New York magazine is quickly moving to the front of a crowded field in the race among American media to be most helpful to Hamas.
First up?
Senior writer Tirhakah Love, who wrote a series of tweets in the days right after the Hamas attacks insanely blaming “Zionists” (that’s lefties’ code word for “Jews I don’t like”) for helping Hitler gas Jews.
“Wait til they find out Zionists could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from the gas chambers and decided not to,” he tweeted.
Love was referring to the Hungarian Rudolf Kastner, who bribed Nazis to let an Auschwitz-bound train with about 1,700 Jews on board go free.
Years after the fact, Kastner (who emigrated to Israel) was blamed for not having alerted more Jews to the fate that awaited them in the camps. He was then denounced by an Israeli court as a Nazi collaborator, made a pariah by Israeli society and assassinated by militant Zionists.
So why did Love deploy his clumsy, ugly wordplay in the face of these historical facts?
We suspect it’s to imply that Israel’s contemporary Jews are guilty for Hamas’ atrocities.
Next up, New York mag features writer Eric Levitz.
“Last night, I asserted that this report indicated that babies were beheaded. This was an overstatement. I should have said that the report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading, but which does not prove them,” he tweeted over the weekend around a pathologists’ report detailing Hamas savagery during its brutal terrorist incursion into Israel.
Here’s a bit of free advice, Eric: Next time you feel the need to do freelance PR cleanup for an Islamist terror cadre about baby beheadings, maybe . . . don’t?
He’s already posted a new tweet thread suggesting he made the initial statement out of a concern for accuracy.
Hmmmm: Levitz was among the first American progressive journos to condemn his political comrades for their Hamas endorsement.
So is this morally monstrous mealy-mouthing an effort to get back in good with Twitter socialists?
Whatever’s driving Levitz and Love, the ugliness and viciousness of their words is plain. Shame on them and on New York Magazine.