The Newsweek correspondent implied that Jews and Israel are the reason why some stories do not receive proper coverage in the US media.
A correspondent for US edition of Newsweek has called reporting on Israel and Jewish-related organisations a “third rail of American journalism,” the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports.
Yair Rosenberg, a writer for Tablet magazine, who tweets about Antisemitism issues, re-posted her tweet, interpreting it as Burleigh saying that “Jews are behind Trump.”
“A certain segment of stridently pro-Israel American Jewry has long been convinced that Obama is ‘bad for Israel’ — the single issue that can make or break a candidate seeking funds and votes from one powerful and politically active demographic,” she wrote for Salon. “Perhaps a historic pile of money wins them back, perhaps not.”