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Disgraceful White House Hanukkah celebration
American Thinker ^ | 12/11/15 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 12/11/2015 4:42:08 AM PST by markomalley

Leave to Barack Obama to turn what should be a celebration of the Jewish people’s survival in the face of adversity into a politicized rant celebrating the cause of the Palestinians, who want to “drive them into the sea,” as has been promised since the birth of the modern State of Israel.

Daniel Greenfield reports on what should have been the highlight of this year’s White House ceremony at Front Page Magazine:

…the White House chose Susan Talve to light the Menorah. Talve is a member of the anti-Israel group T'ruah which is currently promoting assorted "soft BDS" programs. She's also a Ferguson activist. Her behavior was deeply insulting to the religious Jewish community and made it clear that the White House was determined to hijack even a Chanukah party to promote an anti-Jewish agenda.

So the general conviviality of the Chanukah party was disrupted by a crazed rant from Susan Talve in which she seemed determined to jam as many leftist talking points as possible in her limited time. Instead of talking about Chanukah, Talve blathered on about getting, "guns off our streets" and to "clean up the fires of toxic nuclear waste".

Talve screeched, "I stand here with my fierce family of clergy and black lives matter activists who took to the streets of Ferguson". 

Having celebrated the race riots which destroyed a community, she pivoted to Syrian Muslim migrants. Chanukah is a celebration of the Maccabees defeating a Syrian occupation, but Talve may not even know that. Radical clergy tend to be light on the religion and heavy on the social justice.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: antiisrael; blacklivesmatter; blm; chanukah; ferguson; hanukkah; hanukkahhijacked; homophobia; islamophobia; israelbds; jinos; menorah; obamaantiisrael; palestine; palestinians; raceriots; refugees; susantalve; syria; syrianrefugees; talve; transphobia; truah; whhanukkah; whhanukkahhijacked
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To: deweyfrank

Satire is dead. Satirists need to step away from the computer(or typewriter, or writing desk), go outside, get some fresh air ... and then go to community college and learn to be welders. Their current job is obsolete. Reality has outstripped them.


21 posted on 12/11/2015 5:42:40 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: markomalley

I’m surprised he didn’t tell the story of the crematorium that burned for 7 days.


22 posted on 12/11/2015 5:42:51 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: mkjessup

By Bayer!


23 posted on 12/11/2015 5:46:25 AM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: LRoggy

Please provide a quote or link? I have never seen conservative Jews treated badly on this website. Of course, we treat liberals of all kinds with no respect whatsoever.


24 posted on 12/11/2015 6:06:33 AM PST by ohioman
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To: LRoggy

Yeshua Ha Machiach


25 posted on 12/11/2015 6:55:38 AM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: King Moonracer

Won’t ever happen EVER


26 posted on 12/11/2015 8:29:06 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: SJackson; Nachum

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27 posted on 12/11/2015 10:57:22 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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28 posted on 12/11/2015 11:24:57 AM PST by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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To: SJackson

Why anyone of Jewish ancestry or faith would attend an event inside this White House, is beyond me.

Look at those two Obama people and their contemptible all-knowing smiles.

You know darn well they’re both thinking these are exactly the type of people that will be addressed in the new Islamic America.

Disgusting...


29 posted on 12/11/2015 11:27:43 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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30 posted on 12/11/2015 11:37:09 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Obama proves that he has truly earned the title of “Chazzer” (Pig)


31 posted on 12/11/2015 11:39:50 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: LeonardFMason
I have no doubt that Obama wouldn’t blink an eye, or lift a finger, to help Israel or the Jews if they faced destruction.

He certainly didn't lift a finger about thedestruction and expulsion of Christians from the Middle East overthe past year.

32 posted on 12/11/2015 11:42:15 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: SJackson
That Picture speaks a thousand words...the Evil is strong with those two.(As if we didn't already know this)
33 posted on 12/11/2015 11:48:56 AM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah. Drake's Drum is Beating strongly.)
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To: LRoggy
Not everyone on this web site is a friend of Jews, like the idiot yesterday who called me a loser at life for not accepting Jesus.


34 posted on 12/11/2015 11:48:57 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: markomalley
…the White House chose Susan Talve to light the Menorah. Talve is a member of the anti-Israel group T'ruah which is currently promoting assorted "soft BDS" programs. She's also a Ferguson activist. Her behavior was deeply insulting to the religious Jewish community and made it clear that the White House was determined to hijack even a Chanukah party to promote an anti-Jewish agenda.

Too bad the MSM is so vile they won't run a story on this... Hey Washington Post? How you guy's liken' the new digs?

35 posted on 12/11/2015 11:49:25 AM PST by GOPJ (The enemy? (UWEE) Unified Washington Establishment Elites (UWEE -sounds similar to a pig call))
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To: LRoggy

for not accepting Jesus

Oh my good ness Jesus would NEVER say such a thing. He loves you JUST the way you are.

God bless you my Jewish friend. We will do great things in Heaven for God our Father once we leave this material place.

Happy Channuka(SP) I am Catholic if you will forgive my spelling.


36 posted on 12/11/2015 12:10:05 PM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: exit82

I’m thinking there MUST be a special place in Hell for Ovomit and his nasty, stinking, evil idiot entourage.


37 posted on 12/11/2015 12:18:49 PM PST by Monkey Face (To be without silver is better than to be witihout honor. ~~ Nordic proverb)
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To: LRoggy

Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas.

G-d Bless America and God Bless America.

There are many different roads in this life, yet a good many lead to the same place.

Happy Chanukah


38 posted on 12/11/2015 12:59:03 PM PST by Gator113 (Cruz or Trump ’“No”’€â€â„)
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To: markomalley; ml/nj; Zionista Feminista; nolongerademocrat; Eleutheria5; Yaelle; LucyT; ...
>…the White House chose Susan Talve to light the Menorah. Talve is a member of the anti-Israel group T'ruah which is currently promoting assorted "soft BDS" programs. She's also a Ferguson activist. Her behavior was deeply insulting to the religious Jewish community and made it clear that the White House was determined to hijack even a Chanukah party to promote an anti-Jewish agenda.

Talve's outrageous talk was not only deeply insulting to the religious Jewish community, but to ALL Jews who are concerned about the survival of Israel and the Jewish people, and to all non-Jews who are supportive of such efforts.

I'd like to know who, even in the Reform movement, give this nut job the title of "Rabbi". Later on in the posted article, she's quoted as saying, "I stand here to light these lights to say no to the darkness of Islamophobia and Homophobia and Transphobia." It even gets worse: she "babbled about insuring 'justice for Palestinians' and began gleefully chanting 'Ins'Allah,' 'Ins'Allah." Or 'Allah Willing'." Now seriously, you would think that these last words of an imam, not a "rabbi."

If this kind of stuff were said at the first Obama White House Chanukah party, more of us would be shocked. But with repetitive White House stunts like this, many have grown accustomed to this anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, pro-Islamic buffoonery emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. It's gotten to the point where hardly any reasonable Jew would or should accept an invitation to an Obama Chanukah party.

39 posted on 12/11/2015 3:12:17 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Chanukah is a story about Jews killing Jews like Talve.


40 posted on 12/11/2015 3:35:00 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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