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Posted on 02/25/2012 3:44:37 PM PST by smokingfrog
Arieh O’Sullivan left South Mississippi in 1981 to join the Israeli army. He has made a life as a journalist and olive farmer in that country, but holds tight to his Southern heritage in ways that sometimes perplex his friends, co-workers and even his mother. On Wednesday, he further tightened his connection to the region of his birth by taking the oath of the Sons of Confederate Veterans at Beauvoir.
O’Sullivan, who holds dual American and Israeli citizenship, is proud of the service given by his great-great-grandfather, Alabama Calvary Lt. George A Johnson. In the oath administered by Wallace Mason of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, O’Sullivan pledged to uphold the traditions of faith in God; honor; chivalry and respect for womanhood; a passionate belief in freedom for the individual; and a military tradition of valor, patriotism, devotion to duty and a spirit of self-sacrifice.
O’Sullivan said there is an unconscious nationalistic soul many Jews carry with them that is similar to the camaraderie shared by Confederate descendants.
“I feel it flowing through me,” he said. “If you have a sense of history that you carry with you, you are enriched by it.”
O’Sullivan is the son of former Ocean Springs Police Chief Efraim O’Sullivan.
A self-proclaimed “Jewish redneck,” O’Sullivan carried a Confederate flag with him into battle with his unit, the Fighting Farmers. He kept the flag, purchased at Gettysburg when he was 12, in the spare grenade pocket of his Israeli army uniform.
He named his jeep the General Lee and attached an image of the Confederate leader to the dashboard. The jeep has a battle flag for a spare tire cover. O’Sullivan said he gets bizarre looks from people sometimes because of his conspicuous affinity for the Confederacy.
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Jewish redneck!
Shalom y’all.
Now there’s a story that you don’t hear often.
Who knew that O'Sullivan was a Jewish name?
Like O'Evey I suppose.
What’s so surprising? There were notable Jewish communities in most southern cities, particularly the larger, coastal ports. Judah Benjamin was Jewish.
The stereotype put forth during desegrgation was not grounded in historical fact. It served another purpose.
His GGGF was a preacher and a Lt. too? He was in the Alabama Calvary and Cavalry. The Sun Herald must be hiring affirmative action graduates to proof read their articles.
I heard an actor on TV say “Calvary,” as in call out the Calvary! Boothe said it on an episode of Bones.
Definitely there were Jewish communities in the South long before the large-scale Jewish immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I ran across a case from before the Civil War in South Carolina, where a Jewish businessman or craftsman got in trouble for working on Sunday, because of laws enforcing the Christian Sabbath, when he observed a different Sabbath. It was a case that went to the appeals court but I forget how it was decided.
“...the traditions of faith in God; honor; chivalry and respect for womanhood; a passionate belief in freedom for the individual; and a military tradition of valor, patriotism, devotion to duty and a spirit of self-sacrifice...”
Sounds like pretty good traditions.
The stereotype that southerners hate Jewish people. The oldest synagogue in the country is in the south.
This is the type of story that makes me say, with all my heart: God Bless America, that has such people in it!
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I'm sure Paul Greenberg, now of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock, formerly at a paper in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, doesn't fit that stereotype (of Southerners who hate Jews). He was on to Bill Clinton long before anyone else, and coined the nickname "Slick Willie" back in 1980 (during Clinton's unsuccessful re-election campaign after his first two years as governor).
Aw man, how this warms my ever-loving redneck soul. YeeeeeeeeeeHawwwww. At least he is allowed to display the rebel flag. In America it’s become verboten.
Bernard Baruch, the famous mogul who advised Democrat Presidents Wilson and FDR was the son of a Jewish physician who served in the Confederate Army.
After the Civil War, Baruch’s father was one of the leaders who created the Ku Klux Klan, ostensibly to resist Yankee control during Reconstruction.
Bernard Baruch used his fortune to rebuild the family plantation. He employed his father’s former slaves and their descendants. Reportedly, he treated them fairly UNLESS THEY LEFT THE PLANTATION. If they left, he cut off all communication with them.
Baruch was the father of ideas like farm price supports, crop allocation, and social security. After WWII he floated the idea of sharing nuclear secrets with all other nations to create strategic equality.
For a guy who was brilliant at trading metals and creating a fortune, he had some of the silliest, most misguided ideas that have ever come out of the Democrat party.
If he did, he’d be a self-hating southerner just like Bill Clinton and never would have written a negative word about him.
How did southern Jews feel about the slavery thing?
The largest Jewish communities in Antebellum America were in Charleston and New Orleans aside from NYC
Jews actually pursued agrarian aims in the old South...something few had had the right to anywhere else before.
They had same rights as Christians and even had it enumerated in some state constitutions...the first ever for them period except for the occasional Kings waiver....
they were us basically and rarely diverged politically...unlike now.. and you see temples in small towns all over the south now mostly historical sites
the friction did not start till leftist Jewish freedom riders headed South in late 50s and early 60s as agitators and organizers and local Jews were lumped in....without merit mostly...by the Klan
a move that 95% of Christian whites derided
my own church like many defended the temples from aggressive klan action
and so it goes
Jews in the South are more liberal than the goyim (now) but nothing like up north and the old antebellum Jews not hardly at all
it’s a role to emulate...one newer Jews could learn well from
(and that is wardaddys southern Jewish rant..like anything else...it’s better in Dixie..)
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