David Horowitz Defends Ann Coulter In Jew Scandal
World Net Daily:
While Ann Coulter faces charges of anti-Semitism for stating in an interview Christians are “perfected Jews” and wishing everyone would convert to her faith, at least one well-known Jewish political pundit wonders what the fuss is over traditional doctrine.
David Horowitz, editor of Front Page Magazine, says in his blog today he’s received “a surprising number of e-mails from friends basically asking ‘What are you going to do about Coulter?’”
“My response is this,” Horowitz writes, “What else would a Christian hope for? That’s the message of the New Testament: Jesus came to fulfill, complete, perfect the Law. If you’re a Christian, that’s what you believe.”
The controversy began when Media Matters, a pro-Democrat lobby headed by David Brock, noted Coulter’s appearance on CNBC’s “The Big Idea” with host Donny Deutsch. Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton recently claimed credit for helping to launch Media Matters.
As WND reported, the National Jewish Democratic Council this week called on “mainstream media outlets” to stop inviting Coulter as a guest commentator and pundit and strongly condemned her comments.
The Anti-Defamation League issued a statement today condemning Coulter for “anti-Semitic” comments, saying 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 ADL said. “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.”
But Horowitz wonders why Jews in pluralist America should be offended.
“If you don’t accompany this belief by burning Jews who refuse to become perfected at the stake why would any Jew have a problem?” he writes. “Why do some Jews think that Christians should not really believe what they believe while it’s okay for Jews to really believe they are God’s Chosen People? I don’t get it. Whatever happened to the pluralism of ideas?”
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The ADL must not have gotten the memo -
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the
prophets and stones those who are
sent to it! How often have I desired to
gather your children together as a hen
gathers her brood under her wings,
and you were not willing!”
October 13th, 2007 at 9:08 amMr Horowitz is correct…and I saw the interview last night.
Deutch is a doof. Ann was looking mighty sharp as always. She said nothing that was anti-semetic. If the ADl wants to go after an anti-semetic group or person, try CAIR or one of the other unindicted co-conspirators who hate Jews. Ann Coulter isn’t one of them. If she was such an anti-semite then why would she be a contributor to the International Fellowship Of Christians and Jews? Rabbi Eckstein’s group does phenominal work feeding, and looking after older holocost survivers and helping the diaspora to achieve Aliya.
Seems to me that any reference by Christians to their roots in Judaism, will always be taken out of context. It’s as if the leftist Jews are Muslims?
Lighten up ADL. There’s nothing to see here. Go home already … you schmucks.
October 13th, 2007 at 11:59 am“Christians consider themselves perfected Jews”, it’s like saying Christian’s favorite Jew is Christ. Jews are Jew Part One, Christians are Jew Part Two. Ann does not have an anti-Semetic bone in her skinny little body. She doesn’t have any room for anything like that.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:21 pmIt always gets me how Ann Coulter can get “them” (left) going faster and hotter than the whole of radical Islam x 10.
Yeah, you must ponder and understand what Ann’s true meaning is in her statement. (Raised a Catholic from birth I have never forgotten Christ was a Jew. Hence, I have always thought of myself, my faith, as based in the Jewish faith … and therefore comes my unfailing devotion and dedication … a connection.)
Yet, the statements of the jihadis, radical Islamists, Islamo-Fascists, the president of Iran, and loads of antiwar left-roids in our own country NEVER mince words when conveying their true meaning and intention for Israel and Jews …
October 14th, 2007 at 7:22 am