DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF MARTYRDOM AND THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: Leftists argue ‘rest in power’ for black people only after it’s used for white airman who set himself on fire. Backlash is brutal.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden Gets Confused About Year, Spreads False Story About Trump in Softball Interview With Seth Meyers.

REPORTER: "Can you give us a sense of when you think that ceasefire will start?"

BIDEN (confused): "Well I hope by the beginning of the weekend. I mean the end of the weekend. At least my national security advisor tells me that we're close." pic.twitter.com/lY2ffcg3Jh

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 26, 2024

It’s good to see the press taking it easy on the aging Secretary Brezhnev in his dotage: American Press Goes Full Soviet.

I WAS A HERETIC AT THE NEW YORK TIMES: Adam Rubenstein in the Atlantic on the paper’s young staffers’ 2020 meltdown over Tom Cotton’s op-ed: 

All of this happened in the first five years of my career. In the worst of those days, I was attacked not only by colleagues, but also by acquaintances and friends. One friend contacted my girlfriend of seven years, asking whether she would take a stand against “Adam’s role in promoting fascism.” She—the tough-as-nails daughter of Peruvian immigrants who grew up hearing stories of her parents fleeing the Shining Path—ignored it, and some eight weeks later, we were engaged.

As painful as it was in my mid-20s to think that my journalistic career would end as a result of this episode, it’s even more painful to think that newsrooms haven’t learned the right lessons from it. If the Times or any other outlet aims to cover America as it is and not simply how they want it to be, they should recruit more editors and reporters with conservative backgrounds, and then support them in their work. They should hire journalists, not activists. And they should remember that heterodoxy isn’t heresy.

By telling the story the Times told about Cotton’s op-ed, the paper seemed to avoid confronting the tough reality that despite many staffers’ objections, the article was well within the bounds of reasonable discourse. What did it mean for the paper and its coverage that Times employees were so violently opposed to publishing a mainstream American view?

It was clear to me then and it’s clear to me now that the fight over Cotton’s op-ed was never about safety, or the facts, or the editing, or even the argument, but control of the paper and who had it. In the end, all that mattered was that an example had been made.

Rubenstein is no longer with the Times, but as Ed Morrissey writes, the rot is still very much there: Former NYT Editor: It’s a Cult, and I’m Its Heretic.

And it infects every bit of the NYT, not just the opinion section. The staff revolt proved that much, but so does its product. How else can one explain why the New York Times ran the unsubstantiated story that Israel had destroyed the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza at the start of the present war and killed 500 people, without waiting for the sun to come up? Within hours, the Hamas claim was proven false as the hospital remained standing, and it became clear within the day that a Palestinian rocket had misfired and landed in the parking lot.

And yet it took the NYT a week to add an “editor’s note” to their original report that Hamas had “failed to make [the] case” that the IDF had hit the hospital. As I wrote at the time, the NYT wasn’t interested in reporting news but in amplifying propaganda:

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Nor is this limited to Israel, or even Donald Trump. Nicole Gelinas has a must-read essay at City Journal today titled “Department of Incorrections,” in which the Times tried to cover for Mayor Eric Adams and his cash giveaway to migrants. Gelinas had reported on the no-bid deal to disburse $150 million to migrants for food and shelter, but without any safeguards or accountability. Instead of following up and getting answers, the Times went after Gelinas while blaming the criticism on “Republican leaders and conservatives voices.” The piece misrepresented what Gelinas had written, and then refused to correct it when Gelinas asked them to do so.

The Times treated Rubinstein the same way, throwing him under the bus when the staffer revolt erupted. They took his Slack messages out of context to make it sound as though he’d approved Cotton’s piece with “false equivalences” when that message pertained to specific photographs rather than the essay. And even apart from that, there was nothing all that novel about what Cotton advocated. Rubinstein notes the bitter irony of the opposition to Cotton’s suggestion of using the National Guard to quell the George Floyd riots that emerged just a few months later:

On January 6, 2021, few people at The New York Times remarked on the fact that liberals were cheering on the deployment of National Guardsmen to stop rioting at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., the very thing Tom Cotton had advocated.

William McGowan’s 2010 book Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America begins with a tribute to the legendary Abe Rosenthal, who was executive editor of the Times from 1977 to 1986:

Rosenthal retired from the executive editor position in 1986 and then wrote a twice-weekly column on the op-ed page until 1999. Along with James Reston and a handful of others, he is identified with the New York Times’ golden age, a time when the paper spoke to—and for—the nation. In May 2006, Rosenthal died after a massive stroke at the age of eighty-four. He had worked fifty-three years for the Times, after coming aboard as a copyboy in 1946 in his early twenties.

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A tribute of sorts to the ideological neutrality of Times news reporting under Rosenthal had come from a rather unusual source: William F. Buckley’s National Review, the very bible of American conservatism. In 1972, as Spiro Agnew railed against the “elitist Eastern establishment press,” and Richard Nixon was livid over the Times’ publication of the Pentagon Papers and its looming endorsement of George McGovern, the National Review produced an article examining the charges of left-leaning bias. Conservatives had long dismissed the Times as “a hopeless hotbed of liberalism, biased beyond redemption and therefore not to be taken seriously,” the magazine observed, asking, “But to what extent was this impression soundly based?” A subheadline telegraphed its findings: “Things on 43rd Street aren’t as bad as they seem.” The National Review audit examined five developing stories, which it said had a “distinct left-right line,” and concluded: “The Times news administration was so evenhanded that it must have been deeply dismaying to the liberal opposition.” It went on to state that conservatives and other Americans would be far more confident in other media—specifically newsmagazines and television networks—if those media “measured up to the same standard” of fairness. “Were the news standards of the Times more broadly emulated,” National Review said, “the nation would be far better informed and more honorably served.”

McGowan noted:

While encouraging reporters to write with more flair, Rosenthal eschewed the subjectivity of the New Journalism, seeing this genre as substituting reportorial ego for a commitment to fact. He was vigilant about conflicts of interest, once firing a reporter who was found to have been sleeping with a Pennsylvania politician she covered while working for the Philadelphia Inquirer. “I don’t care if my reporters are f**king elephants,” Rosenthal was said to have declared, “as long as they aren’t covering the circus.”

But as 2020 proved, and as Rubenstein writes at the Atlantic (curiously, heretics don’t last very long there, either), the circus could be found each day inside the Times’ Slack channel.

UPDATE: When Will the Atlantic Apologize for Its Own Behavior? “The editor of the Atlantic at the time was Jeffrey Goldberg. The editor of the Atlantic is still Jeffrey Goldberg. Does he have something to share with us?”

BIAS BY OMISSION:

Hundreds of thousands just took to the streets to protest against the socialist regime in Brazil and if not for X, you wouldn't know about it pic.twitter.com/nl5VtubZdy

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 25, 2024

REPUBLICANS POUNCE AND SEIZE!

CNN's Jake Tapper whines "Republicans, obviously, seizing on this horrific tragedy at the University of Georgia."
He admits the killer was an illegal but huffs: "They're seizing on this as an example of Biden's failure to protect the American people and secure the border." pic.twitter.com/kKNHFhXVlZ

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 26, 2024

Evergreen:

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

Shot: Joe Biden versus JFK? No contest. But Democrats refuse to see it.

—The Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 15^th, 2023.

Chaser: US airman dead after self-immolating outside Israeli embassy.

—Agence France-Presse, today.

Related: Aaron Bushnell, US Airman Who Set Himself On Fire, Compared To Buddhist Monk Thich Quang Duc.

BAD NEWS: Economic boost from Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour could be overstated, Japanese investment bank Nomura warns.

HOW IT STARTED: How Joe Biden Is Positioning Himself as a Modern FDR.

—Time magazine, October 28th, 2020.

How it’s going: Why did Biden ignore the Italian internment camps in the US?

On Feb. 19, Biden issued a statement acknowledging the horrors associated with Roosevelt’s executive order from 1942. He mentioned the Japanese and acknowledged the injustices they suffered as a result. Unfortunately, he said nothing about the people of Italian descent who were also forced into internment camps.

“On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the forcible incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent — half of whom were children,” Biden’s statement read. “It was shameful. Families were separated. Communities were torn apart. People were stripped of their dignity. And the unconstitutional and unconscionable policy was even upheld by the Supreme Court.”

However, unfortunately, Biden used the commemoration to continue his web of political deceit. Instead of acknowledging all of the people affected, he made no mention of the Italians who also suffered from Roosevelt’s decision. It was an unnecessary and offensive snub by the leader of the free world who, just a few months earlier, expressed his admiration and respect for Italians.

“I decided to run for President to restore the soul of America. To confront racism, xenophobia, and hate in all its forms. To strengthen and preserve our democracy. We remember the tragic legacy of Executive Order 9066 — and the trauma it inflicted — by reaffirming the Federal Government’s formal apology to Japanese Americans.”

This is all hyperbole, of course. The only thing Biden did to America’s soul was further corrupt it with the toxicity of left-wing political ideals. Nevertheless, there was no reason not to acknowledge the Italians who were placed in internment camps. There isn’t any objection to condemning what Japanese people endured. It was wrong for innocent Japanese people to be put in camps. They suffered an injustice. However, so did the Italians, who experienced the same thing.

Approximately 600,000 Italians and Italian Americans, many of whom were legal residents and even U.S. citizens, were categorized as “enemy aliens” by January 1942. After Executive Order 9066, the U.S. government ordered around 1,600 Italian citizens into internment camps around the country. Two of the most well-known camps were in Missoula, Montana, and Ellis Island, New York. Additionally, due to concerns over espionage and national security fears of attacks along the coast, about 10,000 Italian Americans were forced to relocate from their homes and move inland. Yet, apparently, the injustices they suffered didn’t matter to Biden.

—The Washington Examiner, Friday.

60 MINUTES ENCOUNTERS THE TOLERANCE OF SWEDEN’S DIVERSE YOUTH:

60 Minutes goes to Sweden to make a heart warming special about diversity, but see a different situation, then this happens. pic.twitter.com/oUd2ZuJ0RV

— Dane (@UltraDane) February 24, 2024

NEWS YOU CAN USE: If Someone Asks Whether You’re a ‘Christian Nationalist,’ What Should You Say?

If someone actually asks you whether you are a “Christian Nationalist,” there are several things you could say — depending on whether you thought the person sincerely confused or deluded, or instead was trying to trap you as the Pharisees tried to trap Jesus. Here are a few sample responses, for use in different contexts, to the question, “Are you a … Christian Nationalist?”

• “Are you a pagan globalist? Just wondering.”
• “That’s a hate-mongering dog-whistle, like Josef Goebbels’ made-up slur ‘Judeo-Bolshevik.’ Would you ask a Jewish person if he were one of those?”
• “I believe that Natural Law, revealed to everyone Christian or not, ought to undergird all our laws. I learned that from reading Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail.’ Do you think he was wrong? The Nazis did. They persecuted people for promoting Natural Law.”
• “I’m a patriotic Christian, like George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, Billy Graham, and Pope John Paul II. What do you think I should be instead?”

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Ace of Spades: Why all good Americans must be afraid of “Christian Nationalists.” “Get A Load Of These Insane Christian Nationalists Who Believed Rights Come From God And Not The Government.”

More: Joe Biden—Christian Nationalist?!?!

AND JUST LIKE THAT, DEMOCRATS ARE ELECTION DENIALISTS ONCE AGAIN: Report: House Democrats May Not Certify 2024 Election if Trump Wins.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Pennsylvania Liquor Regulators Are Seeking Revenge on Bars That Broke Pandemic Rules.

During the height of the pandemic summer of 2020, the proprietors of the Burning Bridge Tavern worked with local officials in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, to host a series of outdoor gatherings for the community.

For their trouble, the bar’s owners got slapped with a series of citations by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB), the government agency that oversees and manages the sale of alcohol in the state. The citations were ticky-tack offenses, according to Burning Bridge’s chief financial officer, Mike Butler. Twice, the bar was cited for noise violations because they’d allowed a band playing at the gathering to plug into the tavern’s electricity supply. Another offense occurred when the owners and some family members were drinking inside the tavern, which was closed to the public, during a period when indoor dining was prohibited.

A frustrating situation, but not the end of the world. Burning Bridge’s owners paid the fines associated with the citations and assumed that was that. But then the bar had to renew its liquor license.

“They denied it. They said, ‘Oh, you’re the guys that got all those citations,'” Butler says. “It was a real gut punch.”

Turns out, over the past two years the PLCB has pushed dozens of Pennsylvania establishments that racked up pandemic-​related citations to sign “conditional licensing agreements” to renew their liquor permits. In some cases, those agreements have forced the sale of licenses—but in most cases, as with Burning Bridge, they’ve added additional conditions to the license that could prevent a future renewal from being approved.

Senator Blutarsky smiles.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

Shot: From The Passion of the Christ to Barbie. When did People Stop Behaving Themselves in Movie Theaters?

—Mark Judge, August 21st, 2023.

Chaser: Werner Herzog Watched 30 Minutes of Barbie and Asked: ‘Could It Be That the World of Barbie Is Sheer Hell?’

—Variety, yesterday.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Dog Bites Man Edition.

DISPATCHES FROM THE NO TRUE SCOTSMAN SCOTSWOMAN SCOTSPERSON FALLACY:

Clown world. https://t.co/ndUVt6MgOt

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 23, 2024

“All” the extremist murders are right wing, you see, because when leftists commit them, they’re not classified as such. Reminder: A left-wing trans shooter murdered kids at their Christian school, and the media’s big victimhood narrative featured the trans community & those… pic.twitter.com/b7kyqTxjw2

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 23, 2024

JONATHAN TURLEY: CBS faces uproar after seizing investigative journalist’s files.

CBS is one of the world’s premier news organizations, with a legendary history that includes figures from Murrow to Walter Cronkite to Roger Mudd. That is why the hiring of [Catherine] Herridge was so welcomed by many of us. The network was at risk of becoming part of the journalistic herd, an echo-chamber for Democratic and liberal narratives. It had been mired in third place for ages, and it was moving in the wrong direction by alienating half of the country.

Herridge had been a celebrated investigative reporter at Fox News. An old-school investigative journalist, she is viewed as a hard-driving, middle-of-the-road reporter cut from the same cloth as the network’s legendary figures.

The timing of Herridge’s termination immediately raised suspicions in Washington. She was pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur reporton Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal and the Hunter Biden laptop. She continued to pursue these stories despite reports of pushback from CBS executives, including CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews.

Given the other layoffs and declining revenues, the inclusion of Herridge was defended by the network as a painful but necessary measure. But then something strange happened. The network grabbed Herridge’s notes and files and informed her that it would decide what, if anything, would be turned over to her. The files likely contain confidential material from both her stints at Fox and CBS. Those records, it suggests, are presumptively the property of CBS News.

For many of us who have worked in the media for decades, this action is nothing short of shocking.

For those of us who have studied CBS Kremlinologist-style for years, it really isn’t.

SKYNET SMILES; EMBRACES RETROACTIVE MULTICULTURALISM BEFORE ANNIHILATING CIVILIZATION: My dudes: Google’s Gemini AI is woke as heck and people have the receipts to prove it.

Note that there are still serious limitations in the algorithm:

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Krugman vs. Krugman. New York Times columnist tries to memory-hole his prior views on immigration.

And don’t get him started on this sort of invasion of illegal aliens: Fake an Alien Invasion, Save the U.S. Economy. “‘If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive build-up to counter the space alien threat, and inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. And then if we discovered, ‘whoops, we made a mistake, there aren’t actually any space aliens,’ we’d [still] be better,’ he added.”

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE!

So when you've worked on the producing end as I did in my former life, some things are painfully easy to spot when the post-edit is complete.

In this case, I counted 28 cuts in this 2 minute video. 28. In something this short, *maybe* you do 5-6 cuts max. https://t.co/2xS3cSacst

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) February 21, 2024

I’m so old, I can remember when jump cut ransom note videos were strictly for when the DNC-MSM interviewed Republicans, not to get one of their own over the hurdle.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Democrats Concerned Biden May Be Too Old To Finish Destroying Country.

But with Kamala, Michelle, and Gavin all waiting in the wings to parachute in and finish the job that Joe’s boss started, they really aren’t, are they?

‘I’M NOT GOING ANYWHERE:’ Nikki Haley Vows to Stay in Presidential Race Regardless of South Carolina Results.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERCA: Seattle activists declare a ‘homosexual intifada.’

NEW: Keffiyeh-donning gay activists in Seattle have declared a “homosexual intifada.”

It signals activists will become violent to support terrorists who would toss them from the highest rooftop the moment they accuse someone of misgendering them.

Read👇🏻https://t.co/6jr3kj6HL5

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) February 20, 2024

Is it possible the Seattle homosexual intifada flyer is meant to envision a world in which gay Palestinians fight back in Gaza? Are they trolling us with their flyer? Not likely. The pro-Hamas faction of Seattle activists has consistently downplayed or ignored Hamas terrorism against Jews because they believe “resistance is justified when people are occupied.”

Generally, Hamas’ dangerous hostility to the LGBT community is ignored. But in the rare instances in which it is not, progressive activists use their hatred of Jews to gaslight. Radical Swarthmore professor Sa’ed Atshan dismissed Hamas and Gazan homophobia as if it’s no different than anywhere else. In an interview, Atshan tries to explain why there’s “queer solidarity” with Palestinians without having to mention it’s driven by blatant antisemitism, historical ignorance, or both.

Atshan noted, “Homophobia is not unique to Palestinian society. It exists in most parts of the world, including in Israeli society, as well as here in the United States.” He even manages to blame Jews for homophobia in Gaza, falsely claiming they participate in a brutal military occupation of Gaza.

“It’s very dangerous to pathologize Palestinian society as uniquely homophobic or that homophobia is endemic to the society without this broader context, as well as without understanding the ways that life under brutal military occupation exacerbates homophobia within Palestinian society as well.

Some broader context:

● Palestinian Islamic Scholar Sheikh Yousef Abu Islam: Homosexuals Should Be Thrown Off Rooftops, Stoned To Death; Allah Will Punish Us Like Sodom If We Don’t Fight This Abomination.

● What It’s Like to Be Gay in Gaza: Meeting Israelis on Dating Apps, Evading Hamas and Plotting Escape. In a society where homosexuality could be punishable by death, gay Gazans keep their identity secret.

● Hamas Executes Prominent Commander After Accusations of Gay Sex.

ACE OF SPADES: The New Yorker: Is The Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

Note that this is a different article from the similarly titled “Is the Media Heading Towards an Extinction-Level Event?” that appeared in The Atlantic February 2nd.

The media basically just copies from each other and writes the same ten pieces over and over again.

Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event? Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press’s relationship to its audience.

It would be nice if you stopped lying to that audience all the time.

And as far as an audience being “burned out:” maybe you could stop the endless Cycles of Crisis where one Outrage is only displaced by the next Cause for Alarm and then that is replaced by the next Moral Panic.

Maybe your liberal readers — who are highly neurotic, as every survey shows — wouldn’t be so burned out if you weren’t constantly lighting their nervous systems on fire with your panic pornography.

A report that tracked layoffs in the industry in 2023 recorded twenty-six hundred and eighty-one in broadcast, print, and digital news media. NBC News, Vox Media, Vice News, Business Insider, Spotify, theSkimm, FiveThirtyEight, The Athletic, and Condé Nast–the publisher of The New Yorker–all made significant layoffs. BuzzFeed News closed, as did Gawker. The Washington Post, which lost about a hundred million dollars last year, offered buyouts to two hundred and forty employees. In just the first month of 2024, Condé Nast laid off a significant number of Pitchfork’s staff and folded the outlet into GQ; the Los Angeles Times laid off at least a hundred and fifteen workers (their union called it “the big one”); Time cut fifteen per cent of its union-represented editorial staff; the Wall Street Journal slashed positions at its D.C. bureau; and Sports Illustrated, which had been weathering a scandal for publishing A.I.-generated stories, laid off much of its staff as well. One journalist recently cancelled a networking phone call with me, writing, “I’ve decided to officially take my career in a different direction.” There wasn’t much I could say to counter that conclusion; it was perfectly logical.

Keep talking that hot, sweaty sexytalk.

If only someone could have predicted the potentially disastrous impact of being myopic coastal-oriented publications that ignored or insulted the views of millions of Americans living in the vast region it dismissed as “flyover country.” If only:

ROLLING STONE STILL PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1979: Ugh. Kristen Stewart Tells Rolling Stone She Wants to ‘Do the Gayest Thing You’ve Ever Seen in Your Life.’

In The Painted Word, Tom Wolfe quoted Andy Warhol as saying, “Nothing is more bourgeois than to be afraid to look bourgeois.” Or as America’s Newspaper of Record notes:

‘I'm Happier than I've Ever Been,’ Says Gender-Nonconforming Celebrity Who Looks Like Her Soul Has Been Sucked Out of Her Eyeballs https://t.co/b2FGMW4e4y pic.twitter.com/UwgXzDS8TX

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 15, 2024

THE RISE OF BARBARIC PROGRESSIVISM*:

The progressives’ turn to violence first appeared in the one institution over which progressivism exercises near-absolute rule—academia. Recent years have seen the emergence of a kind of progressive dictatorship of the professoriate, a totalitarian regime that denies its subjects the right not only to believe but even to hear ideas that might cast doubt on progressivism’s rectitude. For some time, this was accomplished by administrative corruption and quiet censorship. Today, however, it is largely accomplished by mob violence. The professoriate’s shock troops shout down and assault speakers; disrupt events; attack opposing activists; engage in intimidation, harassment, and psychological abuse; and aggressively “deplatform” anyone with whom they disagree. Thus, while freedom of thought and speech are not outright forbidden in the academy, they have become impossible to exercise, much as Islamic religious laws against depictions of Muhammad have been imposed on Western societies through the threat of terrorism.

This culture of progressive violence emerged in full during the events surrounding the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police. While the Black Lives Matter protests that followed were often peaceful, a very large number were not, and left-wing groups like Antifa played a large role in the looting, burning, vandalism, property damage, and general anarchy that devasted several urban centers and led to a massive spike in crime as police withdrew for fear of further public execration. Along with this, and not only in the US, a campaign of iconoclasm took place that saw statues pulled down and monuments destroyed and defaced, including a statue of Winston Churchill and the Cenotaph in London. Even statues of decidedly non-racist figures like Theodore Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant were allowed to be pulled down for fear of further mayhem. Many progressives who did not themselves participate in these brutal campaigns of intimidation and violence either excused or supported them.

Particularly disturbing is that a large number of progressives—perhaps a majority—have adopted two of the most egregious ideologies they purport to oppose: antisemitism and racism. It has often been said that all totalitarian ideologies eventually end in the Elders of Zion, and the examples of Hitler and Stalin appear to bear this out. Indeed, as it has become more totalitarian, progressivism has also become more antisemitic. It tends to couch this antisemitism in the language of anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel, but its rhetoric is so vitriolic and hateful, its violence against Jews and Zionists so intense, and its support for the most horrendous antisemitic atrocities so open and palpable, that no other conclusions can be drawn.

Read the whole thing.

* I’ll take “Headlines from 1917” for $500, Alex.