The ADL is accusing the New York Times Maureen Dowd of anti-semitism over a recent op-ed titled "Virtuous Bankers? Really!?!" The article about corruption on Wall Street specifically involving Goldman Sachs. In a letter to the Editor in the NYT, ADL National Chair Robert G. Sugarman stated, "While one can agree or disagree with Maureen Dowd's portrayal of Goldman Sachs and other bankers (column, Nov. 11), her statement that "the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple" potentially raises one of the classic themes of anti-Semitism linking Jews and abhorrent money-lending practices. However unintentional, Ms. Dowd's invoking the New Testament story to illustrate our current financial mess conjures up old prejudices against Jews."
Writing in The New Jersey Jewish News Menachem Rosensaft and Jason H. Dolinsky also suggested that Dowd's article was anti-semitic, saying "we have heard these terms far too often to let them pass. Anti-Semitic tracts and Web sites are replete with references to “blood-sucking Jews.” And Ms. Dowd is too intelligent not to have realized that the depiction of Jews as greedy money-lenders has resulted in persecution and pogroms over the course of the past two millennia. Ms. Dowd has given new life to such ancient anti-Semitic incitements. We dread the prospect of swastikas smeared outside Goldman Sachs offices, or of learning that some street hood, inspired by Ms. Dowd’s column, broke an observant Jew's leg shouting "let Goldman Sachs buy you a new leg. At a time when a virulent Judaeophobia is on the rise, especially in Europe and throughout much of the Muslim world, politicians, journalists and columnists have a responsibility to refrain from using inflammatory anti-Semitic code words. Our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech does not bestow on any of us a license to incite to bigotry or violence."
Dowd was refering to an interview given by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein where he said, "he understands that a lot of people are “mad and bent out of shape” at blood-sucking banks. He added “I know I could slit my wrists and people would cheer." Dowd is right when she states that "Blankfein’s trickle-down catechism isn’t working. Now we have two economies. We have recovering banks while we have 10-plus percent unemployment and 17.5 percent underemployment. The gross thing about the Wall Street of the last decade is how much its success was not shared with society."
Dowd discuses Matt Taibbi who was also called an anti-semite for his critique of Goldman Sachs in Rolling Stones Magazine. Taibbi was accused of anti-semitism in his critic of Goldman Sach's greed and financial exploitation for saying, "the first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Taibbi never said anything anti-Jewish in his article but due to the fact that Goldman Sachs is associated by many as being a Jewish institution his criticism of the firms financial parasitism brought about that accusation from many.
Dowd wrote another article a while back in the NYT titled "Blue Eyed Greed", where she agreed with Brazil's president Lula that the financial crisis "was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.” Dowd added "it is true, of course, that the upper-crust, underwhelming Anglo-Saxon leaders who allowed America’s financial markets to morph into louche casinos, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, were very, very white men with blue eyes."
The ADL and the establishment media were silent over Dowd's assertions about Anglo's being responsible for the financial crisis, however now the ADL is accusing her of anti-semitism for an article that does not mention anything about Jews.
Journalist Philip Weiss's correspondent, Geof Gray commented about this on Weiss's blog stating, "and it is true, of course, that the upper crust, underwhelming Anglo-Saxon leaders who allowed America's financial markets to morph into louche casinos, George W Bush and Dick Cheney, were very very white men with blue eyes." Isn't this a tad disingenuous? Didn't Summers, and Rubin and Greenspan have something to do with the debacle? Isn't Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's AIG implicated as is Goldman Sachs, among others? Just upper crust Anglo Saxons? Isn't this an antique notion, true perhaps in the 1920's? Have we reached the point out of the fear of being accused to being antisemitic that we pretend that Jews aren't there?" Weiss concurred, "Gray has my total agreement here. Journalists are misleading their readers about the character of the power structure out of apprehensions of the rise of anti-Semitism. This kind of journalism is not helpful, and may actually be feeding the resentment that fosters anti-Semitism."
The Bernie Maddof scandal attracted a lot of attention from both the Jewish community and so called anti-semites. Madoff became a pariah within the Jewish community for ripping off many Jewish organizations and prominent Jewish individuals such as Steven Spielberg and Elie Wiesel. However groups like the ADL are covering up for the crimes of financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, that were responsible for the financial crisis and ripped of the taxpayers through bailouts, which they spent on lavish bonuses for their executives. Goldman Sachs was President Obama's second top source of campaign contributions and donates heavily to many prominent politicians.
Goldman Sachs should be treated like a criminal entity much like ENRON was. However ENRON fit into the liberal establishment's stereotype of "Evil White Gentile Republicans, while Goldman Sachs has a stereotype as being Jewish." It is no more anti-semitic to criticize Goldman Sachs than it is anti-WASP to criticize ENRON. However there is a notion put out by the likes of the ADL that any organization that is associated as being Jewish should be immune from criticism. The ADL also uses this tactic to silence any harsh criticism of Israel or the Israeli Lobby.
The ADL receives a large portion of its funding from Wall Street and therefore has a vested interest in what is good for financial interest rather than what is good for America as well as American Jews who are not part of the moneyed elite. The ADL has received large donations from Michael Milken's junk bond fortune and Wall Street crook Marc Rich, who many believed used the ADL to lobby for his pardon from President Clinton. Mob associate of Meyer Lansky, Moe Dalitz was simultaneously the CEO of "Sterling Bank" and National Commissioner of the ADL. Even the ADL's current National Chair Glen Lewy was an investment banker involved with Wolfensohn & Co, Deutsche Bank, and a member of the CFR.
In his article "Why Jewish Bankers Love Anti-Semites" Anti-Zionist Jewish author Henry Makow says, "Jewish bankers love anti-Semites because they transform a legitimate political and economic grievance into a racial one that easily can be dismissed as "hatred." Anti-Semites are like dogs who drive the Jewish sheep into the bankers' pen. In spite of this, some Jews are questioning the instrumental role Jews play in the creation of the New World Order. Jewish bankers love anti-Semites because they transform opposition to the NWO into discredited racism. They ensure that Jews serve the NWO agenda and non-Jews remain divided."
Neither Dowd's nor Taibbi's article's about Goldman Sachs mentions anything negative against Jews. The ADL is only enforcing that stereotype by screaming anti-semitism over strong criticism of Wall Street. It is true that individuals of Jewish decent are over represented in Finance. Everyone should be judged as an individual, however the ADL puts collective blame on all Jews when they claim to speak on their behalf, and cover up for criminals because they happen to be Jews, or support the ADL agenda.
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It time to see beyond the rhetoric and old tricks that have been played out. Time to start throwing ANY AND ALL criminals in jail.
Plain and simple; its ok for them to lie, steal and kill goyim.
Thanks for reporting on the facts and appropriate analogy of the only time Jesus showed violence in the New Testament: throwing the parasitic "traders" out of the Temple. GS and the Israeli government should always be subject to criticism of their actions. Their religious connections are irrelevant to legal and illegal acts. It's just that simple.
Hmmm! So Jesus was an anti-Semite for throwing the money lenders out of the temple?
The ADL is a band of scumbags. The amazing thing is that any one actually pays any attention to them.
Jesus didn't throw the money LENDERS out of the Temple. They were money CHANGERS. Devout Jews coming from other lands needed to have their currency--Greek, Roman, whatever--changed into TEMPLE currency to buy SACRIFICIAL animals, an abomination to vegetarian Jewish groups like the Nazarites (which included Jesus and Old Testament Samson), Essenes (authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls and who probably included John the Baptist) and the Therapeutae, a family-oriented Jewish community living in Egypt, to which Jesus and parents fled as a 2-year old when Herod's soldiers sought the male born in Bethlehem 2 years earlier whom Persian astrologers identified as an influential person. Jesus had no argument with money given as alms, and there was a communal purse held by his inner circle to function in a moneyed society. What griped him MOST was the shedding of innocent blood to atone for human sin. Genesis 1:29 commands a diet of tree crops--orcharding--Cain and Abel represent farming and herding.
Very Good article Robert Stark!! Keep up the good work. There is a great need for alternatives to the Government Run Press.
Too bad this can't get into the main stream media.
Kudos to Maureen Dowd for speaking up where our Congress trembles in fear.
The ADL is the insidious mafia army for blatant institutionalized thievery.
>>>>>JRusso says:
It time to see beyond the rhetoric and old tricks that have been played out. Time to start throwing ANY AND ALL criminals in jail. <<<
Careful! Use of the word "criminal" might be a code word for something or someone, where you could be put in jail for a hate crime.
when a particular group of a tribe, race, family or what have you, effectively controls the mass media, the finance and now, ever so slowly the entire political control of a country, that country ceases to exist de facto. it becomes a satrapy that belongs to that tribe, race, family, or what have you. the once citizens become...... well What exactly? "unclean animals"? this IS a fair question. FT
ADL IS A ZIONIST FACIST ORGANIZATION....and their time will come
How convenient it must be to be a member of a group/race/tribe that engages in perfidy,then orchestrates through their overwhelming dominance of all forms of media(print,TV,Hollywood,publishing)that anyone who notices their scandalous attempts is to be vilified as a bigot.
Thanks to the net,this devious trick appears more and more pathetic.
Take a guess who the biggest cheerleaders are for "hate speech" codes?...the ADL of course.
By the way,when the Bolsheviks took over Russia,one of the first laws to be enacted was the "death penalty for anti-Semitism".
That gives you an idea who was running the show during that wondrous time resulting in 30 million Christian deaths,but don't expect a movie by Steven "Spielberg" about that very real,much bigger holocaust!.
There were four organizations created in 1913...
The Federal Reserve
The Internal Revenue Service
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Anti-Defamation League
The four organizations are linked somehow...this would be an excellent area of the Jewish-lead New World Order to scrutinize.
IT"S common for jews to use that trick in America, while bringing up the holocaust while in Europe. IT's just one of their many tricks. JUST imagine if Christians started calling people anti-Christs for simply pointing out truths.
Please, please may we enter a place where we just laugh when these clowns hurl 'anti-semite' at someone? It's like the monkey house at the zoo.... do we change who we are and what we believe at our core because a few gorillas sling poop at us? Of course not.
Don't forget Ruth Madoff blamed the Gentiles for Bernie getting caught. Some JEWS actually think the world was given to them to use and the gentiles get the leftovers. Zionism is the main problem however, not judaism. ONce you learn the difference it's easy to understand the conflict and the real enemy of America.
It took about 1 week for ADL to clearly demonstrate what the new hate crimes laws are all about. The charge of anti-semitism is their old canard to cover up jewish crime and criminalize anyone who dares to speak about it. The Noahide laws, Talmudic laws, are double standards, two sets of laws. One for non jews and one for jews.
Our silence will only allow criminals to grow stronger. A criminal is a criminal if it is a blue-eyed white anglo. It's anti-semitism if criminal is a jew.
Obama is obviously corrupt. While he couldn't get trillions of dollars into the hands of rich bankers quickly enough, he has not followed through on his campaign pledge to build factories to employ Americans to build solar, wind or geothermal devices (how many birds would that single stone kill?) contributing to a non-jobless recovery to help middle class workers who paid the lions share of the rich banker bailout; he has not followed through on his campaign pledge to fund a needle exchange program to help mostly poor drug addicts to prevent the spread of HepC and AIDS, but really now, they can't afford to lobby anyway so what's the point, right?; and he hasn't brought the troops home from illegal, unwinnable, immoral wars (rememer his "you can take that to the bank" campaign promise? Obama is nothing but a liar, and it is now apparent that the US has one political party, Rep's play bad cop while Dem's play good cop, and nobody else, like Ron Paul, has a prayer. Time for a revolution?
OK...OK...Can we just agree and close this comment board.
Zionist elitist jews are behind most if to all evil in this world. They feed on weakness, and excel in arrogance, greed, sexual perversion and murder.
I think that sums it rather well! Good day.
Did i not hear somewhere that the ADL where once a Terror organization?. Or was it just in Canada....
Honestly, who gives a @#&% what the ADL says? Seriously, we've all taken their crap for far too long. Nobody appointed them as the voice of truth - ever. Goodbye ADL, your time is coming to an end.
dave, what!! His wife blamed gentiles for his immense greed and corruption? Now I've heard everything. Talk about blind denial.
Very good article. The ADL is nothing more than an arm of the Mossad. My hope is that someday being labeled an "anti-semite" by the ADL will be a badge of honor.
America needs an antisemitic party with a populous antisemitic platform. The money changers at Goldman would not be able to operate if the public really knew who they were.
Don't be too hard on the ADL, as one eyed and generally anti freedom of speach as they are, consider the evil being done by those in the American government who are elected by you but swear alleagance to Israel before the American people. They are all millionaries because of payouts from jewish run companies directly and indirectly. There's plenty of blame to pass around!
....so much "chutzpah"
The ADL and the Jews need to just get over it! You have been exposed for what you are, and I'm educating everyone I know to educate everyone they know about you. The party's over Jews just like the other 100 plus countries you've been kicked out of throughout history, another one is on the way.
LET EVERYBODY KNOW!!!
the boy who cried wolf?
more like the zionists who cried "anti-semetism"
Well, you certainly got the anti-semites on this forum to crawl out of the closet. The comments are positively covered with the vermin.
The meager minds here need to learn to make the distinction between someone doing something illegal and being accused, and someone being accused because of ethnic background. The libel common in the Christian community that Jews are somehow less ethical than Christians is what's involved, and the Dowd comment may suggest to some that this libel was being repeated.
In most circumstances I would have thought the ADL overreacting, since one doesn't see anti-semitism all that often. Apparently, as many of these posts indicate, its just been hidden.
Hey the ADL has been covering for a child rapist / murder for 96 years so why not for Jew York pencil whippers?
"And Ms. Dowd is too intelligent not to have realized that the depiction of Jews as greedy money-lenders has resulted in persecution and pogroms over the course of the past two millennia"
Hey a-holes at the New Jersey News: the poisecution and pogroms are a result of the Jewish crimes committed, not the depiction of the crimes committed.
LET EVERYBODY KNOW!!!
the boy who cried wolf?
more like the zionists who cried "anti-semetism"
ADL are disgusting slim of the earth and part of the money changers circle
Screw that hate group, the ADL. I've actually seen a video of former Israeli Minister (not the PM), Shulamit Aloni, admitting (and even gloating) about the fact that anti-Semitism is a trick. The interviewer said "Often, when there is dissent expressed against the policies of the Israeli government, people here are called anti-Semitic. What is your response to that as an Israeli Jew?" Her response was this (verbatim!): "Well, it's a trick, we always use it, when from Europe somebody is criticizing Israel, then we bring up the Holocaust. When in this country (the U.S.) people are criticizing Israel, we call them anti-Semitic." I'm not f-ing kidding, do a search for it!
If a Gentile exposes Zionism, they are called "anti-semitic" which is nothing more than a smokescreen to hide the Zionists actions.
But, if a Jew is the person doing the exposing, they resort to other tactics.
First, they ignore the charges, hoping the information will not be given widespread distribution.
If the information starts reaching too many people, they ridicule the information and the persons giving the information.
If that doesn't work, their next step is character assassination. If the author or speaker hasn't been involved in sufficient scandal they are adept at fabricating scandal against the person or persons.
If none of these are effective, they are known to resort to physical attacks.
But, NEVER do they try to prove the information wrong.
Jack Bernstein, (assassinated by MOSSAD)
JEWS ARE THE WORLDS MOST DANGEROUS RACISTS
John Squeo is right, the video is on YouTube and is called
"Its A Trick...We Always Use It (Calling People Anti Semitic)"
Just c&p the above description into the search box on YouTube
It's now official - there's been no actual shortage of Holocaust survivors:
'The Israeli Prime Minister's office recently put the number of "living Holocaust survivors" at nearly a million' (extract from The Holocaust Industry by Norman G. Finkelstein of the City University of New York, published by Verso, London and New York, 2000, p.83).
[Googling "holocaust survivor" supplies 1,710,000 items]
And see Wikipedia article: 'List of Holocaust survivors' -
quote:
"There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability. Those listed here were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II who survived until the end of the Holocaust (and the war). The majority of these people survived incarceration in the Nazi concentration camps, but that is not strictly necessary..
Statement by Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus
University of Ulster, December 5, 2005:
"I've checked out the six volumes of Churchill's Second World War and the statement is quite correct - not a single mention of Nazi 'gas chambers,' a 'genocide' of the Jews, or of 'six million' Jewish victims of the war.
Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe is a book of 559 pages; Churchill's Second World War totals 4,448 pages; and De Gaulle's three-volume Mémoires de guerre is 2,054 pages.
In this mass of writing, which altogether totals 7,061 pages (not including the introductory parts), published from 1948 to 1959, one will find no mention either of Nazi 'gas chambers,' a 'genocide' of the Jews, or of 'six million' Jewish victims of the war."
Elie Wiesel vs Encyclopaedia Britannica
Wiesel has been one of the most prominent spokesman for the very sizeable group of people known as Holocaust survivors. [According to Norman Finkelstein of the City University of New York in his book The Holocaust Industry published in the year 2000, ‘The Israeli Prime Minister’s office recently put the number of "living Holocaust survivors" at nearly a million’ (p.83)]. Wiesel has chaired the US Holocaust Memorial Council and has been the recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and Nobel Peace Prize...
Time Magazine, March 18 1985:
‘How had he survived two of the most notorious killing fields [Auschwitz and Buchenwald] of the century? "I will never know" he says. "I was always weak. I never ate. The slightest wind would turn me over. In Buchenwald they sent 10,000 to their deaths every day. I was always in the last hundred near the gate. They stopped. Why?"
Compare this with Encyclopaedia Britannica (1993), under ‘Buchenwald’:
"In
Elie Wiesel vs Encyclopaedia Britannica
Wiesel has been one of the most prominent spokesman for the very sizeable group of people known as Holocaust survivors. Wiesel has chaired the US Holocaust Memorial Council and has been the recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and Nobel Peace Prize...
Time Magazine, March 18 1985:
‘How had he survived two of the most notorious killing fields [Auschwitz and Buchenwald] of the century? "I will never know" he says. "I was always weak. I never ate. The slightest wind would turn me over. In Buchenwald they sent 10,000 to their deaths every day. I was always in the last hundred near the gate. They stopped. Why?"
Compare this with Encyclopaedia Britannica (1993), under ‘Buchenwald’:
"In World War II it held about 20,000 prisoners.. Although there were no gas chambers, hundreds perished monthly through disease, malnutrition, exhaustion, beatings and executions."
Hey the ADL has been covering for a child rapist / murder for 96 years so why not for Jew York pencil whippers?
John Squeo is right, the video is on YouTube and is called
"Its A Trick...We Always Use It (Calling People Anti Semitic)"
Just c&p the above description into the search box on YouTube
There's a reason kikes have been kicked out of nearly every country they've infested since ancient Rome! Jooz are evil parasites and the holohoax is a lie! Let's give the Satanic bastards something to wine about FOR REAL and exterminate the 6 million in the USA! KIKES are the most evil group to ever exist on planet Earth!
I read and left a comment to Dowd's excellent column that read..
"Oops, be careful there Maureen, or you'll get accused of being 'anti-Semitic' and the next stop will be working for the NY Post, writing articles about jiggly cheerleaders."
The comment was deleted.
And that's how it goes when certain group of people own or control most of America's and much of the world's MSM.
They get to decide what is fit for reading and viewing.
They decide that you will only hear and see positive articles about the Middle East's #1 terrorist nation, Israel while only publishing negative articles about Palestine.
They get to decide whether or not you read about 'Bernie' Madoff and when, even though several people tried to warn the SEC and at least on NY paper about his schemes.
They were ignored.
How many other 'Bernie' Madoff's are there, stealing money from our bank accounts and pension funds and shipping that money to Israel?
Don't ask why, unless you're a loathsome 'anti-
SPLC
Potok
Anthrax
Wall Street
Art students
9/11 snow job
Chicken hawks
Moving company
Propaganda media
DNC stealth neocons
Anti-semitism accusers
The chosen the superior
2-3% of the US population
Extortion blackmail bribery
By deception ye shall wage war
AIPAC's Israel-first dual-nationals
For profit NotFederal NoReserve scam
~ Words are plentiful deeds are precious
This reads like a tragic poem..........love it!
An article that needs to be written and discussed openly, intelligently.
It is unfortunate that a discussion such as this breaks down.
There is a considerable amount of delusion within the Jewish community on a number of issues of merit, but there can be no frank, intelligent dicussion because of victimology, race-baiting and a colossal sense of entitlement.
Also, many Jewish groups appear to actively work to subvert our constitution, especially the ADL and SPRC. Why is that?
Hopefully, that will change. Perhaps a frank, historically accurate discussion of the holocaust and what it has done to the Jewish community and other groups and their outlooks is in order. The downside is that the deniers come out of the woodwork and complicate such discussion.
The crimes of the criminal cult go on and on and on. Don't buy the crybaby routine. Bankers, Palestine, Neocons, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Bolshevism, the destruction of Germany. The sooner these mixers are tossed out of OTHERWISE civilized nations the better. I think it is time to resurrect the Madagascar plan.
By the way, there was no "Holocaust" as we are told. Those were work camps, laid waste at the end of the war by relentless Allied bombing of Germany. The Germans were the victims of Jewish treachery and it continues today, in our own country with every lying memorial they put up all over the place like a Dunkin Donuts or McDonalds. You people that know the facts HAVE to start telling your stupid friends and family that buy this garbage...and their own destruction.
And I don't want to here crap about "deniers".
Let's get the forensics done at those camps and show that David Cole (a Jew) was right. There were no gassings. This victimology was created to give Jews a leg up and they use it like a club, on everyone, especially the Palestinians.
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