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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're wondering if you should be concerned about this, please note that the TMZ, Fox, and the Daily Mail are the journalistic organizations pushing it as a big deal.

This is 100% a false flag campaign, designed to stir up certain resentments and divisions. Use your brains people. Someone is trying to set up an opportunity for Trump or Desantis or similar to be able to say "the antisemitic NYT" in order to discredit valid reporting in the future.

This is not a thing.[/quote]

A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party.

So who is responsible for the false flag here?[/quote]

I literally just explained it. Conservative news orgs are jumping on this as an example of "antisemitism a the NYT" as a way to undermine faith in a major news source so that the same news source can be discredited if they, say, run a story about the January 6 commission or the Trump Org. malfeasance. I am guessing the OP of this thread is similarly motivated. The only actual Jews I know who would buy into this as some kind of intentional conspiracy are nut job right-wingers.

Look at how one of the arguments is that the NYT ran an op-ed criticizing Israel, shortly before running this crossword, as evidence of some kind of antisemitic bias. Does that make sense to you? All the Jews I know would tell you that criticism of Israeli policy should not be viewed as a criticism of Jewish people, and also that conversely Jews as a group should not be held responsible or blamed for the things you don't like about Israeli policy. Because these groups are not one and the same. So how does it make sense that running an op-ed critical of Israel is somehow part of an antisemitic campaign? That doesn't even withstand basic scrutiny.

If I were the NYT or this specific puzzle designer, I'd use this incident to be more careful about how the accidental images created by crossword puzzles could be interpreted. I guarantee it will never happen again. But I honestly don't even view this as an "unfortunate mistake." It was so clearly accidental and you have to stretch to take offense. The people trying to find antisemitic clues in the puzzle itself are off the deepend. Just because there is an antisemitic reference involving "boxcar" does not make the word antisemitic. The puzzle doesn't even reference storm troopers it references Siths. And so on.

100% a false flag and not even a well done one.[/quote]

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