Posted on 01/07/2014 6:49:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This is a vile article. It equates Judaism with Israel and thus lack of support for Israel with antisemitism. Both are untrue. While Buchanan has often expressed concerned with what he considers an unbalanced support for the State of Israel that is detrimental to U.S. interests, he has never made any attacks against Judaism. His opposition to support for Israel comes from a desire for an isolationist foreign policy not antisemitism. To equate the two is malicious and beyond the pale.
Well said Mr.K- PB is a long-time, full blown Patriot.
A desire for a return for a more traditional, detached American foreign policy is not anti-semitism. A lot of conservatives still revere George Washington’s advice to keep the world at arm’s length.
I’ve never liked Buchanan.
PJ Media, like its founders Glenn Reynolds, Ed Morrisey, Bill Whittle, et al, has a firmly neoconservative foreign policy perspective.
Along with the neoconservative foreign policy, they have adopted the neocon mode of attack against the old right- accusing its members of being isolationist and antisemitic.
So, how does one state that AIPAC has too much influence on US foreign policy without opening oneself to the charge of antisemitism?
Or his sister for that fact. Happy New Year friend.
Happy New Year! :)
RE: I got to see him destroy gore vidal live...
He once threatened to punch Vidal in a debate ( ON LIVE TV no less ) for calling him a crypto-Nazi.
From ABC News, August 28, 1968:
Vidal: “the only pro or crypto-Nazi here is yourself.”
Buckley: “Now listen, you queer, you stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.”
I wonder if Buckley would have been suspended for making that statement today...
WATCH IT HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
I don’t think we discuss race or anti-semitism well in this country. Does Buchanan “hate Jews” or does he just think he is analyzing things correctly and he doesn’t see that he is carried away with it?
The simple fact is that going back 40 years or so, Jewish American influence was huge in support of Israel. Buchanan didn’t like that and called it out.
Since then, as a conservative I have become even more supportive of Israel and oddly enough liberal American Jews have gone so far as to make excuses for the Palestinians and to be pacifists about Israel.
I’m not an isolationist. I think Buchanan is so one track he doesn’t see the value in fighting terrorism. Then again the neos also completely screwed that up.
Well, I recommend reading Buckley’s book, because he really does a good job of distinguishing between “disagreeing with Israeli or neo-con foreign policy” on the one hand and “being an anti-Semite” on the other. He finds examples of people who do the first, but are by no means anti-Semites, and then he does a very very thorough job of cataloguing Pat Buchanan’s writings and speeches and showing that he is one.
Israel does not want a war with Iran, Washington denies Israel everything, neo-cons want peace, it does not snow in the winter. So Buchanan must be wrong.
His derisive comments against Jews and Israel always made it clear that he had no use for either. This fact shook up a LOT of Christian, Republican base support big time. That support has never been restored. Buchanan never cared, either— he was that invested in denigrating the Jews.
I would bank that conservative as he is on so many issues, and his veiling his Jewish aversions in “isolationism”, that he would flare his anti-semitism and find his netherregion banned on FR, in short order. Just a guess.
The vast majority of “Isolationists” just believe we are fighting the wrong enemy.
I saw it back then! Best TV of my life!
That wouldn’t surprise me at all. He seems to be a bitter and mean-spirited man.
“Accusations of antisemitism and Holocaust diminution[edit]
Buchanan has written about the Holocaust and engaged in the defense of some accused of Nazi war crimes.
For example, Buchanan wrote that it was impossible for 850,000 Jews to be killed by diesel exhaust fed into the gas chamber at Treblinka. Such statements have led to accusations that he has helped legitimize Holocaust denial. When George Will challenged him about it on TV, Buchanan failed to reply.
In 1983 he criticized the U.S. Government for expressing regret over its postwar protection of Klaus Barbie. In 1985, Buchanan advocated restoring the citizenship of Arthur Rudolph, an ex-Nazi rocket scientist accused of employing slave labor at a V-2 plant. In 1987, Buchanan lobbied to stop deportation of Karl Linnas, accused of atrocities in Estonia. In 1991 William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote a 40,000-word National Review article discussing anti-Semitism amongst conservative commentators focused largely on Buchanan; the article and many responses to it were collected in the book In Search of Anti-Semitism (1992). He concluded: “I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism.”[18][19]
The Anti-Defamation League has called Buchanan an “unrepentant bigot” who “repeatedly demonizes Jews and minorities and openly affiliates with white supremacists.”[20]
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said about Buchanan that “There’s no doubt he makes subliminal appeals to prejudice.”[21]
Buchanan has adamantly denied that he is antisemitic, and a number of conservatives and his journalistic colleagues, some of them Jewish, including Jack Germond, Al Hunt, and Mark Shields, have defended him against the charge.”
Source: Wikipedia
American Jews have been thought to be cultural Jews only. JINO’s.
Important to Jews of the ancient faith was bloodline. Common to all races and their progression over the course of centuries, now, is intermarriage, to the point that one might say the Jewish people have been all but wiped out.
Bloodline tenets can’t possibly hold the strict place today that it held in ancient Jewish history of the faith, and they vote for and seem to support their own annihilation, disbursement and defeat as a nation. Go figure.
They were/are the “people of God”, and then the Jewish Jesus as God the Son, built His Church, grafted in the Gentiles and there is thereafter no more real discussion of Israel or the Jews trumping the Church in it’s position with God and His Salvation. Rather, the new Israel is His Church, as the “people of God”. Right?
Wonder if that is behind Buchanan’s consistent throw away lines against Jews and Israel. Head scratcher.
I pointed this out at another site a few years ago about him and boy was I jumped on. I pointed out his own website where he has his book online. You can quote chapter and verse and there were still people who did not believe me about him. He thinks Hitler should have been left alone by us!
Either have I. Of course, it didn't help when he insisted that the west started the war with Hitler (instead of the other way around) by not giving him whatever he wanted (specifically, Poland). I disagree with those who say he is not anti-semitic. Those who try to split hairs between the words Jews and Zionists are just trying to cover their own anti-semitism.
It’s unfortunate, because in some respects, he is conservative. Still, it isn’t enough.
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