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R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 11:33 PM Apr 2015

Calling out Pamela Geller’s hate speech in Philadelphia

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/calling-gellers-philadelphia

Surely Pamela Geller’s uncivilized hate speech disparaging Muslims is well beyond any measure of rudeness. Her incendiary ads, factually inaccurate, attempt to incite religious, racial, and ethnic resentment, prejudice, discrimination, and violence.

Philly rejects these messages.

The Interfaith Center of Philadelphia launched a Dare to Understand public messaging campaign, which includes a billboard planned for a public space in the city and the use of social media, to counter the noxious messaging of the Geller ads.

A few days before the bus ads appeared, Mayor Michael Nutter pre-emptively organized a rally in Love Park. Muslim, Christian, and Jewish clergy came together to promote a message of understanding and cooperation among diverse communities. The interfaith crowd of about 100 included political and religious individuals and groups that don’t usually stand on the same street corner when they demonstrate.



Pamela Geller is sure one vile human being. No amount of paid-per-post hasbara can wash away her evil.
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Calling out Pamela Geller’s hate speech in Philadelphia (Original Post) R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2015 OP
Could not agree with you more oberliner Apr 2015 #1
Pamela Geller is one crazy woman Ageless Democrat Apr 2015 #2
Thankfully she is not the Supreme Leader of a major world power oberliner Apr 2015 #5
Pamela Geller has been a regular contributor to the Jerusalem Post. n/t Little Tich Apr 2015 #3
Yes, she is a favorite over there oberliner Apr 2015 #4
Just like Likud, same mindset and same set of values as demonstrated by Israel's PM and his Jefferson23 Apr 2015 #6
And just like Mondoweiss itself oberliner Apr 2015 #7
"demonization of anyone who dares to identify themselves as a Zionist" King_David Apr 2015 #8
Many people, including myself, see Zionism as a racist ideology. Little Tich Apr 2015 #16
I think it is the exact opposite oberliner Apr 2015 #19
And it gave birth to the Nakba, to colonization R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2015 #20
Always bash the left, that is Likud/Geller. I wonder if Geller owns any land in the OPT: Jefferson23 Apr 2015 #9
Nobody bashes the left like Mondoweiss oberliner Apr 2015 #10
Are you defending Bibi NuttinYahoo? R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2015 #11
Geller is a hate monger Gothmog Apr 2015 #12
Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2015 #13
I know. It's crazy. R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2015 #15
Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2015 #17
214, 93, 80... R. Daneel Olivaw Apr 2015 #18
Good for you..she gets around, doesn't she. n/t Jefferson23 Apr 2015 #14
 

Ageless Democrat

(80 posts)
2. Pamela Geller is one crazy woman
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 12:41 AM
Apr 2015

that badly needs to go to a mental institution, for life. She is a danger to others.

I regard her the same as I regard Ayatollah Khomeni - dead to me.

In other words, RDO: same side on that issue.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
5. Thankfully she is not the Supreme Leader of a major world power
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 07:39 AM
Apr 2015

Just a kook ranting raving and writing screeds

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
6. Just like Likud, same mindset and same set of values as demonstrated by Israel's PM and his
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 09:52 AM
Apr 2015

followers/ enablers who would rather point fingers at Iran. It's too pathetic for words, frankly.

Pro-Likud campaign call warns voters of 'Hussein Obama'

Campaigner said that voters should remember that "Hussein Obama" is in the White House and only a strong Likud can stand up to him.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Pro-Likud-campaign-call-warns-voters-of-Hussein-Obama-393987

As an Israeli, I am ashamed that my prime minister is a racist
All this week, he made us one consistent promise: In his coming term as prime minister, there will be no hope. It is one promise that we have all come to believe he can keep.
By Bradley Burston

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/.premium-1.647564

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
7. And just like Mondoweiss itself
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 10:53 AM
Apr 2015

Constant drumbeat of demonization of anyone who dares to identify themselves as a Zionist.

Values: We are right - anyone who doesn't see that is wrong - worse than wrong, they are evil.

Pamela and Philip are flip sides of the same coin.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
8. "demonization of anyone who dares to identify themselves as a Zionist"
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 04:08 PM
Apr 2015

There are 2 posters in this group the same.

2 out of 20 ( more people post since the election)

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
16. Many people, including myself, see Zionism as a racist ideology.
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 09:25 PM
Apr 2015

And I'm very much against all forms of racism.

It would have all good for me if the basic tenets of Zionism were about equal rights for all people native to the Holy Land / former Palestine Mandate / Eretz Yisrael, and not about the supreme rights for one people and no rights for all others.

The only form of Zionism that has no elements of racism whatsoever is post-Zionism.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
19. I think it is the exact opposite
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 12:31 PM
Apr 2015

Zionism was a response to racism internationally. Since Jewish people had been persecuted continuously for centuries and been made to feel like outsiders in their own countries, there ought to be a place where they don't have to feel that way. I think that is the history out of which Zionism, understandably developed. Then the events of the Second World War sort of sped up the impetus for such a movement to grow.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
20. And it gave birth to the Nakba, to colonization
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 04:14 PM
Apr 2015

and apartheid.

Zionism has shown itself to be no better than any other "ism" that denies human rights and actively segregates at the barrel of a gun.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
10. Nobody bashes the left like Mondoweiss
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 06:24 PM
Apr 2015

Liberal Zionist arguments against one state are born of moral or political weakness

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/arguments-political-weakness

Some strong supporters of the two-state solution:

Barack Obama
Elizabeth Warren
Bernie Sanders

Response to Gothmog (Reply #12)

Response to R. Daneel Olivaw (Reply #15)

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