FRANCE HONORS FOXMAN AND THE DEVIL DOES
TOO
By Harmony Grant
26 Oct 06
Apparently the only sense the French have was used on staying out
of Iraq. In the last few weeks, they’ve set up a national Jewish
court and awarded ADL head Abe Foxman with the French Legion of Honor,
their highest civilian and military tribute, for his lifetime “battle
against anti-Semitism.”
French president Jacques Chirac praised Foxman, “Your life
and your contribution to peace among men are exceptional.” In
reply, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith said he survived the Nazis so he could “build
respect and fight hatred.”
So how has Foxman contributed to peace among men? Let’s count
the ways.
Foxman heads an organization that is responsible for creating and
establishing dozens of “anti-hate” bureaucracies, which
destroy freedom of speech (See, New
Federal 'Hate' Bill Means Funeral of Free Speech). Thanks to the ADL, Christians in Canada have been
fined thousands of dollars and impoverished just for publishing passages
from the Bible. In our own Pennsylvania, eleven Christians were jailed
in 2004 for peacefully evangelizing at a homosexual parade. ADL board
member Lynn Abraham authorized their arrest, imprisonment, and the
indictment that was later dropped.
Foxman’s intolerance of Christians is on display in his book,
Never Again: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism. Foxman smears the
Catholic church as “a cradle of hatred” and blames the
New Testament for the death and suffering of countless Jews. Foxman
denounces Christian evangelists as “anti-Semitic” merely
for witnessing to Jews.
Foxman and the ADL have consistently exaggerated and falsely defined
incidents of hatred or anti-Semitism in order to whitewash Israel’s
crimes, silence critics of Jewish behavior, and keep themselves in
business. Foxman says, for instance, than it’s anti-Semitic
to claim AIPAC politically destroys the critics of Israel—even
though AIPAC brags about this! To the ADL head’s sensitive
ears, it’s anti-Semitic to criticize Israel, to say American
Jews are most loyal to Israel, to give a Christian tract to a Jew,
or to suggest that Hollywood’s production of 175 Holocaust
films since 1989 might indicate some kind of agenda.
Foxman could find anti-Semitism in the way you walk your dog. He
needs to, if he wants to keep the hefty paycheck (half a million
bucks a year) he makes off anti-Semitism. Racism pays so well, Foxman
can’t afford to promote peace and respect. This is probably
the reason he expressed “disappointment” when a comprehensive
2002-03 report on anti-Semitism in Europe revealed not a single anti-Semitic
homicide and only a handful of assaults. The report also revealed
that immigrants were more likely to suffer from bias than Jews—bad
news for Foxman’s business.
Foxman’s promotion of respect includes gross violations of
American rights to freedom and privacy. He has overseen domestic
spying operations in the United States, and even now the ADL maintains
dossiers on thousands of politically conservative and dissident Americans.
Maybe Foxman earned France’s highest honor with some of his
other valorous actions, like helping billionaire criminal Marc Rich
get a presidential pardon in the last few hours of Clinton’s
presidency.
Foxman says anti-Semitism is a mental disease, completely unrelated
to the behavior of Israel or individual Jews. It is fundamentally
irrational, he says.
Meanwhile, I guess honoring Foxman as a man of peace is just good
common sense.
Some Sources:
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism
and the Abuse of History (2005, University of California Press) Norman G. Finkelstein
Never Again: the Threat of the New Antisemitism (2003, Harper Collins)
Abraham H. Foxman
“ADL National Director Awarded French Legion of Honor,” Oct.
16, www.adl.org
“Is Abe Foxman a Hate Criminal?” April 2006, Rev. Ted
Pike, www.truthtellers.org
