Posted on 02/08/2016 4:23:11 PM PST by Borges
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned a Facebook post by rock musician and gun rights activist Ted Nugent suggesting that prominent Jewish Americans are behind the advocacy for stronger gun control laws.
Earlier today, Nugent shared a graphic titled “So who is really behind gun control?†on his Facebook page. The visual featured thumbnail photos of prominent Jewish Americans, including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Chuck Schumer, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and several others, with each photo emblazoned with the Israeli flag.
The post was accompanied by a written message from Nugent: “Know these punks. They hate freedom, they hate good over evil. They would deny us the basic human right to self defense & to KEEP AND BEAR ARMS while many of them have tax paid hired ARMED security! Know them well. Tell every1 you know how evil they are.â€
The visual was apparently not created by Nugent, but has appeared in the past on anti-Semitic web sites.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, issued the following statement:
“Ted Nugent has a long history of being an equal opportunity offender. But his latest share on Facebook, making the outrageous suggestion that Jews are behind gun control, is nothing short of conspiratorial anti-Semitism. Regardless of one’s views on gun control, this kind of scapegoating of an entire religious group is completely unacceptable and completely divorced from reality.
“It should go without saying that anti-Semitism has no place in the gun control debate. Nugent should be ashamed for promoting anti-Semitic content, and we hope that good people on both sides of the gun control debate will reject his tactics and his message. We hope that Nugent will have the good sense to remove this share immediately so that it does not spread virally across the internet.â€
In January 2014, ADL spoke out after Nugent made public remarks comparing film producer Harvey Weinstein to Hitler’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, charging that Weinstein was out to “destroy the NRA.â€
Is this supposed to bother anybody? Worry about them stripping you of your freedom. Bloomberg worries me. 36 billion worth of totalitarian monster.
Liberal, mainstream, secular jews, not all jewish people.
The jewish and non-jewish members of Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership - JPFO - would not fall into this category.
I guess not everyone finds this as repugnant as I do.
Sounds to me like Ted nailed it.
Pansy. Post the photo. And nothing whatsoever wrong with pointing out that these prominent jews who should have learned what gun control does are trying to ban guns.
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he usually does.
Nailed what?
Jew-Hate?
Ok we’ll make lists of prominent Christians who support gun control and put a big Cross on each one to make sure everyone knows who they REALLY are.
one correct element in the disgusting Facebook posting,
those Jews that DO support gun-grabbing....are especially nuts (or are just more JSS sufferers)....
because of the particular nature of Jewish history
and vulnerability
fortunately, not all Jews support this crazy idea
and
many are (mostly quietly) very well armed
ps to Nugent: there are a whole lot more Non-Jews supporting gun-grabbing............why didn’t you at least include their pictures too? you appear to have a problem picking out just the Jewish gun-grabbers only....
He didn’t create that image. I’m guessing it came from some Neo Nazi site and he posted it on his page.
Can’t look at the image. Because it isn’t at the link and you are too much of a baby to post it. How can I judge it just based in what you say?
I’ve defended Jewish culture and people here more times than I can remember when people start blaming then for essentially voting a bit worse than catholics.
But Ted is no antisemite and never has been.
I’ll give him the benedit of the doubt and agree that he is not. But that image has been on his page all day.
http://www.stljewishlight.com/news/world/article_706e67a5-68fd-514d-820a-1ddcbe355544.html
See the picture Nugent posted before you say that.
Why? It's not shocking, it is in fact exactly what the article describes -- a montage of about a dozen people, with a small Israeli flag on each.
I don't see what Israel has to do with gun control in the US, but again, the image itself not exactly nightmare-inducing.
Sure, Bloomberg and several more gun-grabbers have Jewish names (not all of whom are living Jewish lives, however).
But, are Obama and Hillary and Pelosi all Jewish?
Here is a web list of over 200 anti-gun people and groups..
you CAN find several Jews on the list, but they’re they’re in the minority to be sure... most of the listees are not Jewish..... so why did Nugent single out a few prominent Jews ONLY and attack their religious faith or heritage?
http://www.2acheck.com/the-boycott-list/nras-list-of-antis/
A liberal Jew is one of the most confusing things in the world.
Perhaps this bit of insanity was placed there by God to make up for all the brilliance. After all, a “little bit of liberalism will make the bullish*t go down....” to paraphrase something sung somewhere......
Pansy.
Find the photo yourself.
I did in two seconds.
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