'Just grotesque': Vox pounded for 'moronic' take on murders of three Israeli teens

@davidharsanyi It's like blood libel, once removed.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 2, 2014

Hey, remember that time Vox wasn’t a hotbed of shameless hackery? Yeah, neither do we. Today, writer Max Fisher undertook the admirable task of Voxsplaining how Israel is exploiting the murders of three teens in order to bully those poor Palestinians.

https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/484411232636895232

No, really. Here’s how Fisher kicked things off:

Twenty days after three Israeli high school students were kidnapped in the West Bank merely for being there, two days after they were found murdered in an apparent execution by Hamas members, and one day after Israelis gathered nationally to mourn the deaths, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies on Israel’s political right appear to have extracted what they wanted from the crisis.

Nice, huh?

Shorter Vox: Israel is getting what it wants by making a big fuss about a few bad apples in Hamas.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 2, 2014

.@SethAMandel Never fails, does it? It's like there's this dip in the conspiracist head-space that eventually causes 'em to blame the Jews.

— Moe Lane (@Ogiel23) (@moelane) July 2, 2014

I had honestly expected that "explanatory journalism" would involve more feigned objectivity & less "the Jews had it coming."

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) July 2, 2014

But this is Vox we’re dealing with.

FLASHBACK: Vox Is Latin For "Just Blame The Jews For Everything" http://t.co/raf3wnVZQo

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) July 2, 2014

And actual journalism is nowhere to be found.

Commentary assistant editor Seth Mandel was rightfully repulsed:

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.@SethAMandel is voxconstructing a voxsplanation of Why Jews Are Evil https://t.co/5gNQ5y5tEK

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) July 2, 2014

And he didn’t hold back:

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@SethAMandel @irishspy Without the kidnapping and murder, there wouldn't have been a crisis in the first place.

— Norma Connors (@NormaConnors) July 2, 2014

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Wisdom from Vox? Not a chance.

@SethAMandel Best rant I've read in days, maybe weeks. Lunacy, thy name is Vox.

— Ted Smith (@PapaTUtah) July 2, 2014

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