Jewish leaders call out Glenn Beck for his attacks on George Soros

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



Media Matters has been extensively documenting Glenn Beck's mounting fixation on left-wing financier George Soros, a fixation which has been rife with old-school anti-semitic tropes. As if taking a cue from the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" Beck has called Soros a "puppetmaster" who uses Obama as his "pawn" and controls everything--the media, the "Left," the international economy.

It was all pretty icky for a guy who'd already been scolded by Jewish groups for his insane over-reliance on Nazi and Holocaust metaphors for nearly every political hobbyhorse he's ridden.

But then he crossed a major line on his radio show when he implied that Soros, a Holocaust survivor who was hidden by his parents at age 13, was somehow complicit in the genocide.

Even the right-leaning Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation league (who was hidden in a similar manner to Soros during the Holocaust) weighed in, saying Beck's accusation was "horrific. It's totally off limits and over the top.”

More reactions, via the Jewish Week:

Elan Steinberg, vice president of the The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants: “monstrous; you don't make such accusations without proof, and I have seen no such proof.” Beck's words “go to the heart of the instrumentalization and trivialization of the Holocaust." .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/327969/jewish_leaders_take_beck_to_task_for_creepy_soros_accusation%3A_scurrilous%2C_grotesque%2C_monstrous/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. My childhood friend in Jerusalem worships Glenn Beck. This should be interesting

with him trying to reconcile Beck's statements with their blatant antisemitic themes.

[EFerrari]

2. Finally someone topped LInbaugh for National Most Disgusting POS . n/t

[patricia92243]

3. Why is he not taken off the air waves? What line has to be crossed (if you are a Republican)

Of course, if you are a Democrat and say any little tiny thing wrong, you would be axed immediately. I just wonder what a Republican has to say or do to create public outrage and be removed from broadcasting.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Poor Glenn Beck!

[Erose999]

5. For some reason I was watching GB the other day and he was on about Soros...

his attempt at mimickery of Soros is pretty much nothing but a rundown of every single anti-semitic meme in the Joseph Goebbels textbook. He repeatedly refers to Soros as "Spoooooooky guy".

I have never seen him do any mimicking characterizations of the Koch brothers...

I think Maher is right about Beck being one step away from playing with his own poop. I don't see how anyone can watch that crap. Its laughable that he considers himself an "entertainer". If he's an entertainer then I'm the god damn king of Sweden.

[Initech]

6. Beck is a bully - and he should be treated as such.

[TxVietVet]

7. beckkk is a bully that hides behind a TV camera.

he's a fucking idiot. he keeps insinuating that an uprising, insurection or revolution is in the near future according to his "sources".
Well, if some of his sources are as good as the Book of Mormon, then it's all a hoax.

he claims to be a great mormon christian and patriot.

he runs his mouth and backs up his argument with lies and bu$hit.

[Ramulux]

8. and nothing will happen to him

Glenn Beck will not face any sort of punishment for this and its likely most people wont even know about it. The media freak outs for 2 days straight when Keith donates to 3 dems but Glenn can accuse a 13 year old Jew who survived the holocaust as being a Nazi lover and no one will say a fucking word. I love America.

[MisterP]

9. don't forget his citation of anti-Communist and -Semite extraordinaire

Elizabeth Dilling and his resemblance to the early-Cold-War brew of demented visions of Muscovite omnipotence within the U.S. derived from the Trotskyites and Axis supporters switching to Red-baiting to redeem themselves as patriotic