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2004-08-09 17:15 | User Profile
From The Seattle Times: [url]http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001999939_alexander09.html[/url]
The Democratic Party's anti-Semitism problem
By Edward Alexander Special to The Times August 9, 2004
One of the most prominent figures at John Kerry's nominating convention was the Rev. Al Sharpton, who seemed almost as fixed a presence at Kerry's side the night of his acceptance speech as were the nominee's wife and vice presidential candidate John Edwards.
Yet, it is common knowledge that this failed contender for the Democratic nomination incited anti-Jewish violence in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in 1991 and in Harlem in 1995. In the latter incident he encouraged the explicitly anti-Semitic boycott and picketing of a Jewish-owned store named "Freddy's." Eight employees of the store were killed in a fire started by one of Sharpton's followers.
But none of this unpleasantness has kept Sharpton from being treated with oily sycophancy by the Democratic leadership.
Among the victors in the July 20 Democratic primary in Georgia was Cynthia McKinney, who served five terms in Congress before being defeated in the 2002 primary by Denise Majette. Like many other inhabitants of the fever swamps of the Democratic Party, McKinney believed and said that President Bush knew in advance about the 9/11 plot but allowed it to proceed in order to line his pockets.
She also, as The New York Times said in reporting her victory, had made "a series of other incendiary, often racial comments." This is The New York Times' delicate way of alluding to the stridently anti-Semitic character of McKinney's 2002 campaign, in which "Jews" were repeatedly blamed for her faltering in the polls and for her eventual defeat. Her behavior did not deter House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, then the Democratic whip, from backing her to the hilt.
Also in 2002, the Alabama Democratic congressional incumbent Earl Hilliard attacked his challenger, Artur Davis, in a flier that read: "Davis and the Jews, No Good for the Black Belt." (Both men are black.)
Hilliard's racist rhetoric did not prevent him from receiving support from 24 members of the Congressional Black Caucus and from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, one of the party's funding agencies.
The antics of McKinney and Hilliard recalled those of a far better-known and more powerful figure in the Democratic Party, Jesse Jackson. His description (in 1984) of New York City as "Hymietown" and his 1979 complaint about being "sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust" proved no impediment to his holding the Democratic conventions of 1984 and 1988 hostage with his political might within the party or to orating from the convention podium in 1992 or to being appointed President Clinton's special envoy to Nigeria.
Some have argued that the Democrats' reluctance to criticize the anti-Semitic demagoguery of the aforementioned politicians can be explained by the fact that they are all blacks, and white liberals believe that blacks are their equals in every sense ââ¬â except that of being equal. Perhaps.
It is true that when Democratic Congressman James Moran of Virginia, who is white, charged in 2003 that "the leaders of the Jewish community" sent the country to war in Iraq, he was criticized (no more than that) by fellow Democrats. Also, on May 20 of this year, Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democratic senator, alleged, on the floor of the Senate, that Bush had sent the country to war "in order to win Jewish votes." (Apparently Hollings, during his seven terms, had never discovered that a majority of Jews would vote Democratic even if Yasser Arafat and Osama bin Laden were at the top of the ticket.)
To his credit, Kerry on the very next day condemned Hollings for "lend[ing] credence to... anti-Semitic stereotypes that have no place in America or anywhere else." Nevertheless, it is clear that the Democrats have a growing "problem" at the grass-roots or Michael Moore level of the party that they know not how to deal with.
By contrast, the Republicans, when Trent Lott made remarks in 2002 that could be construed as racist, promptly forced him from his position as Senate majority leader. More to the point, Pat Buchanan, who never misses a chance to stick it to the Jews, was roundly denounced for his anti-Semitic pronouncements, in a 40,000-word National Review essay of 1991 by the party's leading intellectual figure, William Buckley.
Buckley not only labeled Buchanan a menace to the body politic, but urged Republicans to expel him from their midst, which they eventually ââ¬â though not quickly enough ââ¬â did. By 2000, Buchanan was forced to run for the presidency on the Reform Party ticket, after which he retreated to the world of journalism from which he had emerged.
Outside of the Islamic world, the anti-Semitic upsurge of recent years is mainly a left-wing phenomenon. It is therefore not surprising that it should have brought the Democratic Party, more swiftly than the Republicans, to that dark and bloody crossroads where politics and conscience collide.
*Edward Alexander is professor of English at the University of Washington and author of, among other books, "Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition" (Transaction Books). *
2004-08-09 21:17 | User Profile
Centinel,
I am getting sick as hell of this "Liberals are taking up anti-Semitism" nonsense the Neocons are puting out! :wallbash: :furious:
2004-08-09 21:38 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Centinel,
I am getting sick as hell of this "Liberals are taking up anti-Semitism" nonsense the Neocons are puting out! :wallbash: :furious:[/QUOTE]
You know where the neos are going with it, don't ya?
"Well, if you're anti-Israel/anti-Zionist or complain about Jewish power you must be a leftist/liberal/socialist/commie...."
Ain't that a world turned upside-down!
2004-08-09 22:04 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Centinel]You know where the neos are going with it, don't ya?
"Well, if you're anti-Israel/anti-Zionist or complain about Jewish power you must be a leftist/liberal/socialist/commie...."
Ain't that a world turned upside-down![/QUOTE]You must spend very little time working "right-wing" forums. They have been using this angle for a while now.
2004-08-09 23:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=travis]You must spend very little time working "right-wing" forums. They have been using this angle for a while now.[/QUOTE]
To be honest, I've tuned out most of the neo-con media for the last year or so, Travis, so I'm not always up on what they're currently spouting except for stuff I run across on the Internet now and then. Televitz and syndicated talk radio have become worthless, as have most newspapers and magazines.
2004-08-10 00:08 | User Profile
I was referring to forums like conservative underground, free republic, free conservatives etc, not media. All of them have Jewish posters and they use categorization as a herding tool. It works. That's why I strongly encourage all of you to participate on these forums. You can be instrumental in countering these Jews. Give it a try...let the outrage and ridicule roll down your back.
2004-08-11 21:27 | User Profile
travis and Centinel,
No! You mean Neocon Forums! Nothing "right-wing" or "conservative" about "conservative underground", "free republic", or "free conservatives."
2004-08-11 21:30 | User Profile
Centinel,
Yes you are Right. Sad and sickening! [QUOTE]You know where the neos are going with it, don't ya?
"Well, if you're anti-Israel/anti-Zionist or complain about Jewish power you must be a leftist/liberal/socialist/commie...."
Ain't that a world turned upside-down! [/QUOTE]
2004-08-12 04:24 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Centinel,
I am getting sick as hell of this "Liberals are taking up anti-Semitism" nonsense the Neocons are puting out! :wallbash: :furious:[/QUOTE]Well according not just to MacDonald but I think even to the neocons themselves its been going on longer than neocondom - in fact it - the realization that the left was no longer a reliable ally for all jewish interests - basically what created the neoconservative movement in the first place.
Although really I have no idea whether Alexander is a neocon himself or not. As with the right, the left must also have its philosemitic and nonphilosemitic elements.
2004-08-12 04:33 | User Profile
[QUOTE=travis]I was referring to forums like conservative underground, free republic, free conservatives etc, not media. All of them have Jewish posters and they use categorization as a herding tool. It works. That's why I strongly encourage all of you to participate on these forums. You can be instrumental in countering these Jews. Give it a try...let the outrage and ridicule roll down your back.[/QUOTE]:lol: That's where a lot of us came from, at least Free Republic. Our experience was, while useful in building contacts like here, eventually if you and the forum are at all successful the neocon kommissars will round you up and ban you with ruthless efficiency.
2004-08-13 06:52 | User Profile
When Jews first invade societies their first conquest is selling liberals the idea that they are both victims of injustice and their mutual goal becomes attainment of power and destroying the countries backbone. Now that they have both reached their goals, the monster the Jews created can no longer be controlled and are turning on them. Oh my! No problem!
Jews knew they couldn't crack conservatives unless they first divided the country and had conservatives and liberals at war with each other and the focus would be off of them for the most part. Anyone gets out of line and the Jew agencies are well in place to smack you down in any manner they see fit. It's been a cakewalk for the socialist liberal Jew to ease into the conservative party.
I wonder what happens to Jews when America wakes up and realizes the Jews destroyed it?
2004-08-13 07:01 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]:lol: That's where a lot of us came from, at least Free Republic. Our experience was, while useful in building contacts like here, eventually if you and the forum are at all successful the neocon kommissars will round you up and ban you with ruthless efficiency.[/QUOTE]
lol - neocon commissars How true! I couldn't post an article about Israel at FR without it being deleted in a few seconds. Heaven forbid anyone know the truth about Israel!
I never really asked but I had assumed the name Original Dissent was dissent from Jim Rob's Jew Crew and their narrow-minded, brainwashed brethren. I had wandered over to FR during the Iraq War and after a month I seriously wondered if I was a conservative. No conservatives that I knew acted that evil nor did I find FR's agenda to be conservative. Since no one on FR is allowed to question anything without being banned, I had to do an online search -
At first I thought for sure Jim Rob was a Jew himself but after I found his family history online, I discovered that not to be the case. My second guess was that he was pretty clever in exposing the Jews by allowing them to be their evil selves. Well, that seemed not to be the case either. After a further google, I wasn't surprised that many others were complaining about that site. That's actually how I found this site...I googled FreeRepublic and there was a thread here about FR.
I've been on political forums and newsgroups way back when Prodigy and CompuServe changed from hourly to monthly fees. I've seen a lot of crude and crass postings during those years but none were as maliciously evil as FR is.
2004-08-17 05:58 | User Profile
I live in McKinney's district. At one point I thought I could hear howls of "oy vey, how we suffer!" from the Briarclift-La Vista area. (what I call "Little Tel Aviv) I' glad she won. They deserve one another and I know I can count of them spending millions to defeat her, money that otherwise could be spent on bribing more folks and propaganda. Enjoy her, "Chosen Ones". You help create her and it is quite funny to me to see her turn against you. It reminds me of one of those old scifi movies where the mad scientist creates a monster he can't control. :lol: