The Libertarian Party of Michigan on Wednesday posted an antisemitic cartoon depicting Jews as puppet masters who control both the Democratic and Republican parties in the US.

The graphic was posted on multiple social media platforms, but gained particular traction on X/Twitter, where it received widespread blowback but also a chuck of support — garnering over 1,000 likes before it was ultimately deleted.

The Libertarian Party of Michigan did not respond to The Algemeiner‘s request for comment for this story.

“I know some people think of me as ‘libertarian.’ I have used that word to describe myself at times,” journalist Brad Polumbo wrote in response to the graphic. “But please understand that I have no affiliation whatsoever with whatever the f–k this is.”

Max Abrahms, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, wrote, “I’ve found that foreign policy libertarians are more likely to (1) view themselves as smart, (2) view themselves as smarter than they are, (3) condescend when they’re dilettantes on national security issues, (4) and yes have issues with Jews.”

This is not the first time the Libertarian Party has been accused of promoting antisemitism. In August 2022, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire posted a now-deleted tweet reading, “Six million dollar minimum wage or you’re antisemitic,” in a reference to the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Then, a few months later, the national party tweeted out a depiction of Sam Bankman-Fried — the fraudster who ran FTX — that many argued was antisemitic.

Additionally, the Mises Caucus wing of the Libertarian Party invited an activist named Bryan Sharpe (or Hotep Jesus), who many consider antisemitic, to speak at its convention back in 2021. A Mises Caucus leading member said, regarding the invitation: “I don’t actually think that someone who is trying to be a truth-seeker and understand what’s going on — and asked the question about whether or not Jews run Hollywood is an antisemite.”

Many observers have pointed out that it is important to make a distinction between the Libertarian Party and people who generally think of themselves as libertarian, arguing the latter merely describes a worldview that prioritizes liberty in economic and social affairs. Meanwhile, the party is seen by many to have been taken over by extremists.

Liz Wolfe, a journalist at Reason, noted she believes “the better question is ‘What’s going on with the Libertarian Party?’ Certainly not the same as libertarianism.”

“I mean, I don’t feel like their antisemitic posting represents what I value,” she continued. “Far from it.”

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A longtime New York newspaper editor has publicly canceled his New York Times subscription after 60 years, citing “consistent misrepresentations” about Israel that are “dangerous” and “debilitating toward the quest for truth.”

The veteran journalist, Ed Weintrob, was previously the editor of the Brooklyn Paper and is now the editor and publisher of The Jewish Star newspaper on Long Island. Weintrob is hardly a knee-jerk critic of the New York Times — in fact, when much of the Jewish community was up in arms against the Times for its investigative criticism of Jewish schools, Weintrob fronted a defense of the Times coverage by Jonathan Tobin, headlining it, “Tobin: Even lying Times got this right.”

In a May 3 social media post, Weintrob posted a screenshot of the cancellation form on the New York Times website, with the box ticked that listed as a reason, “I have concerns about the New York Times‘ coverage.”

In the explanation field on the form, Weintrob wrote, “A lifelong subscriber (and a journalist for nearly 50 years) I’ve approached the cancel button many times but never hit the trigger. The NYT, while not perfect, could usually be relied on to seemingly attempt honest coverage of key issues.”

The editor went on to tell the Times: “Your consistent misrepresentations toward Israel are at best cartoonish, at worst dangerous, and in all events debilitating to the quest for truth.”

To his social media audience, Weintrob explained, “Pushing that ‘cancel’ button was hard, but doing it was long overdue … It’s a cold-turkey break to a 60 year addiction (yes, I’ve been reading the NY Times print edition that long.”

Weintrob has plenty of company in deciding he no longer wants the print New York Times in his home. On May 8, the New York Times Company announced that print subscription revenues had declined, notwithstanding price increases, and that the number of print subscribers had dropped to 640,000 in the first quarter of 2024 from 710,000 in the first quarter of 2023, a nearly ten percent decline in a single year.

The paper has seen some digital growth, but news-only digital subscriptions have also dropped off, leaving it unclear whether the company’s customers are paying for New York Times news and opinion or for the wordgames, cooking recipe library, and “Athletic” sports publication.

Remaining Times readers looking for evidence of Weintrob’s claims of a departure from the truth will have no problem finding it in the Times. For example, a Times article about a clash between anti-Israel (the Times insists on describing them as “pro-Palestinian,” as if allowing Hamas to remain in power in Gaza would be good for Palestinians) and pro-Israel demonstrators in Los Angeles concludes with this passage, relying on “Fernando Guerra, director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University”:

The views of many of the young people demonstrating this week were shaped, he said, by knowing only Benjamin Netanyahu, the right-wing prime minister of Israel.

“All these students have seen is Netanyahu and a government there that to them seems autocratic, out of touch and not protecting democratic ideals,” Mr. Guerra said.

That’s a falsehood. In fact, Ehud Olmert was prime minister from 2006 to 2009, Naftali Bennett from 2021 to 2022, and Yair Lapid for six months in 2022. And the young people are being supported by professors, professional activists, grantmakers, and older graduate students who also have lived through other Israeli leaders.

As for “not protecting democratic ideals,” Israel has had five national elections since 2019. In contrast, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, was elected in 2005 to a four-year term as president of the Palestinian Authority. Abbas is in the 19th year of a four-year presidential term, and the anti-Israel protesters think Netanyahu is the autocrat?

Likewise, a Times magazine piece about Issa Amro, who the Times describes as a nonviolent Palestinian activist, reports, “In 2010, the year Amro received a Human Rights Defender of the Year award from the United Nations, a civilian flotilla carrying humanitarian aid approached a beach on the Gaza Strip and was met by Israeli commandos who boarded its flagship and killed nine of its crew. In this conflict, nonviolence would be no shield from violence.” The phrase “civilian flotilla carrying humanitarian aid” is just an outrageously misleading description of a convoy of terrorist-sympathizers carrying camouflage netting and aspiring for martyrdom.

I’d probably join Weintrob and cancel too, if I didn’t need to read the darn thing for this press criticism column.

Ira Stoll was managing editor of The Forward and North American editor of The Jerusalem Post. His media critique, a regular Algemeiner feature, can be found here.

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The founders of a new organization that aims to foster closer ties between Jews and Evangelical Christians who support Israel told The Algemeiner that not putting an effort into aligning the two communities is a “missed opportunity” at combating hatred targeting the Jewish state.

“Together there is so much that we can do,” said Dana Cohen, a co-founder of the Moral Hearts Alliance. “We all recognize the evil that is Hamas and is facing Israel, but now on the college campuses, it’s on our shores too. We have an amazing ally and we have to reach across the aisle to one another and come up with ways to build on that alliance and activate it for all of us.”

The main goal of the Moral Hearts Alliance is to strengthen relationships for Israel and the Jewish people around the world with different religions, ethnicities, and countries that share their same values. Partnering with Christians who support Israel should be an obvious alliance considering that there are 60 million Evangelicals in the United States and 600 million globally, according to Cohen.

“We have to put aside our prejudices as a group and accept that they want to love us and embrace us and be there for us. They want to be there for Israel and want to be included,” added Valerie Feigen, a fellow co-founder of the organization and Cohen’s sister-in-law.

The two women co-founded the Moral Hearts Alliance earlier this year after Feigen went to Israel in January and met with survivors of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks. One survivor asked Feigen to help share first-hand testimonies from Oct. 7 attacks with people outside of Israel, and she came back to the US with that mission in hand. She became dedicated to having people “outside of the Jewish bubble” hear stories from survivors just like she did.

Feigen’s trip to Israel inspired a project that the Moral Hearts Alliance organized last week called “Solidarity Sunday,” in which seven survivors of Oct. 7 — including three from the massacre at the Nova Music Festival — spoke at seven churches across the United States, from California to New York, about their experiences surviving the terrorist attacks that day. The event was organized in cooperation with the Christian pro-Israel organization Eagles‘ Wings.

The largest congregation to host a “Solidarity Sunday” event was in San Bernardino, Calif., with roughly 1,500 people.

The events took place across the US on May 5, the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), and the overwhelming response was “emphatic love for Israel, love for the Jewish people, and the desire to stand with Israel,” Cohen said.

Each congregation sang Israel’s national anthem Hatikvah at the event, and lit candles and held a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the Oct. 7 attacks. At one church, a Jewish prayer shawl, known in Hebrew as a tallit, was draped upon a cross inside the congregation. The events were also live streamed and shared on Zoom for others who wanted to hear the testimonies from the survivors.

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