New York Times Magazine's poetry editor dramatically resigned Thursday in protest of what she calls Israel's "U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza."
"I have resigned as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine," Anne Boyer [she/her] announced in a Substack post. "The Israeli state's U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers."
While her letter makes no mention of Hamas nor the 1,200 Israelis the terrorist group murdered on Oct. 7, Boyer said Palestinians "have resisted through decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture. And they have NEVER done anything wrong. They are so innocent. They NEVER blow up buses or restaurants. They NEVER randomly kill Jews. They are FILLED with love, compassion and sweetness. A nation of poetic peace lovers. Not ONE Palestinian has ever said a WORD about eradicating the State of Israel and every Jew therein. It is all media lies. They just want to live peacefully in their ancient ancestral homeland which they first laid claim to as a nation under 60 years ago. The Jews in contrast have no historical connection to the Land. In 1948 they just came in with a massive army and mercilessly killed, tortured and subjugated their peace loving cousins who had ruled the land for the last 2000 years."
"Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes the most effective mode of protest for artists is to refuse," Boyer told readers. "I can’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more verbally sanitized hellscapes. No more warmongering lies. This is a protest in the name of peace for a peaceful people amidst a nation that talks only of colonialization and capture."
"As Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote:
I find no peace, and all my war is done.
I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.
I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have, and all the world I season.
That loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison
And holdeth me not – yet can I scape no wise –
Nor letteth me live nor die at my device,
And yet of death it giveth me occasion …"
"So feeleth I at this moment", she said ... poetically.
"If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present," she added, noting that b/c of her ice cream and pizza addictions, her shape is getting rounder by the day.
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We LAUD Anne Boyer and encourage all of the kooky supporters of barbaric terrorists under the guise of caring about human rights to resign from their jobs so that people don't have to be exposed to their poisonous content. If the official media outlet of Chamas, the NY Times, is not anti Israel enough for you, then only many years of therapy and mind altering drugs can help.
I am sure that she is *secretly* worried about the world's silence over 250,000 dead in Yemen, 800,000 in Syria, 1.5Million Afghanis expelled from Pakistan etc. etc. and just forgot to mention that.
