Good-hearted Americans were horrified on Wednesday after new video surfaced of an antisemitic mob threatening Jews on a New York City subway, the same mob that had just held a rally where they flew a banner glorifying the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel. The story went untold during the Wednesday evening and Thursday morning newscasts of CBS and NBC. Only ABC called out the hate being directed at Jews in the liberal media’s backyard.
Instead of pointing out the far-left liberals behaving badly, CBS Evening News hyped President Biden signing a 10-year commitment to Ukraine and CBS Mornings questioned: Aliens living among us? Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News liked that the liberal ACLU was suing the Biden administration over his asylum executive order while NBC’s Today went to China to gush about Pandas.
Contrast that with ABC’s World News Tonight anchor David Muir who led into the segment by announcing: Here in New York City, authorities are describing that chilling anti-Semitic scene on the subway. Protesters asking, ‘Zionists to raise their hands and get off the train.’ Authorities say others defacing the home of a museum director who is Jewish.
Senior investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky highlighted this video shows a frightening moment on a New York City subway car, when protesters demanded riders raise their hands if they’re Zionists. And it was clear the mob was looking to hurt people:
ANTISEMITE 1: Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist!
ANTISEMITIC MOB: Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist!
ANTISEMITE 1: This is your chance to get out!
ANTISEMITIC MOB: This is your chance to get out!
ANTISEMITE 1: Okay. No Zionists. We’re good.
CBS and NBC were once aghast at flags being flown when they were innocuous and uncontroversial symbols being hoisted outside the homes of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. But they had no interest in covering what Katersky did. [The mob] had just come from a rally where the flags of terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah were waved. Another saying, ‘Long live October 7,’ he reported.
Come Thursday morning, those networks were still uninterested in the story even after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) condemned the antisemitism on the floor of the Senate:
KATERSKY: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer showed pictures on the Senate floor.
SCHUMER: This is not even close to free speech. It is intimidation, invasive attacks loaded with the threat of looming violence.
Katersky also noted that the anti-Semites were also responsible for Red paint and a threatening sign defaced the home of the director of the Brooklyn museum, who is Jewish. On the door they painted an inverted red triangle, a symbol used by Hamas.
[W]hat you heard on that subway car is no longer a matter of free speech, asking Zionists to identify themselves; the NYPD is now considering an implicit threat. They’re looking to charge the leader of the call-and-response with attempted coercion, he concluded.
