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AMERICAblog: Guardian: "Candidates like Palin are the Jews' worst nightmare"

  • Joneses · 1 year ago
    WAKE UP AMERICA!
  • BarbaraGordon · 1 year ago
    I can't believe that Palin's associations with anti-semitics haven't been more forcefully publicized in the mainstream media, especially here in FL.
  • blackwolf · 1 year ago
    Get the word out Barbara. Email your democrat representitives this information, and let them know it needs looking into.
  • artisticfreedom · 1 year ago
    She'd be like a notorious German chicken farmer, if she only had the little round specs!
  • ThingsComeUndone · 1 year ago
    Is Obama going to use this or is he going to sit on this information?
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Allow me to expand the thought: "In the evangelical world that Palin embraces there is little kindness for Jews, Gays, Blacks and many others."
  • JustAnOldLady · 1 year ago
    Hopefully this will get coverage in Florida.........
  • smallhandff · 1 year ago
    Silverstein should instead be directing his fears to the Likudniks, neo-cons & AIPAC who enable, oversee these "worst nightmare" groups.
  • EsmeK · 1 year ago
    It's not just Jews who need to worry. We all do.

    Former NYT war correspondent Chris Hedges wrote a book about the rise of the "Christian" Right in this country and their similarity to the Nazis.

    Here is what he has to say about them:

    Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told us that when we were his age, he was then close to 80, we would all be fighting the "Christian fascists."

    The warning, given to me 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global, Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of those who expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible.

    source: http://www.theocracywatch.org/chris_hedges_nov2...
  • msieger · 1 year ago
    I am a Jewish believer in Jesus. Most blogs and news services have quoted the same one paragraph of the six-page transcript of the message that David Brickner of Jews for Jesus delivered at Sarah Palin’s church, giving the false impression that he is saying that a bulldozer attack by a deranged Palestinian is God’s judgment on the Jewish people. Please read or listen to the entire message for yourself at www.jewsforjesus.org/blog/20080817 so that you can hear Brickner’s remarks in context. Please also take a look at Brickner’s comments concerning his message at Wasilla Bible Church, as well as interviews by Christianity Today and MSNBC with Brickner about this issue, at www.jewsforjesus.org. Among other things, Brickner says, "The comments attributed to me were taken out of context. The notion that the terrorist, bulldozer attack in Jerusalem this summer was God’s judgment on Israel for not believing in Jesus, is absolutely not what I believe. In retrospect, I can see how my rhetoric might be misunderstood and I truly regret that . . . . Let me be clear. I don’t believe that any one event whether a terrorist attack or a natural disaster is a specific fulfillment of or manifestation of a Biblical prediction of judgment. I don’t believe that the newspaper should be used to interpret the Bible. The Bible interprets the Bible. I love my Jewish people and the land of Israel. I stand with and support her against all efforts to harm her or her people in any way."