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December 16, 2010

Anti-Semitism goes mainstream

2010 Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs

by the Simon Wiesenthal Center

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In response to an alarming rise in anti-Semitic statements, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has released its “Top Ten Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010.”  The list emphasizes the anti-Jewish statements publicly made by prominent figures from all over the world.

“Never before, in recent memory, has the Simon Wiesenthal Center seen such a proliferation of anti-Semitism going mainstream,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Center adding that “Our list of top ten anti-Semitic slurs runs the gamut of well-known personalities including journalists, government officials, celebrities, a prominent film director, and academics.”

Many of the quotes are classic Jewish conspiracy theories updated to reflect current anxieties, blaming the control of the media and banking sectors on Jews. “Unfortunately, our list shows that anti-Semitic canards normally thought to belong to the lunatic fringe have, in fact, been bought into by major elements of Western society,” Rabbi Hier concluded.

1) Helen Thomas, former UPI Senior White House correspondent

“Jews should get the hell out of Palestine. They should go home to Germany, Poland, America and everywhere else.” -May 2010 “Congress, the White House, Hollywood and Wall Street are owned by Zionists. They put their money where their mouth is.” -December 2010

2) Oliver Stone, film director

“Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it’s been used cheaply. He’s the product of a series of actions. It’s cause and effect.” -January 2010

“Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people,” [there is a greater focus on the Holocaust than on Russian suffering because of] “the Jewish domination of the media.” “There’s a major lobby in the United States,” “They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up U.S. foreign policy for years.” -July 2010

3) Former Malaysian Premier Mahatir Mohammad

“Jews “had always been a problem in European countries. They had to be confined to ghettoes and periodically massacred.” ... “Even after the massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world.” –January 2010

4) Al-Mutawakil Taha, Deputy Minister of Information for the Palestinian Authority

“The Jews have no historical or religious ties to theTemple Mount or the Western Wall. There is no archeological evidence that theTemple Mount was built during the period of King Solomon….” -November 2010

5) Thilo Sarrazin, Central Bank Executive for the German Government

“All Jews have a certain gene ... that makes them different from other people.” -August 2010

6) Karel de Gucht - European Union’s Chief Trade Negotiator

“...Don’t underestimate the power of the Jewish Lobby on Capitol Hill. ... You shouldn’t underestimate the grip it has on American politics, no matter whether it’s Republicans or Democrats.” – September 2010

7) Rick Sanchez, former CNN correspondent

“He’s [Jon Stewart] upset that someone of my ilk is almost at his level… I’m telling you that everyone who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish are an oppressed minority? [sarcastically] Yeah.” – October 2010

8) Dr Petras Stankeras, historian and Interior Ministry advisor, Lithuania

“The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history… the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis, even though the court did not have a single document signed by A. Hitler concerning the extermination of Jews….” –2010

9) Christina Patterson journalist, The Independent newspaper, UK

“I would like to teach some of my neighbors some manners… I don’t care if they wear frock coats and funny suits and hats covered in plastic bags and insist on wearing their hair in ringlets (if they’re male) or covered up by wigs (if they’re female), but I do think they could treat their neighbors with a bit more courtesy and respect. I didn’t realize that goyim were about as welcome in the Hasidic Jewish shops as Martin Luther King, Jr. at a Ku Klux Klan convention. I didn’t realize that a purchase by a goy was a crime to be punished with monosyllabic terseness or that bus seats were a potential source of contamination or that road signs and parking restrictions were for people who hadn’t been chosen by G-d.” – 2010

10) Social Networks and Anti-Semitism:

Yahoo Finance, Goldman Sachs Message Boards, 2010:
“da-m jew-s; bernanke and geithner’s free money scheme to the banks destroyed the value of the rational americans savings, and of the chinese economic development of asia.” “And what do ya know, Golden Slacks the leading jewry criminal organization!!! Where`s the Gestapo when you reall need them???” “I never hated people before.Today I hate the guts of JEWS. The JEWS have poisoned America. They have poisoned good people.
I never would have thought that I would hate the JEWS. For what teh JEWS have done to Americans, it is unforgiving…[sic].” “Irony how US always bail out the jews & jews end up screwing USA!!! [sic].”
“Stinking Jews finally getting what they deserve Burn all the jews up [sic]”

FACEBOOK 2010 sites include:
“Kill a Jew Year” and “Kill a Jew Day.”

TWITTER:
“Droppin bows on jew nose, throwin cracks at wetbacks and pullin triggers on filthy…. well you get it.” “mrs. clinton runs scared of wars crimes by isreal the jewish vote rules the usa, usa is not a free minded places a control lap dog of isreal.”

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So history has been robbed of context, and now the media and the economy are feeling the vice begin to tighten. Is there a problem?

Comment by Dan on 12/17/10 at 10:41 pm

I guess if you don’t like what someone says you can just label it “anti-Semitic” and dismiss it.  Like they say De Nile (denial) is not just a river in Egypt.  Never mind that most of the people saying these things are Semitic and those complaining about it, such as blue-eyed (Ashke)nazi Jews are not Semitic.  But hey why let truth get in the way of your telling everyone what they are allowed to say.  Besides truth to most Jews is whatever feels good.  If it feels negative than it isn’t truth.  You people are like freakin’ 5 or 6 year-olds.  It is beyond embarrassing to listen and read what you folks have to say.

Comment by theleviteline.com on 12/18/10 at 3:24 am

I mean to make such a list is so idiotic and I won’t throw any more pearls before swine on how and why.  Just call me all your little names.  If I had any respect for you ugly 4-eyed creeps it might matter.  Instead I take it from whence it comes.

Comment by theleviteline.com on 12/18/10 at 3:24 am

I don’t think Christina Patterson’s comment is so terrible.  I’ve found Chasidim to be very rude to outsiders.  I’m Jewish but they consider me a goy because I don’t have payes and don’t dress in black.  I don’t feel called upon to defend them against those kinds of complaints.  Rude is rude.

Comment by Ernest Lederman on 12/18/10 at 9:54 am

You need to know about this:

Having the FBI ignore documented anti-Semitism, including Swastikas, urine and feces and a record $1.7M verdict is a threat to Jewish people and to the course of Humanity at large, watch the courtroom video:
http://tinyurl.com/28tsqmk

I grew up at a predominately Jewish prep school in Cleveland and I was drawn to this Scott Hyman case here in New England because of the restrictive covenants and the outright virulent racism. As blacks and Jews in Cleveland we tended to stand together, so I stood for Scott and still stand for him as the ADL basically did nothing for him and major media were told to go away, after covering the case at the beginning.

Comment by KingCast on 12/19/10 at 11:08 am

Well alot of these statements are indeed blatant anti-semitism.

But the reporter from the UK complaining about how she was treated in what sounds like Mea Shearim or whatever - if indeed this happened to her - why is it anti-semnitic for her to complain about it?

Comment by Shlomo on 12/20/10 at 3:05 am

True. I’m dating a woman who converted to Judaism and Chabad, well, she has her issues with them so I don’t necessarily think that reporter’s comments were heinous at all, neither are Karel de Gucht’s. There is a strong Jewish lobby in America and no one should be ashamed to admit it. Of course that did Scott Hyman no favors because he is not one of the chosen, just as I am not a chosen black:
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2006/09/kingcast-video-podcast-defeats-chief.html

Comment by KingCast on 12/20/10 at 6:09 am

The race on earth with special “anti” in front of it.  You read the bible you will understand why. Only Jewish is human, the rest are sub (yeah…right)

Comment by othman abdullah on 12/21/10 at 4:38 pm

Jews are not a race; Judaism is a religion.  We are of all races and ethnicities.  That includes Arab, Turkish, Persian, Pakistani, or whatever you are.
And quit whining.  What do you care if Jews or anyone else think you’re subhuman?  Have a backbone and grow up.

Comment by Ernest Lederman on 12/21/10 at 5:25 pm

I say “racism” because for all intents and purposes it is a distinction without difference when it comes to malicious intent.

Is Hebrew a race?

Comment by KingCast on 12/21/10 at 5:26 pm

In complaining about racism how many of those who complain about CP’s article have similarly complained of the racism of religious fundamentalists who operate the price tag policy against Palestinian Israelis in the Occupied Territories.  How many have complained about the racist Rabbis who wrote The Kings’ Torah, or the fundamentalists who throw chairs at women to dare to pray at the Western Wall?

Comment by yesspam on 12/26/10 at 2:40 am

Why are these anti semitic remarks missing from the list?

“We don’t need to help Arabs set down roots in Israel,” Rabbi Shlomo Aviner of the Beit El settlement, said on Tuesday. Aviner explained that he supported the move for two reasons: one, a Jew looking for an apartment should get preference over a gentile; and two, to keep the growing Arab population from settling too deeply.
“Racism originated in the Torah,” said Rabbi Yosef Scheinen, who heads the Ashdod Yeshiva. “The land of Israel is designated for the people of Israel. This is what the Holy One Blessed Be He intended and that is what the [sage] Rashi interpreted.”

Comment by yesspam on 12/27/10 at 10:26 am

Hebrew is not a race.  The more that is learned about the ancient Middle East, the harder it is to say who the Hebrews were.
I, too, don’t like the term anti-Semitism used to refer to hatred of Jews only.  I, too, believe that the Arabs are abused under Israeli policy.
I am totally contemptuous of the statements made by the rabbis cited.  Which is a big reason why I am against organized, doctrinaire religion; and nationalism, too.

Comment by Ernest Lederman on 12/27/10 at 11:01 am

I ‘clicked’ for 2010’s Top 10 Anti-Semtic Slurs.
What I found were, 10 truthfull, factual quotes.
You should call it,
“10 Careers We Ruined, Because They Pissed Us Off! &, We Could.”
Take away the “chosen ones; &, God gave us the deed!” thingies.
Now, what is Israel; its Jewish citizens; &, its Christian ‘2nd Comming’ supporters?

Comment by Bob Ormston on 4/10/11 at 12:44 pm

To Mr. Ormston (& others),

What you say reminds me of when I hear complaints that something said is “offensive.”  Substitute the word “truth” for “offensive,” and you get the idea.  The (money) powers that be HATE the truth and get many others to do the same.  Well they missed one here, though not for lack of trying.  And Yes to the Jewish morons who think it arrogant or intolerant to say one knows truth.  Yes I can distinguish truth from lies.

Comment by theleviteline.com on 4/10/11 at 6:29 pm

Ironically, the Torah which Jews ‘claim’ to revere is a big part of what helps me distinguish truth from lies.  However, I read it without the guidance of any creepy, four-eyed, balding, fat or scrawny rabbi to take all the life, goodness and God out of the equation.

Basically if the Jews want to find their main and No. 1 Enemy- Look In the Mirror!  There he or she is.  The FACT that you can’t see clearly in that mirror being one of myriad evidence of what I speak.

Comment by theleviteline.com on 4/10/11 at 6:35 pm

Where is the antisemitism for Al-Mutawakil Taha , the palestinian depute , he just say that there is no evidence of the jewish temple where al aqsa mosque is in jerusalem , WHERE IS THE ANTISEMITISM LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL ?????

You just need to post a palestinian in this lie to let people think that palestinian are antisemitism so you can kill them in peace .

Comment by sqx on 5/14/11 at 10:13 am

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