Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As Tea Party Protesters Waved ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitic .

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One of the most disturbing images from yesterday’s Tea Party rally against health care reform on Capitol Hill was a protester’s gruesome sign showing a pile of dead Holocaust victims. The banner — captured by ThinkProgress here — read: “National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany – 1945.” Another sign said that “Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds ,” a reference to the famous Jewish banking family often implicated in conspiracy theories. Today, Nobel Prize winner and Holoacaust survivor Elie Wiesel strongly condemned the signs, calling them “indecent and disgusting.” From his foundation’s Twitter page:

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1. And this is why there is an Israel. Because Jews know that real friends are hard to come by.

Despite the US constitution, the laws, the relatively liberal and safe culture of the US and the enormous and thriving Jewish community in the US, American Jews find a core group of the GOP being anti-Semites despite their declared love of Israel, and in the Democratic Party American Jews scratch the noble surface to find supporters of Arab attacks on the Jewish people and state. Arabs come in a variety of nationalities, and while Jews have been citizens of many countries over the centuries, each and every one of them has at some time reminded them that they are not quite family. Even the US. So that is why there is an Israel and why it must be Jewish.