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Financial crisis causes spike in anti-semitism
US financial crisis causes spike in online anti-Semitism: monitor
The US financial crisis has provoked an outpouring of anti-Semitism on the Internet, with Jews being blamed for the debacle on Wall Street, a monitoring group said on Thursday."The age-old canards about Jews and money are always just beneath the surface," said Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which fights anti-semitism."As we witnessed after 9/11, whenever there is trouble or uncertainty in the economy or world events, Jews become the scapegoats and ugly anti-semitic canards are given new life."The ADL said it had witnessed "a dramatic upsurge" in anti-Semitic statements on online discussion boards, and Internet service providers were struggling to delete them.Blogs devoted to?conspiracy theories?as well as white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites have sought to exploit events on Wall Street and the subprime crisis to support their agendas, ADL said.Referring to the demise of Wall Street bank?Lehman Brothers,?one poster on white supremacist website Stormfront wrote: "I would imagine the likelihood of the Fed etc bailing the company out depends largely to what degree it is Jewish owned," according to ADL.Lehman Brothers went bust, while a number of other financial institutions from home loan providers?Freddie Mac?and?Fannie Mae?and insurer AIG were nationalized by the US government.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081002210140.fe4gfrf2&show_article=1?
Re: Financial crisis causes spike in anti-semitism
Unfortunately when people fall on bad times I think they do tend to find a scapegoat to blame. How disappointing. I truly believe between this election and the change in the financial landscape in our country that we have become pretty hateful towards one another.
This is one of the most ridiculous ideas I've heard yet regarding this crisis. It is truly sad that people are so hateful and desparate to find a scapegoat.
So white supremacist sites are being anti-Semitic??? This is news??
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Apparently their chatter is up from where it?usually?is. ?I really want to know who it is that monitors these sites.
I don't know. To me "outpouring of anti-semitism" means these things are being seen in mainstream sites, in public places, etc. The fact that racist sites are spewing lots of racist garbage lately doesn't seem like a huge story to me.
It's enough to cause concern for the Anti-Defamation League, so I think that makes it a story. These bigots grow by recruiting new members, and they do it in the darkness. I think bringing it to light is a good idea.
And there are plenty of people who think this kind of bigotry no longer exists.
Frightening. And I always wonder about those sorts of people who deny the existence of anti-Semitism. I don't know what would ever be adequate proof to the contrary.
Oh yee haw!
I love it when I get to be on the top of someone's "I hate you because I'm poor list" -- where's that puffy martini at?
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