Here’s a great letter to the Post Editor-in-Chief Steve Linde, who refused Pamela the opportunity to reply to the libelous article by Rabbi Jaffee and shunted the reply to Sara Miller, Managing Editor ofJPost.comeditor of JPOST, who refused to publish it. Everyone should write a letter to him and her.
Dear Steve,
I’m writing to you in order to protest the Jerusalem Post’s really shoddy treatment of Pamela Geller.
Not allowing Ms. Geller to answer such libellous and slanderous allegations indicates, to me at least, that you agree with Rabbi Yofie and with J Street. They are doing everything within their capabilities to delegitimise Israel and boost the enemy. They’re the modern day kapos. And you’re not only giving them a voice, but helping them!
All DECENT newspapers allow the right of reply when slanderous, unsubstantiated comments are made by one party. And I hope that Pamela does the right thing and takes legal action.I’m very sorry that the Jerusalem Post has decided to stand alongside our enemies, and has caved into the jihadists, Yoffie and JStreet. If the Jerusalem Post has been brought out by George Soros, you’ve kept it very quiet, but the attitude is the same.
As a long time hasbaranik, I can only say that you’ve let us all down!
Nobody can hold a candle to Pamela Geller, her bravery, straightforwardness, and willingness to fight at her own expense, against the violent, ruthless, jihad against Jews, Israel, Christians and against other Muslims. Unlike our enemies, she’s standing up FOR Israel and the Jews. She’s one of the few Jewish anti-jihadists. And it’s a remarkable woman, as Caroline Glick quite rightly said.
I’m not asking you to reconsider, because your actions have clearly demonstrated where you, and the Jerusalem Post stand. But you will lose a lot of loyal readers.
I’m obviously very disapoointed and disgusted.
S. Simmons
London, UK
JPost was actually quite good when Conrad Black owned it and Brett Stephens was the editor. They actually called for the assassination of Adolf Hitler Arafat.
Since he sold it, however, it has become another piece of leftist Jewish pablum.
Only INN/Arutz Sheva has the guts to tell it like it is.
I count myself as a Jew living in the USA who is a strong supporter of all the Pam Gellers who have surfaced to defend the Jewish nation and the Jewish state.
But I learned 40 years ago, when my wife and I were living in Jerusalem and undertaking graduate studies there on one-y ear grants, that the Jerusalem Post could never be counted upon to accurately report news affecting the rights of the Jewish nation in Eretz-Yisrael. Here’s why I say that:
Almost immediately after the Yom Kippur war with Egypt and Syria, Martin Van Creveld, a purported deep thinker on strategic military topics began writing screeds published in the Jerusalem Post saying that Israel’s defenses would be easier to maintain if Israel were to withdraw its armed forces from both the Suez Canal and from the Sinai peninsula as well. That was the line of crap that Heinrich Kissinger and the US Defense Department were starting to push down Israeli throats, culminating in the total withdrawal that Menachem Begin felt compelled to swallow by the execrable US president of 1976-1980, James Earl Carter.
I thought then, and still think now, that Van Creveld and those who shared his opinions were dead wrong. So I wrote an opinion piece which I submitted to the Jerusalem Post. Over a matter of weeks, one of their editors, a JP editor, Reuel, if I correctly recall his name, dangled me. I went to the trouble of shrinking the opinion piece into a brief letter. But I could never get him even to print that. I gave up shortly before our grant money ran out and we had to wend our way back to this country to complete our respective masters’ degrees.
I regarded all this as additional reasons never to trust any liberal, Jewish or otherwise, in anything related to the needs of our Jewish nation or our national rights. Perhaps the Jerusalem Post has changed over 40 years. But I think they cater to the same liberal crowd that I distrusted in the 1970s.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
I’m one of her stalwart supporters.
Great letter yes, but has Simmons received a response from the S. Linde of the JP?
Caroline Glick whom Simmons refers to as being high on Geller, is still I expect, the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post.
I wonder whether she and Linde had a set to over this matter, but Linde as Chief editor had the final say?