Rudy Giuliani's anti-Soros tirade exposes three uncomfortable truths

[mucifer]

And so, as we take stock after this latest news, it's time to face three uncomfortable truths. First, despite his claims, Giuliani's comments are unmistakably anti-Semitic. Second, this anti-Semitism is not merely vile but dangerous: The anti-Soros tropes like those evoked by Giuliani may tacitly encourage those prone to violence, resulting in Jewish bodies on the streets. Most disturbingly, we can't write this off as the inebriated ravings of a single man. Everything Giuliani said had been repeated, over and over, by President Donald Trump, by Republican lawmakers and by Fox News hosts.

But the proliferation of anti-Semitic tropes in the GOP is so worrying precisely because it's widespread and systematic. By now, there's enough evidence to say that, in much of today's Republican Party, anti-Semitic tropes are not an irregularity but a feature.

Giuliani's attack runs the anti-Semitic gamut, from medieval accusations of Soros not being truly religious (similar slurs were used during the Spanish Inquisition, which led to the torture and forced conversion of Jews) to claims that Soros controlled a US ambassador and "elected" district attorneys -- which builds on the classic anti-Semitic trope of powerful Jews controlling the government.
Giuliani's baseless accusation -- indeed, the GOP's obsession with Soros -- is the embodiment of modern anti-Semitism, which is, at its root, a conspiracy theory: the belief that Jews are secretly undermining white nations by manipulating ideology, media, money and immigration.

The Nazis used this conspiracy to blame Jews for orchestrating Germany's loss in World War I; today's white terrorists like the Pittsburgh shooter use it to claim Jews are bringing in immigrants to turn America into a white-minority state.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/24/opinions/rudy-giuliani-george-soros-anti-semitism-golinkin/index.html

[Mc Mike]

1. SIMULTANEOUSLY, another Rump flack, Stevie Miller, is accusing Dems of having a deep vein

of antisemitism.

Running a two track doublethink reality, running in polar opposite directions on behalf of the dRumpfenfuhrer, simultaneously.

Odd.

[mucifer]

2. It's not odd to me. It gives excuses to some small groups of Jews who are repubs

[Mc Mike]

3. Those same small groups have to ignore the hordes of blatant anti-semitic nazis who are on

shitler's team too, openly.

[pwb]

4. Did you say something Rudolf?

We are not listening, you are Americas Traitor.

[barbtries]

5. he's an antisemitic drunk.

wasted during the interview. whew

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/a-conversation-with-rudy-giuliani-over-bloody-marys.html


i still say Marie Yovanovitch should sue him for slander. he's trying to ruin her but in the final analysis i think he's ruining himself.

[abqtommy]

6. It occurs to me that anyone who buys in to anti-semitism will also buy in to all the other "anti"

positions like anti-immigrant/anti-(insert identifier of any ethnic/gender/age group here). These are people who are part of societies problems, not part of the solution. Education, shaming and ridicule
all have a part to play in eliminating this problem. Start small, make a personal decision to avoid
buying in to this harmful trend. Be an example, embrace yourself and the diversity that surrounds us.
To paraphrase a line from the movie The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming: Hate takes
too much work. Love is easier and better for everybody. It's true.

[DBoon]

7. "Antisemitism is the Socialism of fools."

A common saying of German social democrats

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antisemitism

[Stuart G]

8. Read the entire article. Rudy reflects Trump and others in the Republican Party

And this will get around to all Jewish people in the U.S.A. That you can count on. Some Jewish people who voted Republican in the past, will never, repeat, never vote that way again. (for any reason)....

Be sure to read the 2nd paragraph in the Original Post..

[keithbvadu2]

9. "not being truly religious" - any mention of Trump, Rudy?

"not being truly religious" - any mention of Trump, Rudy?

[UTUSN]

10. NIXON was anti-Semitic willing to use KISSINGER as an evil tool.

Just saw The Trials of Henry Kissinger, so despite that Jared is a Jew, GHOULiani's anti-Semitism can not only co-exist, but also be a reflection in SHITLER's "brain." As for his beloved mentor, Roy COHN, here's this:


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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/24/roy-cohn-trump-cousin-228167

I’m Roy Cohn’s Cousin. He Would Have Detested Trump’s Russia Fawning.
As dangerous as Cohn was to American institutions, he never wavered in defending the U.S. against the ‘evil empire.’

My cousin Roy Marcus Cohn—counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy, consigliere to Mafia bosses, mentor to Donald Trump—had almost no principles. He smeared Jews even though he was Jewish. He tarred Democrats even though he was a Democrat. He persecuted gay people even though he was gay. ....

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