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apparently the offending

artappraiser — Fri, 28 May 2021 17:13:37 +0000

In reply to Not going with Mari Cohen's

apparently the offending front page looks like this:

pic.twitter.com/xCySmzh3X2
— Jafpro (@Jafpro_16) May 28, 2021

It was really tough finding it on the website, though! Other news has pushed it aside. I didn't see it on the home page and I didn't even see it on the World page.

I had to go to the "Middle East" sub section of the "World" section and scroll way down to find it published online back on May 26

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/26/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-children.html

Not going with Mari Cohen's

artappraiser — Fri, 28 May 2021 16:56:43 +0000

In reply to A Closer Look at the ‘Uptick’ in Antisemitism

Not going with Mari Cohen's approach, not even going with NYTimes' approach:

https://t.co/Z1gCFkTXN0
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) May 28, 2021

Foxman served as the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League from 1987 to 2015, and is currently the League's National Director Emeritus

Is ironic because many pro-Palestian peeps have long thought of the NYTimes as an arm of the Israeli propaganda machine...

A friend in Sales once

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 27 May 2021 20:02:02 +0000

In reply to three cheers for Mari

A friend in Sales once advised me, "when you go to talk to people, always find out what they're measured on" - a useful piece of advice in evaluating many endeavours, & 1 it seems Mari is partially doing - the ADL is likely not measured on "accurately assessing the situation" - it's say getting more attention for the org & making ADL seem needed. Calming things down is likely not its goal, however desirable it might seem.

three cheers for Mari

artappraiser — Thu, 27 May 2021 19:26:46 +0000

In reply to A Closer Look at the ‘Uptick’ in Antisemitism

three cheers for Mari (assistant editor at Jewish Currents) doing the "fear fear itself" thing. She will no doubt get a lot of flack from those invested in stoking victimhood Olympics, when all she's trying to do is figure out the reality of the situation and what people should actually be fearing and what they should not:

Not to say that antisemitic incidents, especially violent ones, aren't concerning and upsetting. But actual spikes in hate crimes are notoriously difficult to measure, and before causing fear and creating new policy priorities, we need to know what's going on
— Mari Cohen (@maricohen95) May 27, 2021

The ADL didn't respond to my many questions about their numbers. But they're using multiple numbers for reported incidents in different posts, and a beating is lumped into the same count as a protest sign that says "Zionism is racism"
— Mari Cohen (@maricohen95) May 27, 2021

Furthermore, more attention on a certain type of incident generally leads to increased reporting of those incidents—and a change in how people categorize and think of as certain incidents.
— Mari Cohen (@maricohen95) May 27, 2021