Nigel Farage: 'Jewish Lobby' Has Outsize Influenced In US Politics
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published OCTOBER 31, 2017 2:56 PM
Former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage opined Monday on the what he said is the disproportionate influence that the Jewish lobby, with its links with the Israeli government, has on American politics.
During his call-in show Tuesday on the British radio station LBC, a listener asked about the difference in attention paid to Russian meddling in the 2016 election in the United States during which Farage campaigned for Donald Trump and AIPAC and the Israeli lobby, and their involvement in American politics and elections.
AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is perhaps the most influential pro-Israel lobbying group in American politics, and presidential candidates and other political figures regularly address its annual convention. Both Trump and Hillary Clinton did in 2016. But, rather than addressing the Israel lobby as such, Farage described it as a Jewish lobby.
Thats a reasonable point, he began in response. Because there are about 6 million Jewish people living in America, so as a percentage, its quite small, but in terms of influence, its quite big.
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irisblue
(33,023 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)irisblue
(33,023 posts)I felt the need to say it today.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)he is a piece of shit
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)of being more "pro-Israel" than anybody else there.
Yet another bit of proof that being ostentatiously "pro-Zionist" does not mean being an opponent of anti-Semitism, , and often dovetails with anti-Semitism quite nicely.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)because they see it as another way to carry on the fight against Pakistanis and with Indian Muslims.
keithbvadu2
(36,907 posts)Trump's KKK/Nazi supporters will be happy to hear that.
It validates what they want to hear.
Yet they still won.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)and UKIP is fascist.
Behind the Aegis
(53,987 posts)What is sad is how this is "condemned" by some of the very people who use they same attacks. See, anti-Semitism from the right is "bad", when it is this type (as in the article) and from the left, it is called "truth2power". Anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism, no matter the political side and should always be condemned, not condemned conditionally.
area51
(11,920 posts)Anti-semite asshole.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Youre not wanted here.