The New York Times published a chart Thursday identifying the religion of Democrats who opposed the nuclear deal with Iran, then partially deleted it without acknowledgment after it was deemed offensive.
The lawmakers against the Iran nuclear deal http://t.co/WsvuvPoczO pic.twitter.com/7TJaUzqW0Z
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 10, 2015
“It’s a grotesque insult to the intelligence of the people who voted for and will vote against [the deal],” Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the Washington Free Beacon. “They have some explaining to do. Why’d they do it? Shame on The New York Times for the timing and implications of this piece.” Cooper also said that the graphic suggested that “Jewish pressure” and “Jewish money” played a role in influencing the vote.
“After a number of readers raised questions, editors took another look and decided that that element of the graphic put too much emphasis on the question of which Democrats opposing the deal were Jewish,” a spokeswoman for The New York Times told Politico.
Earlier this week, The Israel Project released a poll showing strong opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran, as well as to the attempt in the Senate to filibuster the vote on a resolution to disapprove the deal. (The vote to prevent the filibuster failed yesterday.) The poll also found that 37 percent of Americans found that criticism of Jewish anti-deal politicians was anti-Semitic. The Israel Project publishes The Tower.
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