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pimf
10-02-2008, 05:42 PM
Abe Foxman is like the Al Gore of false boogiemen threats. Whenever there is some new environmental or health problem, Al Gore is there to grandstand and blame it on global warming.

Just like Gore, Foxman blames anything everything for ever-rising cases of antisemitism.

And what is Foxman doing hanging out on white supremacist forums anyways? Doesn't he have anything better to do?


Jews and money are always just beneath the surface. As we witnessed after 9/11, whenever there is trouble or uncertainty in the economy or world events, Jews become the scapegoats, and ugly anti-Semitic canards are given new life."

In hundreds of messages echoing rhetoric found on neo-Nazi and white supremacist websites, posters to mainstream forums promote centuries-old stereotypes and conspiracy theories alleging Jewish control of the economy, banking and the government.

The ADL notes that several posts "have gone so far as to resurrect Nazi-era propaganda with threads such as 'The Jewish Problem' or comments such as, 'The Final Solution 2?."

Other examples: 'Jews have infiltrated Wall Street and Government and have ruined our country.'

'What is a GS Jew? Goldman Sachs?' :lol:

'Jews are greedy, rotten slime balls. They (Jews) love money nothing else, no faith or religion can be so heartless to their victims.'

"The good news is that providers of Internet services and moderators of message boards and even individual users are quick to react whenever anti-Semitism enters the discussion," said Foxman. "The

service providers are responsive, and in most cases the offensive messages are quickly removed. But in many cases - especially with online discussions that occur in real time and are closely followed by large groups of users - the damage is already done."

The report says that in addition to the text posts, some are also posting videos to sites like YouTube, claiming that the Jews "are exploiting the current economic crisis as part of greater conspiracy to control the country and to harm non-Jews."

chalupa
10-02-2008, 05:47 PM
Oy vey!

10yiddishes

jn_powell
10-02-2008, 05:58 PM
Anybody wanna go fly a kite with me tonight? I hear it's great weather for flying KITES! I wonder if there's any KITES around here we can fly!

Zantutsuken
10-02-2008, 09:01 PM
Anybody wanna go fly a kite with me tonight? I hear it's great weather for flying KITES! I wonder if there's any KITES around here we can fly!

Classic. Porky's was such an amusing movie, that scene was hilarious.

shade
10-02-2008, 09:16 PM
Hmmm... kinda lame that ISPs are moderating message boards. Unless the discussion about planning out firebombing a synagogue or something... ISPs should stay out of it. And if such plans were going on, they should go to the police/fbi.