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No, Gawker's Nick Denton is Not Jewish

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From the JTA. On the plus side they had the good grace to quote The Point. On the other hand the premise of the piece is very strange.

Gawker Media, the aggressive gossip blog and mini-media empire now facing a fight for its financial life, boasts enemies on all sides. In fact, Gawker has had the distinction of being accused of anti-Semitism and being the frequent target of anti-Semites.

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Denton is Jewish, and white supremacists and other hate sites have tagged Gawker as part of a Jewish media conspiracy. One white power blogger calls Gawker a “filth rat-faced Jew website,” in an article titled, “How The Jews Ruined American Icon Hulk Hogan.” Infostormer, a site bent on “destroying Jewish tyranny,” callsDenton “Jew vermin.”

On the flip side, FrontPage, a news website founded by 1960s-radical-turned-conservative-firebrand David Horowitz, calls Gawker “an anti-Semitic website brimming over with hatred and contempt for Jews and the Jewish state.” FrontPage points to a 2007 post in which an unnamed Gawker blogger, reporting that some Israeli bookstores would be open on the Jewish Sabbath to sell copies of the latest Harry Potter novel, wrote that “these are Jews, let’s remember, and a buck’s a buck.”

Nick Denton is not Jewish. He does not identify as Jewish. The issue only came up as a bizarre defense in court. Orthodox Jews would consider Denton to be Jewish in a legal sense. But the JTA isn't run by Orthodox Jews.

Neo-Nazis also accuse everyone of being Jewish. That's what conspiracy theorists do. It's as meaningless as when the media began running stories about Gaddafi or Ahmadinejad being Jewish based on the things their enemies said about them. 

Gawker being attacked by Neo-Nazis doesn't change the anti-Semitic content it has run. And since Gawker is widely hated, it's meaningless. 


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