Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Abe Foxman Schools NYT's Editorial Board

"Letters: Hate Speech at a Racism Conference"; A26

In response to yesterday's editorial - ostensibly - about Iranian President Ahmadinejad's hate speech at the UN Conference on Racism, one letter gets it right and is a must read - that of Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. To quote:
"Injecting the issue of Gaza in response to the outrageous attack by the Iranian president on Israel's very legitimacy as a nation...gives credibility to the...extremists."
Of course, Foxman's successful critique should have stood on its own, but the editorial board printed Palestinian propaganda - Kamran Nayeri's letter - perhaps in order to rationalize the content of "More Hatred From...."

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