Antisemitism continues to spread around and through the western world. Ms. Weiss explains it quite well. Yet some here will say it is a nothing burger of some type. Or that it is only a European issue. But there are also notes in the piece about it occurring here as well.
Any deniers here want to try and explain this away?
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Wow. Shoot me. I downloaded the document in test only format — it’s faster and read through it. I kept looking at the photo in your link and thinking, “Okay, a funeral for a murder victim”.
I just this minute noticed the spray paint. Have I become so blind?
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Not going to berate you for missing it. However, people have become blind to the hate that exists in this world. Or they just accept it for whatever reason.
Thankfully, people like Bari Weiss do their level best to remind us of it so that we can fight it.
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The GOP has become the “party of hate” and it is spreading into all aspects of our society.
Pelosi took a stand against it today, maybe some good will come from it if more find the backbone to do the right and noble thing.
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Well, crap! I missed it too till I just read your post. I cannot believe something so ‘IN YOUR FACE’ could be missed. And, hey, I have ‘special eyes’ now, since having cataract and razor surgery last year. I can now see down the fairways FOREVER; but didn’t catch this hateful thing right in front of my face in that picture.
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My wife wants me to get cataract surgery. I should since both my vision and the Doc say it’s time.
Still, I don’t hit the ball as far as I used to so I can still easily see it land.
Life’s like that sometimes.
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…” I don’t hit the ball as far as I used to so I can still easily see it land.”
I replaced my clubs. Now I may have to get the eyes done.
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If it had been the “Stars and Bars”, I’d have seen it in a New York minute.
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It’s not for nothing that the Jews are called the “The Chosen”.
Anti-Semitism has been a virtual “religion” that has been uniting bigots since the crucifixion. The incredibly cruel and bloody irony of being both “Christ killers and money lenders” that Christianity needed for founding and defending it is more than the “mob” can understand.
The Holocaust was one in an endless line of periodic “inventory reductions” as a very dear friend of mine likes to quip. His ancestry dates back to emigres from Czarist Russia trying to avoid the pogroms and mandatory military “service” in Siberia for Jewish boys.
The great NYT piece is setting the warning flags for the almost inevitable rise of anti-Semitism. The Palestinians are the perennial victims that even the Arab nations would not help so long as they were kept miserable and provided both terrorists and victims. Yet, it is important to note a big difference between being anti-Israel politically and anti-Semitic ethnically. Republicans love to conflate and confuse.
Trump hides behind his son-in-law as proof of his love for the Jews. Yet his campaign material of a Star of David on a stack of money and listing bankers who are Jews, appealing to the neo-Nazi thugs, belies that.
When times get tough, as they inevitably do, then the right in particular, but the left also, need scapegoats. And we know Trump is a master at blaming others. And if some EU bigots rise to power, our president will hitch his wagon to their rhetoric.
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” Martin Niemöller
One can shift around the victims, but the admonition still stands.
IMHO
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Seriously, Len?
Even CNN exonerated Trump on that campaign graphic.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/politics/donald-trump-star-of-david-tweet-explained/index.html
You are so blinded by hatred for Trump you will believe anything.
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Did you read the link. That was no exoneration, it was a report on the total BS explanation that it was a “sheriff’s badge” representing the “corruption” in the Clinton campaign.
Are you kidding me? You believed that crap?
Per your link:
“Ten days before Trump tweeted it, the graphic appeared on a message board jam-packed with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, white supremacist ideology and neo-Nazi propaganda. CNN confirmed the image appeared on the website by using the web archive search tool Wayback Machine”
A late ad by Trump:
“As he talks about the “levers of power in Washington” and the “global special interests,” images of billionaire George Soros, a Jewish hedge fund tycoon, philanthropist and major backer of liberal causes, and Janet Yellen, the Jewish chairman of the Federal Reserve, appear on the video.
In addition, an image of the Jewish CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, also appears when Trump talks about the “global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.”
https://www.jta.org/2016/11/06/politics/new-trump-ad-focuses-on-prominent-jews-in-deriding-international-bankers
I am afraid the blindness resides with you.
The fact is that Trump is a populist bigot and he is appealing to the same. Not all Trump supporters, to be sure, but he can’t afford to ignore the praises he gets from the White Nationalists since there are a solid core of voters to be had. Enough to kick in the 77K votes he needed in 3 key states.
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Not that anyone cares, but MOST sheriff badges have 7 points. Don’t know the significance of 7, but it really stands out. Watch “Cops” or similar and count.
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sheriff%27s+badge&t=ffsb&iax=images&ia=images
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Well, they run the gamut, 5,6,7… funny maybe “Cops” just films in the same locales over and over.
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What’s your point? That the graphic of the 6 pointed star on a stack of money, which is what CNN found at the racist sites and is the same one as background on the anti-Clinton ad, is really from a sheriff’s badge?
You can’t be serious?
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Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
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@Len
Did you read the link?
“”The sheriff’s badge — which is available under Microsoft’s ‘shapes’ — fit with the theme of corrupt Hillary and that is why I selected it,” Scavino added.
Scavino also said that as the campaign’s social media director, “I would never offend anyone and therefore chose to remove the image.”
On Twitter, Scavino fiercely defended himself against charges of anti-Semitism on Tuesday.
“For the MSM to suggest that I am antisemite is AWFUL. I proudly celebrate holidays w/ my wife’s amazing Jewish family for the past 16 years,” Scavino wrote… “
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Did you read the link?
“ “Ten days before Trump tweeted it, the graphic appeared on a message board jam-packed with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, white supremacist ideology and neo-Nazi propaganda. CNN confirmed the image appeared on the website by using the web archive search tool Wayback Machine”
Coincidence? The same graphic with a stack of money and star? Arranged just so?
The campaign was caught red handed, what the hell did you expect them to say?
“The image was previously featured on 8chan’s /pol/ — an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Trump’s rhetoric — as early as June 22, over a week before Trump’s team tweeted it. Though the thread where the meme was featured no longer exists, you can find it by searching the URL in Archive.is, a “time capsule of the internet” that saves unalterable text and graphic of web pages. Doing so allows you to see the thread on /pol/ as it originally existed.”
”Donald Trump’s “Star of David” Hillary Clinton Meme Was Created by White Supremacists“
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/05/donald-trumps-star-david-tweet-recap/
The campaign just used the whole image from the Nazis. Now, it may have been just another frickin’ piece of stupidity by Trump. But, he has retweeted lots of neo-Nazi crap like phony crime stats, videos, etc., so he has a nasty track record.
But a sheriff’s star to relate to corruption? I have a bridge for you.
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@Len
DO you think Trump searches the web for graphics to tweet.?
The quote I provided shows it was provided by a Mr Scavino, Trumps social media director, who also clearly did not know where it originated.
Retweeting an image without checking where it came from or how it might be interpreted is sloppy, but it is not antisemitism.
A certain amount of political clumsiness is actually reassuring. Hillary would not make such mistakes.
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“ DO you think Trump searches the web for graphics to tweet.?”
Maybe not. Who knows? He spends half his life watching FOX and tweeting. But he retweets phony stuff without checking facts or sources. Including racist crap from overseas and here.
Are you saying he is not responsible for his actions? This is a man who by virtue of his office can make the world markets go up or down by comments about China. Yet you blow off his bigotry as what…incompetence,
Scavino copied that graphic, obviously. He must know where it came from. He lied if he said he designed it. Two sources, yours and mine, say the entire graphic was on extremist and blatantly anti-Semitic websites a week or more before the campaign ran with it.
That ain’t no sheriff’s badge. That is pure BS.
The bubble has you locked in tight.
IMHO, of course.
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Trump. and his staff, are guilty of being sloppy, but not of antisemitism.
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“Trump. and his staff, are guilty of being sloppy, but not of antisemitism.”
BS!
Trump has staff and campaign specialists who know exactly what they are doing. By grabbing a ready made graphic of Hillary, The Star of David and a stack of money from anti-Semitic websites and using it they are not being sloppy. It took effort. A conscious effort. The idea being to thrill the Nazis, which they did, even if they backtracked shortly thereafter.
After all, all they had to hint at was that they succumbed to left wing political correctness. Wink, wink.
The Nazis would nod with understanding. He is still their man.
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I believe it was Trump who said something to the effect of wanting only little guys with yarmulkes counting my money and defending me in court. Yeah, gotta love the Jews for the stereotype.
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I had hoped antisemitism was over except for in the Muslim world, but perhaps not.
If it is indeed on the rise, I would advise European and American Jews to buy and learn to use an AR-15 (or even better, and AR-10) and stockpile ammunition.
Then Never Again will mean something.
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From an American Jew, you can stuff that in your pipe and smoke it. Violence begets violence. Education is the key to ending hate.
However, if other members of the tribes want to arm themselves, they have the right to do it, but they don’t need an AR-15. An Israeli Uzi would be much more appropriate. Besides the Israeli military is still the one I trust second after our won.
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Good luck educating jihadists and neo-nazis.
An Uzi is basically a machine pistol. It has its uses but it is not available in calibers that will defeat body armor.
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One of the weapons of choice of the Israeli military. I had the glorious occasion of sharing a couple of beers in a park in Tel Aviv several years ago. The uzis were on them.
As far as educating the unteachable, that is not the issue. Itiseducation g others to not join them.
Your constant drumbeat for more weapons sucks.
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I would think that by now Jews would no longer trust others for their safety.
I know that if Cajuns were subject to such depredations, they would be armed to the teeth. (well, of course, they already are, but…)
But more seriously, history shows that minorities of all types are better off tending to their own protection.
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G-d forbid you preach inclusiveness over tribalism. If you did, you would have to stop your pro-violence preaching.
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“ minorities of all types are better off tending to their own protection.”
Your “Tribes be us” mentality; I’ll agree with Adam, “sucks”.
No wonder you hate Obama, his coalition building approach to co-existence must have driven you mad.
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My family has experienced anti-Semitism for centuries.
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Apparently, the NYT is still atoning for its sins in publishing an anti-Semitic political cartoon last April. Ms. Weiss doesn’t mention that, but she does do useful work by reporting anti-Semitism on the Left (Jeremy Corbyn, Valerie Plame, Linda Sarsur). To do more — and possibly awaken those in her audience who may not have noticed it — would have been to bite the hand that feeds her.
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Big difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. I doubt you can differentiate, but as a Jew, I can, and do.
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RE: “Big difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.”
Ms. Weiss makes a point that seems reasonable to me: “If hatred of Jews can be justified as a misunderstanding or ignored as a mistake or played down as a slip of the tongue or waved away as ‘just anti-Zionism,’ you can all but guarantee it will be.”
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True. But there IS a difference. People who are anti-Netanyahu are not necessarily antisemitic. There are a lot of Jews, both in America and Israel, who do not agree with his policies. Again, I doubt if YOU can differentiate.
And yet you do not deny that antisemitism is on the rise, not only in Europe, but here as well. But I recall you saying in the past something to the effect that it is no big deal.
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The cartoon is much more anti-Israeli, or more correctly anti-Netanyahu, than anti-Semitic. It was a Netanyahu faced guide dog leading a blind Trump wearing a yarmulke for those who hadn’t seen it. I believe it was published in a Portuguese edition of the NYT.
NYT said it would stop publishing political cartoons completely after the dust up.
Criticism of Israel is tricky. But Netanyahu was not liked by a lot of Israelis either. Along with the Likkud party, he is a conservative firebrand.
Still, Israel is undoubtedly in a very tough neighborhood.
Unfortunately anti-Semitism is an equal opportunity bigotry. Left and right both have ways to express it for reasons that are different, but equally pernicious. That was brought out so well in the commentary.
Some day, perhaps, it will end.
IMHO
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Okay, at the risk of extreme derision, here’s my one and favorite ethnic joke:
When you travel you will never be lost if you have a Muslim and German companions. When the Muslim turns to Mecca to pray, hand the German a rifle and he will turn toward Paris. Voila! Triangulation.
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Enjoy “deride”.
😇
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