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Retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson published an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post recently that accused President Obama of using "anti-Semitic themes" to defend the Iran nuclear deal.
Carson, who often uses inflammatory rhetoric, called it a "flawed deal" and described Obama as the "Divider in Chief." He took particular issue with a speech Obama gave earlier this month in which he said GOP members in Congress had a "common cause" with hardliners in Iran who opposed the deal.
From the Thursday op-ed:
In a speech at American University defending the deal Obama stooped to new lows far beneath the dignity of the office of the presidency, savaging deal opponents as warmongers and saying that those hardliners chanting Death to America in Iran were making common cause with the Republican caucus.
Shockingly, his diatribe also was replete with coded innuendos employing standard anti-Semitic themes involving implied disloyalty and nefarious influences related to money and power. One can only imagine the sting of his words on members of his own Democratic party, especially those Jewish Members of Congress who have publicly stated their opposition to this deal based on its merits or lack thereof.
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madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)that Jews don't need him to tell them what anti-semitism looks and sounds like.
He is proof that academic intellect and insanity are not mutually exclusive.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)The mass media feeding them all oxygen like the publicity-hungry leashed vipers that they are is the only reason they get away with their insane blabberings being given a molecule of credibility.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,992 posts)It's disgusting.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Rather, they claim that referring to AIPAC as "lobbyists" and acknowledging that AIPAC is spending $40 million to lobby against the deal is somehow anti-Semitic.
Truly insane crap.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)are indeed shameless when it comes to those talking points.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)They can't defend the apartheid state for all of it's human rights abuses, meddling in US politics or pushing for war so they attack the messanger and message when it is critical of those things.
Frankly their actions are like those of the boy who cried wolf, where anybody that is critical of Israel is labeled an anti-Semite, and as a result the very accusation loses meaning with overuse.
On edit: They are furmly against a peace deal, but have no alternative. Their answer is that they want a better deal, but the problem is that one doesn't exist unless their idea of a better deal is a military strike.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)It is just the leaders of Jewish organizations who don't support it. So most Jewish Americans are anti-semitic according to Ben Carson.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-the-iran-deal-american-jewish-leaders-dont-speak-for-all-jews/2015/08/14/988e577e-41d5-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)Anti-Semitic themes are being used, but the president is not the one using them, and falsely claiming so, just gives those using the anti-Semitic themes cover. Once again, we have someone is not Jewish trying to dictate what is and isn't anti-Semitic, something quite common to both sides.