The name of the book isn't mentioned, but this is it:
Posted on 12/05/2013 5:38:11 AM PST by SJackson
Anti-Zionism, as Jonathan noted, is acquiring “an undeserved veneer of respectability in Barack Obama’s Washington”: The latest anti-Zionist screed to hit the bookstores will receive a prominent platform at an event organized by the New America Foundation, a prestigious Washington think tank headed by a former senior Obama administration official. But frankly, I don’t see why anyone should be surprised. After all, anti-Zionism is merely an offshoot of a much older evil, anti-Semitism. And since the original has become perfectly respectable in Barack Obama’s Washington over the last month, why be surprised that the offshoot is as well?
Exhibit A occurred at the Geneva talks with Iran earlier this month, when an unnamed senior U.S. official refused to condemn the latest rant by Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Though many commentators found this silence disturbing mainly because Khamenei termed Israel a “rabid dog,” I was even more disturbed by the American representative’s tolerance of the part of the diatribe aimed at France, in which Khamenei used one of the oldest anti-Semitic tropes in the book.
Since France had singlehandedly thwarted what it termed a “sucker’s deal” in the previous round of talks with Iran, forcing its negotiating partners to make some significant (though still insufficient) improvements, it was understandably in Khamenei’s bad graces. But rather than admit that France could possibly have had its own concerns about Tehran, he accused it of simply “kneeling before the Israeli regime.” Paris was furious and condemned the remarks, but neither the senior U.S. official nor a spokesman for EU foreign-policy czar Catherine Ashton would do the same. The best America’s official representative could do was mutter that yes, such rhetoric is “uncomfortable,” but Americans also “say difficult things about Iran and Iranians” (is it any wonder he or she was too embarrassed to be named?).
The claim that Jews control the world–or in this case, France’s foreign policy–is classic anti-Semitism; this alone makes it worthy of condemnation. But the official’s silence was particularly outrageous because the target of this slur was America’s negotiating partner in the talks: France’s representative was on the same side of the table as the U.S. official and Ashton, with Khamenei’s representatives on the opposite side. If American officials aren’t willing to condemn anti-Semitic slurs hurled at their own negotiating partner by their mutual opponent while the talks are taking place, when would they be willing to do so?
Answer: Never, as proven by Exhibit B–the administration’s silence in the face of an anti-Semitic slur against some even closer allies that same week. I’m referring, of course, to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s outrageous assertion that lawmakers are siding with Israel against Obama on Iran not “from any careful consideration of the facts,” but “from a growing tendency by many American lawmakers to do whatever the Israel lobby asks them to do in order to garner Jewish votes and campaign donations.”
Not only is this another classic example of the anti-Semitic “Jews control the world” trope, but many of the lawmakers whom Friedman accused of blindly obeying Jewish dictates rather than thinking for themselves are President Obama’s fellow Democrats, who have loyally shepherded his domestic agenda through Congress. Yet even so, the administration couldn’t be bothered to utter a word in their defense.
When an administration doesn’t see fit to condemn anti-Semitic slurs even against its closest allies–its negotiating partner abroad and congressional Democrats at home–you know anti-Semitism has attained the height of respectability. My only question is when all the American Jews who voted for this administration are going to wake up and start objecting.
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I cannot believe what I am living through.
I sincerely thought we were beyond this evil, dumb me.
Sadly, I think it’s been “respectable” in DC for a long time.
Here's my problem.
The claim is that even a discussion of the extent of Jewish influence on American policy supposedly constitutes anti-Semitism. This influence is, or should be, a question of fact.
To my mind this taboo against discussing actual Jewish influence in politics was merely an early example of political correctness, going back long before it became verboten to even bring up other political issues.
A very major factor in "Jewish political influence" not mentioned here is the very strong support for Israel among many Christian conservatives. Certainly this accounts for a LOT more votes than those of the Jews, though possibly not a lot more in campaign funding. Possibly this doesn't get mentioned because it makes most liberals and Jews very uncomfortable.
To my mind, Jewish influence in politics and society should be as open for discussion as for any other group. But I guess that POV makes me anti-semitic.
Actually a good number of American Jews are not too bright or just living in the Obama bubble of “Never/Never Land”!!! Just as the German Jews and Jews throughout eastern Europe, etc. believed Hitler & Company would not really harm them, they laid back, and let events and history take its course!!! Certainly.....Hitler and his ilk plannedd from day one to eliminate the Jews enmasse!!! Sadly, this story looks to be repeated here in the USA & Israel!!! Obama and the Democrat Party are no friends of “any” Jews!!! Go figure!!! End of story!!!
What this letter amounts to is recognition of the commonsense idea that when Community A feels that its turf is being invaded by Community B, the less-controlled members of Community A may be expected to react with violence against perceived members of Community B.
This is basic human biology/psychology. Not that it justifies criminal behavior.
Too bad it can’t be similarly applied to “white Americans” who feel threatened as a community. Their feelings aren’t considered valid.
Appears that I posted this comment to the wrong thread.
Apologies.
Do they care that Israeli's are endangered by terrorism and threatened with nuclear attack?
“Liberals of Jewish heritage” would be more accurate...
Many of them are as anti-Israel as Farrakkkhan.
The new Democrat Fascist party is no different then the 1939 fascists in Germany, they are alliegned with radical Islam and at some point will march the good little Jews off to the ovens. That of course is after they test the ovens on the Tea Party.
Considering the blatant hatred of blacks which is appearing the internet, I’m surprised that open anti-Semitism isn’t creeping in as well.
Probably just a matter of time.
But can’t you see Barbra Streisand saying “I’m an American! Nothing can happen to me!” Sad, really.
The name of the book isn't mentioned, but this is it:
What did you expect?
Hillary is running her campaign on “The Third Way”.
Communism on the left is a failure, capitalism on the right is a failure.
We need a Third Way.
A Third Way were government and business work together.
Sound familiar?
That little turd with an half-assed mustache claimed the same thing in the 1930’s.
Just like 1930’s Germany they need a fall guy.
As if Reform Jews are even Jewish-by-practice, let alone Zionist.
Define "Jew".
No, seriously: what do you mean by the term?
Does "Jews" refer to an ethnic group, or to a group of people who practice a certain religion?
I suspect that there are a lot of people who identify themselves as "Jewish" who haven't darkened the door of a synagogue, read Torah, or refrained from eating ham in decades (if ever). To put them in the same category as those who keep kosher etc. is more than a bit silly.
IMO.
I’ve noticed a lot of anti-black prejudice lately, too.
I’ve also noticed some good reasons for it: disproportionate crime, disproportionate welfare, vile hatred acceptable in the culture, the knock-out game, Obama’s bigotry, Holder’s see-no-hate-crime DOJ.
I’m “fortunate” to see similar weaknesses in the American Jewish community that make me loathe prejudice against blacks -— not welfare or crime in Jewish communities, but absurd liberalism in the greater American Jewish community which disgusts me, and then I get mad at people who lump me (a very politically conservative Jewish man) in with the useless liberals.
I always try to remember there are conservative blacks just like I am a conservative Jew, and I treat them as conservatives until I know differently.
If I determine they are liberals . . . well, I pour disdain.
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