The Anti-Semitism Club
Tired of being called an anti-semite?
Join the Club.
Or rather join the long list of people who have been "clubbed" by that one-size-fits-all, all-purpose smear.
Zionists habitually use the false charge of "anti-semitism" as a blunt instrument against any and all of their critics.
Among their latest victims is anyone who has the temerity to point out AIPAC's prominent role in the invasion of Iraq.
Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) has again come under fire from local Jewish organizations for remarking in a magazine interview that the "extraordinarily powerful" pro-Israel lobby played a strong role promoting the war in Iraq.
Too bad there's OVERWHELMING evidence that israel and its unofficial arm in the US urged the US to invade Iraq.
In fact, as we speak two former AIPAC staffers are being tried for passing classified information to israel, and if the information they RECEIVED from israel during the same time period is revealed, it will prove conclusively that AIPAC planned and orchestrated the US invasion of Iraq on behalf of israel.
In an interview with Tikkun, a California-based Jewish magazine, Moran said the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is "the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning. I don't think they represent the mainstream of American Jewish thinking at all, but because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful -- most of them are quite wealthy -- they have been able to exert power."
Moran's remarks were criticized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and the National Jewish Democratic Council. Ronald Halber, executive director of the first group, said Moran's remarks are anti-Semitic and draw on ugly stereotypes about Jewish wealth, power and influence.
"He uses several age-old canards that have been used throughout history that have brought violence upon Jews," Halber said this week. "He uses clearly anti-Semitic images such as Jewish control of the media and wealthy Jews using their wealth to control policy."
If the shoe fits . . .
Ira N. Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, said in a published statement that there is nothing wrong with criticizing the pro-Israel lobby but that Moran's statements go beyond that to defamation by making a "phony" connection between AIPAC and the Iraq war.
"Rep. Moran's comments are not only incorrect and irresponsible," Forman said. "They are downright dangerous."
In an interview last night, Moran said he was dismayed at the reaction to his remarks, which he stands by. The pro-Israel lobby has not represented mainstream U.S. Jewish opinion in recent years, he said -- most notably with its Middle East policies, which he characterized as directly aligned with those of the Bush administration.
"The problem with addressing the groups who have argued strongly in favor of a long-term American military presence in the Middle East is that they raise arguments that are not related to the point," Moran said.
In other words, they're complete and utter morons.
Give me a grown-up to talk to.
"I would like to have a reasonable, objective discussion about AIPAC's foreign policy agenda. But it's difficult to do that because any time you question their motives, you are accused of being anti-Semitic."
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun also defended Moran's position in the article, which appear in the magazine's September-October issue.
"It's the kind of statement I would have made to any religious community, or to any labor movement audience, citing their own failures to act as a critical factor in why we had gotten involved," Lerner wrote in the article.
Halber said he welcomes criticism of AIPAC's policies, but he said Moran is wrong that the advocacy group supports the war in Iraq. Most American Jews oppose U.S. involvement in Iraq, he said, and AIPAC has remained neutral [!!!].
According to the organization's Web site, AIPEC supports U.S. military aid to Israel but does not openly support U.S. intervention in the Middle East.
That's because they operate in SECRET.
"I think Mr. Halber's being disingenuous in suggesting that the AIPAC board has not been strongly supportive of military involvement in Iraq and now in Iran," Moran said yesterday.
What a diplomat - he's a Goddamn liar!
Although hailed for forging ties with the region's Muslim community, Moran has gotten into trouble with the local Jewish community before. In 2001, he angered groups by saying in an appearance before the American Muslim Council that then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was coming to Washington "probably seeking a warrant from President Bush to kill at will with weapons we have paid for."
The next year, Moran returned $2,000 in political contributions from a Muslim activist with ties to the anti-Israeli groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
And in 2003, at an antiwar forum in Reston, Moran said: "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should."
Said Halber this week: "There are only so many mistakes he can make before it's fair to call him an anti-Semite."
Bam! Bam!
Bam! Bam! Bam!
I'm beginning to feel like a baby seal.
It's high time we start fighting back in earnest.
did anyone in australia hear about this:
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"Money" has no value - people do.
I did. It's pretty demoralising. The whole frikking council swings into action! Threatening to kick the whole cricket club off of its home ground. Who else could muster this kind of response?
I've started visiting AJN regularly - it's been an eye opener. I thought Oz was too much of a backwater for the Jewish community to find it of any interest, but Melbourne is the place apparently, and I just happen to be a long way away from Melbourne.
I post a comment here and there at AJN - here's one: http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=3918 snicker, snicker...
this is .pdf file from the club itself on this matter
http://mckinnon.cricketvictoria.com.au/files/McKCCPressRelease9Aug2007.p...
alleged antisemitic remarks were published on following social network http://www.facebook.com/
and this is what national main paper The Age had to say about it
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/08/18/1186857841956.html
Beaumaris and Glen Eira clubs are Melbourne's districts where lots of European descendants live in but Glen Eira also hosts a lots of jewish residents which I see everyday By the way from that SE part of Melbourne to the center of the City is known to be nest of majority of Melbourne's jewish population. Lots of practicing jews with orthodox appearance can be seen there and I guess some people don't like it due to area being most expensive residential part of Melbourne City. Lots of people wonder how even poor jews can afford to live in those million dollars house areas...I guess they help each other to settle in same area...I know few of them and they are not bad people but I guess like everywhere majority supports Israel..
"Let there be Light!"
..so you aren't allowed to have 'holocaust deniers' on any public sports teams??
poxman training his khasbara kook klux klan klass
..see how they lie as a crutch, to hold up their house of cards with the last joker in the deck; game over, zionists lose.
..i guess that none of us are allowed to play either, rofl!
..i'm an A N T I - S H A M I T E!!
People need to characterize and properly focus their criticisms. The Jewish-only settlement dwellers are clearly racists, and some are Jewish supremacists. Israel's marriage law, right of return, race-based citizenship criteria, and race-based property laws are blatantly racist, and would be unthinkable in any true democracy.
These are indefensible, and they direct the charge of racism WHERE IT BELONGS.
I agree with you that criticism needs to go precisely and narrowly where it belongs.
But, it seems that you point to certain racist laws in the state of israel as if the rest of it is okay.
The cold hard truth of the matter is - ISRAEL IS BY DEFINITION A RACIST STATE - its very foundation - the notion that there can or should be an artificially constructed "homeland where Jews are a majority" needs to be THROWN IN TO THE CRAPPER and those Jews who were formerly zionists must learn once and for all how to LIVE AND LET LIVE IN PEACE with the rest of humanity.
Nothing anti-semitic about that - it's anti-supremacist.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
LIVE AND LET LIVE IN PEACE with the rest of humanity.
QRS - I definitely agree. In truth, they could have had their Jewish State and lived in relative peace within Israel-proper. That wasn't their game plan, of course.
Bulletin: To all residents from the Nile to the Euphrates: This land is for Jews Only. Leave or you will be forcibly removed.