'The Aim Is to Make Israel a Pariah'

Last night, Rupert Murdoch gave an extraordinary speech at an Anti-Defamation League dinner in which he revealed, yet again, that he is a true and selfless friend of the Jewish people and of Israel. Here is the text:

You [the ADL] were founded a century ago against the backdrop of something we cannot imagine in America today: the conviction and then lynching of an innocent Jew. In the century since then, you have fought anti-Semitism wherever you have found it. You have championed equal treatment for all races and creeds. And you have held America to her founding promise. So successful have you been, a few years ago some people were beginning to say, “maybe we don’t need an ADL anymore.” That is a much harder argument to make these days. Now, there’s not a single person in this room who needs a lecture on the evil of anti-Semitism. My own perspective is simple: We live in a world where there is an ongoing war against the Jews. For the first decades after Israel’s founding, this war was conventional in nature. The goal was straightforward: to use military force to overrun Israel. Well before the Berlin Wall came down, that approach had clearly failed.

Yes. He tells it like it is. It seems to me that the real core of the speech is something that I’ve been saying for some time—in fact, that I’ve been saying since the Six Day’s War.

“Today it seems that the most virulent strains come from the left.”

Exactly. There may be a few skinheads or stupid rednecks who have antisemitic attitudes, but they are not, and never have been, the people who have killed massive numbers of Jews.

Because Hitler was a leftist. Head of the National Socialist Worker’s Party. And the only reason he called it that was because Stalin was his chief rival for world power, and Stalin claimed to be head of the International Socialists. They were fighting for the same turf, and even allied for a while when they divided Poland.

The trouble with the ADL is that they have continued to go after Catholics, and Evangelicals, and phantom Christian militias, when the real threat was from the left.

I think and hope that they are FINALLY WAKING UP. At least, some of them are.

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