A new low for The Forward: "Historian" says Zionists have traditionally allied with antisemites

Suzanne Schneider, a historian, writes in the Forward that there is a history of Zionists cooperating with Nazis and that today's pro-Israel, pro-Trump people are in that same mold. I've seen articles like this before, but usually in Arab media, modern antisemitic sites like Mondoweiss or in the doctoral thesis of Mahmoud Abbas.  But when the Jewish Daily Forward...

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How the Ayatollah duped The Forward (and how the NYT plays along)

Here's the New York Times headline: There you go! A reporter who was accompanied by Iranian agents everywhere he went found no evidence of extremism! “Though I had to work with a government fixer and translator, I decided which people I wanted to interview and what I would ask them,” Mr.[Larry] Cohler-Esses wrote in the first of two articles from his July reporting trip....

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The Forward's moral equivalence between 3-month old terror victim and a stone thrower

The worst kind of moral equivalence can be seen in The Forward as they juxtapose the coldblooded  murder of a three month old baby and the killing of an Arab stone thrower. The title? "A Tale of Two American Tragedies." In October, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed two American citizens over just three days. Three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun and 14-year-old...

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Forward publishes article denigrating prayer for #EyalGiladNaftali

Leah Bieler, who we are told "has an M.A. in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary [and] teaches Talmud in Connecticut," writes in The Forward that praying to God for the safety of the three kidnapped teens is really a waste of time: When my eldest daughter was three years old, she enjoyed a comfortable morning routine. After breakfast, if she dressed quickly, she was allowed to watch half an episode of “Sesame Street” before...

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Forward article justifies smiley photos at Arafat's grave

Elisheva Goldberg at The Forward says "Harvard Group Was Right To Visit Arafat's Grave." After dismissing critics of the trip, including me, as "far right blogs," she misses the point completely: The point is that allowing students to engage in conversation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Palestinians themselves is still taboo among the American Jewish establishment....

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To the Forward, Israel is inherently evil

The Forward has a truly disgusting article by Lisa Goldman, entitled "Feel-Good Stories Obscure Ugly Mideast Truths." Excerpts: The Israeli government invests considerable effort in promoting its image in the foreign media. It’s called “hasbara,” which comes from the Hebrew root “to explain.” Israelis tend to be patriotic, with many believing their country is unfairly vilified in the foreign media. And so they embrace hasbara as a legitimate corrective...

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