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Ben Smith's Blog: Weisel blasts the tea party 'anti-Semitism': 'Indecent and disgusting'
Think Progress: Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As Tea Party Protesters Waved ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitic Signs
Liberal Values: Elie Wiesel Condemned Anti-Semitic Messages At Right Wing Protests
| Hey Teabagger jerks, your Holocaust/Nazi/Obama horseshit actually hurts people. http://twitter.com/eliewieselfdn/status/5484104083 23 days ago |
| Wow: Elie Wiesel slams GOP/tea partiers for anti-Semitism, Holocaust imagery: "indecent and disgusting" http://bit.ly/4BEiX9 23 days ago |
Weisel blasts the tea party 'anti-Semitism': 'Indecent and disgusting'
Ben Smith's Blog —
Not much room for discussing who saw which sign in this statement from the Elie Wiesel Foundation:
Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party's anti-Semitism and Holocaust comparisons: "This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting"
Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As Tea Party Protesters Waved ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitic Signs
Think Progress —
... 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. Today, Nobel Prize winner and Holoacaust survivor Elie Wiesel strongly condemned the signs, calling them “indecent and disgusting.” From his foundation’s Twitter page:
The National Jewish ...
Elie Wiesel Condemned Anti-Semitic Messages At Right Wing Protests
Liberal Values —
... several signs containing Holocaust comparisons and anti-Semitic messages at yesterday’s “House Call” protests.
One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner “National Socialist Health Care.” Another sign said that President Barack Obama “takes his orders” from the Rothschilds, a family of Jewish bankers.
Wiesel commented through his eponymous foundation’s Twitter account:
Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party’s anti-Semitism ...
Elie Weisel Condemns Use Of Holocaust Imagery By Health Care Protesters
Below The Beltway —
... several signs containing Holocaust comparisons and anti-Semitic messages at yesterday’s “House Call” protests.
One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner “National Socialist Health Care.” Another sign said that President Barack Obama “takes his orders” from the Rothschilds, a family of Jewish bankers.
Wiesel commented through his eponymous foundation’s Twitter account:
Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party’s anti-Semitism ...
Right Wing Anti-Semitism Is Nothing New
DownWithTyranny! —
... and Boehner's mini-bund meeting. But Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel did. He recognizes right-wing anti-Semitism when he sees it. One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner "National Socialist Health Care." Another sign said that President Barack Obama "takes his orders" from the Rothschilds, a family of Jewish bankers. Wiesel commented through his eponymous foundation's Twitter account: Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party's anti-Semitism and Holocaust ...

