I have now had two-family related anecdotes about Senator McCain’s acceptance speech that indicate its impact may be more significant than I anticipated. The first came in an e-mail from my brother, a very smart political observer, who said (and I’m quoting him with his permission) that while McCain isn’t America’s greatest political orator,
he connected with me in a manner that I did not think possible…. [the speech] re-defined my opinion of the man, which will have a lasting impact…. I have not had as much interest (or even excitement) in a presidential race as I do in this one. That interest developed as both conventions unfolded. I never thought I could get excited about the McCain campaign, but that is now a real possibility. And for the first time in memory the vice presidential candidates play a major role (thanks to Palin).
The second data point: Earlier today I found myself sending a link of McCain’s speech to our home computer with a note to my wife, saying that I wanted our young children to watch the conclusion of his speech, which recounted his time as a POW and included his beautiful meditation on America. I told Cindy I thought it would teach our children an important lesson.
When I saw it last night, I immediately knew the coda of McCain’s speech was powerful, evocative, and deeply moving, even as I thought the policy section was not particularly memorable. But it may be that for many Americans, the conclusion was so powerful and moving, and such a tribute to the man and his love of country, that it will carry the day and make the speech more of a success, and more memorable, than I initially thought.
Global warming is the one thing Jews really are responsible for.
As this survey indicates, the Jews cause people around the globe to become hot under the skin.
I’ll just bet a majority of Poles think Jews talk about the Holocaust too much.
I think anti-Semitism is like a virus from a horror movie. It goes dormant and can live in that state forever until it finds the right host, at which point it starts dividing and multiplying before finally exploding the host.
I doubt that anti-Semitism will ever go away. You mix a little envy with the innate desire to blame everybody else for one’s own incompetence and there you go.
Or, you could look at it another way; if one could not blame the Jews or Western Culture for all of the ills in this world – who could you blame?
#3,”Or, you could look at it another way; if one could not blame the Jews or Western Culture for all of the ills in this world – who could you blame?”
That’s easy, , Moslems,Hindus,Buddihists.Taoists,along with Eastern Culture,the problem is you have to know something about Eastern Culture in order to effectively blame it,
OR,you could always stick to Secular Humanism/Materialism,that’s a good one,everybody hates that along with Atheistic Determinism. How about Gnosticism,Zoroasteranism,and Manicheanism.
Abe Foxman and the ADL are as bad as Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition.
It is 2009. I am not a victim. We are not victims.
CFB, the only virus that exists is your rampant paranoia. Give it a rest.
Children, it’s like dealing with spoiled children.
#5 sure needs a bit of ol’ Sol shined up his arse — it’ll go right through the vacuum between his ears.
And wheelless, as ever, provides an overabundance of incomprehensible balderdash.
who the hell cares? is anti semetism really a significant issue in the 21st century? I live in massachusetts, the jews here aren’t persecuted, they are some of the richest and most influential people in the city. if that’s persecution sign me up
“* Ironically, the good news is that only 23% of those surveyed continue to blame Jews for the death of Jesus. But maybe this has more to do with the reported decline in Christian religious belief in Europe than rejection of the deicide myth.”
Please explain what you mean by the deicide ‘myth’. Certainly the great majority of Jews of that time and no Jews since, are in any way responsible for Jesus’ death.
It’s my understanding that Jesus’ death is directly attributable to the Jewish religious leadership of that time. Since we have no independent historical guides, all we can go on are the gospels. The Gospels do not accuse the Jewish people of deicide but they do accuse the High Priest Annas, Caiphas, the pharisees and their kangaroo court of engineering Jesus’ death.
Do you disagree? And if so, upon what basis?
I say that we bring all those sneaky Jews that are unwelcome in Europe here to America. Jews have always been a great boon to whatever country has adopted them (if that’s the right word). If you read Amy Chua’s Day Of Empire you’ll learn that every sole superpower became that way because they were more inclusive than any other country/society at that time. On the flip side, most of the times those sole superpowers declined was when they started shunning people, which usually started with the Jews. So I say encourage the Jews to come to America. We’ll be better off for it (unless they vote Democrat – haha).
Europeans don’t blame jews for global warming? A mere oversight – they haven’t thought of it yet.
I am absolutely sure that Jews have already been accused of causing global warming.
After all, we already know that they are responsible for the AIDS epidemic, right?
I blame the laziness of the people who should be looking for incontrovertible evidence.
Why don’t they emulate all those whistleblowers of well poisoning, “blood libels” (scare quotes
deliberately inserted) etc. etc.
The great Russian Israeli satirist Igor Guberman wrote:
Царь колокол не звонит, поломатый,
Царь пушка не стреляет, мать ети.
И ясно, что евреи виноваты.
Осталось только летопись найти.
For those who can’t read Russian, here’s a very inadequate and inelegant translation:
The King of Bells can’t toll for it’s broken,
The King of Cannons is out of order.
It’s absolutely clear that the Jews are to blame.
Let’s just find that chronicle [where this is mentioned.]
(The two artifacts mentioned are displayed in the Kremlin. They are huge but don’t work as planned.)
Lester, anti-Semitism isn’t a problem to speak of in Massachusetts because Massachusetts is in the United States and the American people, for all our faults, are different. May we remain so and may we not heed the blandishments of our chattering classes that we should be more European in any way.
The Holocaust merely scotched the snake and didn’t kill it. And as we have seen in the last few weeks, any excuse or pretext will do to rouse hatred of Jews. Or as Auden put it in a different context:
“In the nightmare of the dark,
All the dogs of Europe bark.
And the living nations wait,
Each sequestered in its hate.”
GB – yes, your reference to the Gospels is an accurate description. However, I would imagine that our jewish friends here on the board could cite with some knowledge the line of thinking in Europe and in the US Christian religions over history that the jews as a group killed Christ. The fact that Christ was a jew, that the new testament clearly states that ALL of us killed Christ, and that his execution from a technical perspective was performed through political conniving between the local political/religious leadership and Rome was completely besides the point. Those realities were often forgotten in the rush to blame people different from themselves. And that seem to be the most basic truths of the human condition anywhere.
#10 You stole my thunder. I was going to submit the following: “But let’s be grateful for one aspect of this story: The only thing apparently missing from the survey is a question about whether Jews are responsible for global warming.” My response, “Not yet!” #’s 1 and 2, we are in total agreement. #7 You are either to young to remember the anti-Semitism of the 50′s and 60′s. Or grew up in your golden ghetto in the people’s republic of Massachusetts. I am 69 years old. When I was 7 years old my family moved from a lower middle class neighborhood (98% Jewish) to a middle to upper class suburb in which there were only 3 other Jewish families. I had to fight every day after school. That was alright because I learned to take care of myself. Not all the kids were hostile, but enough were that I kept telling my parents that I wanted to go back to the old neighborhood. These days when I tell younger (40′s and 50′s) locals that when I moved to this town there were only 3 other Jewish families here, nobody believes me. Because now the town is referred to as the “Golden Ghetto” (probably the about 80% Jewish. I won’t go on about the anti-Semitism I experienced into the 70′s, and 90′s. My advice to you is to get you head out your butt and see what’s going on in the world with the exception of the USA, God bless her!
#10 You stole my thunder. I was going to submit the following: “But let’s be grateful for one aspect of this story: The only thing apparently missing from the survey is a question about whether Jews are responsible for global warming.” My response, “Not yet!” #’s 1 and 2, we are in total agreement. #7 You are either to young to remember the anti-Semitism of the 50′s and 60′s. Or grew up in your golden ghetto in the people’s republic of Massachusetts. I am 69 years old. When I was 7 years old my family moved from a lower middle class neighborhood (98% Jewish) to a middle to upper class suburb in which there were only 3 other Jewish families. I had to fight every day after school. That was alright because I learned to take care of myself. Not all the kids were hostile, but enough were that I kept telling my parents that I wanted to go back to the old neighborhood. These days when I tell younger (40′s and 50′s) locals that when I moved to this town there were only 3 other Jewish families here, nobody believes me. Because now the town is referred to as the “Golden Ghetto” (probably the about 80% Jewish. I won’t go on about the anti-Semitism I experienced into the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s. My advice to you is to get you head out of your butt and see what’s going on in the world with the exception of the USA, God bless her!
Sorry for the repetition. I don’t know how it happened, old age maybe. JEM, Jew should be capitalized.
12- I’m sorry you can’t convince me anti semetism is a big issue in the world today. where? because of this survey? there are no pogroms, jews are integrated into society.
get over yourselves
Lester, you are blind!
Lester, no anti-Semitism? Read this!
From FrontPageMagazine.com
Kristallnacht in Caracas?
By Kathy Shaidle
Kathy Shaidle blogs at FiveFeetOfFury.com. Her new book exposing abuses by Canada’s Human Rights Commissions, The Tyranny of Nice, includes an introduction by Mark Steyn.
Is it a coincidence that in an authoritarian socialist state that has sidled up to the world’s most dangerous Islamist state is home to an increasing spree of violence targeting the Jewish community? Is it a spree being directed by Hugo Chavez out of bigoted or self-aggrandizing reasons? Or is any collectivist nation dominated by a strongman an inevitable incubator of anti-Semitism and scapegoating of its Jewish minority? Whatever the answers, Venezuela is providing the evidence. Observers like the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Latin America expert Andres Oppenheimer cite “a well-orchestrated [anti-Semitic] campaign” that has been taking place on Venezuela’s government sponsored radio and television stations, newspapers and websites such as Aporrea. Stoking anti-Semitic fervor, such outlets frequently compare Israel to Nazi Germany and denounce “international Jewish conspiracies.” Meanwhile, an association of reporters urged Venezuelans to boycott local businesses owned by Venezuelan Jews. And the media is not alone in fueling anti-Jewish incitement.
You must read this column!! Many times it’s been said that the Jews are the canary in the coal mine. I happen to agree. If it is true, the world, particularly Latin America and especially Venezuela are the verge of an explosion. A rather nasty one for the Jews, only 60 years after the Shoah. How soon they forget. What would I do about fat Hugo if I was the POTUS? I’m sure you know, but just in case you can’t guess, I’ll tell you. I’d send in the best Special Ops collection of assassins I could and take the SOB out. (RDS)
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http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=326FF32E-DDA4-4BCC-A302-0312327ACD07
bobby- I didn’t say there was NO anti semetism. minority groups are going to face discrimination, especially in troubled times, bit it can’t fairly be compared to the pogroms and whatnot of other eras. and most of the criticism of israel is justified.
Like I said Lester, You’re blind.