ADL Report Smears Tea Party Conservatives
With Barack Obama’s approval rating in a free fall, it’s as if the ADL had been hired by the White House to help turn the tide, and what better way to assist their leader than to conduct a libelous study attacking the majority of Americans who protest Obama’s intention to “fundamentally transform” America? The report is everything and more White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has been saying for months from the podium — dismissing the concerns of the American people and boogey-manning Fox News as the communications wing of the Republican Party. Number one on the ADL hit list is “fearmonger-in-chief” TV and radio host Glenn Beck.
“In the year since we marked the historic election of the nation’s first African-American president we have seen a tremendous amount of anger and hostility,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director. “There is a toxic atmosphere of rage in America being witnessed at many levels, and it raises fundamental questions for our society.”
“While not all of America has bought into these conspiracies, they seem to be seeping more and more into the mainstream,” added Mr. Foxman. “And since many of these expressions are interconnected in some significant ways, we wanted to try and connect the dots and ask the basic questions of why the anger, why now, and where might it lead.”
Foxman and the ADL are far removed from reality and maestros of projection. It’s as if they are living in an alternative universe. The overriding demand at the tea parties, town halls, and indeed among a growing number of Americans of all stripes is individual liberty, a free economy, and that elected officials who take an oath to support and defend the Constitution should govern according to it. As a reminder, tens of thousands of pocket U.S. Constitutions and Declarations of Independence have been distributed nationwide at these events, acts that the ADL obviously sees as indicators of “extremism.” How can the ADL protest this?
The only answer can be that the holy liberal scripture embodied in the false messiah is not to be questioned. The doctrine of liberalism is far more important than any constitutional or first principles the nation was founded upon. With Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress on the verge of imposing state-controlled health care against the will of the people, anxious liberals feel called to step up the attacks on Americans who’d simply rather not have their health care decisions made for them by unionized DMV-style bureaucrats.
The ADL would like us to believe based on its mission statement that it is acting in good faith, but this report underscores that it is simply an organization driven by a proven failure of an ideology that is at best another annoying voice of the left and at worst severely harmful to the cause for freedom.
Which is why it is important to remember that the ADL has always labeled conservative and libertarian speech as “hate speech” or “extreme.” This latest document is just another attempt to muzzle the voice of freedom.
Message to the ADL and other leftists who have been successful silencing Main Street Americans in the past: the worn-out propaganda doesn’t intimidate the millions of courageous Americans at the grassroots level who’ve spent countless hours organizing and educating their friends, families, and neighbors. Yes, the ADL may still wield influence in the media, government, and on campus, and may get ink for its transparent attempts to extinguish the flame of inquiry and critical thinking. But average Americans are now awakening to the threats to our freedom posed by the pied piper president and his shrinking troupe.
As Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” Day by day, a compromised-beyond-repair media and ideological thugs speak to smaller and smaller audiences. Americans are on to the left’s game. That game is about to end.
The ADL, AARP, and any other alphabet names that have been around longer than the dinosaurs pretending to be one thing while really being another took off the gloves and the mask with the ascension of Obama. These are ALL left wing front groups defending and promoting the fascism they pretend to abhorr. Who are they kidding? It isn’t too obvious when they point out that the irritation has grown “when we elect our first African American president”. As if the two are connected. They are smart enough to know they aren’t, but they have to smear and intimidate to keep us in line. I saw through this charade decades ago. The wonder is that so many people are just catching up now. Americans know it’s not the color of his skin which is the treachery but the color of his politics. Since so many people are finally seeing through the pretense of the ADL and others, they need to scream louder and threaten wildly. They are hysterical in their attacks, disconnected from logic and the truth. They will be their undoing as more people get a load of their tactics. Obama and the red wing want to create a monstrous uber government which controls, steals, dictates, spies, and renders its citizens into serfs. And the ADL slanders the protesters. Says a lot for who they are, doesn’t it.
So that means youre cool with comparing the healthreform to the holocaust?
Go, Orit!
The Left will stop at nothing, and I do mean nothing, to stop the Tea Party crowd and anyone else who stands in Obama’s way. But truth has a way of coming out and its beginning to now slowly dribble out all the way even to Europe. Obama and his big government ideas will not have a long shelf life. Americans are just too smart for that. And as for the ADL, they are rendering themselves less credible. They need to remember the story of the boy who cried “wolf”.
While there can be no comparison of healthcare to the holocaust, perhaps a comment is in order.
During the early part of the nazi regime, health care professionals started Action T4 which was a way to remove those who they deemed “unworthy of life”. It was decided if the mentally ill or severely handicapped should receive any medical care at all (at first) and then should be “removed” for society’s greater good.
Now we have the government deciding when mammograms or colonoscopies should be done. Mammograms at age 50? One of my co-workers died at 45 after 3 hard years of treatment. Would it have been better to ignore the problem?
Since the government regulates how much acreage can be allocated for tobacco growth (probably the single largest cause of preventable death, why don’t they just reduce this amount every year and force the tobacco companies to produce fewer cancer sticks?
Oh yeah, I forgot about all that lovely tax revenue.
Sorry
Some organizations no longer (or never did) truly represent their “official” constituencies. Instead, they represent today’s liberal establishment, to the point of defaming conservatives. The names of these groups have become a kind of consumer fraud.
This is both sad and a little scary. How they can justify classifying the Tea Party movement, which has been free of violence and has been an incredibly civil civic phenomenon, as a “Violent” movement is truly baffling.
I can understand the ADL’s fear of a rise of true right-wing extremism, but to equate the Tea Party movement to a violent or hateful organization is just ethically wrong on the part of the ADL. The ADL, the NAACP, and the SPLC often times share resources, reports and information on emerging threats- so if the tea parties have been branded as a threat by the ADL, it’s a certainty that other organizations will follow suit.
This is essentially a smear, but I can’t think of anything to suggest other than try to take the high road and maintain the highest levels of civility and openness to ensure that the movement presents its best possible face to the critics and the public in general.
EVERYONE should be mindful of the ACORN Scandal. ACORN was exposed because nuts within the organization were held up as a representation of that group as a whole. The Tea Parties need to be mindful of this, and need to police themselves to make sure no nuts are allowed to spoil the party.
ADL is working for the government. All this talk is of “acts of intimidation and violence” but yet not one single incident that could be cited. Pelosi started this smear campaign and the media picked up on it. The MIAC report came out simply because the Campaign for Liberty was planning their convention in Missouri.
Never heard of Poplawski, not part of tea party movement.
Tea Partiers do NOT advocate or perpetrate violence. I cannot find a single instance of inciting it either.
On the other hand we heard that tea partiers are “rich old white people” in Brooks Brothers suits. Hardly the dangerous type!
Someone ought to ask ADL where their write up is about government paid thugs who have perpetrated at least 8 or 9 acts of violence, including shooting DEAD a tea partier who was sitting in a chair?
1 – Woman in wheelchair attacked at tea party with husband present
2 – Kenneth Gladney beaten and woman filming accosted by two SEIU thugs hurling racial epithets
3 – ANSWER pro-amnesty group beat tea partiers over their heads with Che signs
4 – Drunken liberal attacks young women and speakers at tea party
5 – William Kostric (famous open carrier) spit on and kicked at Obama town hall in NH
6 – Shot DEAD anti-abortion tea partier who was sitting in a chair at a protest because they did not like his sign
7 – Scores of arrests of leftists at the G20 – amazingly spun as “peaceful” by media!
8 – Pro-health care counter-protester BITES OFF FINGER of elderly man, and runs away
…and more.
Compare this to 1.7M people on the greens in DC, and not one scuffle or piece of trash left behind. Where is ADL on all the above ‘violence’? Where is their outrage at this communist tactic of intimidation and beatings? Not a word.
Folks have every right to protest socialism and the money that is extracted from us by the unions to pay for this violence.
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=1134
The holocaust signs were being held by a SOCIALIST group who are supporters of Lyndon LaRouche and nothing to do with tea partiers. They were not violent and thus had a right to hold those signs I suppose. If you want to see violent signs, look up what was done to Bush… Nazi symbols and plenty of OVERT death threats! Where was ADL back then?
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=612
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
Wonder where those sign holders are NOW that Obama is ESCALATING HIS WAR???
When people read the philosophies of Obama’s handlers which talk of withholding care for only those citizens who can contribute and not for the young or very old, then look and see what is in these health care bills, they have every right to fear rationing. Every other socialized nation does this, not to improve care, but to control costs and keep population ‘weeded’. As Americans, and a Christian nation, we just do not believe in that sort of thing.
Now, we have had the bureaucrats come up with new standards for the recommended frequency of women’s diagnostic testing. When taken as a whole, all of these do add up to rationing.
And the spending is being done on purpose to destroy the country so that we can be absorbed into a new world order. Why are they not upset that many people like Bush 41, Clinton, Kissinger, Soros and others who control Obama from the shadows USE THIS TERM REGULARLY?
Quite frankly I am sick of having things happen right before our very eyes and then have the media tell us it isn’t happening or we are imagining ‘conspiracies’. What gets us angry is the failure to report the truth, or failure to report at all, the kooks like ADL coming along and saying WE are the ones perpetrating threats.. without ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE.
scythe is right… ADL has been using racial smears to control people for a long time and now it needs to get used to the idea that our Constitution is not ‘extreme’ or ‘radical’ but our RULE OF LAW.
Fnord: READ THE BILLS. They don’t square with what liar-in-chief reads off his teleprompter!
The ADL has been lurching to the Left for decades. It is a self-sustaining member of the community-organizing world, thoroughly divorced from the Jewish rank-and-file. Whenever the grass-roots Jewish community bands together to support Israel (without mushy liberal equivocation) or protect elderly Jews in Brooklyn against street thugs, the ADL and its brethren elitists step in to discredit such moves. The reason is simple: Foxman (a pompous moron who lives in a world of press releases) & Co. are beholden to the community-organizing world, the media, the academic Left, etc., for their prestige. In a way, the situation is analogous to the Black community, with the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons exploiting their supposed charges in order to advance their own ideological agenda.
The ADL should never be confused with the Jewish community or with Judaism.
Let’s be clear. This execrable document is not meant to inform; it is meant to stoke the very fear and paranoia it pretends to abhor.
Well, I think you’d love it then, wouldn’t you?
“The report recently published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) titled Rage Grows in America: Anti-Government Conspiracies unwittingly describes itself . . . ”
That is the most defensive and juvenile lede I’ve read since Glenn Beck tried to explain his jokes about miscarriages. Here’s a news flash . . . yes, most Americans see the tea baggers as “fueled by paranoia and conspiracy theories” . . . moreover, you’re organized and funded by right wing extremists. The fact that you and Marge got in the Ford Econoline and drove to Little Rock for the big demonstration doesn’t mean you’re not being manipulated. Any objective review of Fox News proves it.
“Compare this to 1.7M people on the greens in DC . . . ” . . . Witnesses say there were about the same number of people at the 9/12 event as were at the gay rights event (and no trash . . . they’re gay, after all).
“The holocaust signs were being held by a SOCIALIST group who are supporters of Lyndon LaRouche and nothing to do with tea partiers.” . . Right. It’s never a conservative who does the idiotic stuff. Always a plant, just like the Republicans wearing SEIU T-shirts.
11. Now and Then:Well, if you were to look in the mirror you’d understand that YOU ascend to new heights of defensiveness and juvenalia. But, being the bootlicker that you are, you must have to resort to these tactics to run interference for the blatant corruption that you so dearly love.
the tea parties are a joke anyway. radical fringe movement. no different than the Michigan Militia and similar groups.
These leftist groups like ADL, AARP and SEIU don’t represent the people they claim to. In fact they are the antithesis of the beliefs of their constituents. If the ADL truly wanted to find rage and nazi like activities look no further than the SEIU. They even have colored shirts.(Brown is out this time around since women are included). As for the tea partiers of which I am one, I can only say that the one my wife and I attended in Atlanta was the nicest and most diverse group of people that I have ever been part of. The only rage was that the government was spending their kids future. There was no anti-black or anti-Jewish signs or any hate towards anyone or thing. Everyone that I could talk with was there because their reps in DC were not listening to them. There was a feeling of being out of control and no one seemed to care in DC. Nowandthen is a mindless troll who NEVER contributes to any conversation except to throw out the typical left wing crap. He is probably a member of SEIU, ADL and AARP.
So that means youre cool with comparing the healthreform to the holocaust?
I support this sort of comparison no more than I support comparing US troops to Nazi storm troopers.
Speaking of the Holocaust (capitalization counts), though, perhaps it would be well for groups like the ADL to remember that it wasn’t peacefully assembled groups of angry citizens that planned, organized and then perpetrated that travesty, but, rather, an all encompassing overbearing national government that had been (somewhat) democratically elected and given extensive powers in order to save the country from dire economic and social crisis. I am not equating the current administration with the Nazi party of the 1930s, but I do rely upon the historical example of powerful governments worldwide and their penchant to abuse and even kill their own people to clearly claim that I have no wish to see if we could possibly go the same route.
The whole lefty agenda is anti-semitic.
Over here in Canada the Canadian Jewish Congress looks like the ADL. Both speak for Official Jews. Well, as long as freedom of expression is viewed as subversive, I refer this to the Official Jews: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/26/major-nidal-hasan-had-an-enabler/ not that they will accept it, but the record will show what they rejected via selective vision.
12. baal:
Baal.. you misspelled “buttlicker”.
tom, your disparaging of the tea parties speaks volumes about your closed mind. It is bad enough, for you, that there is stuff which is knowable, but not known at this time. What makes it worse is, there is stuff which is unknowable, and you simply cannot stand it, because you are not in charge of the situation.
Your provincialism also explains why people rail against Sarah Palin.
I was at the 9/12 DC Tea Party.
People were great. It was like a pro-life crowd. Good people, obeyed the law. If I had dropped my wallet, I would have got it back with interest.
The movement is here to stay.
The GOP needs to bet back to limited government and when it does (if), it will win both Houses of Congress back and we can begin to freeze and then reduce the spending and lower taxes to try to jumpstart the private sector. Also, we can pass REAL health reform that doesn’t involve the government screwing it all up at high cost.
I agree with Poster #1. These organizations begin with one premise in mind and over time swing in the other direction. These pressure groups eventually get invaded by leftists crazies with the usual results…..
The real irony here is that the ADL is attacking its best goyische friends, and jumping into bed with the leftist BFFs of the Nazis’ heirs, the radical Islamists- who would love nothing more than a second Holocaust.
18. Fantom:
D’oh!
Anybody else notice that fringe organizations (e.g. ADL) post total crap to their websites….but do not have any “Commnents” section whereby readers can respond
Prima Facie–the left and the democratic party machine includes openly racist groups such as MECHA and La Raza. It could be argued that in the 60′s and 70′s that the burden of racism was on the right. This is no longer the case. the Right did a fantastic job of cleaning house in the 80′s and 90′s and now racist attitudes and comments are viewed as evidence of a diseased mind and the person who express them are shunned as an abhorrent leper.
The left on the other hand loves their racists and rationalizes their racism. In addition to this they engage in routine revisionism and lionization of genocidaires such as Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.
Would you conservatives be OK with someone is a Goebbels shirt? But a bobo in a Che shirt is hip…
Baal.
It could be argued that in the 60’s and 70’s that the burden of racism was on the right. This is no longer the case. the Right did a fantastic job of cleaning house in the 80’s and 90’s and now racist attitudes and comments are viewed as evidence of a diseased mind and the person who express them are shunned as an abhorrent leper.
This is why your state and national legislature is teeming with African American elected Republic officials. That cleaning house; yeah, good thing that happened.
26. Anon:
Good try, but maybe you dont understand that youre making my point for me. Far too often there a “black” caucuses–democrat of course that represent the interest of blacks as blacks and not blacks as americans. Now there has been some slight change in this regard but not enough to derail my point. Try again.
Baal. If you don’t understand the ideas that created those caucuses, then you truly have no business entering into such a discussion. You gave the reason yourself as to why there are black caucuses:
It could be argued that in the 60’s and 70’s that the burden of racism was on the right.
Indeed, its quite obvious it no only came from the right but from the left. That’s the reason there are caucuses. I’m pretty sure that it was the white majority that labelled African Americans non-Americans in the first place. Its only been through forceful action that that has changed; given that its only truly begun to change over the last twenty five years, it makes perfect sense for the affected groups to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.
28. Anon: Youre being a snarky twit, and if youre here to toss feces youre going to get called on it.
Clearly you either, A.) Did not read what I wrote, or B.)refuse to acknowledge (by means of claiming that is stated something that it did not) a viewpoint which is beyond that of a college freshman.
Now, as I was saying–and listen carefully; The existence of racism on the right is far less prevalent than the institutionalized racism that exists on the left.
While you might have stupid things to say about this, I will not change my assertion. Now, go and lick some boots and pretend they are Obama’s because I am done with you now.
Baal. I couldn’t make any sense of the first part of your post, feel free to re-write and re-submit it to me. However, its quite clear you’ve not proven anything like:
The existence of racism on the right is far less prevalent than the institutionalized racism that exists on the left.
Especially because you’ve admitted that the Republican party shuns black candidates. Backed into a corner by your inability to reason, your first impulse is to simply dismiss me as a disciple of Obama, though I’ve not mentioned anything that would lead you to believe that. Perhaps you think that pointing out the obvious lack of color in the Republican congress and senate is somehow an expression of support for Obama. In that case, you’ve added more evidence to my point.
There is a lot of ignorance in this article and in a few of the comments. For those who care about truth, ADL has criticized both the left and the right. You can look it up. It is fine to disagree with a statement that they put out, but lies don’t help. I know ADL quite well, and though it slants liberal, there are both liberals and conservatives in the organization. There are also strong First Amendment lawyers who work there and advise the organization. Many who are in the know believe that Foxman himself voted for George W Bush; he certainly liked and respected Bush, and you can’t find a liberal who fits that description.
Jee, the way the teapartier ran with Palin’s death panel lies really shows a level of rank dishonesty, crackpotism and plain stupidity that set a new low. Along with the Obama=Hitler signs, this sounds like classic paranoia symptons more than racism.
ADL is a very sad story. Done a lot of good and a lot of bad things. Somehow good stuff seemed to prevail. But then Obama won the elections: no need to pretend anymore. They don’t protect Jews. They promote liberal (socialist and ATHEIST) causes under the pretext of protecting Jews. Very sad. Really. Used to respect them and forgive them a lot. Gave up on them when they called the Tea Parties protesters racists for the first time. Still hurts somehow.
P.S.
All the libtardian stuff in the Jerusalem Post has great common sense driven comments. Even the resident trolls cannot spoil the picture. The article you link to is no exception. The majority of the readers agree on the point “if a governmet is evil, it’s o.k. to resist it, so shut up, JP”. The comments are always fun to read, when American Jewish Left promotes their BS like “vote Livni” or “Obama is your friend” or “support J Street”. They pay money to the writers and the editors. And people answer “Go and f… yourselves”. Such a Schadenfreude.
The ADL represents Jews the way the the kapos in the ghettos represented Jews. Make common cause with the enemies of Jews to advance their own agenda. The ADL could care less how many Jews it throws under the bus to curry favor with the left wing gods of their only real religion: liberalism and a deified Obama
Don’t the Jews realize that they’re only useful to us if they beard our hatred for Islam? Without that, we might as well just go back to persecuting them.
I point out the comparison of this government to the Weimar Republic. Leftist Jews helped bring about the collapse of that government just as they are helping to bring about the end of this one.
Oldguy. Good for you. This discourse would benefit from more honest anti-semitism.
THE EARLIEST “HATE” CRIMINALS
If you can’t guess the people I have in mind, I’ll give you
some clues—clues found in a major world religion that is many
centuries old. I’ll call it Religion X.
Religion X traces its roots back to the First Couple, Adam and
Eve. They were on earth before any other form of worship—before
Islam (appearing 14 centuries ago), before Hinduism or Buddhism
(appearing 25 centuries ago), before even the worship of various
gods in Mesopotamia (60 centuries ago).
Early on, Religion X’ers were told by their God: “Love your
neighbor—and even the stranger who dwells among you—as much as
you love yourself.” But it wasn’t long before Religion X began
rebelling against the laws of the One who had blessed and
preserved it so much. In response God warned: “All those who hate
me love death.”
After centuries of hating their God (which predictably led to
hatred of fellow humans, God’s creations), Religion X’ers were
allowed by God to be conquered and transported to ancient Babylon
where they experienced a 1,600-year-long “vacation.”
If you haven’t guessed yet, the religion I’m describing is
Judaism. But don’t stop reading. The
most shocking stuff is just ahead!
While in Babylon, the “wise men” among the people began
formulating new laws which supposedly supplemented and explained
the time-tested Old Testament writings. But the new rules actually
contradicted and eventually replaced the original laws!
The “new and improved” laws are collectively known as the
Talmud. Even though rabbis are Talmudic experts, probably not one
Jew in a thousand (and not one non-Jew in ten thousand) knows what
is in the Talmud. Without further delay, here’s some of the
Talmud’s “wisdom” (plus sources):
(I) THE TALMUD HATES SCIENCE:
Hyenas turn into bats after seven years, and later on turn into
thorns and demons (Baba Kamma, 16a).
Being naked in front of a lamp causes epilepsy (Pesahim, 112b).
There’s medicinal value in dirt found in an outhouse’s shadow,
also in a white dog’s excrement (Gittin, 69a,b).
(II) THE TALMUD HATES FEMALES:
The birth of a girl is an unhappy event (Baba Bathra, 16b).
It is never good to talk too much to women including one’s own
wife (Aboth, 1.5).
All women are “temperamentally light-headed” (Kiddushin, 80b).
It is okay to divorce your wife if she spoils your food, or if
you find a more beautiful woman (Gittin, 91a).
(III) THE TALMUD HATES CHILDREN:
It is lawful for a girl three years old to have sexual
intercourse (Abodah Zarah, 37a; Kethuboth, 11b,39a; Sanhedrin,
55b,69a,b; Yebamoth, 12a,57b,58a,60b).
When a man commits sodomy with a boy under nine years of age,
it “is not deemed as pederasty” (Sanhedrin, 54b,55a).
Sexual intercourse with a boy under the age of eight is lawful
since it isn’t fornication (Sanhedrin, 69b).
(In other words, Religion X became X-rated! Is it any wonder
that many Jewish persons today are liberally involved with the
current sexual revolution and are even favorable towards
legalization of adult-child sex?)
(IV) THE TALMUD HATES ALL NON-JEWS:
Since all Gentiles are only animals, all Gentile children are
bastards (Yebamoth, 98a).
When a non-Jew robs a Jew, he has to pay him back, but if a Jew
robs a non-Jew, he doesn’t have to pay him back. Moreover, when a
Gentile kills a Jew, the Gentile must be killed, but when a Jew
kills a Gentile, “there is no death penalty” (Sanhedrin, 57a).
It is okay to “use subterfuges” in a court of law in order to
cheat a non-Jew (Baba Kamma, 113a).
(V) THE TALMUD HATES CHRIST AND CHRISTIANS:
Jesus was born a bastard (Jewish Encyclopedia, “Jesus”;
Yebamoth, 49b).
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a whore and “played the harlot
with carpenters” (Sanhedrin, 106a,b).
Jesus “practised sorcery and enticed Israel to apostacy”
(Sanhedrin, 43a).
Jesus was punished and sent to Hell where he ended up in
“boiling hot excrement” (Gittin, 56b,57a).
Christians will go to Hell “and be punished there for all
generations” (Rosh Hashanah, 17a).
Those who read “the works of the Judeo-Christians, i.e., the
New Testament” will end up in Hell (Sanhedrin, 90a).
The books of the Christians “may not be saved from a fire, but
they must be burnt in their place, they and the Divine Names
occurring in them” (Shabbath, 116a).
(Now you know what’s been inspiring many of the anti-Christian
attitudes and actions these days.)
By roughly 500 A.D. Jewish scribes had completed the voluminous
Talmud, the written version of what had long been the Jews’ oral
tradition—the tradition that Jesus condemns in the 23rd chapter
of Matthew and other parts of the New Testament.
Whenever anyone claims that for 1500 years the Talmud
needlessly aggravated Gentiles (who in turn put Jews into ghettos
and even the Holocaust), Jews can look at even earlier history and
claim that the “anti-Jewishness” of the New Testament forced Jews
to hit back with their printed version of the Talmud.
Actually the New Testament, like a newspaper, merely reflects
the true condition of Judaism at that time. If someone could prove
that damaging descriptions of Jews never appeared before the New
Testament, that would be one thing. But during many centuries
prior to Jesus or any Christians, Jews were saying and doing the
same things that we find them still saying and doing during New
Testament days!
If the New Testament record of their words and works is
“anti-Semitic,” is the Old Testament record of the same
rebelliousness just as “anti-Semitic”?
A while ago I was talking with a young woman in Los Angeles who
is training to become a rabbi. I asked her about the Talmud. (She
seemed shocked I should know so much about it already!) “Oh,” she
said, “I don’t think it’s as relevant as it once was.” When I told
her that the “hate” movie “The Last Temptation of Christ” was an
amazingly accurate reflection of the Talmud—and that more such
“hate” films are in the works because Hollywood takes the Talmud
seriously—she had no explanation.
In the future when “hate” laws are passed, will the incredibly
hate-filled Talmud and some hate-promoting film studios be swept
under the rug?
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