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'Jews monopolize American policy'
Yaakov Lappin
Published: 08.10.07, 18:38
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1. good to see good old-fashioned Jew hating
Micha   (10.08.07)
alive and well. How sweet. really is a disgusting sight to see. pathetic in fact.
2. UK Scientist
Marilyn ,   USA   (10.08.07)
If he is British why is he getting trying to dictate American policies?
3. A foreign agitator on US soil
D ,   Boston, MA, USA   (10.08.07)
"Dawkins is currently touring the US to promote an atheist organization he helped set up. His visit is aimed at curbing the influence of religion in America. " Stick to promoting your G-dless self-worship in your own country, Mr. Dawkins. We do not look favorably on foreign agitation in our own internal debates.
4. Another JEALOUS WACADEMIC
Malcolm   (10.08.07)
Jews float effortlessly to the top of scientific fields. What other reason but jealousy could stimulate such hatred. Well, of course it could be the same kind as Jimmy Carter's Jew hate , which he learned on mamas knee.
5. MAN COMES FROM MONKEYS
DAVID ,   NEW HAVEN   (10.08.07)
WELL, AT LEAST DAWKINS DOES
6. Richards Dawkins
Brod ,   USA   (10.08.07)
Richards Dawkins, an athiest, should be kicked out of America instead of allowing him to contaminate Judeo-Christian America with his crap.
7. In a sense, he probably blames us for religion.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (10.08.07)
As a militant atheist, he must blame us for being the first monotheists, thus, inventing G-d & religion in the modern sense of the word. But the article makes a more important point ... Anti-Semitism even when disguised as criticism of Israeli policy, is becoming more mainstream. This was much the state of affairs before WWII - Perhaps we were living in an illusion because after the war, anti-Semitism was not very acceptable. Now things are getting back to normal. The strangest part of this phenomenon is that those who are the most liberal in Western societies, those who condemn racism, who believe in rights for everyone, in multi-culturalism, & in universal values of freedom, equality, & women's rights, etc. find no problem in accepting anti-Semitic ideas & ally themselves with the serial human rights abusers of the Muslim world. Strange, to say the least.
8. #1: Even more delicious - genuine JEALOUSY!!
I'm luvin' it ,   Israel   (10.08.07)
9. He is Right
Sid   (10.08.07)
Its obvious jews dominate US policy. Last month when Israel attacked Syria which is an act of war and Bush wont even comment on it and refuses to answer any questions on it what does that tell you?
10. Sid #9
JB ,   Canada   (10.08.07)
11. dawkins comments
dominick ,   paterson usa   (10.08.07)
as they say, the truth hurts. jews make up less than 2% of the us population, yet own almost all the media and entertainment companies, hold most senior government positions and judgeships, etc. our president is surrounded by advisors who hold dual citizenship. is it anti-semitism to state the facts?
12. To 9
Shai ,   Israel   (10.08.07)
Well, one possibility is that the US participated in it or even provided Israel with the intelligence data to pull it off, because he didn't want American troops to be in harms way. Think of that?
13. Well, if you gentiles...
Shai ,   IL   (10.08.07)
...think you can do a better job ruling the world, just go ahead and try! :-)
14. #6 Brod - Dawkins is a serious scientist.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (10.08.07)
I've read his books on evolution & he is a most serious researcher in his field. Being an atheist is his business - he has a right to his opinion. I'm sure he would deny being an anti-Semite - but he is repeating what is becoming a sort of "accepted wisdom" in academia where anti-Semitism is definitely becoming acceptable. What is alarming to me is that a seemingly rational man, a scientist no less, would accept such ideas with no evidence, no proof - something which he would surely not do in his field of study.
15. 'a liberal hero'??
Cameron ,   USA   (10.08.07)
poisonous certitude
16. We do rule the world
Korem ,   New York, USA   (10.08.07)
Jews in power earned it through hard work. If all you can do is sit on your butt and complain, you're just childishly jealous. Jews are not a collective, so listing them in their positions of power doesn't emphasize any point regarding loyalties or foreign policy proposals. Everyone's opinions are different and this holds true for Jews too (what a shock). We're smart. If you don't like it, go get educated, go to law school, and go form a coalition to stop the evil Jewish borg (lol). Many have tried and have failed for the past few millenia. We have accute business sense, apparently people love movies and shows we direct, and we succeed in getting promoted by gentiles in all sorts of governments. So bark all you like, but it was through the american dream, hard work, yadda yadda, that most Jews are in power. I really hope I can dictate foreign policy too one day, but it would take dedication and talent, which I'm very willing to put in & use. Watch out Sid ;)
17. #9, it is "obvious" to anti-semites
Danny   (10.08.07)
The only two countries who condemned Israel's raid on Syria where Northern Korea and Iran, hardly leaders of the free world. I assume you think it is "obvious" that jews dominate the other 191 countries.....
18. It's ironic...
Ben Kogan ,   USA NY   (10.08.07)
...as Dawkins is the gentile Frankenstein creation of atheist Jews and serves them by attacking religion (esp Christianity) to bring about non-Jews' enslavement and destruction, obviously he didn't realize that when he made this comment. It's Jews that have given Dawkins a platform to begin with, now get rid of him.
19. #11, care to back that statement up with facts
Danny   (10.08.07)
How many of Mr Bush's advisors have dual citzenship? Look at the main networks: CNN - owned by Time Warner, CEO is Richard Parsons, not Jewish Fox - owned by News international CEO is murdoch not a jew, NBC - owned by GE, CEO is Jeff Immelt not jewish ABC owned by Walt Disney CEO is Robert Iger, don't know if he is Jewish but lets be kind and assume he is then that makes 20% and for the innumerate - which I assume includes you - 20% isn't "almost all". Here are some newspapers: Washington Post - CEO of owning company is Donald Graham, not Jewish. Also own Newsweek. Time owned by Time warner, CEO not Jewish, New York Times - CEO of owning company Janet Robinson, not Jewish New York Post - Owned by News International, CEO Murdoch not Jewish These are some firms of the top of my head. You care to list some top media firms owned by Jews? Should be easy given we "own almost all" of them....
20.  #16
b. burbank ,   alpharetta, US   (10.09.07)
Now wouldn't it be nice, if you could figure out how to "rule" Israel.....
21. weimar
bri ,   phil usa   (10.09.07)
remember the weimar republic??
22. Arab terrorists control British foreign policy.
(10.09.07)
As an American I prefer being controlled by the Jews.
23. Jews run the world
Leah C. ,   Jerusalem   (10.09.07)
To Danny, #19: Thank you for your list, however I think that Donald Graham,CEO of Washington Post , had a Jewish mother or grandfather (I can't remember exactly). So even if he is not Jewish or does not practice Judaism, he still is part Jewish!!!
24. Dawkins is smarter than his critics so far
Rowan Berkeley ,   London, England   (10.09.07)
You really need to think this through, guys. By tying anti-zionism to secularism, he has undermined the entire neocon fusion of religiosity and great power inperialism. If US Jews sincerely want to defend Judaism, he has left them no alternative but to do so FROM THE LEFT.
25. He needs to be educated on the extent of the Arab lobby
Jake T ,   Alaska   (10.09.07)
in American government, higher education, and many other areas of American life. And in an ironic twist, where Jews have a huge influence is in scientific thought and discoveries, Dawkins' own lifework. Take Jewish contribution out of science and you're left with gaps big enough to make the whole modern scientific establishment crash to the ground.
26. Liberalism is OUT - New-Leftism is IN
Christy ,   Boston, MA   (10.09.07)
Coming from a long line of Liberals {it's required in my state ; ) }, I've noticed that the Liberalism I grew up with, which meant tolerance, is out of fashion. Liberals laugh at the idea that 'Jews Control ALL'. Many Leftists take this idea seriously. Today the Left - New Left - is in. It's very PC to be Left (aka Progressive). The Left - New Left - is a disturbing marriage of Old Left + Islamism + Intolerance. (At least in the US.) Beliefs like Dawkins spouts about the 'Jews Who Control ALL' are commonly believed by the Left, and the beliefs are VERY STRONG in academia. (I've worked in academia.) Hatred of Israel & the US is almost drilled into students' heads. 'The Israel Lobby.' is believed by many almost as an article of faith; facts showing otherwise are not appreciated. It's NOT viewed as prejudiced, among the Left, to believe the US has a 'Controlling Jewish Cabal'. Many young people on the Left who hold this view are surprised to hear that this is a view they share with the Nazis, KKK and kooky far-right groups. I'm not sure when Liberalism was thrown out and this venomous, hateful Left came in. It was a gradual shift. I find this New Left frightening and I hope they don't ever control the US.
27. #11
(10.09.07)
dominic, most of the media and entertainment companies???? name all the jews please. hold most senior government positions???? there is not a single jew, not a single jew who holds senior government positions under the bush administration. if you were better read and more intelligent, you'd have known that president bush is the only president under which no jew serves in the government. hold most senior judgeship positions???? under bush, the only jewish judge is ginsberg. period. all others are gentiles and christians to boot! no jews in top government positions, no jews as advisors to the president. no jews as senior interns in senate and government. except for wolfowitz, ginsberg and who is holding dual citizenship???? americans thaterve in the government or senate or the house are american citizens. it is a must. no one hold duel citizenship. they are all strictly american citizens. name one person holding a duel citizenship?????? you are either a severely unread person, a total idiot or simply completely uninformed. and by the way, yes the truth hurts when your lies and antisemitism is exposed, doesn't it?
28. laughing matter
sellier ,   Lyon, France   (10.09.07)
Yankele is sitting on a bench in the Buttes-Chaumont park, which is in a very jewish area of Paris, and he reads all sorts of extreme-leftt newspapers, which explain that the Jews rule the world, starting with US foreign policy, that Israel has such a powerful army that it is a danger for the peace in the world, yada, yada, yada. And there comes Moyshele, who is appalled by the stuff his friend reads: "But Yankele, how can you read this junk ? You should read the reasonable conservative press, which explains that israel has so many political and social problerms, and its government inept, that there is a moral crisis in the IDF, that G. W. Bush can be stupid just by himself and needs no jews for the job". And Yankele replies "The reasonable conservative press says true and depresses me, but the extreme-left makes me so proud !". By the way: a few years ago, I would tell the joke with the extreme-right instead of the extreme-left and the reasonable progressive press instead of the reasonable conservative press.
29. # 3 - D, Boston, MA
Lior ,   London   (10.09.07)
I couldn't agree with you more that Dawkins has no business touring America and I share your frustrations and sense of outrage. But I am afraid that this is one of the downsides of living in a democracy. I do not like Dawkins any more than you do, but he is the least of my worries. Here in Britain, we are subject to the opinions of many, many vocal and strident liberal left Americans who have arrived, unbidden and unwelcome to our shores to preach their gospels of intolerance and who do so because their views are now so extreme they would not be socially acceptable back home in the USA. British Reform Judaism and Liberal Judaism are simply littered with the self-appointed liberal elite, spouting their hatred of Israel and inflaming public opinion - and contributing to an already rampant anti-Semitism. Perhaps you would like them back... I'll do a deal. We all know Dawkins to be a pin-headed, pseudo-academic of mindless ambition and self-promotion and we have stopped listening to his snide, self-appointed superiority a long time ago. He declared G-d dead. Well, given his arrogance, he must be brain dead because he thinks he's G-d... We'll have him back and shove him in some cupboard in Oxford and you can have all your ranting American activists back, OK? We didn't ask them to come here - like the Islamo-fascists we have to put up with. We're not an extreme people - it's all our bloody foreigners who are causing the problems. Deal?
30. the other
habakook   (10.09.07)
for an atheist to support hamas al quedi and hezbollah is a hippocracy and a telling agenda . secular israel in its origins was one of the most decent humanitarian salvation movements and must have the admiration of all ethical atheists .
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