(Posted here with the permission of the poet.)
Ode to The New York Times
By Elinor Weiss
(with apologies to John Keats)
The New York Times
Seems to hate the Jews
But for many of us
That’s really not news.
Take the Holocaust
The terrible genocide
When Jews were slaughtered
Simply a paragraph inside.
But now it’s not correct
To be an anti Semite
So the grey old lady
Tries to make it look right.
It turns its words
Against the Jewish nation
Israel is demonized
As a repulsive sensation.
Reporters like Yazbek
Filled with hate
Write lies about
The Jewish State.
Yazbek loves Hamas
Terrorists supreme
Yazbek’s views of Jews
Are quite extreme.
She justifies violence
Against Israelis
The pay to slay ethics
Is never reported in the daily.
Terrorist attacks
Against Israelis in the cities
Don’t merit the Times’ journalists
Sympathies or pities.
The Times is clueless,
It doesn’t seem to know
That Hamas wants all of Israel
To go.
Any evil,
Anything bad,
Is blamed on Israel,
Just sad, sad, sad!
Misleading subheadings,
Misuse of words
So that its readers will think
Israel as a turd.
But to be fair
When holidays come around
Jews hating being Jewish
Are the ones Times has found.
You can be sure to read
Why Hanukkah is overrated
Or a put down on Passover
Jews against God are celebrated.
Defaming Jewish holidays
Encouraging Israel’s demise
Anti semites at the New York Times?
Definitely not a surprise!
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