Last Thursday, the website of the New York Times invited European Muslims to comment on how they were affected by the Paris attacks. Asks Liel Leibovitz: why is the “Times obsessively interested in the experiences of only one minority group in Europe?”
It’s hard to understand the paper’s continuing obsession, in their surveys and on their editorial page, with the mortal threat of “Islamophobia”—a dubious term that lumps together actual crimes with thought-crimes, like reprinting the cover of Charlie Hebdo—when the people being harassed, beaten, and murdered in Europe these days are Jews. This is especially true when the people doing the harassing, beating, and killing are Islamists.
Later—after recovering from its moral panic?—the paper changed the text to solicit the thoughts of Europeans in general. No explanation offered.
Read more on Tablet: http://tabletmag.com/scroll/188366/why-doesnt-the-times-care-about-european-jews