Right Wing Call Kerry And Obama Anti-Semites Over Israeli ‘Apartheid’ Comment

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Right Wing Call Kerry And Obama Anti-Semites Over Israeli ‘Apartheid’ Comment (http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/04/29/3432129/right-wing-kerry-obama-anti-semites/) By Ben Armbruster (http://thinkprogress.org/person/ben/)http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/themes/tp4/images/bird_blue_16.png (https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=benjaminja) April 29, 2014 at 2:30 pm Updated: April 29, 2014 at 2:48 pm

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/netanyahu-kerry--638x425.jpg Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, reaches out to shake hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. March 2014.
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Conservatives are calling Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama “anti-Semitic” after Kerry reportedly warned that Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state” absent a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While Kerry’s remarks echoed what several senior Israeli officials have said (http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/04/28/3431375/kerry-israel-apartheid/), he walked the comments back (http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/04/225326.htm) in a statement on Monday. Still, many on the right, like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/ted-cruz-john-kerry-should-resign-over-israel-apartheid-comment-20140428), say that Kerry should now resign. But others are taking the matter a few steps further, claiming that the incident indicates that both Kerry, and Obama, are anti-Semites — a tactic that has at times been (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/01/13/1440211/haass-abrams-hagel/) employed (http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/01/chuck-hagel-anti-semite/) by some (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/01/15/1448161/bret-stephens-powell-anti-semitic/) on the right against those they disagree with on Middle East policy.
Here are a few examples:

Fox News host Katie Pavlich: “Obama won’t fire John Kerry for two reasons. 1. doesn’t need the donors 2. because he’s anti-Semitic (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/28/host-of-foxs-outnumbered-obama-is-anti-semitic/199062).” (when asked to clarify whom she was calling anti-Semitic, Pavlich said “Obama.”)

Right-Wing Radio Host Mark Levin: “Did you know that John Kerry is an anti-Semite (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/04/28/mark_levin_john_kerry_is_an_anti-semite.html)? … Now he’s giving aid and comfort to the terrorists in the Middle East. Let there be no mistake about it. Now he’s giving aid and comfort to the Jew-haters in the Israel-haters in the Middle East .” (Levin’s remarks were promoted by Fox Nation (https://twitter.com/foxnation/status/461143171960176641).)

Jerusalem Post Columnist Caroline Glick: “John Kerry’s recent use of the term ‘Apartheid’ in reference to Israel’s future was an anti-Semitic act (http://carolineglick.com/john-kerrys-jewish-best-friends/).” (Glick is also an Adjunct Fellow (http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/about-us/fellows/) at Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy.)
Experts, analysts and indeed, Kerry and Obama themselves, have debated (http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/04/28/3431375/kerry-israel-apartheid/) whether using the term “apartheid” to describe Israel — either now (as in the West Bank) or in the future — is useful in the debate on Israel and Palestine.
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg said in a column on Tuesday (http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-29/is-israel-an-apartheid-state) that while he refrains from using the term “apartheid” in the Israel debate, he has employed it in the past as a warning about Israel’s future and about the state of affairs in the occupied West Bank. For that reason, he says, he disagrees with Kerry’s critics. “I believe,” he adds, “that Kerry is a pro-Israel secretary of state who worries about the Jewish state’s future.”
So do Israel’s leaders, who have repeatedly praised (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/07/30/610531/peres-barak-obama-israel/) the Obama administration for its commitment to Israel’s security and have praised (http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/03/04/netanyahu_praises_kerrys_peace_efforts) Kerry (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140204/peres-praises-kerry-after-attacks-israeli-hawks) for his recent efforts to forge peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.
“At this point,” says Noam Sheizaf (http://972mag.com/kerry-apologies-for-speculating-that-theoretically-in-the-distant-future-israel-could-do-something-bad/90227/) of the Israeli news website +972 Magazine, “the mainstream debate over Israel/Palestine in the U.S. is so crazy and absurd — so disconnected from the facts on the ground [in Israel and the West Bank].”
Indeed, as Washington Post White House correspondent Scott Wilson said (https://twitter.com/PostScottWilson/status/461154082992828416) on Twitter on Tuesday, “The Kerry-apartheid issue underscores what anyone who has worked in Israel knows: You can say things there you can’t say here,” later adding (https://twitter.com/PostScottWilson/status/461154556798201856) that “[t]he conversation within Israel [is] so much more raucous” about the future of Israel as a Jewish state than the debate inside the U.S. is.

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Kerry reportedly warned that Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state”

Reinforced megalithic construction.

http://electronicintifada.net/sites/electronicintifada.net/files/artman2/1/kidswall5_001.gif

Wonder if they will suspend Obama and Kerry from ever working in politics again, like that NBA owner?

[Ponce]

Once again people, and animals, a Zionist is not a Semite ......... only the Jews of the Bible and another seven races of people from the Middle East are Semites which also includes 30% of ALL Arabs...........so, next time you are called a anti-Semite asked them "What is a Semite".... that's what I do and they don't know the answer.

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[mick silver]

we need to seen both to Israel

[jimswift]

Zionist is not a Semite

Descendant's of Abraham, right?

[Ponce]

No jim, descendent from the Kazar from central asia who lost their country and move to northern Russia and Poland and became the Zionist political power in 1897 and at the end decided to take over Palestine........there is a lot more do a search.

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[jimswift]

Sorry, should have framed my comment better...real Jews are the descendents...actual Semites

Not the white, eastern European & Russian religion converts.

[Ponce]

Jim? in this case a Semite is someone from that general region.....is like saying "He's a North American" many races of people in the US that has nothing to do with religion.....the Zionist are trying to make the rest of the world believe that they are also Semite Jews by using the word "Semite" as a flag.

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Anyone who comes out and says, "The concept of a Zionist Jewish state is going to bring on trouble," is immediately attacked. The orders are, "Get him out of Government," just the way Mr. Nixon tried to get some people out of Government. Some of these people are protected because

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they happen to be doing a good job.

What Mr. Truman did was not project his people, but smear them. In his own book he declared that his advisers in the State Department were anti-Semitic and he couldn't trust them.

On the other hand, he got his advice from people like Eddie Jacobson, who was his haberdasher partner; Rabbi Steven Wise; Robert Nathan; and other people who were all Zionists; crypto-Zionists very often [Clark Clifford, Political Affairs officer in the White House staff must be included. A New York lawyer and politician, he was in close contact with the Zionists and represented their views to the President. See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, (hereafter cited F.R.U.S.) Vol. V, pp. 973-976. For Clifford's view, p. 755. Recognizing that the State Department was skeptical of the "peaceful" outcome of establishing an exclusivist Zionist state on Arab territory, the Zionists and the Jewish Agency (later the Government of Israel) established outlets for propaganda and pressure on the U.S. public. The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was placed in Washington to influence Congress, public officials and the press. It was well funded and published in the Near East Report and was recognized as "the Israeli Lobby." A psuedo--"American Christian Committee for Palestine" was funded by the Israeli Government and U.S. Zionists. It published a news sheet, organized tours to Israel and worked especially on clergy and churches. For the press, the Jewish Telegraph Agency pretended to be a U.S. installation. The Fulbright investigation of 1962 exposed the latter two--the American,Christian Committee and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Israeli Government organizations. As a result of the exposure the American Christian Committee lost all its utility and disbanded. The press card of Milton Friedman of the JTA to the Department of State was cancelled. These many Israeli Government propaganda organizations did all they could to discredit those men in the State Department, whom they identified as "pro-Arab." For further details: Alan R. Taylor Prelude to Israel (Philosophical Library, 1959), especially the Chapter VIII, "The Zionist Search for American Support," pp. 77-113.] They kept whispering in

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his ear, "Don’t trust the State Department." The result was he did not trust the State Department, the people who knew what was going on.


https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/wright.htm

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Here you go Jim, from their own words:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews