Anti-Defamation League Condemns Ann Coulter’s Anti-Semitic Comments

The Anti-Defamation League has issued the following statement in response to Ann Coulter’s comments on Donny Deutsch’s show:

The Anti-Defamation League strongly condemns Ann Coulter for her anti-Semitic comment that Christians “want Jews to be perfected” in an interview with Donny Deutsch on CNBC’s The Big Idea. During her October 8 appearance, Coulter suggested that Jews should convert, adding that, “we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.  … That’s what Christianity is.”

Ann Coulter may be a political pundit but she clearly knows very little about religious theology and interfaith issues.  Coulter’s remarks are outrageous, offensive and a throwback to the centuries old teaching of contempt for Jews and Judaism.  The notion that Jews are religiously inferior or imperfect because they do not accept Christian beliefs was the basis for 2,000 years of church-based anti-Semitism.  While she is entitled to her beliefs, using mainstream media to espouse the idea that Judaism needs to be replaced with Christianity and that each individual Jew is somehow deficient and needs to be “perfected,” is rank Christian supersessionism and has been rejected by the Catholic Church and the vast majority of mainstream Christian denominations.

Clearly, Ann Coulter needs a wake-up call about the power of words to injure others and fuel hatred.  She needs an education, too, about the roots of anti-Semitism and the shared values of Judaism and Christianity.  Christians and Jews have worked tirelessly for more than 40 years to overcome the past and to promote a more tolerant and pluralistic vision for the future and especially for America.

Donny Deutsch is to be commended for his immediate and forceful denunciation of Coulter’s statements, for calling her remarks personally offensive, and for rightly characterizing her suggestion that Jews are inferior to Christians as anti-Semitism.

3 Comments

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    Steve Savage says:

    I think the ADL itself needs to clarify Abe Foxman’s own holocaust denial concerning the Armenian issue before they start whacking other people.
    Anyway jews have long known christians are on an endless quest to convert all of them to christianity, since they believe jews are going to hell. Not my words, theirs. I’m not religious and could care less either way.

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    Ron Chusid says:

    There has been considerable criticism of Foxman from other Jews regarding his views on the Armenian issue.

    “Anyway jews have long known christians are on an endless quest to convert all of them to christianity…”

    True of some but not others. We clearly see where Ann Coulter stands with regards to religious tolerance but this does not represent the views of all Christians.

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    Tahamonie says:

    Dont know where else to turn but this person have posted Anti-Semitic messages on his you tube page and i’ve ask you tube to remove it but have no response, Check his videos and view his explanations and you’ll find “It’s all about the SS” and “Heil Hitler” this guys handle is (wutitdo98’s)

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