Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As .. Protesters Waved Vile Anti-Semitic Signs

[struggle4progress]

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

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 <sic>,” a reference to the famous Jewish banking family often implicated in conspiracy theories ... Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel strongly condemned the sign ... The National Jewish Democratic Council also criticized the “vile invocations of Nazi and Holocaust rhetoric” and called out GOP leaders who stood in plain view of the signs but ignored them. The Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded that the rally organizers “publicly repudiate the use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery.” Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) made similar comments ...

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/06/elie-wiesel-tea-party/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It's easy to still love Israel and hate the GOP simultaneously.

[TankLV]

2. Didn't you hear the latest repuke talking points?!!! It's was a democrat "plant"!!!

I loved it especially when thEse "plants" were allowed to keep ALL THESE SIGNS - and there were certainly a LOT of them, weren't there?!!! - high and proud for everyone to see during the WHOLE thing, WITHOUT ANY PROTEST OR INTERRUPTION!!!

God, we "plants" are so goddamn AWESOME!!!

[Meshuga]

3. These assholes can fool themselves with their talking points

But no one else.

Good luck to them because their assumption that we would fall for such talking points adds even more to the offense.

[USA_1]

4. Fox & Reich Wing Media

These hate filled reichsters applauded the signs because the message reflected their views. No surprise.