Who should be featured in the photos of an article concerning vaccine hesitancy in Columbus, Ohio? Probably people from that city, right? Wrong. At least according to the Washington Post.
An article about vaccine hesitancy published on the left-leaning news outlet’s website on Monday featured multiple pictures of chasidim in New York – despite chasidim not being the subject of the article.
The hatred of the New York Times toward Orthodox Jews is well known; the Washington Post’s not as much. But clearly they’re peas of the same pod and grab every opportunity to insert Orthodox Jews into negative stories, painting the entire community as a stain on American society.
Shame on the Washington Post for joining the New York Times in its sheer despise for religious Jews.
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get ready to leave Japanese.
or perhaps Australian lingo.
PRAY FOR GEULA IN ERETZ HAKEDOSHA!
get ready to learn Japanese.
or perhaps Australian lingo.
PRAY FOR GEULA IN ERETZ HAKEDOSHA!
I’m a Jew. Chareidi. Chassidish. I also vaccinate. I’m sensitive to discrimination and antisemitism. But screaming antisemitism at every mention of orthodox is a little overboard. It seems a truism that our community has vaccine hesitancy. And fails to vaccinate. A lot. So pointing that out is…. antisemitism? Or just a fact? How about working ok our community to be a little less obstinate?
I have not read the article in the Washington Post but based on the snippets posted here it seems like the story was a national one – which makes me wonder, what does YWN think is the appropriate, non-offensive way to highlight the dangers of vaccine hesitancy in the frum world?
Look at who wrote the article. COVID-19 = CHINAvirus.
Baltimoremaven: It IS antisemitism because they used pictures of Chasidim in Brooklyn, NY, when the article was totally unrelated to Chasidim, but was concerning people in Columbus, Ohio.
That’s like reporting about an uptick in crime in Idaho, and posting pictures of Blacks in Brooklyn being arrested on the street.
Basalel,
How about posting pictures of other ethnicities too?
I read the article cited from the WAPO. Discussing vax rates of the Jewish community isn’t antisemitism. Discussing vax hesitancy in a particular community isn’t antisemitism. People need to get a grip.
I am confused and don’t understand the complaint. Frum Jews want to have a high profile and post their conspiracy theories and anti vaxx dribble online, but if someone calls it out, it’s antisemitism. Here is a piece of advise, if someone has “Farkrumteh” thoughts, keep them to yourself, don’t create a Chilul Hashem, don’t endanger my life, the lives of my children and grandchildren… and most of all, don’t complain when the media calls you out on it!
The whole internet (and offline) world is full of anti-vaxxers, and most of them aren’t even 1% Jewish. They call themselves names that are borrowed from the Germans that I won’t even repeat it’s so offensive and stupid.
So of course the media is so disconnected they’ll blame Jews instead.
THE JUDGE:
Your apparent utter lack of self awareness as you criticize these newspapers for bigotry while writing “Look at who wrote the article. COVID-19 = CHINAvirus.” because the reporter appears to be Chinese-American is very impressive, to say the least.
Judge
With all due respect, did you even read the article? It mentions Ohio but it also “people from Alaska and Detroit and Albuquerque. The article begins with a discussion about Ohio but is clearly about a nationwide issue which I would assume includes Brooklyn and Williamsburg in New York.
“The Ohio outbreak, which began in November, comes at a time of heightened worry about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment, a long-standing problem that has led to drops in child immunization rates in pockets across the United States. The pandemic has magnified those concerns because of controversies and politicization around coronavirus vaccines and school vaccine mandates.”
Nuff said.
Amil
If they are focusing on the negative aspects of a community only, it is indeed discrimination. If people walk away after reading the article and think more negatively of the Jewish community. Then that means that was their goal. where are the positive articles in the New York Times about the Jewish community why don’t they discuss our crime rate?
Actually, vaccine hesitancy is something to be proud of. It means you don’t follow other people like sheep, and vaccinate just because your neighbor, your newspaper, or your doctor, none of whom have ever spent even 5 minutes researching the safety studies of vaccines, said you should.
How do I know they haven’t researched it? Because the safety studies don’t exist. There isn’t a single vaccine that has ever been subjected to a long-term double-blind randomised controlled safety study.
So Jews can be proud they don’t just follow along.
This is disgusting. I also remember an article from Fox News some months ago about a bus crash somewhere in the midwest. The buses shown in several pictures was a picture of a chassidishe bus with hebrew letters on it.
Firstly Australia is very anti-Semitic so not a place to go. Secondly, to clarify Williamsburg is a section of Brooklyn
I feel that pointing out to the public every anti semetic act is not good for the Yidden it is rather dangerous!
Voting an Anti-Semite of the year absurd and the non jews will think it an honorable title!
That there are groups that are keeping on top of not allowing these acts to go unpunished is good and proper but we dont profit from making each act public
As i have always told my children “Halacha MiSinai..Aisav Sona Yaakov” We are in gulus as Hashem is reminding us>>whathe wants most of us is Ahavas Chinum
Of course there are anti-Semitic undertones here. They are not even bothering to be subtle about it.
B’H there is no current outbreak of measles in the frum community. They aren’t even claiming it. There are plenty of other groups that have anti vax members (Which group doesn’t?) and there are plenty of other groups that had measles outbreaks.
Why the disproportionate amount of pictures of frum people and mention of a measles outbreak there that took place almost four years ago? The article does note that over two thirds of the measles is by black people in Columbus. Would it make any sense to have pictures of random black people in Brooklyn in that article? Of course not and of course they don’t.
They are trying to imply that any outbreak anywhere is something to blame and hate Jews for.
@Baltimore. The reason this is antisemitism is because where it the blacks or other minorities who were in the same position, it WOULD be considered offensive and discriminatory to call it out. That is an undeniable fact.
those same jerks didn’t like trump either
Enough hand-wringing and gasping.
It’s time to take serious action against @nytimes, @washingtonpost and their ilk to show them that it’s not ok to target orthodox Jews anymore. It will not be tolerated anymore
Multiple Lawsuits and fierce negative PR campaigns are just the start
Let’s make them think twice about smearing our community again
Who’s ready to start this?
13 – what is an undeniable fact? If an article was written about sickle cell anemia and had a picture of black people it would be racist? Nonsense.
“385irose”
lets start at home first, by voting for the right people, so far they are way off by voting for anti torah anti law and anti order by voting for Hochul instead of Zeldin
385irose,
I can bring a few Chasidish kids to shout, “Keep away from my superior education!” though I need a few days to have them memorize it because none of them can speak or read English.
Baltimore
Sickle cell is not a contagious disease the point of this article is to spread the idea that the Jews are responsible for spreading covid
JB may have gotten the message. No such photos in the WAPO print edition.