Say it ain’t so, ambassador. But here is her friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s promotion of the Nov. 17 event, which goes on from 7 pm till 10 pm (talk about never ending), with a $35 admission price for adults:
GENOCIDE AND THE JEWS: A NEVER-ENDING PROBLEM
ELIE WIESEL • Nobel Peace Laureate
PROF. NOAH FELDMAN • Harvard Law School
RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH • “America’s Rabbi”
With an Introduction by
SAMANTHA POWER • U.S Ambassador to the U.N
The premise of this event falls into the category of the statement, The world will always hate Jews. It is paranoid/self-involved, and distracts from other, urgent considerations. I wonder why Feldman tumbled for it, maybe academic funding is in play? Because he knows Shmuley going back to Oxford?
Elie Wiesel has come out forcefully for Jewish settlement of East Jerusalem. Those settlements are absolutely against US policy. Why is Power sharing a stage with him right now? Doesn’t that send a signal of policy-nullification, yet again?
And I thought that Power– who has shown such courage and leadership during the Ebola crisis– might be distancing herself from her former political cicerone Boteach because he has become such a bizarre character: He has equated Hamas and ISIS in sensational ways, is funded by rightwing warlord Sheldon Adelson who has called for a nuclear strike on Iran that Boteach defended, has gotten into arguments with the New York Times about graphic images in a beheading ad, published a book on lust (and tweeted a lot of Charlize Theron pictures), and hectored Naomi Wolf in an unseemly manner for using the term “genocide” to describe the Gaza slaughter of last summer.
Speaking of the Gaza onslaught, in which 2100 Palestinians were killed, and 73 Israelis: at the time, Power deplored the killing of civilians on both sides, but put particular blame on Hamas and extolled Israel’s “right to defend itself.” Nothing about Palestinians’ right to defend themselves.
Thanks to Max Blumenthal.
This paranoia based on nothing else but a self serving brain-washing would be laughable, if real people lives were not destroyed by it.
Just like I would like empty a cold bucket of water over politicians proclaiming that they defend democracy by sending troops to foreign countries to destroy existing power structures, I so would like to do that to Jewish people ( and a sizeable number of non-Jewish people! ) who believe that Jews, their culture and religion is being deliberately decimated to the point of non-existence even as we speak.
“Say it ain’t so?” What else, exactly, could we expect from such a tool?
Here’s a snip from here linked address:
The four Palestinian boys playing on the beach in Gaza City were like boys everywhere, restless for play. Their deaths are heartbreaking, and the loss their family members and neighbors must feel today must be searing. And the Israeli authorities have opened an investigation into their deaths.
That pretty much is as close as we get to blaming anything on Israel. The deaths aren’t outrageous, irresponsible or criminal; merely heartbreaking. But it’s OK, Israel is launching another of their meaningless backside-covering shams while we keep shipping them more hardware to ensure that more hearts will be broken.
Distancing herself? No, this is exactly the kind of crowd that I would expect our UN Ambassador to hang with.
Bought and sold, my friend. Bought & sold.
”Power– who has shown such courage and leadership during the Ebola crisis”
I don’t see how she showed courage. Political courage? No. ”Tackling ebola’ has been one of Obama’s talking points for the past few weeks. Physical courage? Not that either. Ebola is actually not that easy to contract, and I’m sure she knew how to keep her distance from any victims.
In any case, this little episode proves two things:
1. This desire for ‘eternal victimhood’ is surely a sign of some sort of collective disorder. Jews in the ‘diaspora’ are on the whole extremely succesful and well integrated. In Israel, they have nuclear weapons, a huge army, and the world’s only superpower to protect them. Yet they’re still victims of ‘genocide’? What level of pathological narcissism does it take to believe that?
2. The appropriately named Ms. Power is one of the most despicable people on the world stage today. She is the living, breathing definition of hypocrisy.
Can someone please tell me where Jews are being ‘genocided’?
What a waste of $35. I hope that they provide beaucoup barf bags in order to cope with the hysterical hypocrisy.
Max Blumenthal tells us all we need to know about Samantha Power here..Inside a conference hall in June 2013, Power stood before 40 of the most influential members of America’s Jewish establishment and openly cried. Having just been nominated by Obama to serve as the US Ambassador to the UN, the far-right Zionist Organization of America had attacked her for her supposed compassion for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. With her ambitions on the line, Power was determined to mollify the fanatics.
Power “suddenly became deeply emotional and struggled to complete her presentation as she expressed how deeply such accusations had affected her,” recalled Shmuley Boteach, the right-wing celebrity rabbi she had courted as her consigliere. “Tears streamed down her cheeks and I think it fair to say that there was no one in the room who wasn’t deeply moved by this incredible display of pain and emotion.” http://www.alternet.org/world/samantha-power-obamas-atrocity-enabler?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark