A senior writer for New York Magazine has come under fire for a series of tweets he made in which he claimed Zionists worked with the Nazis during World War II and justified some of the horrors of the Holocaust.
“Wait until they find out the Zionists could save hundreds of thousands of Jews from the gas chambers and decide not to,” wrote Tirhakah Love, editor of the New York Magazine Dinner Party newsletter that previously publicly celebrated the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
“The Nuremberg trials revealed they actively consulted with the Nazis and even helped SS officers in Hungary get away with genocide,” he claimed. “This is not about antisemitism.”
The tweet is from October 11, just days after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel that killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took more than 200 hostages.
However, they only seemed to catch the attention of fellow X users on Sunday, when scholars called out Love for his false claims.
Among them was Yascha Mounk, a German-American political scientist and writer for The Atlantic who suggested the author was more extreme than the dozens of Harvard student groups who claimed in a letter that Israel was “solely responsible” for Hamas’ slaughter.
New York magazine senior writer Tirhakah Love claimed in a series of tweets that Zionists worked with the Nazis during the Holocaust.Instagram / @goon_therapy
“Writers for Vox and New York Magazine: Hold my beer. Hm, How can I defeat that depravity? OK, I get it, ‘Zionists’ are responsible for the Holocaust,'” tweeted Mounkwhose ancestors were killed in the Holocaust.
“I don’t want journalists to be fired because of one tweet, no matter how stupid and vile it is,” stressed the scholar.
“But one of the things that makes null culture so corrosive is that it turns everything into a zero-sum conflict — and reveals very quickly who counts and who doesn’t.
“Does anyone seriously think that a writer who suggests that slavery was ‘really’ the responsibility of Africans would continue to be employed by Vox or New York Magazine? Of course they won’t,” he tweeted.
Love wrote that Zionists “helped SS officers in Hungary complete the massacre.”
“But hey, it’s Jewish. They are white. And privileged. And guilty. So you can say whatever you want about them without consequence.
Izabella Tabarovsky also said the idea that Cinta came up with was created as Soviet propaganda, telling user X to read her own dissertation on the subject in Tablet Magazine.
Author and quantitative marketer Eric Seufert also condemned Love’s tweet as “absolutely fake.”
“What you write here is blatantly false, and the conclusions you draw from your own ahistorical interpretation of the facts are completely insane and reprehensible,” he wrote.
X Love account has been made private by Monday morning.
The author did not immediately return a message, nor did Vox Media, publisher of New York Magazine.
This isn’t the first time Love has come under fire for his tweets — he previously came under fire for comments he made following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
“You can’t be a literal oppressor and not expect the people you oppressed not to rejoice at the news of your death,” Love wrote at the time.
X Love’s account has been made private after the backlash.Instagram / @goon_therapy
“Now I’m supposed to shut up, or better yet, actually bemoan what a barely breathable Glad ForceFlex trash bag is? Please do not.
“We all have our ways of mourning friends; doing an electric slide on a colonist’s grave happens to be mine.”
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