Steve Sailer writes: And, sure enough, from the Anti-Defamation League:
ADL Calls Reports of Family Fleeing Lancaster County, PA “Untrue and Damaging”
Philadelphia, PA, December 22, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), like many, read many numerous local and national news stories reporting that a Jewish family allegedly “fled” Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The reports claimed that the family feared retribution after being wrongfully blamed for the cancellation of the school production of A Christmas Carol. ADL investigated, and found that in actuality, the family left on vacation for winter break.
“News reports alleging that a Jewish family has ‘fled’ Lancaster County are untrue and damaging,” said Nancy Baron-Baer, ADL Regional Director. “We spoke with the family, who explained that they went on a previously-planned vacation for the holidays. Stories like this can sow fear in the Jewish community and beyond, and it is important to stop the spread of misinformation.
“There is no truth to the rumor that the school cancelled A Christmas Carol at the request of parents. The Hempfield School District released a FAQ clearly stating that the play was cancelled due to the inordinate amount of class time taken up by rehearsals. We commend the district for setting the record straight.”
When the ADL is the voice of calm reason, you know the corporate media’s Fake News mania has gotten out of control.
COMMENTS:
* Slate’s getting mighty ballsy. A photo caption in the linked article reads: “Steve Bannon, white nationalist and former Breitbart News head…” They’re not even bothering with half-hearted allegeds anymore.
* Yeah, a Jewish family chased out of town by Santa’s elves doesn’t sound plausible in our world.
But a Christian business ruined by homos… that is more like it.
* Slate is trying to start a Jew vs Christian war to deflect from Muslims behaving badly.
* So, a Jewish family leaves town, somebody speculates that they left because Cossacks, and this is enough to make the “news.” No need to get confirmation that they even have the supposed fears, never mind confirmation that their fears are valid, and not just a bunch of neurotic nonsense.
Let me put that another way: it would be bad enough, if Big Media simply took a Jewish family’s word for it, that they were leaving town because Cossacks. But it’s a whole ‘nother level of lying to not even get a quote from the family, before publishing.
It’s probably way past time to start reining these slanderous, lying hacks with some lawfare.
* To be fair, every Jew in history who has ever moved from one country to another has “fled”. There is no known case of emmigration for more mundane reasons.
* A Jewish woman and her three children were harassed today on an airplane. But since the Jewish woman was Trump’s daughter, and the harassers were two gay Jewish guys, the media wasn’t that interested…
* This play has been a tradition for more than 30 years. In September, the Jewish parents asked and received permission for their child not to participate. Then, all of a sudden, in November, the school system decides that they don’t want to spend the 15-20 hours of “instructional time” required to put on the play because that would “put them behind in preparing for 6th grade. The Philly Inquirer wrote:
“The Hempfield School District addressed the controversy last week, saying that the fifth-grade production of A Christmas Carol was canceled because the district could not afford the 15 to 20 hours of instructional time outside the classroom — and not because of complaints about the line “God bless us, every one!” PennLive reported.”
The elementary school principal was quoted directly by Fox News as saying, “The teachers agreed that they did not want our students to be put at a disadvantage relative to their peers from other schools in preparation for 6th grade; therefore, the play was cancelled. In addition to focusing on high quality instruction, our decision is rooted in the desire to be respectful of the many cultural and religious backgrounds represented by the students attending Centerville Elementary.”
So the principal is admitting that something other than the cost in instructional hours was part of the decision to cancel. Sounds to me like Jewish complaints did play some sort of role in this, and now everyone is scrambling to cover it up. I would guess that the Jews argued that the play should not take up instructional time or something like that. It’s also quite possible that the teachers of today are just not that motivated to carry on the tradition.
Interesting too that a reporter for Lancaster.com actually spoke to the Jewish parents and came away with the “fleeing” impression as well.
All in all, a typical example of feckless, craven behavior by all concerned. But since there is no media willing to dig into what actually happened, we’ll never know.
