‘Washington Post’ Describes Israeli Colonialist Rabbi as American ‘Leader’

by Philip Weiss on October 20, 2008 · 6 comments

I can't really complain about working for nothing when my farflung fossickers are doing all my work for me, can I? The latest feed from Jeff Blankfort, in California. The Washington Post reports on John McCain talking with Jewish American "leaders," including Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, who asks McCain

"why he won't 'hammer' Obama hard for [the Rev. Wright] association. Riskin, from Brooklyn, is a leading rabbi in Efrat, Israel, where he resides."

Says Blankfort: "Quite apart from the fact that this disgusting Rabbi Riskin from Brooklyn was included in a conference with Jewish leaders, no doubt arranged by the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Washington Post's Abramowitz lists his current address as Efrat, Israel. It just happens to not be in Israel but outside of Hebron and is home to some of Israel's most fanatic Orthodox Jewish bsettlers, many if not most of whom are American transplants."

Again, you just want to go out and vomit. This fact was reported by Michael Abramowitz of the Post. Proving again that what I am engaged in, in part, is a Jewish identity project, about unconscious Zionism in the diaspora success class– conducted by someone, me, who has really only taken one active step here: I have actually been to Hebron. And seen Riskin's intolerant confiscatory religious community. Which some how qualifies him as an American leader?????

Some day, I promise, this stuff will be taught in history books. How religious nationalism of an apartheid character was imbibed and regurgitated by the American press, which was filled with good smart successful Jewish boys who didn't much care for Zionism but were afraid of offending their cousins or aunts or parents, who were compromised by dual loyalty concerns. And so those reporters funked their own professional duties by failing to expose the one-Jerusalem agenda of so much of McCain's cohort. What say you Abramowitz?

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{ 6 comments }

1 hlmeankin October 20, 2008 at 10:38 am

Blankfort is on top of breaking news as usual.
Hopefully his book will come soon..
One wonders how much McCain's love for Zionism is fueled by the dollars of the Rothschilds..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAggKNhzIo8&feature=related

2 American October 20, 2008 at 12:09 pm

Yes, someday all this will be reported in the history books and history becomes history sooner than it use to.

This blog could be the begining of a book on zionist, America and Israel…>"While America Was Sleeping".

3 Spirit October 20, 2008 at 12:33 pm

"What say you Abramowitz?"

"Antisemitism!!!"

4 Tommy October 20, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Rabbi Riskin should be subject to the same laws that put John Walker Lindh in Federal prison for twenty years. Rabbi Riskin's leadership role in terrorist activities should require a longer prison sentence than Lindh's.

5 anon October 26, 2008 at 11:15 am

Exactly the problem this blog tackles, the MSM and a presidential candidate calling
Riskin an "American leader."

See if this sounds to you like an American leader, let alone an honest Jew:

http://themagneszionist.blogspot.com/2008/04/shlomo-riskin-bad-moral-luck.html

6 David October 28, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Mr. Weiss,

Not sure what your hyperventilating about. Rabbi Riskin lives in Efrat. So do I. It is a wonderful community of over 5,000 people. It is not near Hebron. The bizarre smears of Efrat and Rabbi Riskin are almost funny, if they wouldn't be so sad and untrue. But that they're on some disaffected arrogant, but totally misinformed middle-aged Jewish nebbish blogger site and not some Arab/Islamist or KKK type site I suppose is par for the course these days, and that too will be written in the future history books.

Yes, Rabbi Riskin is one of the more important Jewish leaders of the 20/21st centuries both in Israel and in the US.
No, Efrat is a thriving community with thousands fo families of all stripes and has little to do with "Israel's most fanatic Orthodox Jewish bsettlers"

Yes, you may have been in Hebron – but you're still an idiot. lol. But if you can squeeze a living from being a progressive Jewish lover of Jews who only want's to rat out on his evil Zionist co-religionists bla bla bla, gay gesundeheit.

Have a great day,

David Levine
Efrat, Israel

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