The simple fact is that Americans of all backgrounds are becoming more anti-Semitic. During the five-year Second Intifada, most Americans just stayed out of the entire Middle East issue despite the media and the Muzzie propagandists' best attempts to stir up Goebbelsian emotions. Most of us just did not care. The same is not true today. Any one of us can personally attest to hearing average Joe Schmoes--of all races (not just schvartzes or Arabs) condeming Operation Cast Lead. For the first time ever, it was actually popular in all social circles to bash Israel, just for the sake of it.
Which is the more likely explanation: that two weeks of Obama's presidency has made average Americans into Jew-haters, or that Obama was elected because American attitudes toward Jews have shifted for the worse?
Very good points for discussion. I think that Obama's winning the election had nothing to do with Jewish issues, to be quite honest about it. I think a big turning point in this election came when McCain said that our economy was basically sound, even while the whole economy was collapsing around us. If I'm not mistaken, within a day or two of McCain's uttering that statment, Obama took a big jump in the polls. Regarding the rise in anti-semitism: First of all, there's no question that it's on the rise. Anti-semitism always lies dormant in people. History proves that fact. For example, there was a period in German before Hitler's rise to power, where Jews were very integrated into society. No Jew living in Germany at that period (before Hitler's rise) would ever have foreseen what fate was ahead for them. Now that Obama is President, anti-semitic tendencies in people can be let loose. They see in Obama a like-minded person. Also, another point I want to make is this: The internet, and youtube in particular, can be used by Jew haters all over the world to stir up these dormant anti-semtic tendencies in people. They can very easily promulgate their anti-semitism all over the world. As one example, using the internet, they can falsely show the Israeli's not as the victims that they are, but as the perpetrators that they are not. And with Obama as President, they see someone who will, to be blunt, stick it to the Jews. They're waiting for this to happen. So, now, to answer your specific question: two weeks of Obama couldn't have turned average Americans into Jew-haters. If they became Jew haters all of a sudden, the only explanation would be that that anti-Jewish sentiment was in them all along. Rather, Obama's election freed them to not be afraid to express their anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli feelings. And Obama's appointment of Samantha Power proves that he's not afraid to express (in any appointment he desires) his own anti-semitic feelings. Because, let's be blunt: If you don't see Israel as the victim then you are a serious anti-semite in your heart.
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