Anti-Semitic leaflets turn up anew in Valley <(Passion)

Eagle-Tribune Online ^ | Tuesday, March 9, 2004 | By Jim Patten

[IYAAYAS]

Tuesday, March 9, 2004 Anti-Semitic leaflets turn up anew in Valley By Jim Patten Staff Writer

Police in North Andover and Andover are trying to trace the source of anti-Semitic literature left on front lawns sometime Saturday night.

The literature -- which criticizes the Anti-Defamation League, uses a report from the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights to accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, and criticizes the practices involved in the kosher slaughter of meat for human consumption -- was found on lawns in the Quail Run Lane area of North Andover and on Dufton and Shawsheen roads in Andover Sunday morning, police said.

"They are virulently anti-Semitic," Rabbi Robert S. Goldstein of Temple Emanuel of Andover said of the fliers. "This is a typical strategy of an anti-Semite, to take something out of context and twist it. It is very personal and it goes right after the Jews."

Goldstein believes the flier criticizing the ADL may be the result of that organization's criticism of the Mel Gibson movie "The Passion of the Christ," which the league feels portrays Jews in a negative way.

North Andover Detective Lt. Paul J. Gallagher said yesterday one Quail Run Lane resident spotted the literature at several area homes Sunday morning and picked it all up and brought it to the police station.

Andover police Lt. James D. Hashem said a resident of Dufton Road and a resident of Shawsheen Road called police during the day Sunday to report the presence of the literature.

Hashem suspects the leaflets are the work of the Arkansas-based white supremacist group White Revolution, which left fliers on lawns up and down Pelham and Perley Streets in Methuen three weeks ago that implied minorities are more violent and more prone to AIDS than whites.

Billy Roper, a representative of White Revolution, did not return a phone message for this story.

"It is obviously very offensive, very upsetting," Hashem said. "It is just somebody trying to spread hate and spread their message, whatever it may be."

He also raised the possibility the most recent fliers were an attempt to capitalize on the problems the Chabad Lubovich Temple in Andover was having in its attempts to expand.

The flier on kosher slaughter features a graphic description of the practice and has a picture of a cow with the words "Holocaust victim" underneath.

The flier criticizing the ADL features pictures of Abraham H. Foxman, national director; and Howard P. Berkowitz, national chairman, along with an Israeli flag and a sign reading "No Arabs Allowed."

The ethnic cleansing flier features a montage of pictures of Palestinian children.

[Agnes Heep]

I'm more inclined to think it's a PETA person hiding behind the controversy over the Mel Gibson movie.

[dinok]

These last two weeks have been quite illuminating to me. I have watched as American Jews have forgotten the Islamofascist murderers of their race and are upset at a movie that talks of loving one's enemy as a virtue.

Newsflash to all American democrat voting Jews...we
American Christians are the last and best friends you have on earth. No American Christians are shooting at you or blowing you up in suicide attacks. Arab terrorists are and would murder us all if they had the chance.

Get a grip will yah???

[DallasMike]

I agree. The much-feared "White Revolution" probably consists of 3 losers who can't read or write.

[xJones]

The literature -- which criticizes the Anti-Defamation League, uses a report from the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights to accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, and criticizes the practices involved in the kosher slaughter of meat for human consumption -- was found on lawns in the Quail Run Lane area of North Andover and on Dufton and Shawsheen roads in Andover Sunday morning, police said.

Hashem suspects the leaflets are the work of the Arkansas-based white supremacist group White Revolution, which left fliers on lawns up and down Pelham and Perley Streets in Methuen three weeks ago that implied minorities are more violent and more prone to AIDS than whites.

Oh yes, and poor white trash Arkies show up in Massachusetts all the time. Well, the Clintons do, but that's acceptible. Why do I smell another Tawana Brawley-type case?

[DallasMike]

Andover police Lt. James D. Hashem ....

What a deliciously ironic last name. That's way too cool.

[IYAAYAS]

There are so many interesting tidbits in this article.

[Shermy]

and criticizes the practices involved in the kosher slaughter of meat for human consumption

Left-wing anti-semitism. Think I read about these linkages here on FR.

[Antoninus]

Goldstein believes the flier criticizing the ADL may be the result of that organization's criticism of the Mel Gibson movie "The Passion of the Christ," which the league feels portrays Jews in a negative way.

I guess the word has gone out that any time some miscreant puts out anti-semitic garbage, it is henceforth to be linked to Mel Gibson. This is a great idea if American Jews want to assure themselves of an ever-decreasing level of support from American Christians.

I stand with Israel, and I stand beside my Jewish neighbors, but I will not stand by and watch a good man who made a GREAT film be slandered in the atrocious way he has been

[per loin]

Goldstein believes the flier criticizing the ADL may be the result of that organization's criticism of the Mel Gibson movie "The Passion of the Christ," which the league feels portrays Jews in a negative way.

Rabbi Goldstein leaps rather quickly to a conclusion for which he has no evidence. might it not be just as reasonable to believe that Goldstein himself was the perpetrator since he is the one gaining from it?

[xJones]

I vote with your #3. It has been eye-opening to realize the distrust and disrepect that American Christians are held in by American Jews.

I will always pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and all of Israel; I'd fight against any pogrom in a foreign land (because it wouldn't happen here), but it is quite evident how little regard or respect Jewish Americans have for their biggest supporters in the world.

They didn't trust the American goys, and that does hurt. Still, I must love them because of my faith, and I will always do so.

[DallasMike]

You know, the White Revolution actually has a website (but I'm not going to
provide a link to it).. They've surprised me -- it looks like the group is made
up of a lot of losers instead of just 3. If you try to Google to the website, be
forewarned that it's extremely racist, contains highly offensive material, and
is really, really stupid.

[dinok]

"Rabbi Goldstein leaps rather quickly to a conclusion for which he has no evidence"

Isn't that the sign of a biggot? Assuming all people of another faith or race are bad?

[dinok]

"If you try to Google to the website, be
forewarned that it's extremely racist, contains highly offensive material, and is really, really stupid."

It sounds like the Hamas site or Islamic Jihad. Nothing new...fascism and stupidity go together.

[demnomo]

Most Christians support Israel. True Christians are not big fans of the Palestinians who glorify child sacrifice, believe murdering innocent civilians are acceptable acts of "freedom fighting," revere and name their kids Osama, Hitler and Saddam and then teach those same kids from birth that hating/killing Jews and non-Muslims is good thing...

This is not the work of true Christians who were moved by the Passion's message of love and forgiveness. Smells like the work of Islamofascists and/or Nazis trying to pit Jews against Christians to me.

Ain't gonna work. I'm saddened if some Jews believe these pamphlets are the work of Christians who viewed the Passion film.

[EternalHope]

The ethnic cleansing flier features a montage of pictures of Palestinian children.

Hmmm...

Could this have been done by some NON-Christian who hates Jews?

Perhaps... (gasp!!)... a Muslim?

Sadly, some fools WANT to find examples of Christian hatred inspired by Mel Gibson's movie, and will cite practically anything as an example. They betray their own bigotry in the process.

[per loin]

Isn't that the sign of a biggot? Assuming all people of another faith or race are bad?

Yes, but that is not really what the rabbi has done.

[ElizabethP]

I've been quite confused about the controversy surrounding the Passion. I'm agnostic, but grew up in a Christian home and am unable to see what the fuss is about.

While I don't subscribe to any brand of religion, I find it absurd that Christians can be criticized and attacked freely, but Islam (a religion whose harmful manifestations are clearly evidenced in the countries in which they are practiced in its fundamental form) is protected by those on the left, when its oppression of all the groups the left champions by far exceeds any oppression Christian groups may seek to exercise on said groups.

[xJones]

and criticizes the practices involved in the kosher slaughter of meat for human consumption

"Left-wing anti-semitism. Think I read about these linkages here on FR."

Shermy, you need to explain more.

[Sabertooth]

The literature -- which criticizes the Anti-Defamation League, uses a report from the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights to accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, and criticizes the practices involved in the kosher slaughter of meat for human consumption -- was found on lawns in the Quail Run Lane area of North Andover and on Dufton and Shawsheen roads in Andover Sunday morning, police said.

"They are virulently anti-Semitic," Rabbi Robert S. Goldstein of Temple Emanuel of Andover said of the fliers. "This is a typical strategy of an anti-Semite, to take something out of context and twist it. It is very personal and it goes right after the Jews."

Goldstein believes the flier criticizing the ADL may be the result of that organization's criticism of the Mel Gibson movie "The Passion of the Christ," which the league feels portrays Jews in a negative way.

It's not just anti-Semites that take things out of context.

Rabbi Goldstein takes the ADL comment out of it's context in the anti-Semitic flier, to the exclusion of a rant about kolsher practices and also of a blood libel about ethnic cleansing of palestinians by Israel, in order to infer the most tenuous of links to Mel Gibson's film.

The anti-Semitc flyer's most vile charge is a bonafide blood libel, so why the stretch for Gibson?

Andover police Lt. James D. Hashem said a resident of Dufton Road and a resident of Shawsheen Road called police during the day Sunday to report the presence of the literature.

Hashem suspects the leaflets are the work of the Arkansas-based white supremacist group White Revolution, which left fliers on lawns up and down Pelham and Perley Streets in Methuen three weeks ago that implied minorities are more violent and more prone to AIDS than whites.

So, there was anti-Semitic activity in the area before the release of "The Passion of the Christ."

How can this be?