Sometimes I’m Embarrassed to be a Jew
Sometimes I am embarrassed to be a Jew. This is one of those times:
Last Saturday evening so-called moderate Israeli Rabbi Shlomo Riskin called President Obama Haman. Haman is the genocidal maniac of the Book of Esther. This is far more grave than merely insulting the President of the United States and, by extension, all Americans. Haman was hung and those Persians who sought to carry out his policy to exterminate the Jews were themselves exterminated. Is Riskin calling for the assignation of President Obama and the killing of those who support the deal nuclear deal with Iran? That is the implication–the dog whistle–his remarks trigger.
Is Rabbi Riskin that stupid? I don’t know. But at the very least his rhetoric has gotten the better of his reason
This is dangerous stuff.