Posted on 03/11/2024 5:51:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Everyone (including this reporter) asks Foxman if he is surprised by the torrent of antisemitism that has seemingly engulfed the globe since thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed the border with Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping 253 more to the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians.
But Foxman differentiates between “surprised” and “shocked.”
“After 50 years of dealing with this subject, the answer is no, I’m not surprised — because those of us dealing with the subject professionally understood a long time ago that antisemitism is a disease without an antidote and without a vaccine. We reported on it, we monitored it, we recorded it… we knew that it was there, that it was deep, and that it was serious.
“The organized Jewish community developed a containment strategy — if we can’t eliminate antisemitism, at least let’s contain it,” Foxman said. “Keep it in the sewers with the cover on. [This means] using every means available: media, coalitions, memory of the Shoah, the truth, threats of litigation.”
He pointed out that in the over 100 years between the death of Leo Frank in 1915 to the massacre of the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, only three people were killed in the United States because they were Jewish.
“So that’s pretty good in terms of maintaining the community and safety…but it wasn’t surprising that a trigger mechanism blew the covers off the sewers,” Foxman said.
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And containing white people is the surest way of containing antisemitism...sarc
Leftism is the largest fount of antisemitism, but people like Foxman acted as proponents.
What were they before?
Foxman lost most of his credibility when he blamed the lack of civility on Trump. The man has his head in the sand.
Utter BS.
Abe Foxman does not give Trump the credit he is due, such as opening the US Embassy in Jerusalem, the Abraham Accords, and the fact that his son-in-law is Jewish and his daughter converted to Judaism herself making Trump's grandchildren Jewish as well.
Now he wants to blame what Hamas did, & the reaction of antisemitism on Trump?
You're barking up the wrong tree there, you jerk, Abe Foxman.
You rang?
Most Trump supporters are quite sympathetic with the Jewish people.
These people like Abe, I believe, are obvious as to the true state of this nation. Besides that I think Abe is antisemitic in many ways himself. Or perhaps that's because he tries so hard to keep the lid on the sewer as he calls it. But that lid was not lifted by Trump, that was lifted by the Democrats & RINOs, who will do anything to hold on to power.
I thought Foxman threw Israel under the bus during the supreme court protests?
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