On NR’s (Several) Disgraceful Swipes at Jews
16th January 2020
Several days ago, National Review ran a news item about the rise in anti-Semitism in the tri-state area. It had this bizarre quality of trying to give both sides of the situation, but here’s the problem: on one side of the “issue” are Jews getting massacred and on the other, people who call those same Jews “locusts.” The piece intended to give “context” to the rise in tensions, but it operated under a false pretense: there is no excuse for anti-Semitism, Jews are not to blame for Jew-hatred.
It’s articles like this that have attracted to National Review the title of ‘cuck central’ and the reputation of being a me-too site for progressive ideology. They have taken to leaning over so far backward to avoid being lumped with Those Bad Right-Wingers that the wind up being semi-Left (at best).
ZMan develops this theme in almost every article he writes, as you will have noticed if you read his blog (which you ought to be doing).