Dershowitz: Bishop Tutu Was a Dangerous Antisemite

Newsmax ^ | 12/28/21

[Impala64ssa]

At a time when the statues of good people who had done bad things are being torn down, the world must reckon with the mixed legacy of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, even in the immediate aftermath of his death.

He did much good in fighting apartheid but he also has long history of ugly hatred toward the Jewish people, the Jewish religion and the Jewish state. He not only believed in anti-Semitism, he actively promoted and legitimated Jew hatred among his many followers and admirers around the world.

Tutu minimized the suffering of those killed in the Holocaust. He has attacked the "Jewish" — not Israeli — "lobby" as too "powerful" and "scary." He has invoked classic anti-Semitic stereotypes and tropes about Jewish "arrogance," "power" and "money." He has characterized Jews a "peculiar people," and has accused "the Jews" of causing many of the world’s problems.

Tutu’s good deeds should not shield him from accountability for his long history of anti-Jewish bigotry.

Let the record speak for itself, so that history may judge Tutu on the basis of his own words — words that he has often repeated and that others repeat, because Tutu is a role model for so many people around the world.

Here are some of Tutu’s hateful words, carefully documented in a petition by prominent South Africans to terminate him as a "patron" of the two South African Holocaust Centers, because he used his status with these fine institutions as legitimization for his anti-Jewish rhetoric.

I have publicized Tutu’s evil words in the past, but they warrant republication now that he is being lionized all over the world.

He minimized the suffering of those murdered in the Holocaust by asserting that "the gas chambers" made for "a neater death" than did Apartheid.

[Impala64ssa]

FTA: He complained of "the Jewish Monopoly of the Holocaust," and demanded that its victims must "forgive the Nazis for the Holocaust," while refusing to forgive the "Jewish people" for "persecute[ing] others."

It's cool for Blacks to have a monopoly on slavery? If I were to say something nice about Tutu it would be this: "HE'S DEAD. THAT'S NICE".

[frank ballenger]

I am glad someone like him brought out this information. I consider myself well informed, usually, but I have never heard that about Tutu.

Media keeps it low profile unless he said “I admire President Trump” or something else shocking.

[irishjuggler]

Good for Dershowitz for exposing this phony.

[wardaddy]

lol

Dershowitz....made me laugh out loud in the tub

He may be right but he and Mark Levin say this more than anyone else

Tutu was a commie sympathizer..

When I worked conflict diamonds in west Africa late 80s , the security forces ...mostly Brit or free African military guys....would always muse about send the IDF west and South African armies north and you could cure African instability in 3-6 months permanently

[wardaddy]

It’s ironic

The Jewish lobby which is essentially one of several spear tips of progressivism and the Israeli lobby have diverged to the point the Israeli lobby has more in common with the Southern Baptist Convention than MOST American Jewish aims

Ben Gurion would be sad....or maybe not

[redgolum]

Interesting

[FlingWingFlyer]

Tutu was a murdering pig.

[jjotto]

Ben Gurion frequently quoted the Jewish Bible to justify modern Zionism. He was far different in that regard from most Leftist secular Zionists at the time.

[wardaddy]

I suppose it worked

[jjotto]

It did work, but secular Zionists slowly abandoned Ben Gurion’s reasoning, to the point that there are almost no secular Zionists left in Israel. Their inheritors claim that Israel is ‘post-Zionist’.

Eze 20:32
And what you have in mind shall never come to pass - when you say, “We will be like the nations, like the families of the lands…”

[griswold3]

Try telling Blacks there were more white slaves in northern Africa at the time of slavery in America.
Splody Heads. (H/T Thomas Sowell)

[allendale]

If Dershowitz thinks Tutu was bad, he ought to look at the rants public and private of powerful Democrats, American and European globalists. The people and positions that Dershowitz championed all his life are coming to bite him in the tuchus.

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That article contains dozens of quote fragments, some a single word in length ("power" "money"), which is pretty useless.

If Dershowitz wants me to agree with his outrage over some statements, I'd like to read the full statements first.

[Pirate Ragnar]

“The Jewish lobby which is essentially one of several spear tips of progressivism”

Please inform us as to who are the individuals in the “Jewish lobby” and/or what institutions make it up.

[NotSoFreeStater]

The ADL and SPLC for beginners

[Mr. Mojo]

<< the Israeli lobby has more in common with the Southern Baptist Convention than MOST American Jewish aims >>

True enough. These days most American Jewish progs are hostile to Israel, often openly. The fact that it’s been 20 years since the last Labor PM has a lot to with it. That and the high birth rate of the orthodox, whom they despise even more than conservative Christians.

Dersh is right about the POS Tutu.

[wardaddy]

I was using Tutus use of the phrase

If you would like more elaboration from me

I’ll be glad to provide it this is not a new issue

Jewish disproportionate representation in leftist activism for generations

There is room between recognizing that and celebrating Kristallnacht

Tutu everything errs in equating Israel with tyranny

In fact he calls them Nazis

They are magnanimous victors actually

[GOPJ]

Dershowitz is right on this... and when he said it on FOX the FOX host ignored his comments.

[SJackson]

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[the OlLine Rebel]

Good point.

Frankly Jews are definitely a big preferred group. Everyone here pretends they are not, but the violin drama always plays out whenever the NAZI Holocaust is “discussed”, and is untouchable. In the sense that, Jews have been made the most aggrieved sympathetic group in history, to go along with the idea that no monsters ever existed except Hitler and the NAZIs. Why do we have a National Holocaust Museum in US?

It’s true that when libs are confronted with Jewish conservatism, they break down and start disparaging them. But overall, Jews are another useful group amongst the many groups libs love to use for divide and conquer.