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January 23rd, 2012
03:48 PM ET
Jewish newspaper’s editor resigns over Obama assassination columnBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - A Jewish newspaper owner who attracted U.S. Secret Service attention for a column suggesting that Israel consider assassinating an American president has resigned as the paper’s editor, employees there said Monday. The resignation comes after a firestorm over the column and after a tearful apology from the editor-in-chief of Georgia’s Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler. The JTA reported Monday that Adler is selling the newspaper, but the office manager, Jerry Farkas, said that was incorrect and that Adler hadn’t announced plans to sell. The paper’s newly named interim editor-in-chief, John McCurdy, said in an e-mail that he had not talked with Adler about whether he planned to sell the paper. Adler wrote a January 13 column about the threat of Iran to Israel, posing three options for the Jewish state. One was a "hit on a president in order to preserve Israel's existence." The column attracted interest from the U.S. Secret Service, with spokesman George Ogilvie saying Saturday, "We are aware of it. We are taking the appropriate investigative steps." In an interview with an Atlanta TV station on Saturday, Adler broke down as he apologized for the column. “All I could do now is let President Obama, the State of Israel, everybody affected in Atlanta’s Jewish community … (know) that I’m sincerely sorry for what has transpired,” Adler told Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters Inc., straining to choke back tears. “It’s storming outside as we speak, and I’ve always felt that when a storm happens that God’s angry with me,” Adler said. Farkas said the paper is working with the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta to find a permanent managing editor. The federation had said that it was suspending its relationship with the Atlanta Jewish Times until Adler apologized, agreed to stop writing and gave up editorial control. |
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I guess being Jewish automatically makes this a religious story. For those of you who are using the story to attack Jews, shame on you. Any person who suggests assassinating a U.S. president should be investigated and possibly punished, no matter what his religion or his occupation. Being Jewish – or being a newspaper editor – does not cause this type of behavior, and it does not excuse it.
I think it plays into the broader picture of a certain segment of Jews trying to influence American politics. Apparently their is an Israeli-based super-PAC that's funding support for Mitt Romney and taking a very decided anti-Ron Paul stance... and they're pouring hundreds of millions into advertising.
This should be illegal. Foreign nations should not be able to fund advertising, etc. for the eyes of Americans to influence American elections.
And then now this article about the guy wanting to "off" Presidents to keep funding going to Israel.
You see a pattern begin to emerge within some segments of Jews. And, yes, it's Jews. You don't see Baptists saying "Hey, we need to keep pouring billions of our tax dollars into Israel, and to hell with the poor in America".
*there ... grrrr, why is edit disabled on this site.
Actually, his being Jewish is the whole reason he wrote the story in the first place. A lot of Jews in America feel like Israel comes first, even above the needs of the country they are living in. End all financial aid to Israel NOW. They got nukes, they don't need anything else from the US.
More than 44 years ago I was a GI in the US Army. The guy next bunk was Jewish. Once in a while we used to talk. One day the Jewish guy said that, in case of conflict between Israel and USA, he wouldn't hesitate to join the Israeli Defense Force and kill me, to which I replied that he was a traitor. The guy reported me and said that I had abused him because he was Jewish and called me and the the other guys in the squad anti-semite. I have met many Jewish people in the meantime, and they all seem to think the same way the Jewish soldier. I strongly believe that Adler and many other Jewish boneheads mean what they say when they suggest the possibility to assassinate Mr. Obama to advance Israel's interests, no matter what. And they are quite prepared to raise havoc and cry anti-semitism if anyone dares to disagree with Israeli policies.
This article stands in stark contrast to the Populist notion that Jews love Obama and Israel is happy with his Administration.
Ron Paul is the only candidate who will let Israel put on their big-boy pants and deal with the snotty nations around them all by themselves. Israel is more than capable. Americans should not be funding the nation of Israel. I want my tax dollars to stay in our own backyard.
Well said.
Just another religious cult spewing their violence and hate. They are all the same, Jews, Catholics, Muslins, LDS, .............. Religion, all religion is such a menace in our society. Please keep your religion in your church and synagogues where the rest of us don't have to hear it.
Peweeeee, what stinks?
Wow. This guy is certainly a jerk but I am curious how a number of people who have commented here feel about having a president who is half black.
Good Question. They must not like it. God Bless America. And all the ignorant "folks" in it.
We are all Jews. Idiots. Your prescious Jesus was a Jew. And Hitler was a Jew. Ignorant Christians. Keep it up. See how the country thinks you conservative reps are a bunch of clowns? Because they are...along with your narrow minded god fearing wussy hypocritical belief system. Although this guy was definately a moron.
I hate all religious people and all stupid people. Is that okay?
Can we at least be accepting and tolerant of name-calling judgementalists?
@Mike: Do you enjoy your brain washing sessions? No, we are all NOT Jews. I am not a Jew. I'm white. There's no Jew to be found in my lineage, believe me, I've checked. There are millions of whites with no Jewish blood. You may be a Jew, if so, pack your a-s-s on to Israel and get out of my country.
@Stormfront No, we are all African. Dig a little deeper.
@byrd: You can pretend to be a n-i-g-g-e-r if you want to. Me, I LOVE being white.
Everyone is missing the point here. If someone takes Obama out, then we are left with Joe Biden as president. God help the country if that ever comes to pass. Joe never uses one word when thirty thousand will do. There aren't enough trees in the world to make enough paper to print out everything that comes out of his mouth. He has severe diarrhea of the mouth and all that ever comes out is crap.
It's called "logorrhea".
Why do you think Bush picked Cheney? You always pick a VP that scares the hell out of people if they were to become POTUS. McCain took this concept too far and it bit him back.
Would you prefer "Undisclosed Location" Cheney? If so, end of discussion.
What is missed in all the (rightful) expression of disgust at this editor's call for violence, is his more disgusting call for even greater violence against a whole nation. It's amazing how encapsulated and detached American thinking has become. Is it alright to advocate war and destruction of another people based on flimsy evidence planted by a terrorist organization? Wasn't international aggression and support for it the supreme crime at the Nuremberg tribunal? His call for political assassination and domestic terrorism are only one of his crimes. His warmongering is even a bigger crime!
Joe Biden would turn Israel in to the worlds largest ashtray if he found out the Mossad assassinated Barack Obama. Now if Eric Cantor was the vice president this would be a true option for Netanyahu. Eric Cantor is a threat to our national security.
I believe Your mistaken about the succession of power.
If a POTUS dies or is otherwise incapacitated to the point of inability, the next in line would be The Speaker of The House,The VPOTUS is and will allways be President of the Senate so that there is stability until such a time as a new POTUS may be elected. I think it has just such a senario mind as the one penned in the at question article.
Remeber The Founders relied upon Devine guidence to pen thier lines...
one-Your take on this sounds more like a Chinese plot than anything Isreal would want. 🙂
"It’s storming outside as we speak, and I’ve always felt that when a storm happens that God’s angry with me"
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Yeah... because every time a warm weather system meets a cold weather system, and there is resulting thunder and lighting over the heads of millions of people... it's because God is angry with "you".
Wow. Is this the 21st century AD, or BC?
its AD
Actually, many (including religious scholars) are now using C.E. (for "Common Era") instead of A.D. and B.C.E. (for Before the Common Era) instead of B.C. Not trying to make an argument, just offering some additional information. I actually agree with your basic post – the man's suggestion is completely unacceptable.
I use CE because Harod the Great died in 4 BCE and there was a Roman Cewnsus in 7 BCE, so our dating has little to do with the bitrht of Christ. (14 May 6CE)
6 BCE
I tell you what, there where three men of my family in WW2, one of them on the beach on D-Day. He never mentioned how bad it was except once during the movie "The Longest Day" when he pointed at some film footage and said "There's my boat". He started talking about the really crazy dangerous stuff in the 1980s. It took him 40 years to talk about it. He was kept alive another 52 years after WW2 because of Jew doctors, all nice gentlemen. He would have gutted any of you sweet bald tattooed Nazis and I'm sure prison treats you like the women you are. This is not your country this was his country.
I wonder if you uncle supports apartheid state of Israel???
Because while he was bleeding on beaches of France,Jewish terrorist were assassinating European peace mediators.
Funny thing,D-Day was on 6th June and Jewish terrorist assassinated 6 months later on November 6 Brit Lord Moyne.
6 6 6
You're a Jihadi, and Muslim supremacists were members of the Nazi Waffen-SS. Your kind have a lot of nerve calling any country in the world an apartheid state, you propaganda animal. Yeah, my uncle would have shot you on sight.
Hilarious! Gotta love the internet.
Why don't we finally let the arrogant trouble making Jews fend for themselves instead of supporting ,defending and arming them. I'm so sick of their ungrateful arrogance
I'm confused why we are always having to help them fend off anyone from the middle east. I'm so tired of the U.S helping Israel. What do they do for us? Nothing compared to our help to them.
Per usual, the actions of ONE Jew is causing an outcry by the anti-Semites against ALL Jews. Every major Jewish organization has condemned these remarks almost as soon as they were uttered. Unfortunately, when you're in a minority, those hateful masses are just too happy to lump every every person together. Jews do NOT want what Adler advocated.
A Jew getting away with crime and they say USA is not owned by Israel.
Fact of the matter is folks, the Jews have been out to destroy America for a long time. That's why they own American media. That's why they bought and paid for things like the 14th amendment, so that they could weaken and destroy America's ability to stop them. They have their "Samson Option" with nukes pointed at every major European city. Only white territories though, because whites can stop them.
You seem indoctrinated.
DO you REALLY believe this silliness or are you just compensating for some great damage done to you?
I am whiter than you can concieve of (and Yes by the standards espoused by the Reich) but I find such talk childish at best.
I'm 3rd gen American. Completely white European. And this is from my OWN research. I happened across Stormfront researching the effects of Zionism on American and European politics. Not only did I find boatloads of info, but also other people in Stormfront found even more than I did. It's all there.
Stormfront
Just be careful. Don't believe all you read.
The masters you serve may be as evil as those you fight.
@william: I don't believe everything I read, and the only "master" I serve is me. But there are mountains of data that support everything I've said, and nothing to refute it. Therefore, it's easily believed, since it's true.
Jews have been out to destroy America, eh? Is that why in such a small minority in population, they've helped contribute overwhelmingly to the Nobel Peace Prize winners in the world? If the Jews were so intent on "destroying America", what's taking them so long? If the Jews are in such power over the media, why did almost EVERY major media outlet (falsely) claim Israel was completely at fault for the Flotilla Incident? you're grasping at straws, conspiracy theorists.
Jews are and have always been punished for being (Gasp) too successful, and collectively too intelligent. It's jealousy that affects the world's reaction to the Jews overwhelmingly. Jews are not trying to "take over the world". They are just going about their business like EVERYONE else. Forgive them for being successful, and that it makes your own inadequacies so much more glaring.
@dtizz: you're such a good little jew brainwashed s-l-a-v-e. Keep serving your evil masters with such devotion, and enjoy the lake of fire at the end.
There are New Amsterdam Jewish families who founded this Nation. What did your family do? The American Revolution was paid for through privateerring and without these People giving up information there could be no Revolution.
Am totally and utterly horrified at the blatant anti-semitism and racism portrayed in these comments.Americans u should be ashamed.And now I see it says comments are checked. Why were these published? This is hate speech.
@gilli.. I bet you're a Jew.
it's a reaction to a perceived jewish arrogance that it's okay for non-jews to fight for israel when very few jews sign up for military service and want others to do the real fighting versus the "paper" fighting of words and ideas.
No. Hate speech is when an ethnic / religious person is suggesting to his or her community to take out the president. Go back to where you came from if you identify with that country more than the country you currently live in.
Sounds like somebody hates Americans...
This is CNN hadn't you realized that it has been hijacked by the Obama Communists. They are protecting the racists and anti-semites because they are the elites that now populate our government and our media.
Yes it is offensive. It's also free speech. If the Westboro Baptist Church is free to picket the funerals of soldiers killed in action, then other small-minded mongers of hate should be allowed to vomit forth the toxic waste that gurgles in their spider-infested minds.
So you endorse censorship?
You are not anyone I want in MY country.
You scream for protection like a Mafia don on trial, all the while playing the system like a harp.
If you read the comments that people send in on the CNN comment sections on any of these stories, even the science and religious ones, you would think Americans are the most selfish, mean-spirited people on the planet. Hopefully this does not reflect who or what we really are.
Good job, folks, this is by far the most ignorant comment feed I've come across so far this year. Way to go!!
Adler is a paranoid man, and as your own posts reveal, even a paranoid man can have enemies. Adler should resign and sell his newspaper to someone who is sane. These rest of you should also resign from your own organizations and join the small German colony in Uruguay where members of the Third Reich have lived since the 1940s trying to teach the natives to goosestep. Only real Americans should live in the USA.
My guess is that Herr Adler will just get a slap on the wrist. After most people blog about favoritism towards people like him at his trial or lack thereof, the people in power will accuse everyone who complains about his treachery as being anti-Semitic, just as they accuse ordinary, rational individuals who decry Israel's role pushing us into the war in Iraq or Tel Aviv's influence in Washington as the same, as the Senate votes 100-0 to collapse iran's economy, largely for the benefit of (the right wing in) Israel. The old 'just because the majority feels that way doesn't make it right' argument will be made, in the meantime, nobody on tv talks about how large majorities of people everywhere detest Hitler and just did what they were told during the Nazi period because the Gestapo and SS made waterboarding and Guantanamo look like torture-lite.
What would happen to an Arab or Muslim that did the same thing? Absolutely nothing. It wouldn't even be news.
Free speech allows stupid, absolutely incorrect, speculation about what someone else might consider doing. That is all Adler did, obviously stupid, obviously incorrect, but also obviously just speculation, not in any way a threat nor an incitement.
How should the government punish him? Just a slap on the wrist? Absolutely not. There is no crime, so even a slap on the wrist is too much. How should his colleagues punish him? That seems to be well under way. When a journalist says something so stupid it makes all his colleagues look bad, they should refuse to continue to work with him. Wouldn't it be nice if that reaction were more common, rather than reserved for Adler.
Somehow a "hit" on an Iranian nuclear physicist is ok, or even on some foreign leaders, but even to mention one on a US president is off limits.
Well, yes it does.
Morality serves its masters.
What is in the US best interest is in the US best interest.
As for the Jews killing the Iranian, I don't care, AS LONG as my son does not have to pick up the pieces.
Frankly I hope they slaughter each other once and for all, but my families blood will not be shed in thier religious madness.
Israel will always do whatever it deems to be in its best interest – by any means necessary.
Puzzled
Well assasinate here like you do over there, and Tel Aviv will be glowing in the dark.
Overestimate American loyalty at your own risk.
30 percent of Americans are itching to turn the whole middle east into radioactive green glass!
Don't forget that "evil zionist jew" Jesus Christ and all his evil works, dont forget all his evil jew apostles, and his evil jew mother, and his evil jew father.
Yep.
@Mycology: You do realize that Zionism didn't actually take root until the 1860's, right? During the time of Christ, the Jews left people alone, other than trading with them or being conquered by them.
Mycology.
Many believe Christianity is the most evil creation of Judaisim.
The Christians tried to kill them, and then out of guilt elevated them to a protected status.
The family dysfunction amongst the children of Abraham has been the root of all evil since.
A pox on all of their houses.
LMAO @Mycology You should have chosen the name Mythology because that exactly what all the 'persons' you just named are. Good luck with that. 🙂
Good..he should resign.
Now deport him.
Then bulldoze his families houses and deny his children work visas.
Then let him convert scheckels in an open air bazar in the West Bank.
Pig traitor.
I, and other White Nationalists, keep attempting to educate people on the slimy snakes Jews really are. They manipulate and lie about everything. Through the ADL, AIPAC, and the SPLC, they've managed to get being white almost outlawed in a white country. It's time to stand up, and tell our government to get rid of the Jews and the Jewish influence! Appropriate their US holdings, revoke their US citizenship (since their only actual loyalty is to Zionist Israel), and ship them back to Israel!
I caution you.
Zionisim is evil. Israeli policy is evil, but the whole "condemn the Jews for all the ills of the world" was run up the flag pole once in the past.
It killed 40 million, and accomplished nothing.
@William: I don't want to kill them. I just want them all shipped back to Israel. Preferably along with their traitor sympathizers.
No
"I just want them all shipped back to Israel."
You do realize that they were here before there ever was a State of Israel right?
@Entil'Za: Apparently the Jews didn't like my last post, since they stopped me from posting truth.
Anyway, I don't care. Their loyalty is to their own and Israel, and nothing else. They have no reason to BE loyal, since this is NOT their home. They need to go to Israel and leave the rest of us alone.
Stormfront- "Anyway, I don't care. Their loyalty is to their own and Israel, and nothing else. They have no reason to BE loyal, since this is NOT their home. They need to go to Israel and leave the rest of us alone."
What you mean is that you didn't think about the fact there was no Israel prior to 1948 and yet Jews have lived here as citizens since the very beginning of our nation.
No one has a reason to be loyal to here under your thinking. Some of my ancestors are Irish but I'm not part of the IRA. Some were catholic but I don't follow the pope.
You logic under this topic is faulty at best.
You keep doing that storm, meanwhile we will keep educationg people on what slimy snakes white supremacists are.
ur a bigot,and if u send back the Jews u could say good buy too all the best doctors in the united states because most of them are Jewish, u could say good buy to prosperity once and for all because without the Jews this country is worthless and poor, so ut a stupid bigot,and anti Semite. and hope u leave the united states and leave the Jews behind.
You and most people posting are just simply ignorant racists and isolationists....I wonder if your mother is just horrible ignorant, ashamed, or evil
Just and right will always prevail over hatred and ignorance...enjoy the time you have left dinghole 🙂
Signed,
The good and fair minded citizens of Earth
the Jews are far Superior then u white nationalist ,they are at the forefront of science,technology ,philanthropy,whereas u white nationalist are just some stupid anti Semites
I would ask you major malfunction, but it's pretty obvious. Hate is corrosive to the holder.
Nice grammar mistakes, too. Makes you sound like a hard-core "researcher" of the Zionist conspiracy. It's good to know that when I see that alcoholic with a few teeth at the liquor store, this is what he has to look forward to when getting to a keyboard. All you are is white trash. It's all you'll ever be.
Someone's tin foil hat has obviously cut off their blood supply above the brain stem.
Mr. Stormfront you are in no position to tell anyone to leave....thats up to the Native Americans and you would be the first to rebuild the Mayflower and sail back to your ancestral land.
@Cammie Thanks, you beat me to the punch. It's funny how these so called 'white nationalists/white supremacists' have selective memory. @Stormfront....At best, you are a self-loathing degenerate. I realize you have nothing to offer the world but hate and that it is pointless to hope for more from your lot.... but.....still...*sign*.....we hope.
An interesting article, but why has a story about an American citizen recommending that a foreign country assassinate a sitting president of the United States been put in a religion blog rather than in an international or national news section?
Because he's a k-i-k-e, and anything else is "anti-semitism."