That combination struck a bad note with several prominent Jews who called out HuffPost Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen on Twitter.ADL’s national director, Jonathan Greenblatt, said the headline was “poor taste at best, very offensive at worst,” while Julia Ioffe, a reporter at the Atlantic, told Polgreen she wished “you hadn’t gone with this headline.”GOY, BYE! pic.twitter.com/yYlxh1jkJw
— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) August 18, 2017
John Podhoretz, editor-in-chief of Commentary, called the headline “witless, stupid and offensive,” while The Jerusalem Post’s Washington bureau chief, Michael Wilner, asked “What is HuffPost thinking?”Glad you changed the headline.Not sure your intent, but strikes me as poor taste at best, very offensive at worst.
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) August 18, 2017
In a series of tweets, Polgreen explained the headline “was intended to be a mashup tribute to Yiddish and Beyonce. Any other interpretation was completely unintended.”The headline, which has since been changed to “White flight,” likely struck many as particularly distasteful as it seemed to play off of conspiracy theories that Jews control the world. Last weekend, white supremacists and neo-Nazis gathered at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting racist and antisemitic slogans, including “Jews will not replace us.”Bannon is the former executive chair of Breitbart News, a site often associated with the “alt-right,” which is a loose far-right movement whose followers traffic variously in white nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, antisemitism and a disdain for “political correctness.”"'Goy, bye?'" What is @HuffPost thinking?
— Michael Wilner (@mawilner) August 18, 2017