FBI crime statistics show that 68.5 percent of hate crimes motivated by religion were committed against Jews.
As our regular readers are aware, I left The Democratic Daily and started Liberal Values following Pamela’s efforts to excuse and minimalize Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic comments and history of anti-Semitism, and well as her trivialization of holocaust denial. These statistics are just one reason why this matters.
Anti-Semitism, as with racism (which accounted for the majority of hate crimes), isn’t something to rationalize or excuse. It is to be condemned. Period.
Update: At the request of another writer at The Democratic Daily I would like to repeat that this applies purely to Pamela and not any of the other writers at the blog.
Update II: Ginny has posted a response at The Democratic Daily. Her post is a highly inaccurate and dishonest spin on events but at least does bring out the point that Pamela had the goal of stopping me from posting on Mel Gibson. This was a developing story at the time with new events every day, but Pamela wanted me to stop my criticism of Gibson. Apparently, in their view, I was being myopic in seeing Gibson’s anti-Semitism as something bad. Sorry, I will not apologize for that. Nor can I condone Pamela’s initial defense of Mel Gibson, and her attacking me for sticking up for principle and condemning Mel Gibson and anti-Semitism. And yes Ginny, Pamela did edit things on the blog. and your claims to the contrary do not change reality.
I also note that, while I limited this to one issue, Pamela’s defense of Mel Gibson and her attacks on me for criticizing this, both Pamela and Ginny feel the need to both falsely cry libel and then show their true colors by adding in all sorts of personal attacks. At least it is out in the open. In a way that is better than the personal attacks they launched against me behind my back (with some notifying me) the last few months.
Ginny and Pamela have spread far too many lies about me to even attempt to respond to them all. Besides, that is not the point. The point remains sticking to principles in opposing anti-Semitism. Pamela first says she will not attack me at Democratic Daily, and then she and Ginny concoct this scheme to post a bunch of lies about me with the offer to take down their lies if I will take down my post. It’s not going to work, for while Pamela has been commenting all day, no where does she own up to her actions. No where does she acknowledge that it might have been wrong to defend Mel Gibson, that it might have been wrong to blind side me by siding with those who posted defending Gibson, that it was wrong to trivialize Holocaust denial, and that it was wrong to try to keep me from speaking out on these issues. Pamela and Ginny certainly have no qualms about trying to rewrite history and spreading a bunch of lies.
It is rather creepy that my criticism of anti-Semitism would be labeled an attack on The Democratic Daily and lead to such a barrage of personal attacks.