“Frankly, this is a no-brainer. Any other candidate would unequivocally reject that money as soon as its donor’s identity was known. That Paul’s campaign needs time to think about it is shocking.

Also of concern is the fact that Paul’s campaign has ignored my repeated attempts to interview the Congressman for JTA, the Jewish newswire service by which I am employed. I had intended to write a story about the Congressman, and to provide him with the opportunity to distance himself from his extremist supporters, to clarify his position on Israel, and to state his case to the Jewish community. Yet, after three weeks of repeated telephone calls, two chats with his Deputy Communications Director, and several left voicemail messages, I have yet to receive a callback to schedule an interview.

Which leads me to conclude the following about the Congressman from Texas: Ron Paul will take money from Nazis. But he won’t take telephone calls from Jews.

This should be a cause of great concern to those of us in the antifascist community, whereas, for me, it elicits echoes of Europe’s re-embracement of right-wing extremism, the attendant resurrection of ethnic nationalism, and the growing success of far-right parties, many of which have taken over large swaths of European parliaments.

They say such things could never happen in America, but guess what…Here it is.

The sad part is that, as a radical libertarian, I somewhat favored Paul as a candidate, though as a libertarian socialist, he is not my ideal choice. Now, I want him out of the running, and frankly, out of the Capitol. Those who pander to White Nationalists and neo-Nazis have no place serving in the United States government, which exists to serve the most ethnically and culturally diverse nation on Earth, which counts among its citizens Jews and Zionists alike.”

Comment:

Isn’t this a gem of tar-by-association and double-speak..

And, by the way, left libertarianism I understand, but what is a libertarian socialist? Ain’t no such beast….

More at Jewcy.com by Daniel Sieradski in “Ron Paul’s Jewish Problem.”

This, mind you, from the same pro-war crowd that was only too happy to get into office by canoodling with Christian evangelists (including, the no-doubt deeply philosemitic Pat Robertson) of the Darby Bible end-times variant, whose central thesis is the eventual disappearance of the Jews as a group….

But anti-semitism, we know, is sometimes in the eye of the beholder.

Of course, the Paul campaign should give back money from suspect groups. No question. I wonder if the other candidates should give back the money given them by their own ethnic survivalists/racists?

I have the solution. Maybe the big hedge-funds supporting Guiliani and Clinton could throw a few dimes Ron’s way. Then maybe he could be as picky about which group of thieving financiers, high-minded war-mongers, and ethnically diverse corporate-state criminals he could accept wads of money from…

Or maybe, FOX could just give him a show every Friday.

Where’s the business community? Why won’t it wake up and do its duty? Why won’t it support the only candidate whose policies will actually foster business and peace here and abroad?

Then he won’t need to be talking to opportunistic racists (or alleged racists) of any stripe, white, black or brown; Christian or Jewish; Caucasian, Semitic, or Mongolian. And he won’t need to be “necklaced” with this smear-of-last-resort of American politics.

Update:

The author adds:

“If a person was campaigning for President on the “killing niggers and Jews” ticket, should they be allowed to run?

I think the answer ought to be a comfortable and firm “no.”

My comment:

A firm no to people (where are they?) running on a ticket of killing “niggers and Jews” [sic]. Meanwhile, a firm yes to people (all over the place in goverment and Wall Street and with their hands on nukes too) running on a ticket of killing Ay-rabs and rag-heads.

Update: 

Interesting that the Christian Zionist story of a “rapture” in which converts will be taken up into heaven directly by a reappearing Jesus is said by some to be the result of a Jesuit teaching originating in the Counter Reformation.

Until then, the visions of Revelation – especially of “the harlot” — were widely understood as referring to the Catholic church.  The Jesuit’s counter doctrine undermined this belief by interpreting Revelations as something that would take place in the future.

The Jesuit teaching was taken up strongly by one group of Protestants – the Plymuoth Brethren – and one of their most influential preachers, John Derby, and from there came to influence the whole ‘Pentecostal’ wing of Protestantism, including the Moody Institute and its widely distributed, Moody Bible.

And so we end up with Christian Zionism today, an end time teaching that is really only a few hundred years old at best.