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[–]spokplumpen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's funny that you would call her a Zionist and other people call her a nazi. Anyway I'm not here to argue about her, I just think it's notable that even the EIC of a newspaper like NYT felt like they were stifled, that says a lot. I brought up the other story as an example of what she apparently couldn't write about while still working there.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's funny that you would call her a Zionist and other people call her a nazi.

In 2018, Weiss and Stephens responded to a critic who had called them “Zionist fanatics of near-unhinged proportions.” The two retorted: “The word ‘near’ should not have been a part of the sentence. Otherwise, we happily plead guilty as charged.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/opinion/israel-lara-alqasem-bds.html

She’s a neo-con and no friend to anyone.

A closer look at the events surrounding Bari Weiss’ resignation suggests she omitted some critical details about her toxic presence inside the paper, and may have staged her resignation to drum up publicity for her next move.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/15/bari-weiss-cancel-culture-israel/