I have been a registered blogger with the Times of Israel (TOI) since January of 2015. I have enjoyed a good relationship with the editorial staff, publishing fourteen articles in five months through May of this year.
Most who regularly read my columns are aware that I am clearly an advocate for the State of Israel, its claims on sovereignty, and its struggle to not only survive but thrive in a world trying to destroy it. I also write how Western Civilization is under assault with Israel and the United States being at the center of that assault.
I wrote and published on the TOI, praising Pamela Geller for conducting a satirical look at the Prophet and how it drew out two Jihadists to Garland, Texas who are now dead thanks to the quick work of a armed guard at Geller’s event.
I also wrote how I believe that the only course of action concerning the Boston bomber was execution. Another published TOI article I wrote concerned England’s continuing slide into anti-semitism proportional to the rise in the Muslim population in that country.
All of these articles and more were published without a problem. They are still there if you want to access them via Google. None of these topics apparently were out of bounds for the TOI editorial staff.
Around May 15th I submitted a work showing how the European Marxist Left actively works toward the destruction of Israel and sits squarely in the Sharia inspired Muslim view of the Middle East. I centered my arguments around Avi Shlaim, an avowed Marxist, who admitted he would like to see Israel destroyed in favor of a Palestinian State from river to the sea.
The editors wrote back and explained they had a problem with my photos. I didn’t have the proper citations for publication. Okay, that’s reasonable, I thought. I therefore removed the photos, apart from one that came from Getty Images, which is known for its royalty-free catalog of historical and newsworthy photos. TOI wrote back a little more terse this time, saying that they could not accept the image, even after I explained and showed them that the image was from Getty Images.
They broke off communication with me.
Then a woman I am friended with on Facebook, Paula Stern, posted a blog that showed an article of hers, rejected by TOI, outlining terrorist attacks against Jews in Israel. She pointed out that while her article was rejected, another article submitted at the same time about West Bank settlers who were seeking a “final solution” to their Arab problem, was apparently published.
Uh-Oh, Busted!
Both rejections, mine and Ms. Stern’s, can be found on the TOI wikipedia page under ‘controversies.’
After a couple of months, I decided to try again and publish something else on TOI. I wrote why for the first time that American Democrats no longer had a majority supporting Israel. It was based on a Frank Luntz poll which was published in the Times of Israel.
How could they possibly reject that?
I argued the change was due to the growth of the three most powerful elitist groups in the party that have an anti-Israel bias and have now taken control of that part of their platform. These three blocks are American Blacks, American Muslims, and American Marxists.
The editors wrote back on September 1, saying that the article was “not approved for publication. It does not meet TOI’s standard of writing due to its toxic nature.”
After I got up from the floor, I didn’t bother to protest. I just wrote them back a scathing reply which I won’t repeat here. But, suffice it to say, I burned that bridge. And, please know I burned it willingly.
In conclusion it appears that the TOI blogs went through some kind of transformation in the middle of May of this year. Since all my evidence shows that before this time my blogs were readily accepted, and Stern’s and mine after that time were not. I am sure I am not the only one who has been rejected on such flimsy terms and Left wing bias. I would be interested in hearing from anyone else who has experienced this phenomenon of watching a perfectly respectable and balanced news site, devolve into some kind of Left wing rag. We have enough those on the net.
Now we have one more.
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