New York Times Casts Antisemitic Palestinian Author as Cancel Culture Victim of New Jersey Jews

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A small Montclair book event became national news because it fit the storyline: Jews as censors, Palestinians as victims. A small Montclair book event became national news because it fit the storyline: Jews as censors, Palestinians as victims. The New York Times’ coverage of a canceled book event in Montclair, New Jersey, leans on familiar tropes: the noble Palestinian author cast as victim, the Jewish community as oppressor. Local Jews wielding “power” to silence critics? By amplifying the cancellation of one book event in suburban New Jersey, the paper casts Jews as overzealous enforcers of cancel culture, silencing a Palestinian voice over the war in Gaza.