Gizmodo's hate for Israel is showing ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Gizmodo's hate for Israel is showing

Gizmodo is outraged. The National Institutes of Health, under pressure from the Trump administration, has updated its policies to allow the termination of funding to researchers who engage in discriminatory boycotts of Israel. And to hear Gizmodo tell it, that’s a scandal.

Under the Trump administration, the National Institutes of Health has announced a new policy that allows it to cut off funding to any medical researcher who engages in a political protest of Israel.

Except that there is nothing in the policy about protesting Israel or having "mean thoughts about what is happening in Gaza." The policy is a long-overdue recognition that boycotting Israel is not a neutral act of political speech - it’s discriminatory conduct targeting a single nation, and a Jewish one at that.

The NIH policy doesn’t say you can’t criticize Israel. It says if you refuse to work with Israeli companies or institutions because they are Israeli, you may be in violation of nondiscrimination rules. That’s not censorship. That’s applying the same standards that would apply if someone said they wouldn’t collaborate with Nigerian or Japanese partners.

But Gizmodo, like many progressive outlets, insists on treating BDS as “mere criticism”—a protected act of conscience rather than what it actually is: a campaign of economic warfare that singles out the world’s only Jewish state for boycott, exclusion, and academic isolation.

The NIH is responding to a real-world problem: researchers refusing partnerships, grants, or collaborative work with Israeli counterparts - not because of policy disagreements, but because those people are Israeli.

Imagine someone refusing to collaborate with anyone Chinese, or Muslim, or Catholic, or Cuban. Would Gizmodo write glowing profiles about their bravery? Of course not. But anti-Israel activism, especially when cloaked in the language of "justice," gets a free pass—even when it becomes indistinguishable from bigotry.

This wasn't the first time this writer, Lucas Ropek, has shown his hate for Israel under the guise of journalism (or whatever Gizmodo is.) In February, he made up facts about the Israeli pager attack on Hezbollah to make it sound like it caused mass civilian casualties. Apparently, Ropek thinks an Iranian proxy Islamist terror group that shoots rockets at Israeli civilians deserves more sympathy.

If Gizmodo’s writers were less interested in propaganda and more interested in principle, they might ask why only the Jewish state is the target of this kind of academic excommunication. They might also ask whether it’s ethical for publicly funded research to include people who refuse to engage with colleagues on the basis of nationality - again, not because of war crimes or human rights violations (hello, China), but because it’s Israel.

Moreover, Israel is in the forefront of medical research. Any institution that chooses to exclude researchers and partners for political reasons is hurting the entire health industry.

Now, that's a scandal.