How come we always try to better ourselves through our writings, but people just don’t get it?…

Photo Emerges Of Murderous Killer Whale At Tea Party Rally…….

Your nose appears to be growing, crrrrrr6 is it?

RD on February 20, 2010 at 6:06 PM

One would hope not so much that he is unable to read the papers about what is going on in the Swedish City of Malmö . . . which is governed by a leftist Mayor named Ilmar Reepalu. The Mayor recently declared in an interview, one that was published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day that Zionism is the equivalent of anti-Semitism, and has made other equally disparaging comments.

William Jacobson at Legal insurrection has a more full account.

No, I don’t think crr6 will be back to this thread!

You’ve only criticized Bush’s spending after the fact. You didn’t criticize it when he was in office. You do so now, so that you can say “see we criticize Bush too!!!! We’re not hypocrites!!”.

crrrr6 on February 18, 2010 at 9:24 PM

I guess you missed the whole amnesty debate along with Harriet Myers. That’s okay. Nobody expects you to be honest. You are what your. A lying Leftist troll.

TheBigOldDog on February 18, 2010 at 9:34 PM

Your nose appears to be growing, crrrrrr6 is it?

rrpjr on February 19, 2010 at 6:25 PM

The current rise of anti-semitism among progressives is indeed a subject well worth exploring.

In the introduction to the 2006 piece — “Progressive” Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism –written for the American Jewish Committee by Professor Alvin H. Rosenfeld, the committee’s Ex. Dir., David A. Harris identifies many of the offending trends identified therein, even among several leftish Jewish critics.

From the Harris Forward:

These leftist Jewish critics challenge not just Israel’s policies, but “its legitimacy and right to an ongoing future.” Their acerbic criticisms and negative rituals—such as renouncing a Jewish child’s right to Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return at his bris (ritual circumcision)—are documented here by Prof. Rosenfeld. There is the poet Adrienne Rich, who argues that the word Zionism is “so incendiary, so drenched in … ideas of blood and soil, in memories of victimization and pursuant claims of the right to victimized” that it “needs to dissolve before twenty-first century realities.” There is the hyperbolic British academic Jacqueline Rose, who says, “We take Zionism to be a form of collective insanity.” And there is Joel Kovel, a professor, writer, and Green Party politician who believes that “to be a true Jew,”Jews must “annihilate their particularism,” “annihilate or transcend Zionism,” and “annihilate the Jewish state.”

Unfortunately, the absolute refusal to recognize the anti-semitism of the left — both historic and current — is too frequently a reality that commenters like crr6 will not acknowledge.

Rosenfeld’s opening lines in his piece firmly expose that reality.

“German fascism came and went. Soviet Communism came and
went. Anti-Semitism came and stayed.”1 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, offered these discerning words in response to a speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in which the president of Iran denounced Israel as “a disgraceful blot” that should be “wiped off the map.”
. . . .

Your statement was rubbish.

Trochilus on February 19, 2010 at 5:33 PM

Indeed. And I didn’t mention the new anti-semitism on the rise through Progressive Europe, e.g, England, France, Holland, Sweden. Read Melanie Phillips, David Solway, Frank Furedi, Bruce Bawer and others examining this frightening phenomena. Or Europe’s drift toward dhimmitude, and the Left’s increasing alliances with radical Islam (they share a common enemy — the West and the Jew). Or Obama’s own associations with anti-semites, not only his infamous pastor but those such as Rashid Khalidi. Anti-semitism is rising and the Left is driving it.

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Anti-semitism has traditionally been the province of the right.

Sure. Tell that to Leon Trotsky! Joseph Stalin was a rather virulent anti-semite. He sometimes talked a “good” game in public, but he was a ruthless anti-semite.

The left is about ideology, and to that extent Communists, and in particular the Soviets, always made it their business to liquidate any religious organizations (with the exception to some extent of the Russian Orthodox Church), in any of the nations they gained control of.

That included all Jewish religious organizations behind the Iron Curtain. Jewish cultural organizations suffered a similar fate. And even though Stalin supported the creation of the state of Israel in ’48, it did not take long before he decided to openly delcare that all Jewish nationalists were really just agents of American imperialism.

Perhaps you should read the Edvard Radzinski biography of Joseph Stalin. And perhaps you should learn about the many other instances of anti-semitism throughout many of the Soviet bloc nations. Learn about the Night of the Murdered Poets, the so-called Doctor’s Plot . . . it went on and on for decades.

Far from being the “traditional” province of the right, as you so ignorantly put it, anti-semitism cropped up in the excesses of the left on numerous occasions.

In fact, the Soviets on occasion copied many of the ugly caracatures of Jews from the Nazis. There have been books written about it, one by a man named Abraham Cooper.

Your statement was rubbish.