Comments on: WATCH: Campaign video incites against Arab Americans

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:04:49 +0000

and I wrote “when.” Obviously the subtlety of tenses eludes you. “Pedaling” anti-Semitism. Now that’s what I call some serious German engineering.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:04:53 +0000

*write

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:03:51 +0000

She did wrote “before Hitler started pedaling it”, troll.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:04:49 +0000

“Today, there’s more Islamophobia in the US than there was antisemitism in Germany before Hitler started pedaling it.
Shocking but not surprising.”

Delia– This is a seriously fucked up comment…but not surprising coming from someone who considers herself a Mondoweiss diva. When US Muslims are being sent to concentration camp to be exterminated, let me know and I’ll send you $10.00, an apology, and free spelling lessons.

By: delia ruhe

delia ruhe — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:31:05 +0000

O, Adam, you’re breaking my heart. I thought I was the Mondoweiss diva. Don’t listen to him, Annie, he’s nothing but a cad.

On the topic of the ad targeting Americans in Israel: Shocking, perhaps, to those too young to know the history of American hatred of Middle Eastern indigens.

This ad is very much in the anti-Arab tradition of Israel-US relations. Long, long before 9/11, the cultivation of anti-Muslim, anti-Arab sentiment among Americans was a major project of pro-Israel groups in the US. It was the most effective way of getting Americans to support the “special relationship” involving lots of taxpayer money and military support.

Americans are easily spooked, as everyone who lived through the Soviet era knows. It didn’t take much to shift some of that fear and anxiety to another target. Today, there’s more Islamophobia in the US than there was antisemitism in Germany before Hitler started pedaling it.

Shocking but not surprising.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:12:13 +0000

Annie, the Mondoweiss diva, has demolished her world view by arguing so persuasively that the American electorate is more powerful than AIPAC.

By: caden

caden — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:21:58 +0000

Holy fucking shit batman, Annie is basically right on this. I believe I just saw a pig fly by my window

By: caden

caden — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:19:59 +0000

By: annie

annie — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:08:55 +0000

i live on the other coast but my 2 cents is that rothman, when “redistricting commission redrew four North Jersey districts into three.”, instead of staying put and running against the dem challenger..pulled up roots where he had been elected and served for years, moved back to the town in which he was raised..and challenged a popular long term serving democrat.
from Mairav’s supporting link: “On paper, Pascrell was outnumbered. But he was able to peel away voters who had supported Rothman for years partly by questioning Rothman’s decision to move so he could stay in the district and challenge a fellow Democrat.”
not smart. my hunch is that the decision to move and take on pascrell was not a decision made all alone. had rothman stayed put, and challenged a popular gop candidate in the run off, he may have lost anyway. but he, and the lobby, under estimated the popularity of the long term popular pascrell. the lobby. blatantly, made this all about israel. they are too in your face where as the arab american community is here, has always been here, no less in demographics than the american jewish community, but generally unrepresented. it was the lobby who thrust this competing narrative to the limelight and completely underestimated the degree pascells constituents would rally for him. they lost, as they should have and it cost them rothman who lacked the cajones to stay put and challenge the gop.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:35:13 +0000

Rafael,
Exactly, and what this shows that racism seems to be ok when its directed toward certain groups of people.