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TPMDC: Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) Calls Out Bachmann For Use Of Holocaust Imagery At Capitol Hill Tea Party
Think Progress: Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As Tea Party Protesters Waved ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitic Signs
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Check this video out -- Rep. Israel Condemns Tea Party Protest Holocaust Signs http://bit.ly/3A1ju3 9 days ago |
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RT @RepSteveIsrael Holocaust images at tea party rally should be condemned. http://bit.ly/3A1ju3 || YES! Please do something about it!! 18 days ago |
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Rep. Steve Israel (D-New York) condemns the Republican use of holocaust images at rally, http://bit.ly/3A1ju3 18 days ago |
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) Calls Out Bachmann For Use Of Holocaust Imagery At Capitol Hill Tea Party
TPMDC —
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) has posted this YouTube video, condemning the use of Holocaust imagery at yesterday's Capitol Hill Tea Party, and calling out Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) for organizing the event, as well as the Republican leaders who attended.
Israel made it clear that he believes in the basic right to free speech, and that he took an oath to defend the Constitution and the rights of people that he disagrees with: "But with that right comes a responsibility by leaders to condemn that kind of expression. I just cannot believe that Congresswoman Bachmann sponsored and brought to the American people the use of images from the Holocaust, actual photographs of the ...
Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As Tea Party Protesters Waved ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitic Signs
Think Progress —
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. Today, Nobel Prize winner and Holoacaust survivor Elie Wiesel strongly condemned the signs, calling them “indecent and disgusting.” From ...
Vile, but not Bachmann’s fault
MNpublius.com —
Rep. Steve Israel, among many others, is furious over the disgusting use of holocaust imagery during Michele Bachmann’s health-care protests earlier this week — you can watch a short video he recorded after the break. It’s hard to find fault with his anger. Quite frankly, I don’t feel the need to actually show the posters on this blog; for those of you who haven’t seen them, they featured photographs of piles of bodies killed in the holocaust, with the caption “National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945.”
I’m angry about it to, but in this case, I don’t believe it was specifically Michele ...
Right Wing Anti-Semitism Is Nothing New
DownWithTyranny! —
All through history, anti-Semitism has been a mainstay of right-wing extremism-- and not just in overseas manifestations from the Babylonian Captivity, the blood libels, the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms throughout Europe and the Nazis' systematic Holocaust-- but also right here in America, where the KKK, Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, Father Coughlin (the Rush Limbaugh of the 1930s), the pro-Nazi America First Committee and Pat Buchanan have been pushing the same hatred and bigotry. Like Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), I'm Jewish. And when Grayson referred to the thousands of deaths of Americans without health care as "this ...
Five Days After Her ‘House Call,’ Bachmann Condemns Anti-Semitic Signs But Still Refuses To Apologize
Think Progress —
One of the lasting images from Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) “House Call” — the right-wing “press conference” (i.e. a rally) against health care reform on Capitol Hill last week — was an — 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.
Prominent organizations and individuals in the Jewish community immediately condemned the displays and called on the protest’s organizers ...
