Since the war by Iran (via Hamas) against Israel began anew on October 7th, the cacophony of Jew hated, reverberated and amplified by social media and a willing anti-Semitic regime media, has been the most disturbing and sobering by-product of the actual carnage that was bestowed on the 1,400-plus victims living in the tiny Middle East nation.

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From Harvard and Yale, up to Columbia, out to the Great Lakes and Northwestern, and all the way up and down the West Coast, would-be pogroms against Jews dressed up as protests and demonstrations have shocked the conscience of any American left in this country still in possession of their own soul. The campuses, and the professoriate/administration officials in way too many locations, have inadvertently ripped the blinders off of the most ugly, festering stain on our collective society and culture since slavery. It’s been horrifying to witness. But it doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

The late Andrew Breitbart used to say politics flows downstream from culture. He was absolutely correct in that assessment, and that sewer collection point in this particular anti-Semitic river resides with Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, whose district includes one of the largest Muslim-American pockets in the country living in Dearborn. As of 2000 Census data, Muslim-Americans made up just a tick under 30% of the population of Dearborn, and that percentage surpassed 41% a decade later. So while Tlaib’s rhetoric is still viewed by the vast majority of Americans to be vile and reprehensible, it very much finds a home in her district. In fact, her district is increasingly frustrated with Joe Biden for coming to bat for Israel as much as he has in the wake of the attacks.

That anti-Biden sentiment amongst the anti-Semitic fringe of the Democratic Party must be showing movement in 2024 polling, especially in Michigan, because on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that in light of all the increase hate speech going on in the country and rising threats and fears, she was naturally pleased to announce a new national strategy to combat…Islamophobia.

Michigan must be in play. There’s literally no other rational explanation for witnessing gasoline being thrown on the fire of anti-Semitism in one month alone, and dispatching all the resources of the national firefighting infrastructure to come to the rescue of the arsonists slinging around the gasoline. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified just this week that among the stats of religious-based hate crimes from last year alone, attacks on Jews accounted for about 60% of them. Attacks on Muslims? Somewhere around 9%.

But the consistent driver in the rise of anti-Semitic hate speech in the country can be laid directly at the feet of what used to be revered as giants in American media – the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. For the sake of this column, I won’t even comment too much on the absurdity of Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler throwing shade at Joe Biden for not taking Hamas’ word for it when discussing death tolls. Kessler claims that Hamas,

“has had a pretty good track record with its death estimates over the years.”

So while he concludes Biden should know Hamas is believable on the grim numbers, he won’t even sum up the courage to ding Biden enough to assign a Pinocchio or two. Such an unserious column is hardly worth more than a graph or two here.

The high-water mark of anti-Jewish hatred in print, the gold standard of branding Jews with the gold star, if you will, is the New York Times. Farnaz Fassihi, an Iranian-American “journalist” for the Paper of Record, is out with this catchy headline going to print on Thursday – After Years of Vowing to Destroy Israel, Iran Faces a Dilemma

Here’s just a sample of Fassihi’s story.

With Israel bent on crushing Iran’s ally Hamas, Tehran must decide whether it and the proxy militias it arms and trains will live up to its fiery rhetoric.

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Now Iran faces a dilemma, weighing how it and its proxy militias — known as the axis of resistance — should respond to Israel’s invasion of Gaza and whether to bolster its revolutionary credentials at the risk of igniting a broader regional war. More than 8,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Yeah, that’s the concern most Americans share – whether Iran’s proxies are up to the challenge of eradicating Jews from the Earth, and if so, when they’re going to get on with the business at hand, or whether all this “death to the Jews” is just empty rhetoric. You know, I’m no history major, but I seem to remember a time when New York was a place Jews took refuge after escaping the Holocaust in Europe during World War II. Maybe I read that wrong in older editions of the Times.

Then, Fassihi comes out with this nugget, which I’m sure will surprise White House Press Secretary John Kirby, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and President Joe Biden.

“There is no need for Iran to directly get involved in the war and attack Israel itself because it has the resistance axis militia who follow Iran’s policies and strategies and act on its behalf,” said Nasser Imani, an analyst close to the government, in a telephone interview from Tehran. “Right now Iran is in control mode — it is telling all of them, including Hezbollah, to keep things boiling but have restraint.”

I recall that since October 7th, there has been Bart Simpson-esque “It’s not my dog, nobody saw him bite you. Besides, you kicked him first” narrative employed by Team Biden when it comes to Iran’s culpability in the attacks. Every administration official for weeks maintained that there was simply no evidence Iran was involved in the attacks, which strains credulity, to quote Hillary Clinton. Any sentient being not poisoned with Jew hatred can see Iran’s hand in all this.

The rest of the big lie narrative was that the money previously transferred, or currently promised to Iran by the United States as part of their failed appeasement strategy, meant that essentially, U.S. taxpayers funded the attacks indirectly through the monetary law of fungibility. Even Secretary Blinken admitted as much that their “the money didn’t fund this” line is a lie when he ducked and weaved a repeated, direct yes or no question from Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty at a Senate Homeland Security earlier this week.

But the entire spin by the White House – no evidence Iran was involved, all of that is not only destroyed by the New York Times, but Fassihi writes this up as though their fellow Hamas supporters are growing impatient that Iran is not getting more involved, that they’re not ramping up attacks, that they’re not prosecuting the war more than they already have.

As for how the Times is covering the ongoing trend of anti-Israel people all over the country ripping off and tearing up posters of missing Israeli children captured by the Hamas Nazis, our buddy and media critic Joe Concha catches this headline from a story in the Times this week.

Yes, you see.. it's the posters of kidnapped innocents that is the match lighting the powder keg, per the New York Times. pic.twitter.com/qtMdzEIUNc

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) November 1, 2023

Yes, it’s the “have you seen my child” people that are causing all the controversy and angst, not the anti-Semites doing their part to make sure no one ever tries to humanize the Jews again. Good to know how the Times thinks about things. Clarity.

While the New York Times gets a full 10 on the Goebbels scale, a good, solid 8.5 goes to the Los Angeles Times.

Nika Soon-Shiong, who happens to be the daughter of the current owner of the Los Angeles Times, billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, has a ton of influence in shaping the paper’s news coverage. As the Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman reports,

It’s not journalistic malpractice to describe the state of Israel as an Apartheid state. This is well-established in international law. It’s the legal term for unlawful “killing, torture, forcible transfer, and denial of basic rights." pic.twitter.com/hIoi3FiuSB

— Nika Soon-Shiong 🇵🇸 (@nikasoonshiong) November 1, 2023

Well, with that oversight and encouragement, it’s no wonder that the Times employs anti-Semitic reporters like Adam Elmahrek, who still refuses to believe misfired Islamic Jihad rocket that fell in a parking lot of a Gaza City hospital wasn’t really an IDF bombing that killing 500. (Sorry, Glenn Kessler, still not a believable number.)

Summer Lin filed a story in the L.A. Times Tuesday under the headline, UC faculty group stood with Palestinians. That ‘legitimized’ Hamas terrorism, regent says

That may sound innocent enough. Here’s how she summarizes events to date since 10/7.

Since the ambush by Hamas militants, Israel has launched a barrage of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, sealed it off from vital resources such as fuel and begun a more recent ground incursion.

The Palestinian death toll has exceeded 8,500 people, including mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry. More than 1.4 million people in Gaza have been displaced, according to the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Against that backdrop, tensions on U.S. campuses have ratcheted up as sharply divided student bodies grapple with the conflict, holding protests, vigils and writing letters. The vitriolic climate at scores of universities — including UCLA and UC Berkeley — has chilled speech and torpedoed efforts to build understanding, students and faculty told The Times this month.

I wonder if Ms. Lin believes the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and the plane that was ultimately meant for either the White House or the U.S. Capitol were just ambushes? Virtually no American I know of believes that. And in the 9/11 attacks, no baby was placed in an oven in order to roast to death while its mother was gangraped and forced to watch her baby suffocate and burn alive.

As for Hamas “militants”, that assumes facts not in evidence. There is not a political wing of Hamas, no diplomatic wing of Hamas, no humanitarian wing of Hamas, and then a militant wing of Hamas. There’s only one Hamas – Jew-hating Hamas. Hamas is Hamas.

After blindly accepting Jew-hating Hamas’ casualty counts, placing her in the same camp as Glenn Kessler, she immediately pivots to false equivocating the protests on campuses. You simply will not find anti-Muslim protests or anti-Hamas protests. You will not find Jewish groups on campuses chanting Muslims must die slogans. You are seeing some brave Jewish students trying to stand in solidarity with the victims of horror in Israel, and being met with beatings from hordes trying to harass, threaten, and expel Jews from academic campuses in the same way Hamas and Iran are trying to expel Israel from the Middle East – by any means necessary.

Legacy media has linked arms with this generation’s Nazis. It’s high time that people, regardless of their ideological stripe, call out the anti-Semitism for what it is, denounce it loudly and publicly, and stand for good. There’s already plenty of places in this country, it seems, where evil has a strong foothold.