Tablet Mag’s Non-Apology For Antisemitic Piece

Yesterday, I posted about Tablet Mag’s vile, antisemitic article The Specifically Jewy Perviness of Harvey Weinstein, the title of which says it all really. I followed it up with a number of tweets, none of which elicited a response from Tablet, but Mark Oppenheimer, the author of the piece and Tablet’s editor at large (which explains how it got published to begin with) issued an “Apology.” And I deliberately place that word in inverted commas, because it is not much of an apology at all.

Yesterday I published a piece on Harvey Weinstein that many found offensive. The analysis I offered was hasty and ill-considered, especially in light of the even graver accusations that were published by the New Yorker this morning. I take this as a lesson in the importance of knowing as much as one can about a given story, and in taking the time to think and feel things completely through before opining. I apologize for not doing so in this case.

No, the piece was offensive to Jews, not just one that “many found offensive.” This sounds like those non-apologies where the person is not sorry for what they actually said, but just that you are offended by their words. Plus what possible “analysis” went into it, and how did any subsequent accusations against Weinstein make the piece even more offensive than it already was?

The wording, plus the fact Tablet have left the original article up on Tablet – where it can continue to be shared by antisemites like Richard Spencer –  render this apology anything but one.

I am also very disappointed in Yair Rosenberg, Tablet’s self-professed “troller of Nazis,” who has remained silent throughout all of this, despite my attempts to even reach out to him privately. While I understand he is employed by Tablet, his persona, at least, is of someone who takes principled stands against antisemitism.

16 thoughts on “Tablet Mag’s Non-Apology For Antisemitic Piece”

  1. The Real Walt Kovacs

    Dave, when will you finally understand that leftist Jews are Jewish people’s (and Israel’s) worst enemy? Worse than Islam, worse than Nazis. Why, you ask? Because they should know better, and because they are destroying Judaism from within, gleefully aiding and abetting enemies of the Jews and Israel.

    Thank you for your tireless work on this amazing site.

  2. Norman_In_New_York

    The writer knows he screwed up and is trying to save face, a common media response when these gaffes occur.

    1. “Gaffe”?
      This is a game, like a courtroom when the lawyer says something she knows will be overruled… but also knows that once it’s out and said, the jury has heard it!

      1. The Real Walt Kovacs

        It’s actually a gift – Oppenheimer’s mask has fully slipped off, exposing the deep self-hatred he has for his Jewishness. Expect more Kapo lefty Jews to follow.
        *grabs popcorn*

              1. Depending on the form of the “self hating” – yes very much so. It boils down to the old “two Jews, three opinions” thing, AKA why we are good at helping out everyone else, but can’t get our shit together. In the diaspora they take form of Jews who are in the conservative camp but involved in their country’s politics and look down on pro-Israel Jews (shouldn’t need to be specified) as “Israel firsters”. In Israel, it’s the Russian Jews, who consider it a tragedy if their kid becomes religious, or have some fairly racist ideas about all Israelis who aren’t them, or the Datiim or Mizrahi, who believe Jews from Russia should be sent packing because they aren’t chalachadly Jewish.

                1. The Real Walt Kovacs

                  Touché.
                  I’m sorry, I misspoke: with the exception of Netruei Karta, have you ever heard of an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel conservative Jew who works to undermine Jews and Israel at every turn, and desperately wants to be accepted by gentiles, virtue signalling how very non-Jewish she/he is?

                  So, do you agree that Oppenheimer is a big time lefty? You’ll start noticing that the majority of Western Jews are progressives (or worse), especially in the news and entertainment industry. College campuses are rife with keffiyeh-wearing, “Free Palestine” shouting hebes.

    1. The Real Walt Kovacs

      Any means justify the ends for leftists, right? “Antifascist” my foot. I’m no fan of Spencer, but no one deserves violence for their opinions.Even self-righteous leftists.

  3. This “apology” should not be accepted. The only apology should be a chance to print a counterpoint article entitled, “The Specifically Jewish Perversion of Jewish Anti-Semites like Mark Oppenheimer”–because this phenomenon really IS specifically Jewish. There is so much material going back 2500 years, the article will write itself.

    As for saying he offended “some people” and not “Jews”; no, the word “people” is correct because all types of people should be offended by anti-Semitism. It’s the word “some” that’s problematic– it should have been “ALL decent people.”

  4. I wanted to add a comment to Oppenheimer ‘s piece asking him, “Are you sick?” Alas, I learn that I had to pay money to subscribe in order to leave a comment. It was almost worth it.

    Thus, I must ask you, Dave: Is this guy Oppenheimer sick to write an article like that?

  5. Mark Oppenheimer’s piece is not simply offensive to Jews, it is offensive to journalism and downright dangerous for Jews. Haters don’t need any more fictitious reasons to hate or Jews, so when they pour through in a psuedo profiling by an editor for a Jewish magazine based on his expertise from reading a piece of fiction (novel by Roth), that does no good for anyone, certainly not for the Jew haters who are blinded to real problems while they search and create fake ones.

    Weinstein is despicable (assuming all or even some accusations are true). There are a boatload of despicable people in this world regardless of culture – and some because of culture – systematically (mass rapes, teen girl “grooming” etc) – and that is not the Jewish one.

    The apology is no less pathetic than the piece in the first place and it can lead one to wonder if Oppenheimer, who prescribes this behavior to being “Jewy” and he himself is a Jew may perhaps be battling with his own alarming demons – thinking it is not his fault he is who he is, but that he is a Jew and like Weinstein not his fault. He is, after all, part of the culture of the people whose men he is painting with such behavior.

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