Posted on 10/11/2004 8:26:19 AM PDT by jperspective
Due to an overwhelming volume of anti-Semitic posts in their forums JohnKerry.com has finally been forced to disallow all anti-Semitic posts.
From Jewsforkerry:
The forum is no linger allowing hate to be posted to their boards, in direct response to complaints from concerned citizens like you!For those of you who missed it, here's one small example of what was being posted in that forum (a lot of it is just not suitable for a family-friendly site such as this one):
"We are advised here that this issue [Israel] is highly sensitive. Why? Because one dare not tell the truth about a Zionist? Because calling them what they are is not polite? Because we are too used to their dictating to us? Zionists Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Bolton etc now make our policy."
Here are some excerpted comments from our site members about their experiences on the official forum:
"I get nauseated every time I open one of the endless 'blame Israel' threads."
"Last night a person posted an anti-Semitic comment (one of just several), and after I objected, this moderator chewed me out for doing so."
The good news is that these forums threads have been stopped - the Kerry team has realized that this was not how the party should be represented, because it doesn't reflect the party.
I was not surprised at all to hear that a large portion of Kerry voters are blatant anti-Semitic. The shift in liberal thought regarding Israel is becoming more and more apparent. It is very clear that liberal sympathies lie with the Palestinians and not the Israelis. The scary thing is that the Jewish electorate either hasn't picked up on this shift, or doesn't really seem to care.
The Michael Moore left is very much anti-Semitic. It stems from two different reasons:
First the Arabs have done a terrific pr job to convince the left that the Palestinians are the persecuted under-dogs in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the 60's and 70's the world view was that Israel was a tiny spec among hundreds of millions of neighbors who wanted to kill them. After all they had Egypt Syria and Jordan surrounding them. They are out-nubered in the region by 100 to 1. Yet somehow the Arabs have turned peoples attention from that discrepancy. Now the conflict seems to focus on the big bad Israelis against the small weak Palestinians whose only means for self defense is to blow up innocent Israeli women and children.
Next, the liberals traditionally have an appeaser mind set. When we were attacked on 9/11 the Conservatives were immediately interested in striking back to protect America. Liberals by contrast struggled to understand why the terrorists attacked us. They hoped that if we changed whatever it is that we were doing that angered the terrorists then maybe they would leave us alone. That's called appeasement. That is akin to giving the terrorists what they want.
Many liberals have come to the conclusion that Americas friendship with Israel is the reason why the terrorists hate us. This is classic liberal backwards logic. After all the terrorists are attacking in Russia, India, France, Great Britain, Iraq, Spain etc.. Many of those countries clearly support the Palestinians over the Israelis.
Contrast all that with the pro-Israel stance that conservatives have taken. Conservatives overwhelmingly understand that Israel is on the front line in the war on terror. They understand that abandoning our allies and friends because the terrorists want us to is not the American way. It is however the European way. This is why we've seen many European countries like Spain and France act so quickly to appease the terrorists.
In the end the most surprising aspect of all this is that in the face of these clear shifts in party philosophy the Jewish electorate is still slow to come around to this new way of thinking. The Jews continue to fool themselves into thinking that the anti-Israel/anti-Semitic wing of the Democratic party is a small one and not representative of the party as a whole. The reality is that a large percentage of liberal are very much anti-Israel. Michael Moore, Al Sharpton and Howard Dean, are all examples of extreme left wing anti-Semitic leaders.
When Jews vote for Kerry they will be voting to hand power over to their enemies. They will be voting to hand power over to those who would destroy Israel. For a man who by his liberal nature will not be able to fight off his instinct to appease.
It's Pat Buchanan's code word, too.
What they are is "BLAME SOMEONE ELSE".
They have decided it would be easy to con people into accepting as fact that "the jews are the reason I am a deadbeat."
They might as well target a larger group and say "All RICH PEOPLE are the reason I am a deadbeat."
That way they have a larger target.
Better yet, why don't they just say "THE MAN is keeping me down!"
Everyone knows THE MAN.
"It's Pat Buchanan's code word, too."
True. It is almost funny how the left hates Pat, but cheers whenever he goes on a "neocon" rant.
Agreed. But theres more to it. They are liberal appeasers who don't have the stones to stand up to adversity. They crumble in the face of a challenge. Kerry is made up of that same weak moral fiber.
It's good that you have had the inner strength to go against your familys attempt to indoctrinate you to their world views. It shows character on your part.
(It still is beyond me why the majority of Jews are still voting for John Kerry.)
bump!
Put the site in my favorites for a later read. Nice to see that there is one Republican Jew in NY. (lol) Im in California so dont feel bad. by the way Shana Tovah
For many years I was confused by the support the Communist party got from the Jews in the US. I am no longer confused.
At least in California you guys have Schwartzeneger. We have Hillary and McGreevey. Oy!
And in what madrassah did he learn that?
Ah yes, Hillary the true anti-semite who overwhelmingly won the Jewish vote. Scary isn't it? My fear is of that woman being in the White House......again.
It's a little off=topic, but why the black voters vote for the Dems is equally amazing. Whatever good did they ever do to them? However, there is a growing trend among the Black Americans (I deliberately avoid using the artificial coinage of African American, like one guy retorted on TV, we are not Africans, nor are we African Americans, we are Americans) to lean towards conservatives, dem efforts to brainwash them notwithstanding.
As long as Guiliani is waiting in the wings I don't think Hillary will have a chance. Worst case we can trot out McCain. The Dems love him!
You are a true inspiration. But when Bill Cosby tried to bring similar issues up with his community, everybody tried to throw faeces at him.
Unfortunately if FR hadn't been banning antisemites for years this site would be awash with them.
Guiliani is one of my personal hero's. Id love to see him take Hillary out of the picture. Have a lot of respect for Mccaina as well though I dont like his attacks on the President as of late.
I'm sure those anti semitic posts come from left wing trolls. Thats the point. When jews vote for Kerry they are voting with people that hate them. The only anti-Isreal posts you see on conservative sites are those posted by liberals.
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