Posted on 10/08/2007 1:22:22 PM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) Professor Richard Dawkins, a senior British evolutionary scientist and outspoken atheist, drew fire on Monday for saying that Jews “more or less monopolize American foreign policy.” Religious Jews are a small group, Dawkins said, but are “fantastically successful” in lobbying the US government. Dawkins, who is currently in the US in an attempt to promote atheism and fight religious influence, expressed hope that atheists would be similarly successful in determining government policy.
A number of Jewish leaders responded immediately, with ADL head Abe Foxman calling Dawkin’s remarks “classic anti-Semitism.” Malcom Hoenlein, a senior official in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations, was quoted by Yediot Acharonot as saying the statements represented “the poisoning of the elite.” Even top scientists can “demonstrate ignorance and fall victim to misinformation,” said Hoenlein, adding “This impact spreads within the intellectual community, and then trickles down to the general populace.”
What; no comments about you anti-semitic Darwinist hero?
He's being a jerk.
But why would you assume he is my "hero?" I have never read anything he has written.
An attempt at guilt by association maybe?
So Dawkins is an anti-Semitic, bigoted crackpot. Not surprising.
Don’t forget Condi Rice and Zalmay Khalilzad.
I find it rather surprising that you claim to have never read anything Dawkins has written.
Ah, yet another “Achtung! Schnell!”, get into zee boxcar liberal.
If I could say "Jews Control US Policy" in world media I would be soooo happy.
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Dawkins is a piece of work. Even Stalin was smart enough to come up with a fig leaf.
A distinction without a difference, IMHO...
So you agree with him but his style is so infuriating at least in audio
The big shots at Microsoft encouraged and sponsored Dawkins
Dawkin's professorship is endowed by Charles Simonyi who is ex-Microsoft
The Current Simonyi Professor: Richard Dawkins
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Has he been paying attention to the UN? Something like 1/3 of all resolutions are about Israel. Compared to the UN fixation on the Jews at the behest of the anti-Jewish crowd there is no way the US government is monopolized by Jews.
No Ministry of Propaganda here yet.
Now if I recall correctly . . . at one point "Patrick Henry" found some goofy group who claimed that evolution is a secret Qabbalistic doctrine and that the Jews are responsible for it being taught in the schools, and he/she absolutely had a chortling fit because this "proved" that creationists are all anti-Semites. (And this despite the fact that Genesis is a Jewish book.) So now it appears that Mr. Dawkins has learned that that awful "old testament" wasn't cooked up by illiterate rednecks after all but actually is Jewish. I don't suppose I can fault him for consistency. It's certainly more refreshing than yahoos who claim that love of the Jewish G-d is inversely proportional to enmity to the Jewish People.
Oh well. Sail on, all you Randians! Just because the universe has no objective meaning doesn't mean that one can't achieve ample satisfaction in life from making lots of money and touching oneself (or whatever people who don't believe in ultimate meaning do).
Oh, but I forget, atheists don't believe in lives of quiet pleasure anymore. They're crusading fanatics who have been personally commanded by the Meaningless Self-Existent Universe to slay the dragon of irrational belief. And their reward will be . . . ?
But . . . but I thought that atheists loved and admired the Jewish People, and wanted nothing so much as to protect them from those crazed lunatics who believe in the TaNa"KH and the "bloodthirsty" G-d it describes! What's going on here, wideawake??? This doesn't make any sense!!!
A number of Jewish leaders responded immediately, with ADL head Abe Foxman calling Dawkin’s remarks “classic anti-Semitism.” Malcom Hoenlein, a senior official in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations, was quoted by Yediot Acharonot as saying the statements represented “the poisoning of the elite.”
The elite was always poisoned. A friend once told me something I will never forget for as long as I live. He heard a Holocaust survivor speak and answer a question about what kind of people saved Jews. He said that the likelihood of a non-Jew to save Jews was inversely proportional to his level of education. In other words, bumpkins saved Jewish lives; intellectuals did not.
Even top scientists can “demonstrate ignorance and fall victim to misinformation,” said Hoenlein,
Yeah; you'd think that anyone with the smarts to reject HaShem Yitbarakh (the alleged Big Redneck Baptist in the Sky) would know enough not to attack Jews, wouldn't you? What's the matter, does he think the Bible is Jewish now?
adding “This impact spreads within the intellectual community, and then trickles down to the general populace.”
But I thought the "general populace" got its "anti-Semitism" from the first eleven chapters of Genesis! As a matter of fact, wasn't the Nazi campaign against "inferiors" entirely the fault of the "old testament?" I thought that's what atheists have always said!
(Wideawake, I don't drink, but I wanna tell you something--if you were here right now, I'd let you pour me one! As a matter of fact, if it weren't for the fact that it is forbidden to create new holidays I'd advocate setting aside 26 Tishrei as the day the world began to turn right-side up!)
He is angry, isn’t he?
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