Geller claims liberal Jews have "sickness of the soul," Jews are giving "blood money" to "terrible Jew" Foxman
January 25, 2010 10:05 am ET by Media Matters staff
From Pamela Geller's January 25 Newsmax column:
Abe Foxman has come out against a great and wonderful friend of the Jews, Rush Limbaugh.
That is bad enough, but it is symptomatic of a deeper problem: I have for years derided Jews in America and the Jewish lay leadership for tolerating and supporting clear and present enemies of the Jewish people among our senior ranks. It is a sickness of the soul.
The liberal Jew worships at the church of human secularism. These lost souls are married to their liberal dogma.On Friday Norman Podhoretz, whom I rarely cite, as his capitulation on Gaza and other existential matters of grave concern to the Jewish people have been most damaging, called Foxman out on the ADL chief's denunciation of Rush Limbaugh as an anti-Semite.
He called Foxman's attack on Rush "vile" and noted that Foxman "has a long history of seeing an anti-Semite under every conservative bed while blinding himself to the blatant fact that anti-Semitism has largely been banished from the right in the past 40 years, and that it has found a hospitable new home on the left, especially where Israel is concerned."
He said that rather than Rush apologizing to Foxman, it should be the other way around: "if an apology is owed here, it is the national director of the Anti-Defamation League who should apologize for the defamatory accusation of anti-Semitism that he himself has hurled against so loyal a friend of Israel as Rush Limbaugh."
As a passionate, proud Jew, I too stand with Rush Limbaugh and would take up against Foxman in a heartbeat. Thank God for righteous Gentiles like Rush. He is beyond delicious.[...]
That's not all. Back in August 2007, I demanded Foxman's resignation after his continual denials of the Armenian genocide.
We, as a people, cannot condone such unspeakable silence. We, of all people, must never be silent about the systemic death of a people.
This Islamic genocide was heinous and brutal. And considering the level of Islamic anti-Semitism in the Quran and Sunnah, it would be healthy and good for living Jews (and all decent and good people) to denounce roundly the Islamic genocide of the Armenian people.
But Abe Foxman not only would take that basic fundamental stand, but he went one step further. He fired Andrew Tarsy, the New England regional director, after he broke ranks with national ADL leadership and said the human rights organization should acknowledge the Armenian genocide that began in 1915.
Dr. Andrew Bostom said at the time that Foxman "apparently thinks that [he] can pick and choose among genocides . . . In a telephone interview, James Rudolph, the regional ADL chairman, called Tarsy an extraordinary leader. Indeed, Tarsy was acting in the best ADL tradition of trying to unite people of different ethnic groups, in this case Jews and Armenians, to promote human rights."
If the national ADL doesn't acknowledge the genocide, it is complicit in a cover-up.Back in 2006, I called Foxman out for his attacks on those dear and precious friends of Israel, the Evangelical Christians. And Caroline Glick said this of Foxman that same year: "Rather than stand with the Catholic church as Benedict moves boldly against radical Islam, American Jewish leaders led by ADL Director Abe Foxman have been attacking the church for its theological decisions."
Foxman also came out in support of the Islamic school in Brooklyn whose principal was forced to resign because of her involvement in anti-Semitic "Intifada NYC" T-shirts (see here).
See the pattern? Foxman demonizes Christian groups that love Israel but is kowtowing to the Islamic jihad.
Which Jews support deleterious characters like Foxman? Which Jews give blood money to these self-hating wretches? Who empowers these terrible Jews?
Pamela continues to cling to the delusion that a person who supports Israel without reservation is inherently supporting the Jewish people, and those that have issues with Israeli policies are against the Jewish people.
Sorry, Pammy. I'm Jewish, and I have some serious issues with some of Israel's choices.
And there's quite a few groups out there who support Israel only because they believe that an all-out war involving Israel is the prelude to the Rapture / return of Jesus / fill-in-your-own-religious hoopla here.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, Pamela. Be careful who you sleep with...
That said, I've always been a little confused on how the right thinks they somehow aren't anti-Semites anymore. Just because the right hates Arabs more than Jews and doesn't mind if Israel tosses a little white phosphorous into Palestine, suddenly we're supposed to forget their past anti-Semitic behavior? Let's be honest here; the right's current rhetorical playbook is just a find-and-replace of standard fascist texts, with 'progressive' being inserted in place of 'Jew'. Like all fascists, they need a scapegoat; how else will they pass the buck for their repeated failures?
yes and limbaugh was a big part of this particular find-and-replace which justifies gellar's revulsion at his forsaking after all he's done to redirect hate away from american jews
Do you really think an entire media system based on hatred and anti-intellectualism can help alleviate bigotry?
that doesn't make sense to me...whatever group is targeted wants to not be targeted...no?
...it simply means they've renamed their hatred.
who's the "they" you are referring to?...if the puppeteers I would probably agree with you...but the puppeteers have had long term effects on the thinking of their puppets, their listeners, to the benefit of american jews
any support of Jews by the neoconservatives is simply a matter of hating Palestinians and Arabs more than Israel, or more simply just rapture crazed fanatics who see Israel as a path to their biblical end times.
perhaps that's true but a more immediate effect for right wing radio talkers was to make their shows much more salable to the radio stations and advertisers
Do you really think an entire media system based on hatred and anti-intellectualism can help alleviate bigotry?
you're switching the argument from the specific to the general...from bigotry against american jews to bigotry generally.
This is why Limbaugh is no friend of the Jews, or any other persecuted group; his stock-in-trade is hate. His show amounts to little more than picking a target and skewering it with frothing rage in order to work his audience into a frenzy. No group benefits from this constant goading to hate and judge your fellow man. It also brings us to the original subject at hand, since he often gets so worked up that he goes over the line. His anti-Semitic statements and the fact that the ADL is even on his case should poke a few quick holes in any argument that he's a 'friend of the Jews'. No amount of faked support from Atlas Pam is going to change that.
there's more involved than that one social dynamic alone, but that does seem historically to be a part of it
...do you think groups that have historically been discriminated against want to see bigotry eradicated, or just shifted around?
priority is to shift off them...so I reject your premise of either one or the other...it's far more doable to get it shifted than to change the system generally...although both can be worked on together
his stock-in-trade is hate.
agreed
His show amounts to little more than picking a target and skewering it with frothing rage in order to work his audience into a frenzy.
not just any target though...ones which work to divide the the electorate to the benefit of the wealthy but which are at same time either ideological or sham ideological (libs, etc.) or who are defenseless (Blacks, etc.)...he had to get on the air and he wants to stay on the air
No group benefits from this constant goading to hate and judge your fellow man.
the very wealthy, both individuals and big businesses, seem to think it does benefit them...i would agree because it allows them to get legislation passed and executive action taken and judicial decisions made that are against the interest of the great majority of the electorate...a separate dynamic is that if they're hating on some other guy or group they're not hating on you or your group
it's a wicked world
More to the point, the Armenian genocide in Turkey was ethnic cleansing: part of the secular, nationalist so-called Turkish War of Independence.
Where has Israel been regarding the Turkish genocide?
2) Whoever formulated the concept of Jewish self-hatred probably also answered the question about where the internalized hatred comes from. It comes from ... ?
3) How are the dear and precious friends of Israel mentioned by Geller regarded in Israel?
I found late in life that I was 1/4 jewish. The financial rewards for this are a long time coming.
Curiously I have no urg to capture power or even make an ineffective try at it.
These days, only praise and congratulations can be spoken with no controversial intellectual dialogue. Walt and Mearscheimer were immediately blasted by the ADL for their book which incidentally no U.S. publishing house would touch. They had to go over to the UK to get the manuscript published. When Jewish power goes this wild in a freedom loving Constitutional Republic, something is rotten. If the media is that controlled, and discussions on the subject are forbidden because some 'extremist' group has changed the definition of hate, the USA is over. The more something is swept under the rug, obscured, hidden, forbidden, or otherwise ruled taboo, more interest is generated. In the words of Matt Drudge; "I go where the stink is"! And, this total nonsense about "self-hating Jews" is nauseating. They realize what is going on and are honest American citizens trying to make a difference. They should be praised instead of being scorned.