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Fmr. Holocaust council director: Jimmy Carter once said there are “too many Jews” on council

posted at 12:47 am on January 26, 2007 by Ian
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Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were “too many Jews” on the government’s Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe Freedman, the council’s former executive director, told WND in an exclusive interview.

Freedman, who served on the council during Carter’s term as president, also revealed a noted Holocaust scholar who was a Presbyterian Christian was rejected from the council’s board by Carter’s office because the scholar’s name “sounded too Jewish.”

Freedman, now a professor of law at Hofstra University, was picked by the council’s chairman, author Elie Weisel, to serve as executive director in 1980. The council, created by the Carter White House, went on to establish the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Update: In case you wondering which side of the aisle Freedman stands on, he isn’t one of those neo-cons Jimmy always talks about:

Freedman describes himself as “self-proclaimed liberal.” He said he decided to speak out after the release of Carter’s latest book, “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” which some have accused of being biased against Israel.

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“Too many Jews”? I don’t know, sounds kinda Nazi-ish to me.

ReubenJCogburn on January 26, 2007 at 12:50 AM

Of course Jimmah is not/was never anti-semetic.

Just like Robert “Exalted_Cyclops” Byrd is not/was was never a racist.

mojojojo on January 26, 2007 at 12:53 AM

Well, the evidence that his is a Jew-hating b@st@rd keeps mounting. Its actually amazing Prime Minister Begin, who was a pretty good at judging people, was fooled by Carter. But, as usual, the anti-semites eventually show their true colors. This a$$h01e should be taking a dirt nap already.

Andy in Agoura Hills on January 26, 2007 at 12:53 AM

Same number of letters, even ending in “er” and yet Bush is the one that keeps getting compared to Hitler.Can moonbats get anything right?

bbz123 on January 26, 2007 at 12:55 AM

“….. and the worms, keep digging into his brain.”

Keep talking Jimmy, just keep talking……..

PinkyBigglesworth on January 26, 2007 at 12:57 AM

Freedman describes himself as “self-proclaimed liberal.” He said he decided to speak out after the release of Carter’s latest book, “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” which some have accused of being biased against Israel.

Jimmy’s book is beginning to remind me of that first domino that tips and then topples all of the other dominoes over. It’s all starting to crash down.

INC on January 26, 2007 at 12:58 AM

Is there any doubt left now that Jhimmi hates the Jews? What a lousy excuse for a human being he is. It shows just how bad we (as in the voting public) can be taken in by a campaign to elect a complete f*cking idiot to the highest office in the land. And look out, it is happening again with Obama! (we all know Hillary, that doesn’t count)

R D on January 26, 2007 at 1:06 AM

Nothing like having a good ol’ dialogue to wrap up your legacy.

Dusty on January 26, 2007 at 1:33 AM

My first post so go easy on me.

Looks like ole jimmuhs true nature finally surface ahh if we just have patience all the crap eventually floats to the top.

How’d I do?

Kevin43 on January 26, 2007 at 1:42 AM

Well, well. The evidence re: exactly which side of the aisle Jimmy Carter stands on vis-a-vis “the Jews” continues to snowball, yet no one has called him out over his failure to accept Alan Dershowitz’ challenge to debate Carter’s book on its merits. I find that fascinating. Too bad, though - there isn’t much that I’d rather watch than the sight of Billy “Theah’s a helluva lot moah A-rabs than theah is Jews!” Carter’s kid brother choke on his own words.

SpartRan on January 26, 2007 at 1:43 AM

So it seems Jimmy was onto this whole neo-con menace long before everyone else.
OT: So BTW, is Petraeus neo-con/Jewish?

We need to know before these New York Money People pull another fast one on us all again.

billy on January 26, 2007 at 1:52 AM

We need to know before these New York Money People pull another fast one on us all again.

That’s just the thing about the New York Money People: They’re so deviously clever, you can never actually find any evidence of their conspiracy. As you can imagine, this makes it very hard to prove.

You really have to start with the conclusion that the conspiracy is real, and then look around for whatever evidence you can find that fits the predetermined conclusion.

It’s kind of like global warming, I guess.

Ali-Bubba on January 26, 2007 at 2:02 AM

Jimma = Supreme Chancellor Palpatine

Why didn’t we see it before?

x95b10 on January 26, 2007 at 2:02 AM

Jimma = Supreme Chancellor Palpatine

Why didn’t we see it before?

x95b10 on January 26, 2007 at 2:02 AM

Because that episode of Star Wars hadn’t been made yet silly

Gwillie on January 26, 2007 at 2:15 AM

but, but…….Carter started out as a Wunderkind in the Navy, picked by the Founding Father of the Navy’s nuclear submarine program to be one of his disciples, supposedly a near-genius whiz kid……..then he just drops out of the Navy and goes back to the family farm in Plains to raise peanuts

Did anyone ever look into this abrupt event? Maybe ya kinda get the suspicion that Jimmy was Not Entirely Mentally Sound? A fast learner and all that, but very ( as they used to say ) high-strung, with a tendency to latch onto crank theories.

Remember his presidency? Didn’t he seem just a little odd sometimes? Go back and look at the video of him as Prez–watch his eyes ( He’s got Nancy Pelosi eyes ) and the creepy smile that would come out of nowhere and stay too long……

and now he hates the Joooos; big surprise

Janos Hunyadi on January 26, 2007 at 2:16 AM

So, this gets filed under “least shocking news of the day,” right? I mean, what surprises me is that we haven’t seen any pictures of Jimmah sporting a keffiyeh and his big, toothy grin.

Sean M. on January 26, 2007 at 3:30 AM

Jhimmah, just how many Joooooos is too many?

shaken on January 26, 2007 at 3:35 AM

Whta a lovely way to cap off a lackluster career in public service.

Valiant on January 26, 2007 at 4:05 AM

Er…What

Valiant on January 26, 2007 at 4:05 AM

Too many Jews on a Holocaust Memorial Council?

Are you friggin kidding me? Might be the one place I would expect there to be a lot of Jews.

He was probably mad that there were no Nazi representatives for “balance”.

quax1 on January 26, 2007 at 4:13 AM

What is it they say about “old dogs”?

Jimmy is from a different era - a time when Christians where more hostile toward Jews and Israel. This was the time when the theme that “the Jews killed Jesus” came about.

Today, Evangelical and “Born Again” Christians are strongly pro-Israel. They recognize Israel’s David vs Goliath situation, and 9/11 has turned scripture into revelation.

However, Jimmy DOES NOT GO TO CHURCH. He is not guided by the same spiritual tide as other Christians. In his own world (the breading ground of hatred) he’s lost it.

The story above shows the usual liberal morality-fatigue.

Agrippa2k on January 26, 2007 at 4:47 AM

However, Jimmy DOES NOT GO TO CHURCH. He is not guided by the same spiritual tide as other Christians. In his own world (the breading ground of hatred) he’s lost it.

Breaded and deep-fried in a boiling vat of hatred… just like the foul-mouthed fowl he is..

RD on January 26, 2007 at 5:11 AM

However, Jimmy DOES NOT GO TO CHURCH. He is not guided by the same spiritual tide as other Christians. In his own world (the breading ground of hatred) he’s lost it.

Um, I hate with the white hot light of a million burning suns to defend Jimmah Cartah, and I’m not a religious guy, but isn’t he supposedly a born-again Christian?

Aside from the respect I’d normally give the guy for the office he held, he’s personally and morally a douchebag. But I don’t think I’m qualified to comment on his spirituality.

Sean M. on January 26, 2007 at 5:27 AM

I think that’s an insult to Palpy.

Besides, Palpy was FAR more competetant than Jimmah.

Darksean on January 26, 2007 at 7:15 AM

I wonder if they’ll take back his Peace Prize?

BacaDog on January 26, 2007 at 7:48 AM

Actually, the “Jews killed Jesus” theme has been around a lot longer than that. Anti-Semitism has historically not been as bad in the US as in Europe-Jefferson Davis included a Jew in his Cabinet-but we’ve still had it. I suspect that anti-Semitism is something that Carter’s family has passed down through the generations.

On another note, I really believe that “they killed Jesus” was always more of an excuse than a real reason to hate the Jews, who dared to be different at a time when most Europeans identified themselves as Christians. The Nazis certainly didn’t care that the Jews killed Jesus.

Lancer on January 26, 2007 at 9:27 AM

Too many blacks in the black caucus, too many mexicans in LULAC, to many teachers in the NEA, to many lawyers in congress.

Guess which one is the only accurate comment.

right2bright on January 26, 2007 at 9:33 AM

Reminds me an old poem that goes something like this:

There’s too many Joooooos in this tub,
There’s too many Zionists to scrub!
I just washed a behind, I’m sure wasn’t mine,
There’s too many Joooooos in this tub.

Or something like that, eh Jimmah?

Kevin, your first post was pretty good, but what do I know?

bloggless on January 26, 2007 at 10:25 AM

Too many Jews? I wonder if Jimmy would complain that there were ‘too many Americans’ on the U.S.M.C. War Memorial depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima?

RedinBlueCounty on January 26, 2007 at 10:38 AM

Technicaly, I suppose, Mr. Carter is not anti-semitic. After all, most semites are Arabic.

Natrium on January 26, 2007 at 10:40 AM

Gosh, what a shocker … not.

thirteen28 on January 26, 2007 at 11:05 AM

Did anyone catch Jimmah on the Today show with ~~Howdy Doody~~ David Gregory? (Scroll through the video clips for the segment)

“The title of the book was very carefully chosen. It doesn’t say that Israel is a racist nation. It doesn’t say that there are any indications of apartheid inside Israel. The book is about Palestine, uh, peace and not apartheid.”

I wonder why he didn’t call it Palestine: Peace and Grilled Kielbasa. Gregory actually does a half decent interview.

Pablo on January 26, 2007 at 12:09 PM

This can not be true, Jimmy is such a nice man. BTY, I have some land in Florida for sale..

Wade on January 26, 2007 at 12:14 PM

I am a Christian who is a Baptist; you need to know that Carter is aligned with a liberal branch of Baptists, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. I have read enough of his writings that I do not believe Carter is a Christian, but rather a wolf in sheeps clothing. You knew that part anyway, but let me give you a couple of links.

Carter, Clinton Back Moderate Baptists

Carter, Clinton announce Baptist meeting as counter to conservative Southern Baptists

With the help of former President Carter, Baptists who have distanced themselves from the conservative Southern Baptist Convention announced plans Tuesday for a major meeting that aims to improve the Baptist image and broaden its agenda.

Carter, who left the Southern Baptists in 2000 after the denomination came under conservative control, and former President Bill Clinton, also a Baptist, joined leaders of about 40 Baptist groups in making the announcement at The Carter Center.

INC on January 26, 2007 at 1:16 PM

From Front Page Magazine [my emphasis]:

Brother Carter and Brother Clinton’s Baptist Revival:

Exasperated by the persistent conservatism of their own Southern Baptist Convention, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are trying to organize an alternative organization for liberal Baptists…

Instead of traditional Southern Baptist-style biblical teaching, along with opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, this new kind of Baptist entity will fight poverty, global warming and war…

The new group will be less “negative and judgmental” than the 16 million member Southern Baptist Convention, Carter and Clinton have judgmentally promised. [I love that!]…

Citing issues on which his church and the former president disagree, Land [a Southern Baptist leader] contrasted Carter’s recent book likening of Israel to Apartheid South Africa with the Southern Baptist Convention’s own strong support for Israel.

According to Land, most Southern Baptists voted against both Clinton and Carter, and four out of five voters who identified themselves as Southern Baptists voted in 2000 for George W. Bush over Al Gore, who also belongs to the convention. “I suspect that Mr. Carter and Mr. Clinton are upset about that,” Land told the Atlanta Journal Constitution…

…In his book of last year, “Our Endangered Values,” Carter likens “fundamentalist” domination of the Southern Baptist Convention to the Ayatollah Khomeini’s rise to power in Iran…[what a slander!]

…But how noteworthy that the “New Baptist Covenant” seems to define itself not be creeds or theology, as conservative Southern Baptists do, but by generically left of center political and social goals: advocating greater environmental regulation, opposing U.S. military activities, advocating larger welfare state programs.

Traditional Christians understand their faith through common understandings of God, salvation, and personal ethical behavior. Religionists of the left often see these historic tenets as inconsequential. For many of them, religion is just an instrument for political activism…

This is going to be interesting to see how it plays out for Hillary. Clinton and Carter are supposed to host some big convention in January or February of 2008 for all of these “new” kind of Baptists. I wonder how she’s going to spin that. This cloak of religiosity is pretty thin and tattered. They are deluding themselves if they think it will give a nice religious tone and cover to their words and actions.

INC on January 26, 2007 at 1:21 PM

Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruits.”

Clinton and Carter getting together to form a new religious coalition is both laughable and appalling.

INC on January 26, 2007 at 1:24 PM

I bet Carter thinks there are “too many Jews” in Israel too.

ReubenJCogburn on January 27, 2007 at 1:53 AM

Been one too many “Jimmys” in the Whitehouse.

Wade on January 27, 2007 at 10:43 AM

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