NYT Scribbler Thinks That "Apes and Pigs" Stuff Is Something Right-Wingers Invented--A CAMERA Expose

Jews? Apes and pigs? That can't possibly be so, since as lefty scribblers like this NYT nitwit knows, the Koran and hadith are blueprints for interfaith harmony and would never say anything that hateful. Surely we've misread what actually says "grapes and figs," right Jodi?

When billionaire businessman and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson was honored in Jerusalem recently, with Mayor Nir Barkat declaring him an honorary citizen of the holy city, the New York Times bureau chief Jodi Rudoren was one of the reporters in attendance (A Mogul Comes to Lunch, and He Doesn’t Hold His Tongue). 

As Rudoren tells it, Adelson "tried to school American reporters on the history of the Middle East" – the emphasis being on "tried," since Rudoren and her colleagues are apparently much too expert and knowledgeable to be schooled by a mere "conservative casino mogul" who is "close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu." 

As dessert was served, Adelson "held court, offering his characteristically unvarnished views," and in Rudoren's characteristically unvarnished view this is when the day's most ill-founded and impolitic statements were uttered:

As for the Palestinians, Mr. Adelson said, “They teach their children that Jews are descended from swine and apes, pigs and monkeys.” Then he questioned their existence as a distinct ethnic group, saying they were “southern Syrians” or Egyptians until Yasir Arafat, who was leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, “came along with a pitcher of Kool-Aid and gave it to everybody to drink and sold them the idea of Palestinians.”  

These ideas, staples of the far right, are deeply offensive to the Palestinians — perhaps partly the point...

Actually, Jodi, these ideas are staples of Islamic doctrine, which is precisely the point. And far from being "deeply offensive to the Palestinians," they are deeply cherished.

As punishment for such deeply offensive--and dangerous--cluelessness, I sentence Jodi to watch every single episode of Tomorrow's Pioneers thrice, once for every Jews-are-apes-and-pigs mention in the Koran.