Hundreds of Jews on Monday heeded the call of former NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind who tweeted: “Join me in loudly protesting against the @nytimes for publishing a vile anti-Semitic cartoon only days before a terror attack against Jews! NYC – Today – 5:30 PM @ The NY Times building on 8th Ave and 41 St.”
SILENCE IS DEADLY: Join me in loudly protesting against the for publishing a vile antisemitic cartoon only days before a terror attack against Jews!
NYC – Today – 5:30pm
@ The NY Times building on 8th Ave and 41 St. pic.twitter.com/xBd4Yp0RdL— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov)
Meredith Weiss reported on Facebook: “Hundreds of people out today with only a few hours notice to shame the NYT! Hillary Barr of Mothers Against Terrorism, Sarri Singer of Strength to Strength, Prof Alan Dershowitz, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, AFSI, StandWithUs, Rabbi Potasnik of the NYBR, Rabbi Abadi, Michael Cohen of Simon Wiesenthal Ctr, Jeff Weisenfeld, Sid Rosenberg of 77WABC and more joined us on stage. Special thank you to our amazing NYPD. We won’t be silent.”
Prof. Alan Dershowitz, who had not been planning to speak, ended up sending the defining message of the rally, precisely because he had been featured by and written for the NY Times so many times in his long career. Dershowitz suggested there was something deeply wrong with the “newspaper of record” which spends so much of its space every day attacking the Jewish State.
The Times initially issued only a tepid recognition of their “error in judgment” in featuring a cartoon showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dachshund dog wearing a Star of David collar and leading a blind President Donald Trump who wears a yarmulke. The paper later raised the heat of their atonement and even invited op-eds attacking it.