Rice names anti-Semitism adviser

[Inqvisitor]

Rice names anti-Semitism adviser

Condoleezza Rice named a senior adviser on anti-Semitism.

The U.S. secretary of state announced the appointment on Wednesday of Gregg Rickman as her senior adviser on anti-Semitism.

The position stems from 2004 legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) that expanded State Department monitoring of anti-Semitism.

Rickman, for years a top Republican congressional aide, wrote a book about his years in the 1990s directing the Senate Banking Committee’s investigation of the role the Swiss Banks played in the Holocaust.

His job will be to make sure bilateral relations with other nations and international organizations address any concerns about anti-Semitism.

Oy, I wonder who has been paying the bills for the federal government's "investigations" into "anti-Semitism" all these years...What happened to separation of synagogue and state?

Does Dr. Rice have a "senior adviser on "anti-Gentilism?" How about "Christophobia?" Or..."Islamophobia?"

'The first law passed after the Communists seized power in Russia made anti-semitism a crime punishable by death.'
(Izvestia, July 27, 1918)

 

[skadistic]

I hope your ignorance and unabashed hate turn into an ulcer and eat you alive from the inside out.

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[Inqvisitor]

I hope your ignorance and unabashed hate turn into an ulcer and eat you alive from the inside out.

In other words, you have no other defence for this obvious abuse of powers other than immature trollish insults...

 

[Lord_Iggy]

What point are you trying to make here? I think I see something, but it's clouded out by random arguments.

 

[Inqvisitor]

What point are you trying to make here? I think I see something, but it's clouded out by random arguments.

I believe the hypocrisy is pretty obvious here with the U.S. federal government granting special favour to a particular religious group...and letting Gentile American taxpayers pick up the bill...

 

[silver 2039]

Why specifcally anti-Semtisim? Why not an advisor to help deal with all forms of rascisim, discrimination and prejudice? Surely that would be far more useful and fair.

 

[De Lorimier]

I hope more info comes out on this that would explain the move by Rice.

Because having to agree with Inqvisitor on any given subject makes me sick to my stomach.

 

[zulu9812]

Is there really a need for an anti-semitism advisor in the States? Is anti-semitism a big problem there? Or is this just another excuse to increase Zionist influence on the US government?

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

Is there really a need for an anti-semitism advisor in the States?

If this thread is anything to go by....

 

[bhsup]

While it was never anywhere near as bad as other places around the world, the US has always had an undercurrent of anti-Semitism, though I had hoped it had mostly died out by now. There were variations on the phrase "Jewed me out of <insert monetary amount here>" that weren't all that uncommon (at least according to my grandparents), but I can't think of a time that I've actually heard it live.

Just for the record, though, as long as there are people out there terrified of the mythical "Zionist influence", I'd say there is a need for something to counter anti-Semitism.

 

[Inqvisitor]

Just for the record, though, as long as there are people out there terrified of the mythical "Zionist influence", I'd say there is a need for something to counter anti-Semitism.

How about re-education camps...?

I think we have one operating in Cuba right now, but who's saying we can't open more for the masses of "anti-semites...?"

 

[Princeps]

Ah, yes the Jews... always the scapegoats.

 

[Inqvisitor]

Ah, yes the Jews... always the scapegoats.

Oh, I see your point. The Jews are really being scapegoated here by being the only group to have its own special representative in the U.S. State Department...

 

[IglooDame]

While it was never anywhere near as bad as other places around the world, the US has always had an undercurrent of anti-Semitism, though I had hoped it had mostly died out by now. There were variations on the phrase "Jewed me out of <insert monetary amount here>" that weren't all that uncommon (at least according to my grandparents), but I can't think of a time that I've actually heard it live.

Just for the record, though, as long as there are people out there terrified of the mythical "Zionist influence", I'd say there is a need for something to counter anti-Semitism.

Seconded, although I think the people that are "anti-Zionist" are pretty much anti-anything-other-than-WASP. In my personal Ivory Tower view, Jewish folks are no worse off and in many cases much better off as a group than blacks, hispanics, arabs, muslims, or hindus.

 

[Princeps]

Oh, I see your point. The Jews are really being scapegoated here by being the only group to have its own special representative in the U.S. State Department...

No I was refering to your quote. Also, are there ways for you to discuss without coming out as so insolent?

 

[bathsheba666]

Just for the record, though, as long as there are people out there terrified of the mythical "Zionist influence", I'd say there is a need for something to counter anti-Semitism.

OK.
Does that also mean that as long as there are people out there terrified of the mythical "Communist influence", there is a need for something to counter anti-Communism?

 

[bhsup]

...being the only group to have its own special representative in the U.S. State Department...

*cough * cough *

EDIT:

OK.
Does that also mean that as long as there are people out there terrified of the mythical "Communist influence", there is a need for something to counter anti-Communism?

Good reference, given my rabid anti-communist stance. However, communism is an idea, not a race or religion. Nothing wrong with lambasting an idea if you disagree with it. There is everything wrong with lambasting racism and religious intolerance.

 

[Perfection]

Oy, I wonder who has been paying the bills for the federal government's "investigations" into "anti-Semitism" all these years...What happened to separation of synagogue and state?

I fail to see how the seperation of church and state applies to dealing with international threats against those who practice a particular religion.

Does Dr. Rice have a "senior adviser on "anti-Gentilism?" How about "Christophobia?" Or..."Islamophobia?"

Perhaps she doesn't need one as much.

Isreal-middle east relations are realy strained right now, this might result in a whole mess of problems. I don't think it's a bad thing to get more people working on finding solutions.

 

[sysyphus]

I wonder if Inqvisitor would have started this thread had Rice hired an advisor for Catholocism.

 

[De Lorimier]

I wonder if Inqvisitor would have started this thread had Rice hired an advisor for Catholocism.

Of course he would have! To complain about the lack of religious fanaticism of the appointee.