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Anti-Semitism floods Internet

Madoff scandal to blame
Monday, 22 December 2008, 09:07

ANTI-SEMITIC CONTENT is flooding the world wide wibble after Bernard Madoff was arrested on charges of hatching out one of the biggest Wall Street frauds in history.

According to the Anti-Defamation League there is an outpouring of Jew-bashing comments on both sensible sites as well as the usual right wing Nazi loon-fests.

The problem is not that Madoff is allegedly a swindler, after all there are a lot of those in Wall Street, but it is because he is a Jewish alleged swindler it gets everyone upset. The fact that he seems to have defrauded a large number of Jewish charities seems to have passed the racist goons by.

The ADL said that site users have posted comments including deeply offensive stereotypical statements about Jews and cash. Some said that only Jews could perpetrate a fraud on such a scale. Others came up with conspiracy theories about Madoff stealing money to benefit Israel.

The ADL points out that it is traditional to bash Jews in a time of financial crisis and these days the first place Jew-haters will go is to the Internet, where they can give voice to their hateful ideas without having to worry about anyone pointing out that they are socially-retarded bottom feeders. µ

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damn straight

Thank you for calling attention to this problem, and for rightly pointing out the idiocy of racism at this or any other time. Kudos.

posted by : Alex, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
I don't understand racists

Surely saying only Jews could execute a fraud of this scale is a kind of complement? Or if scale of bad acts is the issue then I think the Christians got that one in Germany in the 1930's/40's.

posted by : Tim Phipps, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
He's Right

think about it Jewdaism is a religion not a race, his contry's name American, and no doubt being born in America, not that i can see the funny side of Americans being racist against Americans ,

posted by : Mystic Chicken, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Umbrella term

Is "racism" an umbrella term for everything related to discrimination? As far as I know, a jew can be of any race.

posted by : Baka_toroi, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
House arrest is what offends me

Steal $50, go to jail. Steal $50 billion, stay at home and be given free extra security.

posted by : Tweeker, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Never Trust And Always Verify

It is a shame that racial intolerance still exists... Glass houses and all that... Madoff took advantage of a group of people of which he was a part. Hopefully, justice will prevail, in spite of the history of leniency generally afforded to those of means or with political connections.

Just goes to show that you shouldn't put blind faith in any person. Be skeptical, question everything, accept nothing at face value. Those who want you to just "trust" are those you whom you should have most suspicion.

posted by : Rich Wargo, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
BOOBIES

ARE ALL GOOD

posted by : Bobby Bob Bob, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
?

How many more Madoff's are there?

posted by : PL, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Deleting comments they don't agree with

My comment was not out of line, objective, and was deleted because it didn't comply with Jewish/ADL censorship. Or maybe Nick is racist against the truth? Either way delete this comment if you want to lose another reader.

posted by : apparently a racist, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Sr Commenter

ADL is not to be trusted. Propaganda.

posted by : Lenny, 22 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Anti-Zionism is not Anti-jewish.

First off, "anti-semitism" means nothing. Semite is not a religious designation.

Secondly, most "anti-semetic" remarks are those critical of zionism. Did you know George Bush's neocon strategy is mostly Zionists? Well, they admit this THEMSELVES:
see:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

Loaded with zionists.

Also, please note that Obama's new Chief of Staff is Raham Emanual, his father was part of a ZIONIST TERRORIST GRUOP called IRGUN.
see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

"Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois.[5] His father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, a Jerusalem-born pediatrician, was a member of the Irgun.[6][7] "

To the public, please help expose the military industrial complex, the medical industrial complex, banking fraud and neocons and neocon Zionists! Please do not succumb to these Geobbel-esque tactivs of intimidation, lies Eyes-Wide-Shut and censorship!

The Zionists have become what they supposedly deplore!

posted by : Mick Russom, 23 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Censorship

Nick Farrell apparently removed my prior post pointing out a large number of Jewish fraudsters that lead to the impressions he complains about. Facts aren't racist or anti-semitic. Apparently the hard truth doesn't sit well with him.

Today I read of another alleged fraud in the US, this time by a Marc Dreier. Guess what, Dreier is Jewish too.

So there are good reasons for the perceptions Nick Farrell is complaining about, grounded in truth and hard facts.

Will Mr Farrell censor this message now?

posted by : neil, 23 December 2008 Complain about this comment
anti semitism thingy

I don't get it. What are those people actually saying? I can't even imagine building a case that would lead up to such racist claims without some obvious twist in one of its premises. They should stop giving those people laxatives that cause mental diarrhea.

posted by : nate, 23 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Family curse?

You know just because Raham Emanual's dad was part of a group labelled terrorist by the UK (and I don't know enough about the group to say I agree or disagree with either the labelling or the action) doesn't relate to himself, I'm certainly not subscribing to all views and battles of my own father, do you take every view your father had, and support every believe he had?
Also there's no need to 'expose' that anyway, it was and acknowledged by all media as well as himself, even the media said to be zionist by those so obsessed with such incidentally.
But really, so equate a son with his father is so unfair and also a bit very primitive and dumb to be honest.

posted by : W.-, 24 December 2008 Complain about this comment
To the random elitists posting

So many of you are a bunch of idiots that try to find patterns where none exist, and try to judge an entire group of people based on the actions of a minority of that group's actions that the greater whole of the group does not approve of themselves! All because one Jew commits theft does not make all Jews greedy, selfish, etc. As a matter of fact, my misinformed chums, did you know that nearly a THIRD of the large multimillion dollar donations come from Jews, and that the majority of their donations are towards non-Jewish charities? Does that sound greedy? Based on your idiotic method of thinking, we should consider all Christians as warmongers and murderers condemed to death based off of the actions taken in the crusades. However, I don't see a lot of people pointing their fingers at Christians as a group for their actions, just the people who committed the crime. Get your neo-nazi asses out of here.

posted by : Random Advice, 24 December 2008 Complain about this comment
ADL crying Anti-Semitism again

Anti-Semitism is not the correct term to be used when describing racism towards Jews when you realise that roughly 90% of Jews worldwide are Ashkenazi and Ashkenazi Jews are not Semitic.

BTW Happy Christmas everyone.

posted by : ADL sux ass, 25 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Ashkenazi Jews are semitic.

Let's face it. Antisemitism has nothing to do with language groupings or non-Jewish ethnic groups. Antisemitism was coined by a German racist to make anti-Jewish prejudice sound scientific. All religious and ethnic groups have bigots, and all have decent people. It's human nature. The reason we need to point out specific outpourings of hatred is that people can act on those outpourings and actually hurt others. It's okay to disagree with Israel, but to hate Jews or to tolerate Hamas terrorism against Jews is antisemitic. We should be angry at the Ponzi scheme (Ponzi was Italian) perpetrated by Madoff but it's antisemitic to generalize from that and attack Jews. It's okay to be for Proposition 8 in California, but it's a hate crime to advocate attacking gays.

I'm one Jewish Christian who prays daily that we all learn to live in peace with each other and talk our differences out rather than defaming the name of God and violating Jesus' admonishments to love our neighbor as ourselves. And Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Avraham Avinu, even if Jewish Khazars moved into Eastern Europe once the Russians destroyed their kingdom, which was a mixture of pagan, Christian, Moslem and Jewish anyways.

posted by : Yipsl, 25 December 2008 Complain about this comment
ADL is just a large, noisy, lobby

The ADL is unlikely to say anything other than "Anti-Semitism" because that's what they're paid to do. They're loud, pushy, aggressive and well financed and they exist to make sure that nothing other than their message is heard. I wish we'd stop giving them column space.

posted by : Martin, 25 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Symantics

I completely agree with those guys above me. Seriously guys, get it straight.

By the way, doesn't the editor edit the comments?

posted by : Alex, 26 December 2008 Complain about this comment
LOL

And if this article's responses isnt a great show of how the jewish community ARE just a load of great big complainers, I don't know.......

Arabs are semites too - why not just say anti-jewish instead of using fancy words? lol

respect to the inquirer for 'airing' this article - funnily enough it seems most of the jewish controlled media moguls have missed this...... :)

posted by : zoomee, 26 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Why is this story on a Tech site part 2

I agree with Gene M, why is this article on this site ? Since it is, here are a couple of articles, and videos of how our known history of events are not as they really are. A warning from a Jewish leader, http://www.rense.com/general34/amaz.htm , a video about the holocaust, http://www.onethirdoftheholocaust.com/ and a story of how General Patton was killed on orders of the OSS, http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/news/of-special-interest/6415-general-george-s-patton-was-assassinated-to-silence-his-criticism-of-allied-war-leaders-claims-new-book-.html I am sure the Web scares groups like the ADL, and governments as a place for people to see, and hear other thoughts on various subjects that are not covered in the M.S.M.

posted by : MPrck, 27 December 2008 Complain about this comment
Khazarians i.e. AshkeNazi ARE NOT SEMITIC

If Saudis pretends they are Mongolians, laughed you?
Well, when Khazarians i.e. AshkeNazi with theirs snow white skin and Khazarian DNA pretends they are Semitic, don't laughed you?

I am not racist, however this brainwashing about Khazarians as Semitic must stop. It is simple unscientific humbug.

Palestinians have as similar DNA to Sephardi Jews (not Khazarians/AshkeNazi), it means Palestinians and Sephardi Jews are kin brothers.

From all world "jews" 10-15% are Sephardic, 85-90% are Khazarians (not Semitic).

Protest you? Take DNA test!

posted by : Solomon Morel, 27 December 2008 Complain about this comment
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