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Mainstream Media: Not Antisemitic but Blind to Jewish Concerns

JL;DR SUMMARY The mainstream American media is critiqued for a perceived bias against Jewish concerns, not due to overt antisemitism but rather ignorance and insensitivity. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israeli Palestinian ConflictOrthodox JewsStereotypesMedia BiasAipacJewish ConcernsNews CoverageLeft Wing Bias

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"there is the bare minimum coverage of violent antisemitic attacks taking place with alarming regularity against visible Jews in Brooklyn"
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
"After a white Christian male murdered eight people (six of them Asian) in Atlanta-area massage parlors"
Colleyville, Texas, United States
"Yet when a British-Pakistani Muslim traveled thousands of miles to Colleyville, Texas, a few months later, took a rabbi and his congregants hostage"
Palestinian Territories
"In 2021, the New York Times front page featured photographs of dozens of Palestinian children (plus two Israelis) killed in that years Gaza war"
Israel
"Yet the depiction of the attack as a shootout was the furthest thing from the truth. Lucy and her daughters were driving in a car in the Jordan Valley when they were shot at by Palestinians in a passing car."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"In 2021, after Palestinian sympathizers attacked Jewish diners at a Los Angeles sushi restaurant, a KABC-TV report of the event was headlined Mideast tensions lead to LA fight"

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