Semi-professional Vox liar Max Fisher has moved up to the New York Times, which is already embarrassing itself on a regular basis by running Electronic Intifada rants celebrating racist Muslim attacks on Jews by Diaa Hadid.
Max Fisher is not Vox's most famous Israel expert. That would be Zack Beauchamp who claimed that there was a bridge between Gaza and the West Bank. But Max Fisher is certainly viler than Zack. There's the time he blamed Jewish teens who had been kidnapped and murdered by Hamas... for being kidnapped and murdered by Hamas.
"As children, the kidnap victims surely cannot and should not be held personally culpable, but they could be considered an extension of the occupation, which has been far from a peaceful endeavor," Fisher writes.
This is one of those classic "it would be wrong to say the thing I'm saying, but I'll say it anyway". This is the kind of sociopathic hatred that the New York Times is bringing on board.
And of course Max Fisher lies, compulsively and uncontrollably, especially when it comes to Israel.
Max Fisher wrote a piece claiming that Israelis in Hebron “will tell you this: Jews consider Hebron a holy city (so do Muslims) and began moving here during the Zionist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1929, a mob of Hebron’s native Arabs attacked the newcomers.” I responded:
"No, they would not tell you that Jews began moving to Hebron as part of the Zionist movement. Hebron had an ancient Jewish community that survived the Arab and Turkish conquests, a blood libel in 1775 and subsequent fine of the community, and poverty and conscription during World War I. There were approximately seven hundred Jews in Hebron in 1838, about the same number as in 1929 (there was, in other words, no sudden Zionist influx). The Jews living there in 1929 were overwhelmingly ultra-Orthodox, drawn there by the city’s holiness in Judaism and a yeshiva. In short, it wasn’t “Zionist newcomers” who were massacred by local (Fisher uses the word “native,” as if the ancient Jewish community wasn’t native) Arabs in 1929, but the same traditional, non-Zionist Jews, including some foreign yeshiva students, who had been living mostly in peace but also through periodic Arab and Muslim persecutions for centuries."
Max Fisher's lie is still up at Vox. And soon more of his lies will be up at the New York Times.