When ‘j’accuse’ is just a smear | Spectator USA

When ‘j’accuse’ is just a smear | Spectator USA:

• The false, malicious attacks on the Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass

"Last week, the Chicago Tribune’s most prominent writer, John Kass, wrote a column decrying the rise in urban violence. 
Its compelling title: ‘Something grows in the big cities run by Democrats: an overwhelming sense of lawlessness.’

In today’s woke world, it is risky to speak such hard truths about gang shootings, unprosecuted shoplifting, looting, carjackings and more. 
This rising lawlessness is often cloaked in the language of protest, racial justice and income equality. Speaking out against it runs real risks. 
You might be doxxed, your home tagged with graffiti, or your family threatened. 
If you are a columnist, like John Kass, you might face ostracism from left-wing colleagues, attacks by the reporters’ union, and concessions to the mob by your paper’s editor, Colin McMahon.

The dispute began when the union representing Tribune writers (of which Kass is not a member) decided to go after him, full-bore. 
Their false charge was…wait for it…Kass’s column was anti-Semitic. 
Why? 
Because Kass noted that a major accelerant of urban violence has been the weak response by public officials, especially state and local prosecutors. 
Some of those prosecutors won office as part of a progressive political movement, specifically focused on winning control of prosecutors’ offices. 
That quiet movement had met with a lot of electoral success. 
One of its major supporters and funders is George Soros. 
Soros’s family background is Jewish...Read all.