Anti-Semites Flock to Ann Coulter’s Side – Emily Shire/The Daily Beast
by NewsStand
Her vitriolic Tweets about the Republican Party pandering to Jewish voters has attracted alarming support across social media.
Ann Coulter may have been looking for another dose of fame when she tweeted her anti-Semitic take on the GOP debate, but she found a wave of support from anti-Semites craving a pundit to give a sense of legitimacy to their prejudiced views.
Coulter did just that last night, dog-whistling anti-Semites with her response to the repeated mention of support for Israel during the debates.
“How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?” Coulter tweeted.
The anti-Semitism in Coulter’s tweet came through loud and clear as she painted American Jews as some all-powerful force manipulating the Republicans. As the Daily Beast’s Tom Sykes wrote, “The whole argument echoes a historic libel against Jews that they hold secret influence.”
In the dozen or so hours since her initial tweet, Coulter has attempted to explain that it was not specifically anti-Semitic but part of a larger critique on the GOP for the “same pandering on Reagn & abortion,” as she tweeted. Yet, she also stood by her views, adding even more fuel to her fire by pointing out that only those powerful Jews are the ones who complain.
“Boy were they wrong @ Jewish influence! I complained about pandering on Israel (Reagan & abortion) & haven’t heard a thing about it!,” she tweeted a little after 1 pm today.
In response to an online critic, she made a reference to Tom Sykes’ Daily Beast report on the underlying anti-Semitism of her tweet. “Only if you believe what @thedailybeast calls an “historic libel” about Jewish influence,” she tweeted.
However, even more disturbing is the outpouring of anti-Semitic support from people who suddenly feel vindicated in their hatred and suspicions about Jews.
Not only did Coulter’s tweet receive more than 2,000 favorites, #IStandWithAnn began trending on Twitter.
“#IStandWithAnn because six Jewish companies control 97% of the global media. She will be demonized for speaking out,” tweeted Nick Joseph, a man who describes himself in his Twitter bio as “morally obligated to raise awareness for the increasing racism against white people.”
@Nocuck tweeted #IStandWithAnn the anti-Semitic standard image of a hook-nosed man, hunched over with the caption “Did a goyim just point out our power!?”
Graffiti labeled anti-Semitic by Jewish community
KFVS – Cape Girardeau, MO
There are so, so many other tweets like these out there if you search the #IStandWithAnn hashtag—these are some of the most recent.
With few Twitter followers and inaccurate-to-absurdly extremist views, these people are all too easy to shrug off.
But it’s dangerous to dismiss their anti-Semitism because it seems almost laughably outrageous to anyone with the slightest sense of human history or decency.
For one, not everyone who stands with Ann is an anti-Semitic troll in a basement. Some are anti-Semitic trolls of prominence.
It’s not exactly surprising that it took David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and Louisiana State Senator (and failed senator, governor, and presidential candidate), about 12 hours to “stand with Ann.” He devoted part of his radio show today to “applaud” her.
Last month, Duke declared to The Daily Beast that Trump was too connected to the “Jewish elite” to support.
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“She hit the nail on the head regarding pandering on Israel,” the post on Duke’s website states. “What remains to be seen is whether she will now expose Jewish responsibility for U.S. immigration policy, which she avoided mentioning in her recent book on immigration.”
Away from the extremes, Coulter’s tweets are being used to support slightly more nuanced–but still alarming—riffs whose anti-Semitism is masked by anti-Israel sentiments
@genophilia, who has a not exactly insignificant 16.7K followers on Twitter, wrote “#IStandWithAnn because if Israel can build a wall, accept no refugees, and deport immigrants, so can the USA and Europe.”
Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has thrown his social media support behind the Coulter line of blaming the Jews.
Khamenei tweeted, “US govs put their people under Zionists custody.Isn’t it a shame that presidential candidates try to satisfy Zionists&prove their servitude?”
As lawyer and journalist Arsen Ostrovsky pithily tweeted in response to Khamenei’s anti-Semitic bond with Coulter, “Who’d have thought that @khamenei_ir & @AnnCoulter have so much in common. Make a cute couple!”
Coulter will likely to continue to hem and haw and stick to her bombastic anti-Semitism, either for attention or in a perverse attempt to be relevant. Or a toxic mixture of both.
The upshot is far more upsetting than having to see Coulter’s face on Fox News at all hours. It’s the growing sense of legitimacy her widely promulgated views give to people who harbor these anti-Semitic views. That cannot be undone–even if hell freezes over and Coulter backs down.
Thus begins the public smearing and punishment of Ann Coulter.
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But can the media smear the millions of Americans who do not support Coulter but agree with her on this point? I mean can they do that level of denialism and smearing of our population without creating a populist backlash?
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Judging by the large number of articles on Coulter’s tweets, one can only deduce that she’s really, really, very much really upset the zio apple cart.
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Important for the solidarity movement to support the facts behind Coulter’s tweets but not Coulter’s personality or political bent.
Important for patriotic, constitutional America-firsters to do exactly the same.
I can’t stress the importance of disassociating from Coulter.
Do not give a poison snake your protection or refuge, even though it may be eating the rats in the basement.
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She wasn’t pointing out that the Republicans were pandering to Jewish VOTERS. She was using them to mock the pandering to Jewish money.
Isn’t this the point where we all just shrug and say it’s gonna be what it’s gonna be. The money has thrown its weight around too blatantly too often, too visibly, too arrogantly, and with 100% self-interest. It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of Coulter. She lit the match. The forces have been set in motion.
Question is, did she do it coolly and intentionally, or did she just get angry and blurt.
Another interesting thing about this is if this level of reaction is indicative of rank-and-file Republican attitudes toward Jewish funding, the R party may not be able to suck it all in and/or big Jewish donors may not want to give it.
In any event, if the general disgust in Coulter’s other tweets is any indication (ask about America…answer with Israel) of R strategist thinking, the party may be constrained from overtly acting on behalf of Jewish funding. Dem r/f are “anti-Israel” and conceivably Repub r/f are anti-manipulation (if not outright anti-Jewish). Where’s all that Jewish, pro-Israel money going to go?
Interesting times ahead.
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They could easily invest their money in American industries instead of foreign Apartheid.
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Taxi, funny thing. Chaos showed up at MW for a brief moment yesterday as I was scanning comments.
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No way! Link it please. Thank you.
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http://mondoweiss.net/profile/chaos4700
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Thanks!
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” It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of Coulter. She lit the match. The forces have been set in motion.’………ritzl
Yep.
Her phrasing…’how many f’ing Jews” was the wrong way to put the I problem.
But judging from the support/replies she got the Israeli fetish of the politicians was already on some people’s minds.
I don’t automatically assume that everyone who supported her on this is an anti semite or racist but of course that is how it is going to be painted among the I crowd.
Face it, even if she had said… ‘why are they all talking about Israel if they want to be President of the US?”….she would still have been gone after under their propaganda of anti Israel = anti semite.
The best way to talk about it is to talk about how she ‘got the opening’ to say it—the opening being the politicians talking more about Israel than the US.
So the flap over this is good if it makes more people pay attention to how politicians act as if they were running for prez of Israel instead of the US.
I said long ago the Jewish liberalism and the Israel agenda is never going to be a good fit with the conservative rank and file voters. imo if the GOP did gain the WH and adopted the Jewish agendas there would be some hellious fights going on with their base. And a lot of GOP congressmen and senators would be threatened with never being re elected again.
I live in conservative land and they are against everything (in the domestic arena) that Jewish groups are for and push…immigration, abortion, big government, off shore interventions, etc….and this is true among the ‘moderate’ republican voters. …the ultra conservatives go even further. I guarantee you that right now the article on Syrian refugees and the Jewish Rabbis pushing Obama to let in more than the 100,000 he agreed to is being circulated on every conservative blog.
We do live in interesting times.
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Yeah, american. Phil Weiss wrote over at MW that young Jews gave the US left “permission” to critcize Israel. That’s an odd take, imo.
It’s actually, perhaps ironically, and rightly or wrongly, the Coulters of the world that are uncorking that bottle.
SOMEBODY was going to do it — the public bragging by pro-Israel Jews about political manipulations (especially since Michael Oren’s book came out accusing them of not doing enough for Israel and so many felt the need to publicly and explicitly defend themselves) built up such a pressure of bad “optics” (for lack of a better word) that an outburst like this was inevitable.
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Forgot to add that that “more than 100,000 Syrians” push by those Rabbis is being put forward explicitly to help Israel. EXPLICITLY.
It’s hard to comprehend how the lid has been kept tight on this for so long.
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Coulter started her tweets with calling out Huckabee:
Good grief! Huckabee is running for PM of Israel.
Nonetheless, she’s right about that sycophantic fart.
And here’s the Forward’s Jay Michaelson on the Daily Beast talking about the long trail of Anti Semitism:
This isn’t the first tangle of its kind. Those of us old enough to remember landlines still recall how another Republican pol put “fuck” and “Jew” together: Secretary of State James Baker, circa 1989. In fact, maybe Coulter’s words count as a kind of progress. Where Baker said, infamously, “Fuck the Jews—they don’t vote for us anyway,” Coulter is complaining that Republicans care too much about the fucking Jews.
But of course, beneath the superficial evolution is the same unforgivably anti-Semitic trope that runs like a poison thread from Henry Ford to Mahmoud Ahmedinejad to the Hebrew-haters “standing with Ann” on Twitter: that “the Jews” have disproportionate power and influence in world affairs.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/17/ann-coulter-defends-f-king-jews-rant.html
The slight problem for the white-washing press is ‘the Jews’, or ‘the zionists’ (or fill in the blank), do have disproportionate power in the US gov’t, British, Australian, Canada, etc, and it’s partly why Israel is not debated by the mainstream US press or Congress ~ the infinite moratorium on Israel criticism also indicates the topic of ‘greater Israel’ would be a loser at any debate if it ever made it to a national debate type venue. Politicians posture for Israel and their security, but they can’t criticize the established taboo because the occupation is a delicate house of cards and the wind is
starting to blow stronger in little clusters across the US.
They label it a trope, but most of the press are seemingly afraid to realize the power of the network for fear of their own reprisal. If Coulter said something about f’ing Arabs or f’ing Chinese, no one would bat a lash, but now we’ve over 100 articles in the past 24 hours about this tweet. She may dodge this bullet with her weasel explanation, but the lesson seems to be ‘you cannot criticize those who have the power’.
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” but the lesson seems to be ‘you cannot criticize those who have the power’.”….chu
You can if you have the numbers.
Refer back to what you posted yesterday on Jewish history.
The Jews always lost their power and privileges bestowed on them by rulers and lords because the non Jewish ‘masses” revolted against them and the crown.
We just need the ‘numbers’ ( the masses) to get rid of Israel by attacking the PTB on it.
Regardless of Coulters racism she’s probably added a few numbers.
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Coulter should have asked the question in her series of tweets ‘what does Israel do for us?’ to get the ball rolling. Instead she retreated.
What does this ally offer us today? I’d say very little. They keep their hand out for american goodies, but give us the F’-off when we notice their land grab occupation swindle.
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questions about Israel should be more specific.
Given Congress’s insistence that the Iran “deal” should have been a treaty, each congressperson & candidate must be asked to relate in excruciating detail the exact treaty binding US to Israel; when it was signed; the details of the debate; whether Israel has been deemed “trustworthy” or if Israel has kept its commitments under the “treaty.”
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demanding that congress & candidates discuss Israel as a “treaty-ally” avoids the charge of antisemitism.
Such a question is 100% legitimate and cannot be avoided or deflected.
In a system allegedly hewing to “rule of law” and representative Constitutional process, the people have the right to know what rules and laws bind Israel and US in an alliance.
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“Yep.
Her phrasing…’how many f’ing Jews” was the wrong way to put the I problem.”
I think it’s an okay way to express part of the problem. It’s always worth asking why the nationalist project of such a small percentage of the population receives so much support from the government, why this minority is so over-represented in key areas, why a segment of this minority constantly loudly demands everyone else’s attention, etc.
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Probably the first time I’ve ever laughed sympathetically at anything Coulter said, to be frank. (I tend to avoid her though.)
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Some good comments- some funny, on this from MW
Phil says:
”You’ll see on twitter that Coulter is tapping into a deep well of anti-Israel comments. Something like all the sharp comments on anodyne New York Times articles: people remarking on the Gaza slaughter and U.S. military support for Israel. This is what democratic discourse is all about: an informed public engaging on important questions, some of which have been suppressed. Former radical Bernie Sanders can’t even address Palestinian persecution. And just as the Israel lobby transcends party, the hate-on-Israel movement transcends party and will go wherever it can get oxygen.”
Krauss says:
”She (correctly) assumes that the GOP is never going to be able to match their white base with the non-white urban crowd that is growing by the day. The reality is that assimilation in America doesn’t happen in any meaningful sense anymore. People don’t “assimiliate” into middle America, we’re talking about two islands, drifting apart
Kay24 September 17, 2015, 11:54 am
”This is a strange situation, but I find myself agreeing to what Coulter said (but not the way she said it). Of course it is ridiculous considering the minuscule population of American Jews, that these politicians must publicly avow their love, support, protection, and priority first, for Israel. EVEN MORE THAN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. Did they mention any other ally this way?
CigarGod September 18, 2015, 11:44 am
”How many $@#&ing Catholics do they think are in…?
How many @$#ŕing Yanks do they…? How……………………….Muslims……?
How……boy scouts…?
How…..mormons…?
How…bankers…?
Nope, just a disgusting potty mouth…making a good point.
Abuadam September 18, 2015, 8:01 am
”A White Supremacist Christian Zionist finally gags while sucking on Israel’s donkey.
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/republicans-donors-coulters#comment-153945
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I never thought I would ever say #IStandWithAnn. Her evolution toward a rejection of the Jewish Lobby, and mine toward rejecting political correctness, have taken decades. But here we are. She’s a leggy blonde, cute, offensive, and most of all, funny – everything the p.c. left hates.
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“jews” aren’t Semites
They never were.
They’re a race cult masquerading as a religion.
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