The media is currently playing up the JCC bomb threats and the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery for partisan political purposes. Linda Sarsour, an anti-Semitic bigot, has cynically jumped on board with a fundraising publicity stunt.
There's just one problem.
Linda Sarsour has defended actual synagogue bombers. She has claimed that the Islamic terror plots of Ahmed Ferhani and James Cromitie were due to law enforcement entrapment. She referred to Ferhani sympathetically as a "boy" or a "kid".
At his trial, Ahmed Ferhani had boasted, "I intended to create chaos and send a message of intimidation and coercion to the Jewish population of New York City."
“Look at the Jewish guy. You’re not smiling no more, you f___r. I hate those bastards. I hate those m______s. Those f____g Jewish bastards. I’d like to get one of those. I’d like to get a synagogue. Me. Yeah. Personally,” James Cromitie had ranted.
Linda Sarsour is blatantly bigoted. She has praised the racist Islamic practice of throwing stones at Jews and declared that she could only be friends with Jews who oppose Israel.
But the media was just as eager to whitewash Ahmed Ferhani and James Cromitie. There is a long history of media "tolerance" for attacks on synagogues and Jewish sites when they are carried out by Muslims.
In New York City, a year before September 11, Muslims threw firebombs at a synagogue in the Bronx. “A bias-motivated attempt to firebomb a synagogue?” the New York Times asked. “Or a misguided message critical of Israeli policies against Palestinians?”
The sudden outpouring of concern over anti-Semitism and attacks on Jewish facilities is phony. The media currently opposes burning and bombing synagogues. It hasn't always.
This is how CNN's Matthew Chance reported the Muslim torching of a synagogue in Israel.
"This structure behind me --very controversial because it is the Jewish synagogue in the middle of Netzarim. The Israeli cabinet, of course, voting to leave those synagogues standing, very much angering the Palestinian Authority, because they know that these buildings are seen very much by the vast majority of Palestinians as potent symbols of the Israeli occupation and could not be protected or even left standing. And so we're seeing very sensitive scenes here over the past few hours as the Palestinian security forces move the civilians out of that synagogue and move their bulldozers in to take away these structures, again, seen as hated symbols of the Israeli occupation. So these are scenes that are very sensitive to the Palestinian Authority. And also an aspect that's really kind of tainted the sense of victory, the sense of relief amongst the Palestinians that the Israelis are finally gone..."
This is how Reuters reported it...
Attacking symbols of the hated Israeli occupation, youths set ablaze several of the synagogues
The Philadelphia Inquirer referred to Palestinian torching of the settlements as "protest fires": The Los Angeles Times referred to Palestinian destruction of the Jewish synagogues as "fury against the occupation":
If these attacks turn out to be the work of Muslims, the New York Times will ask, “A bias-motivated vandalism of a cemetery? Or a misguided message critical of Israeli policies against Palestinians?”