Barack Obama, the first Jewish president?

Obama’s extreme opponents, however, do not paint him with black stereotypes. Radicals, in many cases without even knowing it, have instead depicted him using conventionally negative Jewish stereotypes.

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Obama’s many homes: Kansas, Indonesia, Hawaii and Chicago. This black man was the “wandering Jew.” He became the “rootless cosmopolitan,” a term Joseph Stalin summoned in his campaign against Jews.

Obama’s logic-driven pursuit has led many to the Vulcan analogy. When Jewish actor Leonard Nimoy first personified this fictional people, he made a traditional Jewish symbol Vulcan, popularizing the spread-finger gesture of the rabbinic Cohanim.

The far-right case against Obama, on so many fronts, touches on the Jewish experience. Obama is framed as a socialist; a political philosophy pinned on Jews. “Spread the wealth around” betrayed his inner Trotsky, or so this extremist thinking goes.

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