Foxman links criticism of Gaza with Holocaust

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In Cleveland, Abe Foxman implies that UNRWA's John Ging, who had lately visited the city at the invitation of the Arab community to talk about Gaza, is contributing to a global wave of anti-Semitism that we haven't seen since the Holocaust. Gaza is as just a war as we have ever seen, says Foxman.
He also says that in Poland they sell good-fortune dolls that portray a stereotypical Jewish businessman, because Jews are good at money. In the brilliant new documentary, Defamation, the young Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir is in Poland with Foxman when he makes this argument, and says, But Jews are good at making money, and isn't the doll a compliment? Foxman, who is 69, roars. "We're in Auschwitz," he says. And the road to Auschwitz "is paved with stones" like those dolls. Good point. But aren't there other ways to acknowledge and talk about Jewish success?

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  1. David_F says:
    April 30, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    That's hilarious! I wonder if Foxman ever heard of the Fugu Plan? "The Fugu Plan or Fugu Plot ( 河豚計画 , Fugu keikaku ? ) was a scheme created by the Japanese government in the 1930s, centered around the idea of creating political and economic advantages for Japan by settling Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in Japanese-controlled Manchuria . The motivation behind the plan appears to have been based on an uncritical acceptance of anti-Semitic propaganda such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which promulgated the idea that the Jewish people had an intrinsic and almost supernatural ability to accumulate money and power." (from Wikipedia) Tens of thousands of Jews were saved from Europe by immigrating to Japanese territory, mainly due to the humanitarian efforts of a Japanese consul, who issued visas far in excess of the quotas. Today, books like "How to Manage Money like a Jew" and "Jewish Secrets for Becoming Rich" are very popular in Asian countries!

  2. MondoFan says:
    April 30, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    David, what about the t-shirt slogan "Jesus saves – Moses invests"? :-) Stereotypes are the basis of good humor. More on topic, Foxman would link his own toothpaste plus his neighbour's tortoise to the Holocaust if he could. His statement is not surprising.

  3. Ed says:
    April 30, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    Tens of millions were killed in WWII, yet if one internalizes the Foxman/Zionist narrative (and a lot of Americans and Europeans have) the only deaths that really matter in that whole conflict, and that should be eternally mourned, are those of the Jews who died in the Holocaust. Has Foxman and his Zionist ilk ever shed a tear for all the millions of gentiles who died in the war? Doubtful. As they see it, they're all of the same hostile species that ushered the Jews into the chambers. Long after most of the world views WWII as just another horrible war fading into the rear view mirror of history, the Zionists will be harboring, cultivating and relishing the Holocaust grudge, and using it to instill bitter acrimony in their children, and to instill in them a sense of exceptionalism from the rules of fair play that everyone else must abide by. Why? Because of their ongoing "victimization," as evidenced by the Holocaust, which they carry forward with them like it happened yesterday.

  4. CrazyWisdom says:
    April 30, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    If she hasn't already, Ms. Huffington wil be getting a call.

  5. CrazyWisdom says:
    April 30, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    Abe Foxman is a serial defamer. The cumulative weight of disparagement of Foxman by credible critics can not be casually dismissed. How much of ADL's fifty-million dollar budget should be spent perpetuating Foxman's interminable vendettas? Even his friends at the Forward noted "he's gotten into a series of pointless and unwinnable spats." How much harm is done ADL when it is known as an agency which vouches for Marc Rich while tolerating Foxman's vilifications of persons demonstrably not bigots, e.g., 113 professors or the president of the Zionist Organization or Black leaders or Dennis Prager? It is a sad irony that the Director of the Anti-Defamation League may be remembered as a serial defamer of people whose only offense was to disagree with him. It is sadder still that Foxman is so often ridiculed; Traub observed Foxman beginning "to advance up his scale of spleen." http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/story.htm?sid=21...

  6. DICKERSON3870 says:
    April 30, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    RE: "Foxman links criticism of Gaza with Holocaust" SEE: "The McCarthyism That Horowitz Built" – By DANA L. CLOUD, April 30, 2009 (EXCERPT) …Fewer people will know the names of four other targets of the Right’s attack: Margo Ramlal-Nankoe, William Robinson, Nagesh Rao, and Loretta Capeheart. All four face harassment, threats, or potential removal from their jobs at their universities because they have criticized Israel, defended multiculturalism, and stood up as organized employees in defense of their rights as workers… ..Professor William I. Robinson, a tenured Sociology and Global Studies full professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been attacked by the Anti-Defamation League and two of his former students. In January of this year, he forwarded an email condemning the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The email was an optional read for students. Within a week, the ADL wrote him a letter charging him without basis with anti-Semitism and sundry violations of the Faculty Code of Conduct. The Academic Senate Charges Officer then notified him that two of he students in the class to which he circulated the email had filed complaints against him. Acting for all intents like a co-complainant of the students, the Officer fabricated additional charges not raised by the students…. …The charges have reached the Committee on Committees, which is now in the process of convening a committee to assess the complaints. The campaign for Professor Robinson urges readers to 1) email the UCSB Chancellor and responsible authorities on campus to register your protest, and 2) sign the petition. Information and links are at http://www.counterpunch.org/cloud04302009.html Contact the Committee to Defend Academic Freedom at UCSB at http://www.counterpunch.org/cloud04302009.html

  7. Jacobwolfen says:
    April 30, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    It is ironic that so many poles, who eagerly assisted the nazis in killing Jews, were in turn interred in the same camps when caught black marketeering. Same with the Dutch and the French. But at least the French made money off the deal by charging the Germans for the train rides to the death camps. On a sad note, many also died when caught aiding the Jews, a crime few here would be guilty of today.

  8. Ed says:
    April 30, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    Thank you for clarifying how the Zionist mind rationalizes its hatred for Europeans and European Americans. I just wish more Europeans and Americans realized how much you Zionists really despise them. I doubt they'd be quite so interested in maintaining your perpetual welfare, which is the only factor that demarcates Jewish Zionists from the Muslim Islamists that you like to think of as relatively backward — the tens of billions pumped into Israel regularly. Haven't you realized yet that if you can't find a way to exist on your own two feet apart from being subsidized to the hilt by gentiles, your probably suffering from a backward mentality yourselves? Without American and European welfare for decades, the Israelis would have been forced to close up shop years ago, because their mentality and state of mind is inconducive to self-reliance. All they can ever do is go around picking fights, declare themselves victims, and then wait for the welfare checks to arrive from the West. Pretty pathetic.

  9. Mooser says:
    April 30, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    Foxman, who is 69, roars. "We're in Auschwitz," he says. There's a man who missed his calling. He could have been the next Jacob Adler!

  10. Citizen says:
    April 30, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    Witty does that. I pity his kids. More, I pity the gentile youth who meet his kids–they are not protected.

  11. Citizen says:
    April 30, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    Imagine getting up each morning with Foxman. If he does not get his coffee in time, he blames the goys. Worse, he says Starbucks is better than coffee cans or bags anyone can buy at much less the price. Worst still, the dumb goys lay out the money for Starbuckd, even when they have no job. Time for average Americans to wake up and smell the U know what.

  12. jacobwolfen says:
    April 30, 2009 at 11:33 pm

    If you received clarification, it was out of thin air. I've read nothing in these comments where any rational thinking person could come up with that.

  13. Jacob Wolfen says:
    April 30, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    A great many American are awake, smell the coffee, and buy starbucks.

  14. DICKERSON3870 says:
    May 1, 2009 at 12:08 am

    "Consumer Reports" did not rate Starbucks coffee very highly. They much preferred Dunkin' Donuts coffee. But then, how many people read "Consumer Reports"? But then again, how many people read?

  15. Jacobwolfen says:
    May 1, 2009 at 4:15 am

    I certainly prefer Dunkin to Star, but most Dunkin's can not be used as an office and most Starbucks can.

  16. Shafiq says:
    May 1, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Poles eagerly assisted the Nazis? What planet do you live on? 6 million Poles died (2 million Jews, 4 million non-Jews )in the Holocaust and for you to say the above is an insult to every single one of them. The Holocaust, no matter how much you try to make it, is not only a Jewish tragedy, and what you said above is no worse than Holocaust denial.

  17. Mooser says:
    May 1, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Jacobwolfen, you were frothing just a minute ago about those murderous Poles. What happened? The ziocaine wear off. C'mon, you can manage a couple more lines before the day is out.

  18. Mooser says:
    May 1, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    "Witty does that. I pity his kids. More, I pity the gentile youth who meet his kids–they are not protected." I wouldn't worry. Laughter is very seldom fatal, even if it incapacitates one temporarily.

  19. Jacobwolfen says:
    May 1, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    You've said it all. Why need I comment?

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