There are two hot trends in the progressive media now.
1. Excusing Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
2. Attacking Bari Weiss, a Jewish liberal New York Times columnist who called out anti-Semitism on the left, especially in the Women's March, whose leaders have praised Farrakhan
The two trends are one and the same. The same progressive media echo chamber is fighting to protect an anti-Semitic intersectional movement while attacking a Jewish woman who called it out.
Examples of the former trend include, Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan at The Atlantic, Shaun King at The Intercept, "A Word About Louis Farrakhan and Tamika Mallory" at The Root, and Masha Gessen at the New Yorker.
Some examples of the latter include the Neo-Soviet titled rant, "A New York Times columnist blamed a far-left 'mob' for her woes. But maybe she deserves them" by Avi Selk at the Washington Post, Ben Mathis-Lilley at Slate, an attack from Glenn Greenwald, the Hamas apologist at the top of The Intercept and the Bari Weiss Problem at The Outline.
The former are filled with special pleading and the latter furious intolerance. We are expected to make special allowances for Farrakhan's black leftist fans while rabidly hating a Jewish woman whose real crime was challenging the leftist comfort level with anti-Semitism.
Little more needs to be said.
It's tediously predictable that the loudest attacks on Bari Weiss come from lefty columnists with Jewish last names. It's far safer to attack Bari Weiss than it is to stand up to Farrakhan.
No one who has read Orwell's writings, his detailed accounts of the hypocrisies and lies that Communists were expected to tell for the Party in both their fictional and journalistic forms, will find any of this new.
But for Jews, it's another reminder that the left is not only anti-Semitic, but deeply dishonest. It's a hypocritical movement that preaches racial piety while practicing racism, and whose lynch mobs exist to silence any dissent.
Especially by Jews who speak out against leftist anti-Semitism. The fact that this dissent is most often crushed by lefties with Jewish last names is not new. The Soviet Union initially used the Yevsektsia, a Jewish Section made up of Jewish leftists, to purge Jewish life in its domain. The attacks on Bari Weiss are coming from the progressive media's Yevsketsia whose jorno-activists are just as eager to prove their fidelity to the party, whether by whitewashing Farrakhan or denouncing Bari Weiss.