Posted on 01/22/2010 9:45:54 AM PST by iowamark
In my new book, "Why Are Jews Liberals?", I argue that it no longer makes any sense for so many of my fellow Jews to go on aligning themselves with the forces of the Left. I also try to show that our interests and our ideals, both as Americans and as Jews, have come in recent decades to be better served by the forces of the Right.
In the course of describing and agreeing with the book the other day, Rush Limbaugh cited a few of the numerous reasons for the widespread puzzlement over the persistence of liberalism within the American Jewish community. And while discussing those reasons, he pointed to the undeniable fact that for “a lot of people”--prejudiced people, as he called them twice--the words “banker” and “Wall Street” are code words for "Jewish." Was it possible, he wondered, that Obama’s attacks on bankers and Wall Street were triggering a certain amount of buyer’s remorse within the American Jewish community, which gave him 78% of its vote? Finally, taking off from my observation that many Jewish liberals like to call themselves independents, he wondered whether a fair number of the self-described independents who deserted Obama and voted for Scott Brown might actually have been Jewish liberals. If so, he concluded, Brown’s “victory could be even more indicative of an even bigger change in the political temper of the country than has so far been recognized.”
For this, Rush Limbaugh has been subjected to a vile attack by Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Of course, Mr. 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 forty years, and that it has found a hospitable new home on the Left, especially where Israel is concerned. This makes Foxman a perfect embodiment of the phenomenon I analyze in "Why Are Jews Liberals?" Now Foxman has the chutzpah to denounce Rush Limbaugh as an anti-Semite and to demand an apology from him to boot. Well, 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.
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Thanks for the post.
The question of is Obama’s attacks on banks, bankers, and Wall Street a veiled form of anti-semitism is one that should probably be pursued.
Look at Obama’s history with Jerimiah Wright. There is no doubt there is an anti-semitic aspect to his teachings. He has embraced Louis Farakahn (sp?) who is an outright anti-semite.
I think anyone with eyes has seen the growing anti-Jewish feelings that have growing on the LEFT for years. It is valid for Obama to answer if his attack on bankers is a code-word for an attack on Jews.
It would be interesting to dig up some of Wright’s old sermons and see if he makes the links in his teachings.
Foxman can’t be a very bright individual. It is the DemocRATS who are the anti-semites and enemies of Israel, not Rush Limbaugh and the conservatives. Limbaugh and the conservatives are the ones out there raising hell about the way the Obamites are treating Israel. Foxman really needs to try to get a clue. I know newspapers are getting harder and harder to find but he really needs to try to find one and read what the liberals have been saying lately about Jews and Israel. It’s time to focus Mr. Foxman. Just try to focus.
Great post!
Imagine a time-machine takes us back to the Six Day War, but there’s just ONE catch —POTUS isn’t Nixon, but instead Obama.
How would it have finished?
I am getting this spooky feeling that we are almost there —does anyone else think this?
RUSH WAS RIGHT.
Never before has there been such potential for an incalculably high bill for post (POTUS) election warm and fuzzies...
Obama sat in Reverend Wright’s Church of Kill the Jews for 20 years.
Indeed, Obama was a deacon in said Church of Kill the Jews fo many years.
Anyone who thinks he doesn’t hate Jews and Israel is a complete idiot.
Thanks for posting. It looks like a LOT of people are buying the book. Sometimes I’ll track a book’s ranking on Amazon when they’re mentioned on shows like Rush, Hannity, Levin and Beck. Here’s what happened after the first time Rush mentioned it a couple of days ago:
1. Before mention (they update once per hour, so I can set the baseline): #38,255
2. First hour after mention: #28,740
3. Second - sixth hours after: #1543, 1260, 1066, 755.
It’s been hovering in the 800- 1800 ranking in the two days since, and after he mentioned it again today:
Before mention: #3030
Throughout the show: #2567, 2369 and 1117.
It’s awesome to see people take action and buy these books!
Just a little statistics moment... :)
Wow - #205 this hour!
“Foxman can’t be a very bright individual. It is the DemocRATS who are the anti-semites and enemies of Israel, not Rush Limbaugh and the conservatives.”
Correct.
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