Posted by
Moshe Phillips on Monday, January 25, 2010 4:48:59 PM
An important Press Release from Americans For A Safe Israel
January 25, 2010
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation
League, has denounced Rush Limbaugh as an anti-Semite. Americans For a Safe
Israel/AFSI believes, along with Norman Podhoretz, whose statement appears
below, that Foxman owes Limbaugh an apology for such an outrageous statement.
On the Rush Limbaugh website (www.rushlimbaugh.com) you can find Rush’s entire
Memo to Foxman. An excerpt from it reads: “And Mr. Foxman, if you really want
to go after anti-Semitism you should first start looking at it on the left and
within the Obama administration and within his circle of friends, because
that's why you're going to find it. You're not going to find anti-Semitism on
this radio show. You're going to find nothing but love and respect and
admiration for the Jewish people and an unwavering support for Israel that has
not ever shaken.”
Please read the piece below, and if you agree with us
and Norman Podhoretz, write to Rush at: ElRushbo@eibnet.com or fax him at
212-445-3963.
A Statement from From Norman Podhoretz, author of
"Why Are Jews Liberals?"
January 21, 2010
In my new book, "Why Are Jews Liberals?", I
argue that it no longer makes any sense for so many of my fellow Jews to go on
aligning themselves with the forces of the Left. I also try to show that our
interests and our ideals, both as Americans and as Jews, have come in recent
decades to be better served by the forces of the Right.
In the course of describing and agreeing with the book
the other day, Rush Limbaugh cited a few of the numerous reasons for the
widespread puzzlement over the persistence of liberalism within the American
Jewish community. And while discussing those reasons, he pointed to the
undeniable fact that for “a lot of people”--prejudiced people, as he called
them twice--the words “banker” and “Wall Street” are code words for
"Jewish." Was it possible, he wondered, that Obama’s attacks on
bankers and Wall Street were triggering a certain amount of buyer’s remorse
within the American Jewish community, which gave him 78% of its vote? Finally,
taking off from my observation that many Jewish liberals like to call
themselves independents, he wondered whether a fair number of the
self-described independents who deserted Obama and voted for Scott Brown might
actually have been Jewish liberals. If so, he concluded, Brown’s “victory could
be even more indicative of an even bigger change in the political temper of the
country than has so far been recognized.”
For this, Rush Limbaugh has been subjected to a vile
attack by Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
Of course, Mr. Foxman has a long history of seeing an anti-Semite under every
conservative bed while blinding himself to the blatant fact that anti-Semitism
has largely been banished from the Right in the past forty years, and that it
has found a hospitable new home on the Left, especially where Israel is
concerned. This makes Foxman a perfect embodiment of the phenomenon I analyze
in "Why Are Jews Liberals?" Now Foxman has the chutzpah to denounce
Rush Limbaugh as an anti-Semite and to demand an apology from him to boot.
Well, if an apology is owed here, it is the national director of the
Anti-Defamation League who should apologize for the defamatory accusation of
anti-Semitism that he himself has hurled against so loyal a friend of Israel as Rush
Limbaugh.