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New York Times orders readers to “celebrate” election of pro-Sharia BDS supporter Rep. Ilhan Omar

Jan 2, 2019 7:42 am By Robert Spencer

And there is no doubt about it: New York Times readers and other Leftists are indeed celebrating. They will celebrate anew when Omar introduces anti-Israel legislation in Congress. They will celebrate all the more when she fails to support women’s rights that counter Sharia provisions. They will keep celebrating every measure against free societies and free people that Ilhan Omar will support.

“New York Times Orders Readers to ‘Celebrate’ Election of BDS Supporter,” by Ira Stoll, Algemeiner, January 1, 2019:

One of the worst features of the contemporary New York Times is that it has gone beyond merely reporting the news and ventured, instead, into the more treacherous territory of instructing readers which emotions they should have about the news.

One danger of that is that not all Times readers may share the emotions the Times newsroom judges appropriate. And another danger, or perhaps an advantage, is that in ordering up the emotions, the Times exposes biases that it would prefer to have kept hidden.

So it is with the election to Congress of a Democrat from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, who has emerged after the election as an open supporter of the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.

A Times article published in print on January 1 titled “Joyful Headlines About Race and Equality … A few stories about race, from the many we published, that are worth celebrating,” by Adeel Hassan, reported, “2018 also held glimmers of hope — if you search hard enough — with stories about racial equality and justice. Here are a few of that we published and that are worth celebrating.” Among these stories that the Times insists are “joyful” and “worth celebrating” was, the paper says, that “Ilhan Omar in Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib in Michigan became the first Muslim women elected to Congress.”

Islam is a religion, not a “race,” so it’s difficult to see why this development fits into the Times -constructed category of “stories about race.” Maybe it’s just something the Times feels like celebrating. The paper, at least in this article, doesn’t even consider the possibility that choosing to boycott the Jewish state might not be an example of “justice” or “hope,” but rather a grave injustice.

It’s the second celebratory Times article in two days about Ilhan Omar. The first one did concede that “Her support for the boycott, divest and sanctions movement to pressure Israel to improve treatment of Palestinians is making Jewish leaders nervous.”

That Times‘ language inaccurately describes the goal of the BDS movement, which is not to “improve treatment of Palestinians,” but rather eradicate Israel and eliminate it as a Jewish state by insisting on a “right of return” to Israel for “7.25 million Palestinian refugees.”

The language in the first Times article appeared to be a bit much even for some staffers at the New York Times itself. An editor and writer on the Times opinion page, Bari Weiss, tweeted of Omar, “The reason Jews are ‘nervous’ about her is because she tweeted: ‘Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.’” A Times columnist, Bret Stephens, retweeted Weiss with the comment, “Anti-Semitism, in other words.”

Lower down, that first Times article reported “Ms. Omar’s careful answer on the 2018 campaign trail to questions about Israel — and her postelection clarification that she does indeed back the boycott, divest and sanctions movement — has left some Jewish leaders feeling betrayed.”

An editor at The Forward, Batya Ungar-Sargon, tweeted, “Yo @nytimes, @IlhanMN is not ‘making Jewish leaders nervous’ bc she supports BDS but bc she made an anti-Semitic comment about Israel and ignored activists and Jewish journalists who tried to ask about it – which your reporter didn’t in this puff piece.” Ungar-Sargon said she’d like to know if the Times journalist asked Omar “the questions we Jewish journos keep trying to ask but getting stonewalled: Why did you lie to constituents? Do you believe Israel has supernatural powers?”…

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  1. christianblood says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 8:03 am

    (…New York Times orders readers to “celebrate” election of pro-Sharia BDS supporter Rep. Ilhan Omar…)

    The same goes on in Hollywood! They all love Islamists but hate Christians. See it below:

    • J D S says

      Jan 3, 2019 at 10:20 am

      Why is the New York Times still alive?…Supporters: Muslims democrats, far lefties, socialist and those on the right who are not informed or are just plain dumb.

      • smoris says

        Jan 3, 2019 at 5:32 pm

        and this is “news”?

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Jan 3, 2019 at 10:27 am

      Hollywood documentaries?!? My head hurts.

  2. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 8:30 am

    I live in Minnesota.. I am ashamed of Minnesota. Aside from all the rest, she just used campaign finance money to get a divorce from her BROTHER in December of 2017.

    She married another fella over TWO YEARS AGO here in Minnesota.. What’s wrong with this picture?

    Polygamy? Polyandry? Incest? Welfare FRAUD? Immigration FRAUD? Misuse of campaign finance funds? Illegal Accepting fees for speaking engagements? Failure to filing required MN Legislator financial REPORTS in a timely manner to avoid shedding light on much of the above?

    Omar is political TRASH! …and ought to be in jail.. ..right next to her co-conspirator, Keith Ellison.

    Minnesota is a madhouse NOW!

    …To repeat.. Omar is political TRASH!

    • J D S says

      Jan 3, 2019 at 11:53 am

      How did MinnesSoooota let this happen to what was once a wonderful state? (NOTE: Other states are also vulnerable) Too many Muslims with their own agenda (world domination) have ruined it..Maybe too many complacent non Muslim residents? Personally I don’t believe that ANY Muslim should hold office unless they totally denounce Islam and all that it stands for..This should be a requirement from political parties ….Our Freedom of Religion is being used against us..Our framers of our Constitution did not mean for the Freedoms to be misused as they are bring used today and there are provisions to change things that are departmental to our society…THE PROBLEM: No one in congress will do anything for fear of being labelled a racist and islamophobic and that is destroying our AMERICAN WAY and allowing America to be destroyed.

      Muslims are going to help the democrats and Hard Left try to Destroy the two main things that have held America together these hundreds of years and these two are….Destruction of Christianity and tight borders..

  3. Mac-101 says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 8:32 am

    Is this the same Muslim Chick who jumped the shark and did NOT marry her cousin but married her BROTHER? LOL!

    • CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

      Jan 2, 2019 at 8:35 am

      Oh yes, and there is much much more..

    • mike says

      Jan 2, 2019 at 9:02 am

      yes

  4. dan christensen says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 8:58 am

    “New York Times” should change the name to “New Mekka Times” – just to reflect its new loyalties.
    Maybe “Minneapolis/St. Paul” should change to “Mekkapolis/St.Jeddah” – in celebration of Ilhan Omar.

  5. mike says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 9:05 am

    people need to be told the truth. These Muslims have only one goal control America and install Sharia law.

    • christianblood says

      Jan 2, 2019 at 11:32 am

      mike posted

      (…These Muslims have only one goal control America and install Sharia law…)

      You are right and leftist globalists like NYT, Hollywood, MSM, etc are working very hard to make sure they achieve that goal!

      • Sun says

        Jan 2, 2019 at 3:54 pm

        A nightmare – they don’t know what they are doing.
        As a Western woman, I lived and worked in Islamic countries for many years. The current policy of appeasement towards Islam is the worst thing you could do to the Western civilization.

        • christianblood says

          Jan 2, 2019 at 6:11 pm

          Sun posted

          (…A nightmare – they don’t know what they are doing.
          As a Western woman, I lived and worked in Islamic countries for many years…)

          You are exactly right!

          Please feel free to share your experiences in the Islamic world to most of the people here who don’t know much about Islam or Muslims! Thank you in advance!

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 6, 2019 at 8:37 pm

          Why is christianblood claiming that the Anti-Jihadists here don’t know much about Islam and Muslims? I find that most here at Jihad Watch are quite knowledgeable about these issues.

  6. Battle says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 10:56 am

    Mac-101: Good one.
    mike: Good one.
    dan christensen: Good one.
    mike: Good one.

  7. Battle says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 11:07 am

    NY Times says celebrate Omar’s election. Doesn’t the Omar’s and NY Times’ co-religionist mufti and imams say do not celebrate Christmas with Christians, and do not celebrate New Year? According to the NY Times a religion of supremacy. According to the NY Times a religion of hypocrites.

  8. Battle says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 11:15 am

    NY Times is affirmative racism.

  9. Nathan Masterson says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 11:29 am

    If this Minnesota congress woman is among Israel’s greatest enemies today then I say Israel should easily win in all of her struggles.

  10. WPM says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 12:14 pm

    The trouble is she has many allies on the left ,like the newly elected 28 year old former barmaid empty head progressive democratic congress woman Ocasio-Cortez of New York she also support BDS of Israel .The NYT loves to have it “journalist” boot lick any person or issue that is “progressive” anti-Christian ,anti Western ,and has hidden shades of anti-semitic .

  11. Wellington says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    Close call which is worse, The New York Times or the Democratic Party. After all, both think alike and both are, effectively, enemies of a free America. Neither would mind gutting the First Amendment provision of free speech by way of making the Orwellian distinction between free speech and hate speech and both are also enemies of what helps keep the First Amendment in tact—the Second Amendment. Of course what I just wrote about The New York Times and Democratic Party also applies to Islam, which has been a mortal enemy of freedom from its inception.

    • Northern Virginiastan says

      Jan 2, 2019 at 1:35 pm

      Just as true as it was in 2018: A Phrase to Retire in 2018: ‘Mainstream Media’ Call it the Democratic Media-Industrial Complex #DMIC

      Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/a_phrase_to_retire_in_2018_mainstream_media.html#ixzz5bTYEGCgR
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  12. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 2:04 pm

    Jill Abramson, former NYT big wig has nailed it with her new book.. ..Where have the journalistic standards gone? Is is all opinion now, and made up fantasy land scribble now – all designed as ananti-Trump rag these days?..

    I live in Minnesota.. I am embarrassed to be a Minnesotan these days.. We are in deep trouble now. Ilhan Omar is an embarrassment. She is political trash.. But she has a great deal of company here in Minnesota, from all sides of the political spectrum.. This is the land of 10,000 cover-ups today.. Far too many to recount..

    In December of 2017 (not more than a year ago), she divorced her BROTHER, she apparently married many years ago, to bring him into the US ILLEGALLY. She also apparently spent campaign finance money, and illegally gotten speaking fees, for the extra-legal marital dissolution proceedings. Some with the Minnesota House of Reps have called for an investigation, which will never happen of course. …Oh, I forgot to mention that she married another fella a little over 2 years ago in Minnesota AS WELL..

    Can you say, legal PERJURY in Family Court, bigamy, polygamy, polyandry, incest, immigration FRAUD, welfare FRAUD, campaign finance FRAUD? Take your pick, or all of the allegations against her… See David Steinberg writing with PJ Media for the details..

    She also failed to file the required Legislator Financial Report for over 6 months, until after the MN Legislative session was concluded, further insulating her from an internal MN House Ethics Committee investigation..

    Cleaver girl, with the direct counsel and assistance of our latest embarrassment, the 2 time female abuser, and new Minnesota Attorney General, Keith (AKA: “X” – “Hakim” – “Mohamed”) Ellison (America’s first openly Marxist/Anarchist AG), as they both played musical political chairs in Minnesota, as she was running for his (OUR) US Congressional seat.. They both shared the same divorce lawyer as well.. Surprised?

    Now, the “opinion writer” hacks with NYT, Time Magazine, and Tribeca films, fawn over this disgraceful and deplorable Israel (Jew) hating con artist (who lied to the Minnesota Jewish community while campaigning), and who has actually proposed, as a MN State legislator, “Life insurance death benefits for Jihadi terrorists”? …And the Sharia style subjugation of women? …And a close pal of America hater Linda Sarsour?

    What world am I living in?

    This is the classic definition, in real time, of anti-journalistic standards of any sort..

    As for the future of Minnesota? We’re screwed!

    For the rest of America? Wake the heck up!

  13. somehistory says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    “News” outlets report the news. This one is making it by making stuff up and trying to make others agree with their thinking.

    To quote sickhan o, “Just deal with it.” This was her reply to those who find a problem, or problems, with her election.

    Marrying a brother…is incest. Incest is perversion. She and the other moslim elected, are nothing to celebrate. hassan doesn’t sound like a name to be trusted… and neither does the article hassan wrote about these moslims…which, in fact, it shouldn’t.

  14. Huh?!? says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 8:12 pm

    How can we get these two islamists out of office? How do we take back MN and MI? What will it take for the U.S. to wake up. Some of us are wide awake. I hope others can be roused. If the comments about her illegal activities are true, can’t she be removed from the House seat?

    Are there so few Christian, Jewish, secularist voters left in MN that they cannot vote out this person and Ellison?

  15. Lydia Church says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    If that’s the case, then I will order him or them not to celebrate it!

  16. gary fouse says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 8:13 pm

    NYT headline: “Titanic Arrives New York”

  17. gravenimage says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 8:56 pm

    New York Times orders readers to “celebrate” election of pro-Sharia BDS supporter Rep. Ilhan Omar
    …………………………

    So sorry–one of my New Year’s resolutions is not to celebrate stealth Jihad and Jew-hatred…

  18. Jewish Crusader (@italy6983) says

    Jan 6, 2019 at 9:28 pm

    First cancel you subscription to the Times,this is the worst paper on earth,everyone they endorse are leftards an Hate American people,they love illegal aliens,never ever vote Democrat..

  19. Lara Rios says

    Jan 7, 2019 at 1:01 am

    But I hope others can be roused. If the comments about her illegal activities are true, can’t she be removed from the House seat?

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