New York Times’s Jerusalem Bureau Chief: Israelis Dislike Obama Because He’s Black…
More lying lefty Israel bashing. That’s why they call it The New York Slimes…
The pro-Israel website Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) are combatting the virulently anti-Israel views that they revealed are held by staff members of the New Israel Fund and the New York Times.
CAMERA drew attention to an interview given by Eitan (Ethan) Bronner, the New York Times’s bureau chief in Jerusalem. In an interview with the American television station MSNBC, Bronner suggested that Israelis dislike United States President Barack Obama because Obama is black.
Bronner told interviewer Chris Matthews that Israelis prefer other senior US officials, such as Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to Obama. According to Bronner, one reason for this is that “there is some level of prejudice about the fact that [Obama] had some Islamic background through his father.”
Obama’s policy of putting distance between the US and Israel in order to draw closer to the Muslim world is another factor in Israelis’ dislike of the president, Bronner said.
A third factor is “some degree of racism, to be perfectly honest,” he added.
Matthews seemed to support Bronner’s claim, saying, “Yes. They – because they see it as a black man, you know…”