{"id":399307,"date":"2019-03-13T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-york-university-student-paper-joins-in-anti-semitism-witch-hunt-against-critics-of-israel\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:13:45","slug":"new-york-university-student-paper-joins-in-anti-semitism-witch-hunt-against-critics-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-york-university-student-paper-joins-in-anti-semitism-witch-hunt-against-critics-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"New York University student paper joins in \u201canti-Semitism\u201d witch-hunt against critics of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>New York University student paper joins in \u201canti-Semitism\u201d witch-hunt against critics of Israel<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Josh Varlin and Sandy English<br \/>\n    <br \/>13 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On March 7, the <em>Washington Square News<\/em> (WSN), New York University\u2019s student newspaper, removed from its website a witch-hunting article published on March 5 that equated criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, and criticism of the Trump administration with fascistic violence. The article began, \u201cWomen\u2019s March Co-Chair and accused anti-Semite Linda Sarsour is set to speak at Skirball [Center for the Performing Arts] later this month,\u201d and continued from there to accuse Sarsour of \u201canti-Semitism\u201d on the basis of a crude amalgam because one of Sarsour\u2019s co-chairs attended an event where Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan gave an anti-Semitic speech.<\/p>\n<p>The only NYU student quoted by the WSN\u2019s original article is a representative from TorchPAC, a Zionist club. Based on the flimsy claim that Sarsour is an anti-Semite because an associate attended an anti-Semitic speech, the WSN likens Sarsour to fascistic street gang leader Gavin McInnes and far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. There was no statement from the Asian\/Pacific\/American Institute at NYU, which invited Sarsour to speak, nor was it reported that Sarsour\u2019s speech, on refugees and immigration, is co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace.<\/p>\n<p>WSN Editor-in-Chief Sakshi Venkatraman admitted the piece \u201cwas written with a clear bias\u201d and \u201cwas sensationalist and wrong.\u201d Venkatraman also acknowledged that the comparison to McInnes and Yiannopoulos \u201cwas clearly a reach\u2014and disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NYU students were quick to oppose the original article. One comment on the original Facebook post said, \u201c\u2026 didn\u2019t think this publication could get shittier&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/13\/sars-m13.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 New York University student paper joins in \u201canti-Semitism\u201d witch-hunt against critics of Israel By Josh Varlin and Sandy English 13 March 2019 On March 7, the Washington Square News (WSN), New York University\u2019s student newspaper, removed from its website a witch-hunting article published on March 5 that equated criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}