Obama-Linked, Soros-Sponsored Think Tank Accused of Conjuring ‘Toxic Anti-Jewish Prejudices’
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The Center for American Progress (CAP), a leftist think tank with close ties to billionaire George Soros the Obama administration, is under fire for alleged anti-Semitism. A number of Jewish organizations are in a back-and-forth with the group, as critics claim that CAP staff members have a history of using anti-Israel language.
The Washington Post has more regarding what, exactly, sparked these groups’ concerns:
Among the points of contention are Twitter posts by one CAP writer on his personal account referring to “Israel-firsters.” Some experts say the phrase has roots in the anti-Semitic charge that American Jews are more loyal to a foreign country, Israel, than to the United States. In another case, a staffer described a U.S. senator as showing more fealty to the prime U.S. pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, than to his own constituents. The first writer has since left the staff.
But the critics also point to writings on the CAP Web site, where staffers have suggested that AIPAC was pushing the United States toward war with Iran and likened Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to the policies of the segregated American South.
The author of the “Israel-firster” tweets was Zaid Jilani, who is described as a “Senior Reporter/Blogger for ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.” Jilani has reportedly left the organization in recent days to accept a new job outside of CAP.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the group’s Middle East Progress Director Matt Duss, wrote back in 2010 that “the entire Israeli occupation” of the Gaza Strip is “a moral abomination.“ He compared this ”abomination” to the Jim Crow South in the United States. He wrote:
Greater international attention and sympathy to the plight of Palestinians suffering under the Israeli-Egyptian- (and U.S.) enforced siege of Hamas-ruled Gaza is precisely what Israeli authorities were hoping to avoid. [...]
Like segregation in the American South, the siege of Gaza (and the entire Israeli occupation, for that matter) is a moral abomination that should be intolerable to anyone claiming progressive values. It’s sad that it should require the deaths of non-Palestinians to finally shake the international community from apathy and inaction, but, as with the tragic murders of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner, if it contributes to ending the situation then that’s a positive outcome.
In August, there was also a ThinkProgress post by Eli Clifton entitled, “AIPAC’s Iran Strategy On Sanctions Mirrors Run-Up To Iraq War Tactics” that drew concern. The post concluded, “It would appear that AIPAC is now using the same escalating measures against Iran that were used before the invasion of Iraq.” While critics reacted, CAP responded, via an update on the same post, saying, “we are not reporting on whether AIPAC lobbied for the Iraq war.”
As CAP has worked to temper criticism, some alleged internal discussion and new social media policy at the think tank seem to indicate a recognition that these statements and comments are, indeed, problematic. The Jerusalem Post reports:
The Jerusalem Post exclusively obtained an e-mail in January in which [Faiz Shakir, editor-in-chief of ThinkProgress] described Jilani’s words charging supporters of Israel with dual-loyalty as “terrible anti-Semitic language.”
As a result of the alleged Judeophobia at CAP, the Jerusalem Post has learned from a Democratic Party source that CAP has introduced a new social media policy to monitor and prevent prejudicial writings. CAP declined to confirm the existence of the new policy.
Alana Goodman, the assistant online editor of Commentary, wrote an article in the New York Post on Thursday that claims Shakir met for coffee with Obama just six days after CAP was accused of anti-Semitism. This, at the least, seems to corroborate the close-knit nature that exists between the think tank and the administration.
At a time when President Obama is working diligently to court the Jewish vote and following questions over how strongly the administration truly supports Israel, these developments are troubling.
Last week, Jarrod Bernstein, the White House liaison with the Jewish community, met with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, to discuss worries over CAP’s perceived anti-Israeli sentiment (the Center has said that the CAP writers “are guilty of dangerous political libels resonating with historic and toxic anti-Jewish prejudices.”).
During their discussion, Bernstein apparently called the situation “troubling” and, according to the Post, said “that [the attitude toward Israel at the think tank] is not this administration.” Cooper dubbed the language “corrosive and unacceptable.”
The Anti-Defamation League chimed in as well, with national director Abraham Foxman calling statements from some CAP staffers “anti-Semitic and borderline anti-Semitic.”
In a response to the original Washington Post piece, CAP wrote:
We have a zero-tolerance policy on anti-Semitism. We have written critically about its continuing use in contemporary political debates, and we take any allegation of anti-Semitism extremely seriously. A very small number of tweets on the personal accounts of ThinkProgress staff were inappropriate, and the authors have publicly apologized for using objectionable language. That language never appeared in any CAP or ThinkProgress publication, and we have taken steps to ensure that all CAP staff maintain the highest standards in their communications even in their personal social media accounts.
While some CAP supporters agree with this defense and claiming that CAP has always been mainstream and pro-Israel, critics aren’t satisfied. Considering the group’s close relations with the Obama administration, this controversy isn’t likely to simmer in the immediate.
It’s important to note the strong ties that CAP has to Soros as well. According to the philanthropist’s web site, “George Soros was an initial donor to the Center for American Progress and he continues to support the organization through the Open Society Foundations.” He has given millions of dollars to both create and sustain the liberal think tank. We have reported on Soros’ contributions to the liberal Jewish group J Street in the past as well.
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Guitar Master
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:58amzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Ahhh! you gotta love “Hope & Change!”
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:58amSome day I‘d like to hear Glenn declare that he’d vote for Obama before he would vote for Paul just to test his credibility.
Report Post »skiz
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 4:01pmwhatever, loser
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:55amBottom line: This administration is the most racial I have ever witnessed. We need a leader who can restore the faith in the American people and take back our Country.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:01amIt can start with “We The People”. I refuse to get caught up in the great racial divide obama has created in our country. Treat your neighbor with dignity and respect.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:08amObama is courting the Jewish vote! I didn’t think he had to since 80% voted for him – what does he want – 100%. I feel sorry for the ones over in Israel, but not here. They believed and fell for the Hope and Change, like did. I‘m expected to since I’m an American Democrat but the Jews need to be more carefull unless they have no kin folks back home.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 3:20pm@Turkey
Report Post »You think that’s bad, imagine being a Jew who wasn’t duped and had to watch Obama entrance your fellow Jews. Not fun.
jasmer
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:54amI actually posted this in a previous thread –
The militant Progressive/Leftist population has a significant percentage of people of so-called “Jewish” descent. They might more properly be called “self-hating Jews“ or better yet ”militant Atheists of Jewish heritage”, but they‘re where the lion’s share of antipathy from the “right” wing comes from.
Only the truly stupid among us are filled with hatred regarding Mark Levin or Rabbi Lapin (regardless of his wonderful “atheist parasite” crack) rather than Alan Colmes or Ron Kuby.
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/27/why-jews-support-the-democratic-party/
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19 (funny spin)
Report Post »RIGEL_ORION
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:52amWait a minute. Isn’t the Center for American Progress one of the organizations that comb through tea party rallies looking for anything that could be misconstrued into something racist and then attempt to use that instance to paint the ENTIRE movement as racist?
I think AIPAC should give CAP the exact same benefit of the doubt that was given to tea party rallies by CAP.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:09amDo you mean this anti-American AIPAC?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Franklin_espionage_scandal
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:50amJews MUST vote for the GOP this election season, it is their only hope
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 5:09amJews will never vote against communism. It is their child, and has always been. they are the only ethnic group to vote more solidly left wing than blacks.
Report Post »littlefish
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:48amWhen is Obama . . . . .in the name of FAIRNESS . . . .
Report Post »going to GIVE IRAN some Nukes so they
can feel safe from the evil of the Jews ? ? ?
Probably be an executive Order from the Golf Course . . .
olddog
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:43amSoros has an Evil scheme for the world and is being helped by Americas muslim president….
Report Post »Marxists and communists are trying to destroy America it’s time to stand and fight.
Stop going to or renting Hollywood movies that help fund obama. Read a book, spend time with your family say no to the corruption surrounding us…
The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:49amSoros and Marx are, and were, both Jewish.
Report Post »twotones
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:52amGod help us if obama gets elected for another term
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:53amSoros is worse than Bin Laden. There is no reason not to fire up a drone to pay this piece of sht a visit. He is the enemy of my country. Listen up folks, while everyone goes at each other on here and in other forums, this pig is working behind the scene working obamas puppet strings. Lets get off the Paulbot / neocon crap and focus on the immediate threat to our country and constitution.
Report Post »Joudicca
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:17pm‘Self-hating Jews’ in an incorrect interpretation of what goes on in the heads, and hearts, of people like Soros….Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Gilad Atzmon and other Jew/Israel-bashing Jews, mainly but not exclusively, on the Lefthand side of the political map. The correct definition should be ‘Jews who hate other Jews’.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 3:40pmUSPAT: I think much of the Paul bot/ neocon bull-oney is all part of the Soros Lefty Distract and Divide the conservative movement .
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:15amThe_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:49am
Soros and Marx are, and were, both Jewish.
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By blood yes but they are secular Jews and consider themselves atheists, well one did realize that to be an atheist that you had to know everything there is to know to be one so he stated he was agnostic-but that was during a time of black and white definitions…anyhoo WTF is your point?
Atheists have killed more than all religions combined…
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:40amThese people are Communists there all Communists! I can’t believe they are getting away with this but when you have Communists controlling most of the MSM and in the White House I guess we all have to put up with it until we can kick them out.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:52amPerhaps you should listen to, Winston Churchill, a world leader who was in a position to know:
Report Post »http://shadowhistory.info/Churchill.php
lwpenn
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:03pmWhy do you think Obama first thing in office was sending the statue of Winston Churchill back to the Queen.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 3:36pmLW: also think it is because Obama shares the anti-colonial / British Empire hatred of his dysfunctional Kenyan father.
Report Post »bastone
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:40amisnt soros jewish?
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:45amSoros belongs to a group of Jews that are not Jewish by blood. They converted way back from some kind of remote Christian cult. But, because the Soros family were not Jewish by blood and collaborated with the Nazis, they became very wealthy.
Report Post »Juniemoon
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:02amYes he is Jewish, but he’s out of the Synagouge of Satan.
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 5:11amYes, Bastone, as is almost every member of the founding of the communism and later, progressive movements. I found one italian in there, so I can’t say all…
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:37amSo? Who cares? If this was truly relevant the majority of the American Jewish community would NOT BE so blue blooded democrat!!! They can scream and holler ALL they want and at the end of the day they will continue to vote democrat…….even when the burners are started again and they are being thrown into the firers by the DNC chairman herself THEY WILL STILL VOTE DEMOCRAT!!! This is something I have yet to understand and I am no longer looking for the answer to why American Jews support the Democrats!!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 3:30pmAgree. Am sure that the Far Left Jews of today are just the non-traditional/ social / holidays are for family social gatherings and special recipe types. They celebrate a political “religion” of liberalism rather than a religion of worshiping at a temple.
Report Post »Unbelievable
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:30amWhere’s the MSM on this? Oh right, they’re too busy digging up decade old personal life issues and demonizing rich people to focus on this.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:37amThe MSM just doesn’t care because the American Jews will continue to vote Democrat regardless of this story!
Report Post »Steveaustin1971
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:28amIt seems to me that any time anyone is critical of Israel in any way they are labeled “anti-semite” Israel clearly does not like any form of dissent. Israeli’s IN Israel say things FAR more critical than “Israel-firster” (pretty tame if you ask me and a genuine problem) Are they too anti-semite’s? Not a very good way to promote yourself as a democracy…
Report Post »wordsworth
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 2:27pmMake up your mind, is Israel tolerant of worse criticisms or is Israel shutting down dissent? You see your own cognitive dissonance?
Here’s the problem…. a think tank with ties to the DNC and White House is furthering anti-Jewish sentiment, and distrust/demonization of any segment of Jews who disagree with their politics. Historically, what usually results are pogroms.
Report Post »swimmer1940
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:28amMay Ii suggest the book “IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS…..”. It concerns the experiences of the Ambassador to Germany in the early days of the Hitler regime. Starkly like the Washington/American
Report Post »anti-Semitism. Every member of the liberal elite among the high caste Washingtonoans including FDR were profoundly anti-Semitic, and referred to Jews, almost universally, as “kikes”. The ambassador tried to see the good in the Nazi revolution, but bit by bit he became convinced that no good was ever to come from the Nazis. His memos to D.C were ignored or poo-pooed.
This is so like Washington of today with that pissant POTUS and his toadies.
The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:47amIt’s the lack of historical knowledge that permits you to draw your conclusions.
If I ignore the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I could write a narrative about how barbaric and anti-Japanese America was in the 1940′s. America placed its Japanese citizens into concentration camps. America fire-bombed Tokyo, killing hundreds of thousands. America dropped, not one but, two nuclear weapons on Japan killing hundreds of thousands. America is a proven anti-Japanese nation.
This is the Jewish narrative of 1930-40′s history of Germany. They don‘t mention that the Jewish world nation declared war on Germany ’before’ Hitler consolidated power. They ignore the world-wide boycotts launched against Germany in order to destroy the already depressed German economy ‘before’ there were any German boycotts against the Jews. Jews have always claimed their innocence… but history tells a different story.
Just ask them:http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/zionism/jewishwar.cfm
Report Post »Just ask them: http://www.historykb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/history/5294/Transcript-of-Samuel-Untermyer-s-speech-And-they-wonder-why-they
rush_is_right
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:08am“I could write a narrative about how barbaric and anti-Japanese America was in the 1940′s. America placed its Japanese citizens into concentration camps. America fire-bombed Tokyo, killing hundreds of thousands. America dropped, not one but, two nuclear weapons on Japan killing hundreds of thousands. America is a proven anti-Japanese nation. ”
yeah that PROGRESSIVE racist FDR placed japanese americans in internmnet camps….your point is?
oh and as far as bombing them like we did…its why we won WWII….the alternative was to invade japan, and probably end the japanese as a race of people.
we don’t fight like that anymore…..thats why we really don’t win wars anymore…LeMay would be a war criminal today….
and Japan no longer follows Bushido…thats how history is…if you soundly defeat a group of people, they change.
Report Post »rush_is_right
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:11am“They don‘t mention that the Jewish world nation declared war on Germany ’before’ Hitler consolidated power. They ignore the world-wide boycotts launched against Germany in order to destroy the already depressed German economy ‘before’ there were any German boycotts against the Jews. Jews have always claimed their innocence… but history tells a different story. ”
the ‘jewish world nation’???? you really should take the tin-foil off and get back on your meds.
your ‘history’ is the delusional rantings of anti-semitic wackos.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:19amRUSH, listen to them and come out of the ignorance:
“I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective ‘Jewish.’ A Nation is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion held together by a common enemy. Then, if you add to that the word ‘Jewish’ you have what I understand to be the Jewish nation.”
—THEODOR HERZL.
“Let us all recognize that we Jews are a distinct nationality of which every Jew, whatever his country, his station, or shade of belief, is necessarily a member.”
Report Post »—LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
tzion
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:33amSo your justification for the Holocaust is that FDR did something similar? FDR was WRONG and EVIL for imprisoning Japanese Americans who weren’t responsible for Pearl Harbor. Hitler was equally WRONG and EVIL for mistreating Jews even if it was just because some Jews decided to boycott Germany, and was even more EVIL for seeking to exterminate all European Jews. And then of course there’s all the Poles, Slavs, Serbs, gypsies, gays, etc. that he also exterminated. Did the Slavs declare war on Germany? No. They were considered inferior races deserving of death and slavery.
Report Post »By the way, you tend to use contradictory arguments. Here you said Jews provoked Hitler while elsewhere you claim they collaborated. Do you really think people won’t notice that?
The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:58amTZion, read what is written, not what you want to see.
Report Post »There is no justification for the Holocaust, which by the way killed far more non-Jews than Jews. My point is the narrative. Jews, like the Japanese, can not declare war on a nation then cry foul when that nation hits back. Jews can not use planned economic warfare against a nation, with the stated purpose of destroying that nation, and claim to be victims. Jews did both to Germany, and they did both before Hitler consolidated his power, and before Germany took any action against Jews.
tzion
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:04pm@JERK
Report Post »“Far more non-Jews”. Let’s do the math. Approximately 11 million total victims – close to 6 million Jews = about a 50-50 split between Jews and non-Jews. Unless your using figures that count Polish Jews as both Poles and Jews, I don’t see how your argument makes sense. Besides, Jews did suffer more deaths than any other single ethnic group by a long shot and lost a extremely high percentage of their total population by comparison.
tzion
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:12pm@Jerk
Report Post »By your argument, if black people in Africa boycotted America and America began slaughtering the blacks living on the American continent, blacks wouldn’t be justified in claiming victim status. Did German Jews boycott Germany? Of course not. But they were the first ones Hitler began oppressing. In addition, you can‘t prove that Hitler wasn’t planning to destroy the Jews regardless. Personally, the fact that close to 60% of German Jews fled the country seems to indicate that Hitler’s goals were quite transparent. People don’t up and leave just because they can no longer sit in certain restaurants.
rush_is_right
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:55pm“—THEODOR HERZL.”
yeah the most persecuted group in the history of the world has the power to oppress the poor germans and of course they run the banks, media, etc…
same old wacko conspiracy theories.
Report Post »rush_is_right
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:56pm“Jews, like the Japanese, can not declare war on a nation then cry foul when that nation hits back. Jews can not use planned economic warfare against a nation, with the stated purpose of destroying that nation, and claim to be victims. Jews did both to Germany, ”
this is just laughable stupidity…you’re an anti-semitic wacko.
Report Post »rush_is_right
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:57pm“. Jews, like the Japanese, can not declare war on a nation then cry foul when that nation hits back. Jews can not use planned economic warfare against a nation, with the stated purpose of destroying that nation”
Hitler said much the same thing….
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:26amThe second picture is the best I have seen of this idiot
Report Post »DD313
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:09amAgree! Keep it on hand for future use.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:23amWith the rise of Islam across the globe and in America, the corrupt Soros influenced Obama administration and the election of a Muslim to the office of President of the United States we have seen the rise of anti semitism in America.
This will only get worse in these final days. I stand with God and Israel.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:29amYou should know better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cdhtxg8yE4&feature=related
Report Post »skiz
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:12amI’m with you @MOMRULES! @THE_JERK ~ in the end the Mahdi cometh! God says we must stand with Israel. In the end we will be given a choice to stand with Israel and proclaim Jesus the true Messiah or stand with Islam and the Anti-Christ (the Mahdi). I will stand for Jesus as the Savior of us all. And besides MOM is always right.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:28amAgain you’ve been duped by the false prophets. Most Jews are not the descendants of Abraham, the recipient of the covenant. Most Jews are of eastern European descent. They are the descendents of the Khazars, whose descendents never stepped foot in the Holy Land.
Ask a Jewish historian and scholar:
http://benjaminhfreedman.blogspot.com/2008/01/freedman-jesus-was-not-jew.html
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:48am@Smack-the-Jerk-down
Report Post »If Jews are from Eastern Europe, why are the two main Jewish groups known as Ashkenazi (whose name refers to a region in western Germany) and Sephardi (the Hebrew word for Spain)? Jews fled eastward from persecution in the west. Then, under Russian rule, the Jews were forcibly resettled to the Pale of Settlement, which is in modern day Poland (ever wonder why there were so many Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust).
In addition, anyone who converts to Judaism is considered a Jew by ethnicity. So the Khazars would have been seen as no different than the Jewish descendents of Abraham.
The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:04pmTZion, I know that you will not read that which is written, so try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mK07tIbea8
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:34pmWhen the Khazars converted, they became Jews. They didn’t create Judaism because Judaism was already being practiced. Are there Jews who have Khazrian ancestors? Most probably. Especially Eastern Europeans. But even your link says, that Jews were brought to Khazar to teach their beliefs and traditions. Did those Jews marry into the population? Did their descendents? Did “true” ethnic Jews (as you would call them) accept them Jews? And when Jews traveled east after being driven out by Catholics, did they marry Jews already living there? Even if you could prove that many Jews have Khazarian ancestors, you couldn’t justify your claim that they are not descendents of Israel (Jacob). And as I have already stated, Jews do not distinguish between those who are born Jewish ans those who convert. In fact, such distinction is forbidden under Jewish law.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:23amIt‘s no secret what Obama’s pastor of 20 years thinks of the Jews. It shouldn‘t be aurpise to the Jews that he’s no fan. Yet, the American Jews will finance his campagn once again.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:24ama surprise; campaign
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:27amNot this Jew! :)
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:30amGood for you, spread the word.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:31amThat’s because the American Jews need Americans to die for Isreal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cdhtxg8yE4&feature=related
Richard Perle wrote, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” It was written in 1996 for Israel. The authors of this study for Israel all found themselves in the Bush Administration in 2000. Their plan for Israel was carried out with American lives and American treasure. Americans are being duped.
Report Post »RT4
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:34amOnly those greedy $$$$’s lover, I know there are a bunch Michael Moore followers, Jerry Springfield puppets.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:38amHey Johnny, do you need “Americans to die for Isreal”?
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:39amRemember, the Jewish Communists helped Hitler get control of Germany. And then……….. he killed them all.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:56amAny Jew who supports this corrupt, self-serving, elitist, socialist President has forgotten history and forsaken Judaism. Every Jew I know who adheres to traditional Judaism and is historically informed stands against staunchly against socialism. Some even identify as libertarian and one person I know is actually an anarchist. Remember, Jews couldn’t have elected Obama without the Christians.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:03pmJerry Springfield? Rick’s brother?
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:22amObama is a neo-colonialist marxist radical. He sees America, Europe, and Israel as oppressor countries. He hates white people and he is the true racist.
Report Post »Steveaustin1971
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:42amFunny comment seeing as he is mostly following Bush policies…
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:54amBush‘s foreign policies are in fact not Bush’s. Our foreign policy is based on Wilson’s 14 points. Woodrow Wilson was the PROGRESSIVE leader and one of the worst Presidents of all time, if not the worst. Our foreign policy however has nothing to do with Obama’s views he got those from the deadbeat marxist father he never knew.
Report Post »jasmer
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:57am@Steve – and your point? THE WON can’t afford to go where his OWN policies lead, at least not too quickly…
(for those of you who remember the outrage at Glenn with the plastic frog and boiling water)
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 3:33pmThe muslims and christians of the mid east were christian ,pagan and jewish prior to the creation of islam. islam some claim is authentic ancient judaism-revamped after it had been corrupted over the centuries in the mid east.[some claim].
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:21amRemember, the entire Soros family were Kapos during the second world war. They profited from turning in Jews to the Nazis. Georgie boy said he enjoyed watching the Gestapo swarming in and arresting innocent Jews and hauling them off to the camps. He said it gave him a feeling of power. For their efforts, the Soros family members were given Jewish assets. He got rich off the blood and ashes of thousands of innocent people. To me, this is a war crime by a war criminal.
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:21amFind the connection to Bil&Hill, and the Soros mask will come off.
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:56pmIt was shortly after Bill was elected that we began to learn about Soros who was responsible for getting Bill to run and then supporting Hilbaby when she ran—Soros has always been the money man for the Clintons who sold their souls to him. Know he is somehow involved with Obama getting elected, but haven’t seen anything to verify that except the amout of money Obama raised. Time will have to pass a little more to see the real truth on that connection other then the Democeat connection
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:18amDid Obama get Lip injections or what ?strange photo…
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:30amHe just has well developed lip muscles from holding a crack pipe for long periods of time.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:31amIf you are looking for a similar expression, go find a three or four year old child who is in a state of extreme frustration, oh say trying to clear a level on ‘Angry Birds”. I observed this only last night with my four tear old grandson; at which time he said “grandpa, you fix this please. This makes me angry.”
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:32amtear = year
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:43amThey got that way from kissing George Soros’ butt so much.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:15amDont you just love all these warm fuzzy names these Commies give their front groups… It should be called , Center of American Destruction… These people need to be defeated and the welfare state they created needs to be completely dismantled…. Nothing gets you motivated like hunger and fear… Let em starve, i dont give a flip about welfare zombies or their litters…
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:38am@Detroit Paperboy
Report Post »Lefties have more acronyms than Carter has liver pills.I personally like mine the best, B.A.G., Big Azz Gun……
Steveaustin1971
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:39amKind of like how right wing extremists use “Family Values” as a front for bigots. Both sides are equally ridiculous. The middle is who actually makes a country what it is. Far left and right extremist groups only fill the air with their stench.
Report Post »bastone
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:42amthats what stalin said
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:12am“… “Israel-firsters.” Some experts say the phrase has roots in the anti-Semitic charge that American Jews are more loyal to a foreign country, Israel, than to the United States.”
This is how it works. If you criticize real Israeli-firsters like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, Larry Franklin, Rahm Emanuel… you will be called antisemitic. This is how the Israeli-firsters hide and operate among us. This is why the concept of ‘antisemitism’ was developed, a weapon to be used against any and all who dare criticize Jews or Israelis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cdhtxg8yE4&feature=related
Report Post »rush_is_right
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:24am“This is why the concept of ‘antisemitism’ was developed, a weapon to be used against any and all who dare criticize Jews or Israelis. ”
yeah what do the jews have to complain about? its not like they were hounded in every country they were in….or put in gas chambers or anything…
roll eyes….
Report Post »Steveaustin1971
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:37amRush the world is full of genocide against various races and cultures… it is not a free pass to try and silence critics because you were once persecuted. My people were once persecuted… I don’t use it as a shield.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:59amRush-is-right: “yeah what do the jews have to complain about? its not like they were hounded in every country they were in….or put in gas chambers or anything…”
The next logical question would be why. Why have the Jews been hounded by every nation? How could so many different people, from so many different cultures, living in so many different places, in so many different generations all come to the same conclusion about one ethnic group? Many of these nations are historical adversaries, yet they come to the same conclusion regarding the ethnic Jew, why?
“Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world.”
Report Post »— Albert Einstein, in Collier’s Magazine, November 26, 1938
maccow
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:03amCan you say The_Jerk=NE-RON
For a definition of NE-Ron just read The_Jerk’s other postings.
You cite Rahm Emanuel? I’m sure Rahm is an Israel Firster, that would explain the Obama policy of love and tolerance of Israel and Netanyahu.
“This is how the Israeli-firsters hide and operate among us.” Why didn’t you just say this is how those Jews and Jew lovers operate?
I can understand Non-Racists getting tired of the Racist card. But you, an out in the open Anti Semite, are going to claim unfair use of the Anti Semitism card? Such chutzpah.
I am not Jewish but I am one of those Evangelical Christian Conservatives who’s first allegiance is to a King (Jesus the Messiah). I believe whole heartedly that the throne of my King will be established for a time on earth, and that throne will be in Israel. In the future, maybe not so distant, His daughter (Israel) will come to faith in Him as their Messiah, through many signs and wonders spoken of by the prophets, by the obvious hand of the God of Israel. (Read Ezekiel 39 for one instance) Israel will collectively believe and entreat their Messiah to return.
Report Post »On the day that Jesus sits on David’s throne, you will still posses your God given self will. Yet every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus is Lord on that day. Most will do so out of love, but many will do so out of fear.
All of history is moving inextricably towards this pre-ordained conclusion.
rush_is_right
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:04am“Rush the world is full of genocide against various races and cultures… it is not a free pass to try and silence critics because you were once persecuted. My people were once persecuted… I don’t use it as a shield.”
yeah so? anti-semitism is real and legitimate….to say its not is delusional.
“The next logical question would be why. Why have the Jews been hounded by every nation? ”
they have a very ancient and powerful enemy…he’s never liked them….I doubt you know whom I am speaking of….
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:43amRahm Emanuel’s father was a member of the Jewish terrorist group Irgun. Rahm never served in the American military, but he did serve Israel’s. That meets the definition of Israeli-firster.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 1:46pm@smack
Report Post »Supporting Israel and fighting in their military doesn’t make someone “Israel-first”. People who say Iran should be allowed to have nukes aren’t “Iran-first”. If someone makes a decision that Israel needs his/her help that doesn’t mean they have no loyalty to America. You are polarizing people by saying “Either your for Israel or your for the US.” That language make it sound like Israel is our enemy. There are cases of British soldiers who joined the American military in Vietnam. Are they “America-firsts”? Are they somehow showing disloyalty to Britain? How long before it’s “Texas-first“ or ”Philadelphia-first”?
NOBALONEY
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:06amPresident Obama’s actions are clear. He’s against Israel and the people of Israel.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:18amProphetic or planned? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cdhtxg8yE4&feature=related
Read Richard Perle’s, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” It was written in 1996 for Israel. The authors of this study for Israel all found themselves in the Bush Administration in 2000. Their plan for Israel was carried out with American lives and American treasure. Americans are being duped.
Report Post »db321
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:19amPresident Obama’s actions are clear. He’s against America, God, Country, Freedom, Democracy, Free Enterprise, Christianity, Decency, the Constitutions and Israel.
Report Post »mikelivi
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:28amshiiiit hes against America too!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:04amShould anyone be suprised? Nope.
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