[Mad_as_heck]

The John Birch Society had many things right but often had very strong antisemitic undertones and a bit of a racist vibe too. General Walker and Protocols of Zion type stuff.

They undermined a lot of the good they did in the fight against the reds with that sort of BS. And there was a time before conservatives tended to be as staunch supporters of Israel as they generally are today....

[padre35]

Yeah there is a Buchanon wing of anti Israel views, I canunderstand it, but I dsagree with it.

“Why piss off 20 countries to support 1 country, with our tax money to boot”?

They don’t stop to realize that no one in the region has better intelligence then the Israelis or that the IDF tests some of our new weapons systems for us.

so it is a two way street.

[George W. Bush]

The John Birch Society had many things right but often had very strong antisemitic undertones and a bit of a racist vibe too. General Walker and Protocols of Zion type stuff.

I think Glenn on the other thread had it right when he said that they were never antisemitic as an organization but had to keep expelling some antisemites that tried to set up shop there.

Of course, the controversy tarred the entire organization with the brush of antisemitism. Certainly, on the other thread we had info on some of the ex-JBSers and the organizations they formed after they were expelled by the JBS people.

The same thing has happened at FR. JimRob had to expel antisemites. Then they end up at one of those small TOS sites where they can be as antisemitic as they want.