T. Belman. The Left is doing its utmost to smear Bannon as an antisemite. This article from the Jewish Journal struggles to make the case but in my opinion fails miserably. The case relies upon anonymous accusations which prove nothing. It talks of five things you have to know. but as you read each of the five things there is no evidence of antisemitism except potentially his alleged remarks regarding Jews when choosing a middle school for his girls. Come now, is that the best you got.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called him “hostile to core American values.” the article says. Greenblatt I am sure assumes that American values are his values and that anyone who reject these values is unAmerican. The election of Donald Trump who espoused contrary values proves otherwise. The values of the left have been rejected as American values.
Finally the author refers to Breitbart as “a site steeped in conspiracy theories that has featured the white supremacist, anti-Semitic ideologies of the so-called alt-right.”, without giving proof thereof.
On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump appointed Stephen Bannon to be his chief strategist. Before joining Trump’s campaign, Bannon was the chairman of Breitbart News, a site steeped in conspiracy theories that has featured the white supremacist, anti-Semitic ideologies of the so-called alt-right. Bannon has also been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks himself.
The Anti-Defamation League slammed Bannon’s appointment; CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called him “hostile to core American values.”
Here are five things you need to know about Bannon, who will have the president’s ear.
Bannon’s site ran multiple columns accused of anti-Semitism.
Breitbart News, one of the most vociferously pro-Trump outlets during the presidential campaign, has been accused of racism and Islamophobia. Jewish critics have also accused it of anti-Semitism.
In May, Breitbart ran a column with a headline calling anti-Trump conservative writer Bill Kristol a “renegade Jew.” The column, by conservative activist David Horowitz, said Kristol led a “small but well-heeled group of Washington insiders” who aimed to undermine Trump, even though he won the nomination. Horowitz, himself Jewish, also accused Kristol’s plan of putting Israel in danger by enabling Hillary Clinton to win the election. (Defenders noted that the article was defending Jewish interests, despite the provocative title.)
In September, Breitbart ran another column accusing a Jewish anti-Trump writer, the Washington Post’s Anne Applebaum, of helping orchestrate “attempts to impose a globalist worldview upon citizenries that reject it” alongside a coalition that included George Soros — a favorite Jewish target of the alt-right.
“Hell hath no fury like a Polish, Jewish, American elitist scorned,” the column continued.
Breitbart has failed to remove some blatantly anti-Semitic comments, including one that says “Heil Hitler,” below the column.
Bannon allegedly called Jews “whiny brats.”
His ex-wife claimed in a sworn statement in 2007 that Bannon made three separate anti-Semitic remarks when they were choosing a school for their daughters. The ex-wife, who also accused Bannon of attacking her, made the statement during divorce proceedings.
In one instance, according to NBC News, Bannon asked a school director “why there were so many Hanukkah books in the library.” At another school, the ex-wife said, Bannon “asked me if it bothered me that the school used to be in a temple. I said no and asked why he asked … he did not respond.”
At a third school, The Archer School for Girls, Bannon “went on to say the biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend. He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats’ and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.”
Bannon’s spokeswoman denied the allegations in a statement to NBC News.
“At the time, Mr. Bannon never said anything like that and proudly sent the girls to Archer for their middle school and high school educations,” she said.
In addition to the anti-Semitism allegations, an article in the left-wing Mother Jones magazine called him “a champion of the most ardent anti-Muslim extremists” because he brought anti-Muslim guests on his radio show.
Bannon called Breitbart the mouthpiece of the white nationalist alt-right movement.
While still at Breitbart, Bannon told Mother Jones, “We’re the platform for the alt-right,” in an August interview. The alt-right — a loose movement that has gained prominence during this election season — promotes white nationalism and has been accused of being racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic.
The alt-right, short for alternative right, “encompasses a range of people on the extreme right who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of forms of conservatism that embrace implicit or explicit racism or white supremacy,” according to the ADL. “People who identify with the alt-right regard mainstream or traditional conservatives as weak and impotent, largely because they do not sufficiently support racism and anti-Semitism.”
Joel Pollak, a Breitbart editor who is Jewish, defended Bannon in a comment Monday on Facebook, calling the allegations against Bannon a “smear.” His post also said Bannon is someone “without a shred of antisemitic prejudice, who worked closely with Jews and started a pro-Israel website.”
Bannon has links to the European populist right.
In addition to promoting right-wing populism in America, Bannon has links to right-wing populist parties in Europe. He invited Marion Le Pen, a rising star in the French far-right National Front party, to work with Trump. National Front leaders once espoused anti-Semitism, but when Marine Le Pen — Marion’s aunt — became its leader, she made an effort to rid the party of its anti-Semites, including her father, the party’s founder. Now the National Front focuses on opposing immigration and the European Union.
In addition, Bannon has links to Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, a far-right party in Britain. Farage was Bannon’s guest at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference, a premier American conservative confab.
Republicans have decried Bannon’s appointment.
Just because Bannon will be advising the next Republican president doesn’t mean all Republicans like him.
On Sunday, Republican strategist John Weaver called Bannon part of the “racist, fascist extreme right”:
The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office. Be very vigilant America.
And former Republican strategist Ana Navarro called him a “white supremacist, anti gay, anti Semite, vindictive, scary-ass dude.”
Oh, hell! White supremacist, anti gay, anti Semite, vindictive, scary-ass dude named Senior Strategist. After vomiting, be afraid, America. https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/797915882206859264 …
Reince Priebus, Trump’s incoming chief of staff, defended Bannon from the allegations on “Good Morning America.”
“I don’t know where that comes from. That’s not the Steve Bannon that I know,” Preibus said. “I have sat with him for months. I have never, ever, at one time, experienced that.”
Felix Quigley Said:
You are completed off base in-regards everything you said about Preibus and what his job will entail.
@ bernard ross:
Watch out for the input and influence of Jared Kushner his son in law……. He was against Christy because Christy prosecuted and jailed his father and looks like he won Christy demoted if not out in the cold maybe an ambassador appointment to Mongolia???
@ bernard ross:
Priebus did as much or more to win the election for Trump. He did his job over and above expectations to aid Trump. He has proven his mettle and loyalty over his “friend” Ryan, Note: in politics their are no friendships.
Felix Quigley Said:
Wrong and that negates all your other suppositions.
Let me get this right or wrong. Is Priebus in charge of filling all the posts about few thousands that staff this Trump going forward executive? These people will be coming from everywhere and will be either the Breitbart types or sympathetic to, or they will be the Paul Ryan types.
It is obvious to me by a google search that Priebus is a nobody, a nothing, just a slimy bureaucrat of the type of Joseph Stalin, who was a nothing pre 1922, but who had a sublime ability to work behind the scenes and put his cronies into position. And pretty soon they came out of the woodwork.
One thing may be happening. mentally Trump may be exhausted. He has endured terrible abuse in America and Europe. He may be settling for too little. From my google searches Priebus in so far as he is anything is a poodle of Paul Ryan who is the greatest enemy that Trump now has, far greater than Obama and Clinton because they are defeated. The real enemies now are inside the republican party. Who close to Trump understands this? Bannon does but who else. They are the ones who should be filling these positions and not the Prickus”!
@ bernard ross:
@ bernard ross:
Perceptive.
Felix Quigley Said:
Why
1- he can have sought to tie Priebus into a job duty to implement his agenda. If Priebus tries to sabotage him it must be covert because if not he will be violating his duties of employment. Trump knows how to play the covert game and shock his adversaries.
2- He needs someone to deal with congressional members on his behalf who can relate to the establishment while at the same time being employed to carry out his wishes.
3- a good way to neutralize a threat is to employ him in a detailed job that gives him no time for other activities
4- Sometimes executives give an enemy “a basket to carry water”… a job at which they will fail, like hillary given sos by obama. However in this case I dont think trump is doing that.. I think he is giving him a job to do according to his qualifications while keeping him on a leash which will mitigate any damage he might be capable of doing.
my perspective is that he chose priebus to liaison with congress to execute his agenda AND carry out all the formal details with which he would not want to deal. He wants to tell him what to do and have him implement his agenda. However, I expect obstruction to come back on the trade and gop estab donor issues.
I see Bannon as his liason to the public and media and a trusted advisor who will be in on all the meetings to give his perspective
I dont like the appt of priebus but it will tie him into a job description to implement Trumps agenda… I expect Priebus will deal with the speaker and the members of congress which Trump would only want to bother with if there are problems. Trump will have his back door open to his trusted confidants in the houses.
Its not about symbols, Trump has created a 3 point triangle rather than a two point line. Trump is the head of the triangle and like a corporation will expect his two underlings to implement his instructions. He will also have Pence, Sessions and others in the cabinet for advice and implementation.
I expect that Trump is familiar with structures of executive power…. including the politics both overt and covert. He showed an uncanny knack for a very original covert campaign to dethrone ALL the experts. My approach with Trump is a wait and see because I have decided that the clown is much smarter than me. I look at what he does and then try to figure it out from what I think is his perspective as that of a person who seeks to accomplish goals. The other perspective, which I have not ruled out, is that he can be another fake. At this point though I consider him sincerely out to implement what he can of his goals. I dont expect him to get it all done or even as originally described…. I expect him to have flexibility.. and even to shift if necessary like a businessman and developer does when his goals appear to be too difficult to meet.
However, I expect that he will stem the flood of migrants that obama and hillary sought to import, that he will try to deport as many criminals as possible, that he will build a wall/fence, that he will attempt to roll back muslim intrusion into gov, that he will attempt to establish immigration control in the un cooperative sanctuary cities where Soros is funding political rebellion, and other related issues. On TPP I expect the GOP to fight… either it will be a revised bill or he can veto it and join with cooperative democrats on that issue…. its a vague area where his capitalist and deal making side might prevail and he ends up going along with it, I hope he kills it and goes only for bilateral treaties with no foreign 3rd party supervisory entities. On Israel, I think he will be the best the nationalists could have ever hoped for.
TRUMP CHOOSING PRIEBUS IS A MAJOR BETRAYAL OF HIS FOLLOWERS ESPECIALLY WORKING CLASS FOLLOWERS
It has been a major blow to the Trump movement for change for which so many American workers trusted that Trump picks Priebus as his number one man and not a modern patriotic fighter like Steve Bannon.
Priebus is obviously the old Republican Party that was nearly as disastrous as Obama.
i cannot see how this sneak Priebus is going to be anything other than a betrayer.
Do not get me wrong the victory over Clinton has been no less than vital.
But going forward why did Trump pick this real enemy of the movement of the past year and a half.
It makes no sense…as the following exchange makes clear Priebus was an enemy of Trump:
TRUMP HAS BETRAYED STEVE BANNON, BREITBART AND INFOWARS
During his Monday, November 14 broadcast, Boston-based radio talker Howie Carr asked the firebrand In Trump We Trust author what she thought of the recent decision to put on his staff both current GOP chairman Reince Priebus and the man the media seems to fear most, Stephen Bannon.
“I think it’s quite brilliant,” Coulter said. “I’m very impressed with Trump and this decision.”
Coming from this total reactionary Ann Coulter that stood behind the Bush war of 2003 we need to take care.
So Coulter is then very impressed with Trump putting Priebus in charge of all the hiring. While Bannon is an “advisor”.
What if the hiring turns out to be critical 3 months from now when we want to put Obama and Clinton in jail? Is there a sell-out here done by Trump with his previous friend Clinton.
I think that Trump did not want to take the heat by putting Bannon in the number one position. He may have changed as he was in the First debate. He may be a coward…time will tell.
I think furthermore that Trump has intentionally put Bannon in the firing line for attacks from the old republican party establishment.
This one action by Trump is a big warning sign. He has not been loyal to Bannon who won him the election. He has effectively set him up.
Postscript…I supported Trump to beat Obama/Clinton and that victory has served its purpose. if Clinton had won she would have ended America through illegal immigration and aimed for nuclear war with Putin. This is a different matter. The gain of the election victory is a vital gain…but this poses immediate danger.
they want trump to appoint their establishment GOP so they can sabotage his platforms and revert back to all their globalist agenda of TPP, HB visascams, firing american workers, bringing in cheap migrant labor, trickle down economy. They might succeed. Just as the estab GOP joined with the dems in the smears against trump they will also join with the dems to smear his appointments and agenda.
a fraudulent org pretending to represent Jewish agenda in order to collect donations from Jews while instead being funded by muslim orgs and nations to fight islamaphobia. the ADL long ago stopped doing anything for Jews but token declarations. In this case they are likely getting grants from one of Soros orgs like Jstreet.
pure baloney, I read it all the time… what can be said of Jews who should be aware of the heinous power of lies and libels… and how those libels murder and pogrom. Trump and other political organs have been smeared by leftist jews in the same manner that medieval blood libels incited pogroms. Riots, threats of assasination, threats of rape… all these are incited by those libels which are facilitated by leftist Jews. Leftist Jews in Israel spread the same libels about Israel and are responsible for all the revenge stabbings and murders of diaspora Jewish children.