Posted on 02/21/2010 6:13:01 PM PST by justiceseeker93
An angry "Tea Party" movement that Republican leaders hope to harness to boost their party's chances in the in the 2010 congressional midterm elections could also be a potential blow to GOP outreach to minorities - including Jewish voters.
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"It's not a danger at the moment, but it bears watching," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "We've seen this before, and it always carries with it the risk the militants and extremists really will get a foothold. All such manifestations are threatening to minorities."
In a report last year, the ADL warned that the Tea Partiers are part of a broader trend that also includes resurgent "militias," "birthers," and other extremists, bound together by "an intense strain of anti-government distrust and anger, colored by a streak of paranoia and belief in conspiracies."
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I don’t see it. One would expect the ‘Rats thinly disguised outreach to Muslims to undermine Jewish support. While I expect that the Reformed Jewish voters will stick with the ‘Rat Party, other factions may be very open to supporting Republicans. I haven’t seen or heard anything to suggest that the Tea Party movement has any malice towards Jewish people.
They didn’t listen to the prophet Jeremiah, Isaiah or Ezekiel either. Nothing new under the Gorebull warmed sun.
Liberal Jews are their own worst enemy it seems.
Haw, haw!! I appreciate your concern, Foxman...
Wifey is Jewish. And a Tea Partyer. Most of her Jewish relatives don’t really give a damn about Israel. They are too into themselves and their comfort, even though they have relatives there. Very liberal. Thankfully her parents are very conservative. Most U.S. Jews will never vote Republican, unless we move to support welfare, gubmint assistance, and abortion.
What a shame and it's been working so well (24% of the vote against Israel's #1 enemy). I hope this won't mean that Abe Foxman will stop supporting Republican and conservative causes. What a tool!
Yeah, because Christian conservatives — who make up a large part (but by no means all) of the TEA Party movement — just hate Jews and Israel. /SARC
Pure bilge...
As I've posted on this site before, the real number is probably about ten points lower, due to the questionable polling techniques used to arrive at it. Nonetheless, much too high considering what the Obama regime is all about.
If Omoslem's track record doesn't get Jews voting Republican, nothing will..
Exactly. That's why these Jewish lefties seem to be in panic mode, throwing "Nazi" innuendo at the Tea Party movement - and by inference, the GOP - in order to save themselves from what they view as an apocalypse: Jews swinging in large numbers to the GOP.
The irony here is that these Jewish leftists consider Jews to be a “minority” when it comes to things like party identification, while they have no complaints about Jews being excluded from “minority” status (and special benefits) when it comes to things like affirmative action, nor do they urge that Jews have a special “minority” box to check on the US Census form, for example.
The ADL and the JDL are two different organizations.
Grievance politics unites disparate minorities in unthinking opposition to the majority, even against rational self interest. The politics of grievance is an unthinking ersatz ethnic loyalty, wherein one defines oneself in opposition, rather than in being. It leads Jews to support political correctness, immigration of Muslims, and Third Worldism, even though these are all against their rational self interest as an Americans or as a Jews. It leads black leaders to support immigration, liberal social politics, and objectively failing education and social models. And this doesn't just apply to minorities in the West. Grievence politics in the form of anti-colonialism allows the South African regime to support Mugabe's starvation of fellow Africans in the once prosperous Zimbabwe. This minority nihilism will go on as long as the white West allows it to. We must stand up against it not only for our own survival, but also to save those afflicted with this illness. If the majority in America or the West does so, it will allow the rational loyal members of minorities to be heard. But first the civilizational AIDS of liberalism with its control of the media must be destroyed. Imagine if the media went to Thomas Sowell instead of Jesse Jackson, or Don Feder instead of Abe Foxman. The failure is not only of the Irish, Jews, Blacks, Hispanics. It is that of the English and WASPs.
Conservatives support the State of Israel and the Jewish people. However, American Jews place religion before politics, the religion of Liberalism.
If you mean ADL, I couldn't agree with you more.
Please do not post commie propaganda on FR!
Ping!
Believe it or not, many Jews agree completely with your wife, including just about all of those here on FR!
Foxman is first and foremost a leftist, and only secondly concerned about the real welfare of Jews or of Israel. When conservatives reach out and try to help Israel, he regularly kicks them in the teeth.
The most dangerous antisemites for some time have been on the left, but he never notices.
Militants and extremists? Virtually all the violence in America for decades has come from the LEFT.
My thought exactly!
That's exactly what I said in post #1. In fact, you'll find that there are quite a number of Jews who are part of the Tea Party movement. I know personally about that!
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