The media ignored outrageous anti-Semitic speech at a major academic conference on Gaza. Ignoring the issue will not make it go away.
Anti-Semitism is a subject that often makes the media nervous and this shows in their reluctance to report on it. As the conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro has pointed out, on the same day the that the extremely widely publicized fake attack on Jussie Smollett supposedly occurred, a real hate crime occurred. It was a horrific attack of a Hassidic man in New York.in all its brutality. There was virtually no coverage of the real hate crime, despite the dramatic video footage.
Of course, it’s not that the media never covers issues of anti-Semitism. The tragic mass shooting in Pittsburgh was widely covered and there have been stories about the surge in anti-Semitic attitudes both here and in Europe. As noted below, theNevertheless, the threshold for reporting on specific incidents of anti-Semitism seems to be quite high, which distorts public perceptions.
This lack of scrutiny leads to a lack of reflection. UNC Global’s response to the fact that it provided a major forum for anti-Semitic speech was to dodge all responsibility. In response to a request for comment from the ABC News affiliate, it opined: “Conferences such as this are organized by scholars who have academic freedom to develop the programming and invite their selected speakers and performers.
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