? Where is there an attack upon Judaism qua<\/i> Judaism? The characterization of Trump as a blind man led around by Netanyahu is well within the bounds of acceptable criticism, however one might feel about the substance of the criticism.<\/p>\n

The assumption implicit in the complaint is that any criticism of a Jew is anti-Semitic, which plainly isn’t so, and I can’t help wondering if the real point of the criticism is to foreclose discussion of the cartoon’s substance — the editorial point-of-view that America too-reflexively follow’s Israel’s lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times (international edition) recently published a cartoon widely construed as anti-Semitic, and the newspaper has apologized. The cartoon is below. Sorry, but I’m not seeing it. Granted, the cartoon offers unflattering and critical portrayals of Netanyahu and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10206,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}