“When Trump dog-whistled about globalists, I didn’t realize he was talking about Jews until after the election.” “The monstrous nature of the Jewish people must be known to the public.” “I propose a government that makes counter-Semitism central to all aims of the state.”
Patrick Little, Republican, California, running for U.S. Senate. His campaign poster: END JEWISH SUPREMACY OVER U.S. POLITICS & SOCIETY.
“I consider myself a white racialist.” “Six million Jews [killed in the Holocaust]? Ridiculous!”
Arthur Jones, Republican, Illinois, former member of the American Nazi Party, ran in an uncontested primary for Congress in Chicago, received 20,000 votes.
“It’s not because we’re racists. It’s because we feel marginalized. We’re the ones who are being oppressed.”
Arthur Jones supporter
“Armed machine gun turrets every 300 yards [on the border]. And you can automate those. Anyone who approaches that barrier will be treated as an enemy combatant. Man, woman or child.” “Jews…commit a disproportionate number of mass shootings.”
Paul Nehlen, Republican, Wisconsin, running for a congressional seat.
Called Virginia Democratic and Republican candidates for governor “cuck” and “cuckservative.” (“Cuck” is short for “cuckhold.” In alt right parlance, it refers to a white man who watches his wife having sex with a black man.)
Corey Stewart, Republican, Virginia, running for governor. He came within one percentage point of winning the Republican primary against Ed Gillespie by devoting his campaign to defending Confederate monuments.
The racist, antisemitic vermin are crawling out of the shadows and into the political spotlight, liberated to speak their minds by Trump’s stream of populist/tribalist invective directed at everyone who is a perceived threat. Of course, the Republican leadership makes a point of repudiating these outspoken candidates who dispense with dog whistles and go straight to the bull horns.
But Trump said “some very fine people” marched in Charlottesville chanting, “You will not replace us. Jews will not replace us,” and he got away with it. He said border crossers are drug dealers, criminals and rapists, which received a fist pump from lots of Republican voters, while party leaders clutched their pearls. Days ago, Trump coaxed his audience to shout “Animals!” in response to a statement directly talking about members of MS-13 but indirectly referencing all the undocumented immigrants he wants to deport and the border crossers he wants to stop by any means necessary.
As unhinged and undisciplined as Roseanne Barr is, even she might have thought twice about tweeting “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj” referring to Valerie Jarrett, if she hadn’t heard similar sentiments from the man who occupies the highest office in the land and who lavished praise on her now-canceled show. She thought she was bullet proof. Trump had her back.
A poll taken last August indicated that 17 percent of Trump supporters think it’s acceptable to hold neo-Nazi views. Another 13 percent have no opinion on the matter. That’s 30 percent of his base who will tolerate or applaud candidates whose views should terrify every decent human being. That is terrifying, a clear and present threat to our democracy.
This article appears in May 31 – Jun 6, 2018.
You are worse than Roseanne Barr. Do you feel something special about repeating what she said?
MS 13 is a pack of animals. Get over it.
“Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you. on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet
His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours,
Arthur James Balfour”
The Balfour Declaration was never implemented. Hamas exists because of the Slaughter and Force-able removal of Indigenous Palestinians from their Homeland. The Slaughter of Indigenous by the Zionists continues today!!!
President Truman, himself had serious misgivings about such a state and initially opposed its’ creation:
“The creation of a Jewish state…would cause a third world war…The government of Palestine should be a government of the people irrespective of race, religion or color.”(Michael Cohen, Truman and Israel, 1990)
A Jewish State in the Middle East was established, with US support, on the basis of a Jewish terrorist organization, the Irgun, led by former Prime Minister Menachem Begin; the Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948.
The creation of Zionist State in Palestine was a Foreign Policy Blunder and NOT in the interest of the United States and Must be Reversed!
WHY?…..”Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” Alleged quote by Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres (October 3, 2001); as reported by Haaretz.
We can begin to effectively neutralize the animosity within the Muslim Community with a recognition of the historic character of Palestine as representing the common heritage of Christian, Jews, and Muslims; that the United States rejects claims for the completely autonomous political and cultural development of any one religious/cultural group in Palestine; that Christians, Jews, and Muslims have a cooperative, co-equal, semi-autonomous share in the political and cultural development of Palestine.
The United States must re-evaluate and re-formulate our Foreign Policy in the Middle East. If we have not the rectitude and courage to undue the injustices to the indigenous people of Palestine, the possibility of the use of weapons of mass destruction may involve this country in a Religious War of self-destruction.
It was Friday afternoon, May 14, 1948, at 4:00 p.m. The final hours of the British mandate were ticking away. In the Tel Aviv Museum, a small crowd of 350 onlookers were present by secret invitation for an eagerly anticipated announcementthe formal declaration of statehood for the modern-day nation of Israel. Security was tight, lest the numerous enemies of the fledgling State attack the proceedings.
The world was also anxiously watching the Middle East in May of 1948. At that time, 62 years ago, the British mandate to occupy what was then called Palestine was ending, and war was imminent. The year before, the United Nations had authorized the creation of an independent Jewish State in a portion of the occupied territories. The surrounding Arab nations had vowed to prevent this at any cost. The partition line shall be nothing but a line of fire and blood, warned the Arab League.-Online Watchtower
“…Menachem Begin, one of Israel’s prime ministers, was quoted as admitting: “Without what was done at Deir Yassin there would not have been a state of Israel … The Arabs began fleeing in panic, shouting ‘Deir Yassin.'” (M Begin, The Revolt, 1983)”
But you know as well as I do that, somehow, the Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed anti-Semitic … People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful — very powerful. D. Tutu, Apartheid in the Holy Land,” The Guardian (Britain), April 29, 2002.
“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” Alleged quote by Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres (October 3, 2001); as reported by Haaretz.
Sounds eerily like being called a racist when you want a border security presence and one particular political party wants open borders for free votes and chaos, from visitors that do not understand the USC.
But then that would be labeled a conspiracy by the alt left. And racist.
To quote the late, great Harry Carey ” Holy Cow” That was a long speech even for our favorite windbag Francis. Come up for air, will ya.
If you’ll recall, Mr. Safier cried wolf about “rising anti-Semitism” before, in these pages, a year ago, in response to a story about the JCC receiving bomb threats and prank phone calls. See https://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/arch…. As it turned out, those bomb threats and prank phone calls were called in by a Jewish teenager living in Israel. Indeed, this one Jewish teenager was responsible for about 10% of the “anti-Semitic” incidents recorded by the ADL in 2017.
We should also be cautious about spurious accusations of anti-Semitism, since they tend to chill reasonable and rational debate about issues of the day. For example, it’s high time for a frank and open discussion about Jewish influence over U.S. foreign affairs, particularly in the Middle East. Questioning the Jewish role in our involvement in Syria, Libya and Iraq, or the influence of AIPAC generally, is reasonable and we should not allow people to shut down those debates by slinging slurs like “anti-Semite”.
Weird how David Safier ommitted any mention of Democrat anti-semitism and focussed only on Republicans.
Democrat NYC City Council Candidate Thomas Lopez-Pierre: Together we can defeat the Jewish landlords that are engaged in ethnic cleansingI dont take one dollar in campaign contributions from these greedy Jewish landlords.
This is a fun game to play.
I could go on and on with other anti-semitic statements from Democrat politicians but you get the point.
Plus you have Democrat congressional leaders like Keith Ellison, Danny Davis, James Clyburn, Baraba Lee, Maxine Waters, Andre Carson, Gregory Meeks, Al Green, and others who looooove to meet, and share a stage with Louis Farrakhan.
Is President Trump responsible for their blatant anti-semitism too?
I’m afraid Mr. Safier pretty much represents the state of American public education today: “America sucks. Trump sucks. Republicans suck. Israel sucks. Take notes, there’ll be a test on this tomorrow.”
@Was a Teacher
Yup. David Safier is a partisan hack. There is no philosophical/political nuance to any article he writes.
Pick any political/educational issue, and before the article is written one knows what David Safier will write.
So predicable. So intellectually lazy.
Populism is broader than the U.S., bigger than Trump. To focus on Trump is to miss the point.
What makes populism, and all its attendant forms of ignorance and scapegoating, possible?
The answer is increasingly available, but some still seem to miss it. Here’s a good summary which appeared recently in Caleb Crain’s New Yorker review of Kuttner’s “Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?”:
“Today, as in the 1930s, strongmen are ascendant worldwide, purging civil servants, subverting the judiciary, and bullying the press. In a sweeping, angry new book, the journalist, editor and Brandeis professor Robert Kuttner champions [Karl] Polanyi [author of the The Great Transformation] as a neglected prophet. Like Polanyi, he believes that free markets can be crueler than citizens will tolerate, inflicting a distress that he thinks is making us newly vulnerable to the fascist solution. In Kuttner’s description, however, today’s political impasse is different from that of the 1930s. IT IS BEING CAUSED not by a stalemate between leftist governments and a reactionary business sector but BY LEFTISTS IN GOVERNMENT WHO HAVE RENEGED ON THEIR PRINCIPALS. Since the demise of the Soviet Union, Kuttner contends, America’s Democrats, Britain’s Labour Party, and many of Europe’s social democrats have consistently tacked rightward, relinquishing concern for ordinary workers and embracing the power of markets; THEY HAVE SIDED WITH CORPORATIONS AND INVESTORS SO MANY TIMES THAT, by now, WORKERS NO LONGER FEEL REPRESENTED BY THEM. When strongmen arrived promising jobs and a shared sense of purpose, working-class voters were ready of the message.”
Similarly, in some of our local public institutions controlled by Democrats we find decision-makers overpaying administrators, developing relationships with the business community by throwing away money on botched technology adoptions and useless consulting contracts, and underpaying most of its labor. TUSD outsources its substitute teacher labor force and staffs classrooms in poor neighborhoods with unqualified non-teachers. When more funds become available it chooses not use them to solve this problem. It sees the best resolution of the desegregation case as getting rid of the Latino plaintiffs who rightly continue to call attention to the inferior education available in schools serving poor neighborhoods. In other words, a clear case of “leftists in government who have reneged on their principles.” It’s not the charters and privates to which underserved constituents flee that are to blame for the district’s enrollment decline. It’s the district’s chronic, decades-long failure to live up to the principles publicly funded school systems should embody and to provide decent quality services to portions of the population that don’t have the social and economic leverage to demand it for themselves.
But you won’t get information about the real causes behind populism internationally, nationally, or locally from our local silver spoon, trust-fund baby liberals who’ve never had a kid in a malfunctioning public school and many of whom have never had to live solely off of what they earn through selling their labor in the marketplace. They try to pitch their non-solutions and their LIBERAL IDEALS to a constituency that is increasingly economically desperate. The constituency recognizes their hypocrisy and the shoddiness of their platform and votes for their opponents.
The competition of capitalism is what has made this country great. To oppose it as democrats do is to destroy it. Their goal is to reduce us to something similar to the UK with rotting teeth.
Who defends competition and makes sure that it can operate properly, and who opposes it and through what means? The actual policy history of the 20th century provides a reality check on popular misconceptions:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul/504710/
Well, you have crazy extremists on the left in the mainstream, so it’s not surprising.
david safier,are you from cincinnati?!(i know,off topic!);your name just sounds so familiar to me,deanna rosen;whhs alumna ,1970;roselawn girl (castleton pl),temple shalom,habonim labor zionist youth(just a smattering of my past)
What kind of drugs is this guy on?
I read the article and the comments, nothing new in any of it. at least research your subject, instead of selecting various anecdotal statements as the basis of an article. Lazy poor writing,. This community demands and deserves better than this garbage Davio