populist attack video from Mississippi targets…. Israel

by on August 12, 2009 11

I'm running to the city. But: check this out. Yes, it's antisemitic. But. The politics of US policy in the Middle East, and antisemitism, too, are changing.

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  1. MRW says:
    August 12, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Removed by user. May I introduce you to the wonder of zamzar.com. Copy the video before it gets away. Convert it to a mp4.

  2. MRW says:
    August 12, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    The point, from the mississippicongressblog:

    Childers on Recess: Leaves DC for Israel
    Y’all Politics wants to know where Travis Childers is on the healthcare reform debate. He is in Israel.

  3. kylebisme says:
    August 12, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Any chance of a description?

  4. Citizen says:
    August 12, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Great, MSM, Google, YouTube censorship , and now this. Nothing like taking away information from the
    USA public opinion sources. Where are we when the citizen’s duty of being informed
    in a democracy is so muzzled?

  5. Citizen says:
    August 12, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    Well, here we are, let’s not give US citizens any info:
    link to yallpolitics.com

  6. ehrens says:
    August 12, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    This is a great example of what truly is anti-Semitic. It’s not a criticism of Israel or Zionism, but simply mocks Jews.

    • MRW says:
      August 13, 2009 at 2:59 am

      Jews can’t be mocked? Why not? We mock Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Scientologists, Pentacostals, Evangelicals, etc all the time. Jews are open season like all the rest…and often deserving of withering mockery.

      What is anti-semitic is to say that Jews cannot exist because they are Jews. That’s anti-semitism, not all these mercurial and on-the-fly definitions you produce to avoid being part of the human race and avoid responsibility for your actions.

      So…pack it, bub.

  7. kitty says:
    August 13, 2009 at 5:07 am

    Y’all might want to see this

    Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.) went on a Democratic mission to Israel this week instead of staying home and talking to constituents about health care reform. The Mississippi political and legal Web site Y’all Politics didn’t like that, so it put together a video slamming the congressman for his decision — a video that will probably offend a lot of people in the Jewish community.

    As “Hava Nagila” plays, the video notes a recent Childers quote that he would like to talk to constituents about the issue “if they’re civil.” The words on the screen then say, “Go make some new friends,” shows a photo of an Orthodox Jew in Israel and states, “Tell ‘em we said ‘hi.’” The next image reads “And grab a souvenir yarmulke,” followed by a picture of a yamulke emblazoned with “Obama ’08,” and then “Come on back home, Travis.”

    link to blogs.jta.org

  8. Todd says:
    August 13, 2009 at 7:41 am

    What was in the video? My guess is that if it were truly bad, it would be all over the news for everyone to see.
    I don’t know where the idea that Jews are beyond mocking comes from. I’d bet that I’ve seen Jewish “comedy” routines that were harder on non-Jews, and with less reason. Too bad the video disappeared.
    I’m not even sure that anti-Semitism means much anymore. With Jews pushing Jewish supremacy in Israel and playing ethnic power politics in the U.S., I think that the survival of other groups is more threatened by Jewish activism than the other way around. Clearly, a certain amount of hostility has been earned.

    • Citizen says:
      August 15, 2009 at 1:28 pm

      The cardinal rule is that Jews cannot be mocked because it will lead to a second Holocaust. This means, you give any collective Jewish action a blank check. It means, therefore, they can do what they want, and you pay the bills. Thus the Jews, who claim to hold a copyright on guilt, simultaneously expect goys to feel guilt for anything harming Jews–hey, the USA is held responsible for Auschwitz because
      it chose to fight WW2 as the best way to save Jews, rather than divert resources
      to fighting the Jews in the concentration camps. Like that perspective? BTW, when you go to a WW2 graveyard, is it not a sea of crosses?

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