The freaks at Mondoweiss go after Noah Pollak
I try not to link to Mondoweiss. Frankly, I think they're scummy kapo Jews and I don't want to send them the traffic. But they've personally attacked my friend Noah Pollak, the Executive Director of the Emergency Committee for Israel, and frankly, enough is enough.What bothers Mondoweiss is two tweets that Noah wrote on Thursday night when the Vittorio Arrigoni story broke. I have reproduced them below.
That's mild compared to some of the stuff I have posted on this blog about Arrigoni. Mondo refers to what Noah has written as 'disgusting venom.' Well, no it's not.To anyone who is concerned about the future of Israel and the Jewish people, the ISM is an organization that is a Westernized Hamas or Hezbullah. They are no better. They may even be worse.
Arrigoni himself was a virulent anti-Semite. Why should any of us weep at his death? Especially when his death happened at the hands of the 'Palestinians' themselves proving that he - and by extension the ISM - were and are nothing but useful idiots.
Now, I'm getting slammed in the comments (and for the most part I have let them through) for calling Arrigoni a useful idiot. Many of those comments are coming from Italians from Arrigoni's hometown (I discovered on Saturday night that one of the commenters is actually a city councilor in his hometown), who are discovering that it's okay to call Jews 'Christ killers' again (I deleted that comment, but yes, I got one like that). But for those of you who are not totally blind, please look at the definition of 'useful idiot' and if you think I'm wrong, tell me why.
In political jargon, the term useful idiot was used to describe Soviet sympathizers in Western countries. The implication is that though the person in question naïvely thinks themselves an ally of the Soviets or other ideologies, they are actually held in contempt by them, and were being cynically used. The term is now used more broadly to describe someone who is perceived to be manipulated by a political movement, terrorist group, hostile government, or business, whether or not the group is Communist in nature.Anyone think that Arrigoni doesn't fit the definition of a useful idiot? For that matter, does anyone think that Mondoweiss doesn't fit the definition of a useful idiot?
Noah Pollak's head is screwed on as well as anyone I know. He got it right. Mondoweiss - as usual - got it wrong.
Labels: Emergency Committee for Israel, Noah Pollak, useful idiots, Vittorio Arrigoni
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:35 AM
4 Comments:
So, if any of the Mondoweiss crowd gets injured by the Pals. they seek to defend and promote, we don't have to be sorry either, right?
Carl - don't delete comments like it. Leave it up so people can see who they really are.
They're not friends of the Jews or the lovers of peace.
Like I've observed, the last respectable form of popular bigotry is anti-Semitism.
Much of the pro-Palestinian activism has nothing to do with the Palestinians and every thing to do with the Jews. The Holocaust changed nothing.
The Jewish people's brief victimhood expired and now nearly every one feels free to go after them again. Two things don't help: Jewish anti-Semites who hate the idea of Jewish sovereignty and weak-kneed Israeli leaders afraid of being the "bad" Jew in the eyes of the nations.
What must be understood is the current global anti-Semitism is not the Jews' fault, stupid. No set of conceivable Israeli policies will vanquish it in the future.
I agree with NormanF - leave those comments up.
I also agree with you that the term "useful idiot" is entirely appropriate.
Let the kapos and the anti-Semites stew, now that they see where all their blind hatred is getting them. They're not mad at you or Noah Pollak, they're mad at reality.
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