OBAMA ANTI-SEMITEIC?

PURIM MEDITATION – ANTI-SEMITISM, HARVARD AND OBAMA’S EARS
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
03/05/2012

         Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Worship just concluded its One-State Conference, aimed at abolishing the Jewish state. On Wednesday, Jews will celebrate Purim, commemorating an event in Persia of the 4th century BC, when a court official plotted the world’s first genocide – back in the days before anti-Semitism acquired an academic aura.

         I was born just after World War II – a conflict that claimed the lives of one out of every three Jews on earth. Growing up, I considered myself among the most fortunate of Jews. Revelations of the Holocaust’s horrors had ended anti-Semitism as a political force forever, I thought. Other than a lingering social anti-Semitism (which stereotyped Jews as clannish, crass and avaricious), and the occasional cemetery desecration and graffiti, Jew-hatred was a relic of humanity’s brutish past.

         What a fool I was.

         I’ve come to understand a simple truth: Haman is more than an historical figure. He is eternal. He walks among us – dragging his blood libel, his Protocols, his stake, his Zyklon-B, and his symposia everywhere he goes. Today, seven decades after the Holocaust, he is more menacing than at any time since the end of the Thousand-Year Reich.

         Wikipedia has a site called “Timeline of Anti-Semitism.” The printable version is 39 pages, and this is an overview. From 586 BC to 2009, there are 294 separate listings – expulsions, massacres, pogroms, burnings, forced conversions, condemnations, edicts, segregation, agitation, confiscations, inquisitions, quotas, blood libels and genocide.

         If this was a guided tour, a few points of interest might be noted: 37-41 CE, thousands of Jews killed by pagan mobs in Alexandria – 132-135, Romans slaughter an estimated 580,000 Jews in the course of putting down the Bar Kokhba revolt – 1066, massacre of 4,000 Jews in Muslim Grenada – 1096, Crusaders murder 5,000 Jews in Germany – 1171, 31 Jews burned at the stake in France – 1190, 500 Jews killed by departing Crusaders in York, England – 1236, Crusaders attack communities in Anjou and Poitou, France, 3,000 killed – 1349, 600 Jews burned at the stake in Basel, Switzerland (the Nazis would later streamline incineration) – 1492, Spanish expulsion – 1506, 2,000 killed during three days of rioting in Lisbon – 1516, first ghetto established in Venice – 1648-1655, 100,000 Jews slaughtered in Ukrainian Cossack uprising – 1881-1884, pogroms in southern Russia result in emigration of 2 million Jews, most to the United States – 1917-1921, anywhere from 70,000 to 250,000 Jews killed during the Russian Civil War by Whites who said they were Reds, and Bolsheviks who condemned them as counterrevolutionaries – 1929, Hebron massacre destroys world’s oldest Jewish community – 1939-1945, Hitler modernized mass murder – 1941, 200 die in Baghdad pogrom – 1948, 900,00 Jews driven from Arab lands – 2001-to present, atrocities of the Intifada and new wave of European anti-Semitic attacks, spurred by Muslim immigration.

         Over the course of three millennia, the world has seen pagan anti-Semitism, Catholic anti-Semitism, Protestant anti-Semitism (typified by the ravings of Martin Luther), nationalistic anti-Semitism (starting in the 19th century), so-called scientific anti-Semitism (which reached its ultimate dementia under the Nazis), socialist anti-Semitism, communist anti-Semitism. Muslim anti-Semitism (stretching back to Muhammad), populist anti-Semitism (of the KKK variety), social anti-Semitism and Helen Thomas.

         Jews have been hated for rejecting pantheism, for creating communism, for inventing capitalism, for being warmongers, for being pacifists, for controlling the world’s financial markets, the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, the news media and Hollywood, for rejecting a 7th century Arabian cult and for the death of a popular first century rabbi.

         The Harvard conference is the latest. But they’re not anti-Semites! – even though their speakers include the founder of the on-line Electronic Intifada, a former legal adviser to the PLO and a prominent Hamas supporter. In this lynch mob, Harvard Professor Stephen Walt, who claims Jews control U.S. foreign policy, was the moderate.

         They’re not anti-Semitic, but their solution to the Middle East impasse is to abolish the Jewish state of Israel, flood the land with Palestinian “refugees,” and leave the remaining Jews to their fate among a people who make no effort to conceal their bloodlust.

         The president himself is a Harvard grad – and it shows.

         At the very least, Barak Hussein Obama is comfortable among anti-Semites.

         For almost 20 years, the future president was schooled in liberation theology by his pastor/spiritual mentor the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., a charismatic creep given to spouting racism, anti-Americanism and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. It wasn’t until well into the 2008 campaign, when the roaring Rev. became too much of a liability, that Obama finally disassociated himself from Wright, but refused to condemn him.

         Through Wright, Obama is connected to Nation of Islam Fuhrer Louis Farrakhan. In this year’s Savior’s Day Convention, Calypso Gene accused Jews of controlling the media, working to engineer a war with Iran and running the slave trade. And that was a warm-up. Obama both attended and wrote glowingly of Farrakhan’s 1995 Million-Man March.

         Last year, a 2007 photo surfaced of then-Senator Obama marching with Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the inveterately anti-Semitic New Black Panther Party. Shabazz penned a forward to the book “Synagogue of Satan” (see if you can guess the theme). “Who is it that controls the Federal Reserve? – the Jews,” Shabazz intones. It’s probably just a coincidence that Obama’s Justice Department refused to prosecute NBP thugs for 2008 voter intimidation.

         The Center for American Progress and Media Matters are often described as Obama think tanks, if such is not a contradiction in terms. Liberal Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz charges, “Media Matters and Center for American Progress are two extremely left-bigoted groups that are so virulently anti-Israel and anti-supporters of Israel that they’ve gone over the line from anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism.”

         The Occupy Wall Street brown shirts have been celebrated by such Democrat heavies as Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and, of course, the president. OWS is rife with anti-Semitic signs, slogans and rhetoric. In Los Angeles, Occupier Patricia McAllister (then an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District) said the “Zionist Jews” who “run the big banks and Federal Reserve” should be “run out of the country. “

         At a demonstration in October, a social media spokesman for the bowel movement told an elderly Jewish counter-protestor to “go back to Israel,” you “greedy pig.”

         When OWS vandalized the Oakland City Hall in January, a protestor was caught on camera reciting an anti-Semitic mock pledge to the flag, which he said represented a “privately owned central bank, under the Jews….” OWS has been endorsed by both the American Nazi Party and Barrack Obama. In November, the president told protestors in New Hampshire, “You are the reason I ran for office."

         Howard Gutman, a 2008 Obama mega-bundler and current U.S. ambassador to Belgium, told a conference last year that the Jews had no one but themselves to blame for the epidemic of European anti-Semitism. “A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned and Muslim hatred of Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians” and thus is excusable, Gutman informed an audience stunned to silence.

         Trying to give Israel Auschwitz borders (Obama is the first president to demand that the Jewish state return to 1967), a commitment to make the West Bank Judenrein, and a determination to protect Iran’s nuclear facilities from Israeli strikes isn’t the sum total of the president’s Middle East policy.

         In February, Rick Santorum told FOX News the president “was ready to jump in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya and Egypt.” Ready? He’s waiting there, with his bra and panties off. The New York Times, which doubles as the White House press office, put it more discreetly in a January 3 story headlined “Overtures to Egypt’s Islamists Reverse Longtime U.S. Policy.”

         By betraying Mubarak, Obama practically put this scum in power in Egypt.

         Haj Amin al-Husseni (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who ran the Brotherhood operation in Palestine of the ‘20s and ‘30s) spent the war years in Berlin, as Hitler’s guest, and helped recruit a Bosnian Muslim S.S. division to run the death camps. (Husseini is still a revered figure among the organization’s leadership.) Flash forward 70 years – Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Egyptian Brotherhood, beseeches: “O Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. O Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people… O Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one.” The Brotherhood was also well represented at the Harvard hate-fest.

         In 25 centuries of state-sponsored anti-Semitism, America stands out as a brief shining moment of sanity and decency – from Washington’s letter of tolerance to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, to driving a bayonet through the heart of Nazi Germany, to Truman acting as midwife to the Jewish state, to Nixon re-supplying Israel after the Yom Kippur War. Many Christians and Jews believe this is why God has kept his hand over our republic.

         If Obama is reelected, that will end. America will become like unto the nations.

         On Purim, Jews eat a triangular fruit-filled pastry called hamantaschen or Haman’s ears. Cartoonists often focus on Obama’s jug handles. Put it down as another coincidence.