More Jews Blast ADL's Foxman for Limbaugh Anti-Semitism Charge

[Two previous posts here and here]

Two more righty Jewish parties have come to the defense of Rush Limbaugh in response to accusations of anti-Semitism by the ADL’s Abe Foxman.

First and foremost, the Republican Jewish Coalition weighs in. At the RJC blog, Noah Silverman notes that Foxman has turned out to be such a politically correct joke, he’s drawn criticism from other Jewish lefties:

… What’s perplexing is that, though many may not know it, Foxman has been a near-constant target of criticism from those on or around the Jewish hard-left. The “Tikkun Olam” blog ripped him for not joining the attack on Sarah Palin for remarks she made about Israel. He’s been rebuked by the founder of the J Street-linked, pro-Obama Jewish Alliance for Change for challenging the President’s policy of putting “daylight” between America and Israel as a way to win the trust of Arab rulers. He’s even received the ultimate token of low regard from the liberal-left - a critical profile in the New York Times Magazine.

Most of this criticism is so politically correct - and so wrong-headed - that I can’t help feeling the caricature of Foxman as a tool of the liberal establishment is a little unfair. (Morever, some of Mark Steyn’s language defending his friend Rush is obviously over the top.)

Still, Foxman’s conduct here seems outrageous and indefensible on its face.

Next, Sammy at the Yid With Lid blog exposes the ADL as not so much a Jewish organization as a liberal one:

That same Abe Foxman-run ADL never attacked President Obama for appointing Samantha Power to his National Security Team. Power likes to use the anti-Semitic stereotype “Israel Lobby” as a code word for her false impression that Jews control American foreign policy. Nor has Foxman ever complained about the frequent anti-Semitism on the progressive website the Daily Kos. Truth be told, Foxman’s attack on Rush Limbaugh is part of the over-all progressive agenda of Abe’s Anti-Defamation League. To prove the point here is a sample some of the ADL’s position papers supporting the progressive agenda:

Amnesty for illegal immigrants:

• ADL Welcomes Bipartisan Agreement On Immigration Reform
• Senator Kennedy Issues Call For Meaningful Immigration Reform
• L.A. Area Organizations Issue Declaration For Human Rights For Immigrants

Partial Birth Abortion

• ADL Disappointed With Supreme Court Ruling On Partial Birth Abortion Act

Terrorist Fighter Geert Wilders

Use of Holocaust in Health Care Debate. While I agree with the ADL that the use of Holocaust imagery in any political debate is wrong, it’s strange that the ADL bashes it now and was totally silent when the progressives were Calling Bush and Cheney Hitler and/or Nazi’s.

The ADL also trashed the Tea Party Movement. Calling it part of the “New Rage in America”. A quick read of thisWhite Paper show the group has totally abandoned its mission to fight anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, and is using its donated tax-free funds to concentrate on a political agenda, the President’s mission to silence all dissent to his policy.

Tea Parties: At any rally attended by hundreds of thousands of people there are a few wackos. There were some people at the Tea Parties who held signs that were inappropriate and even offensive. These people were few and far between. The overwhelming majority of the people at the rallies were average folks upset at too much government spending and taxation. In the section about Tea Parties, the ADL seeks to minimalize the movement by branding the protesters as people misusing the Holocaust, Nazi imagery or White Supremacists.

Created by Fox News or other conservative outlets? Playing into the “AstroTurf propaganda pushed by the Democrats:

The Tea Party movement is made up of individuals and groups, at the grass-roots level and from established conservative organizations, who plan and attend rallies around the country to express their anger at the government. Some conservative media outlets, such as the FOX News Network, have also played a role in promoting Tea Parties.

The President is a Socialist or even worse. Again the Nazi illusions are wrong. But overall they are refuting the claims with out any facts. The President ran as a socialist in 1996 in Illinois, and his public call for redistributing wealth is a basic tenet of Socialism, he has appointed many self declared Marxists to his administration... what would they call it? When the President abrogated the rights of the primary lenders of Chrysler and GM to give to the Union, the president broke the constitution.

While most people attending Tea Party events claim they harbor no extreme views, many of the ideas they promote fall outside the mainstream, especially the more conspiratorial ones. Angry protesters have frequently made claims ranging from proclaiming Obama’s “socialist” intentions to making explicit Nazi comparisons to suggesting that the President is defying or even subverting the Constitution.

Then they return to the right wing crazy argument. Notice how the describe the “over the top incidents as one lady or one report? That’s because they were few and far between but you wouldn’t know it based on their report.

....During the April 15 protests, signs depicting President Obama as Hitler began to appear as some protesters equated his bailout plan with socialism or Nazism. Some speakers claimed that Obama was intent on taking away civil liberties by destroying the Constitution or the American way of life. According to one report on a rally in Beacon, South Carolina, various speakers talked about “taking back the nation.” A local Republican Party chairwoman at the event described participants as “people standing up for their Constitution…They’re ready to fight for their country. Socialism is being pushed and we don’t want any part of it.” At a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, one womanreportedly even had a sign comparing President Obama to the anti-Christ.

According to the ADL the tea party movement morphed into a conspiracy following, group of crazies.They use the example that a few protesters were “birthers.” They know very well that the “birther” movement is outside the mainstream of the tea party movement and also has been discredited by most conservatives. Maybe they should mention that the POTUS appointed Van Jones, a 9/11 truther. Using the same ADL measuring stick, that would make the entire Obama Administration a bunch of truthers.

At later events, demonization of President Obama became more common and began to morph into more anti-government conspiratorial thinking. On July 4, numerous rallies once more were staged across the country. At one rally in Ventura, California, a common theme again emerged. A man who later posted his video to YouTube said, “We want our America back which is being stolen by Barack Obama.” He later talked about Obama bringing socialism to the country. People also held up signs at the rally asking for Obama’s birth certificate. Obama’s alleged lack of a U.S. birth certificate [See The ‘Birther’ Movement] became another piece of the “proof” that he was a usurper intent on destroying America’s freedom.

Under Abe Foxman, the ADL ignores its noble mission and spends its time and donated funds to support the Progressive Movement in this country. Bashing Rush Limbaugh is just part of that agenda. Perhaps it should spend a little more of its time on its primary mission, stopping REAL anti-Semitism in the world. There are so many of those, but by falsely pinning the label on people who do not deserve it, Abe Foxman and his crew cheapen the effect of the charge when it is made against a real Jew-hater.

The important thing about this is that one reaches the conclusion that the ADL is simply just another left-wing organization that exists to demonize anyone conservative. They’re all about Jews or interests that are liberal.

Just as the NAACP is nothing but an organization that promotes liberalism. Conservatives, even black ones, need not apply. Which is why to this organizations Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, and other black conservatives are demonized as “Uncle Toms.”

And just as NOW is nothing but an organization that promotes liberalism. Conservatives, even female ones, need not apply. Which is why female consersatives Sarah Palin called “not a real woman.”