Today’s New York Times crossword puzzle layout sure looks like a swastika, something noticed by many, leading to an outcry on Twitter.
NYC Council member Kalman Yeger wrote, “A hidden Happy Chanukah message in today’s @nytimes crossword?”
Councilwoman Inna Vernikov expressed incredulity, writing, “Seriously @nytimes!?”
SAFE CUNY wrote, “Today’s Crossword Puzzle from the New York Times for Hanukkah. Pretty much sums up the @nytimes for the past few years in regard to Jews and Israel.”
But the New York Times denies any nefarious intentions. The Time’s Games department wrote online, “Yes, hi. It’s NOT a swastika. Honest to God. No one sits down to make a crossword puzzle and says, ‘Hey! You know what would look cool?’”
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Some legitimate organizations should arrange a demonstration in front of their headquarters.
Why no criminal charges?
What charges? Doing something you don’t like? If only life worked that way.
Of course, they didn’t mean it. But now let them eat the effects of their woke cancel culture. How many people were canceled for things that were never meant?
Rabbi Benjamin Blech said:
It is time for Jews to say to the New York Times: “we’ve had enough.”
SOURCE: J’Accuse by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, 2014/7/30 AISH dot com
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Rabbi Haskel Lookstein permanently stopped reading the New York Times.
SOURCE: Time’s Up for the New York Times in My Home by Haskel Lookstein, 2019/5/13 algemeiner dot com
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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky said:
“In the genocidal war being waged against the Jewish people, the New York Times is an accomplice.”
SOURCE: A New Low, a blog article by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, 2015/10/29 RabbiPruzansky dot com
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Mr. Dennis Prager said:
“The New York Times has been in the forefront of the Left’s hysterical, hate-filled attacks on police officers and whites.”
SOURCE: The New York Times and the Left Have Blood on Their Hands by Dennis Prager, 2016 July 12, JewishWorldReview dot com
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“One [New York] Times opinion editor, Matt Seaton, even admitted last year [2014 CE] that the newspaper has a policy of VEERING AWAY FROM CRITICISM OF PALESTINIANS.”
SOURCE: Final sentence of article titled: “New York Times Editor: Coverage of Israel Most Criticized Aspect of Opinion Pages” by Shiryn Ghermezian, 2015 October 14, algemeiner dot com
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“I find it especially distasteful the New York Times will not report that college campuses have refused to let the FBI interview Muslim students who have been planning attacks on Jewish organizations on campuses, particularly in the Midwest. It just isn’t Politically Correct to report those things about Muslims, so they don’t.”
SOURCE: Kristopher Irizarry-Hoeksema, 2014 August 29
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“The [New York] Times has a longstanding aversion to reporting straight-on demonization of the Jewish people…”
SOURCE: ‘New York Times’ ends the year with an epic Israel smear by Andrea Levin, 2019/1/1, JNS dot org
Not the 1st time it happened either. https://tomatohater.com/2014/12/07/anti-semitic-nytimes-crossword/
This is much more blatant though.
Everyone is paranoid. But the NY times lives by this standard.
That tweet is from 2017, so they haven’t even acknowledged the controversy yet
i wonder what occurred to the original publisher of the NYT to cause him to shmad zich and to become so filled with hatred for the religion into which he was born, so filled with hatred that it continues to inform his newspaper long after he is dead
We value strength in bricks. The crossword is crossword.
Really do you see a swastika? I looked at it this morning. I looked at it this evening and I just don’t see any swastika. I think one guy with a great imagination is seeing things and everyone is following him like a bunch of lemmings.
The NY Slimes is, of course, pathetically self-hating/anti-Jewish. But this is much ado about nothing. Crossword puzzles are supposed to have a pattern. This one is just that: a pattern. It is not a swastika and obviously not intended to be one.
OMG, people have lost their minds. It’s crossword puzzle for heaven’s sake!
Yes, crossword puzzle designers sometimes do sit down and say “hey, you know what would look cool?” and work their clues around a specific pattern. So yes it’s possible this was intentional. If it’s even remotely antisemitic, and in this paper, then it likely was intentional.
Good question, Yiddeneh.
There’s a story told over with the Satmar Rebbe, Reb Yoel ZATZAL. Someone came to him complaining that drop ceiling tile supports are like a tzelem. He told the person, again according to the story, because you see a tzelem doesn’t make it a tzelem. Same here if you want it to be a swastika have it your way. That doesn’t mean a bunch of idiots sat down and spent a week creating a crossword puzzle to look like a swastika. They may have. They might actually be grandchildren of nazis. But not necessarily factual and requiring everyone to have a massive heart attack.