Republican Web Site Airs Vile Anti-Semitism
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'GOPUSA' Internet Site Suddenly Deletes Column Calling George Soros 'Descendant of Shylock'
An opinion column displayed earlier this week on the Internet site of GOPUSA engaged in virulent anti-Semitism while condemning international philanthropist and financier George Soros. The editorial was written under the byline of 'Sartre,' the pen name of James Hall a self-described 'former political operative.' Under the headline 'Satan Lives in George Soros,' Hall writes, "The fiction which is interdependency has a prolocutor in the congregation of Moloch. His name is George Soros. No other single person represents the symbol and the substance of Globalism more than this Hungarian-born descendant of Shylock. He is the embodiment of the Merchant from Venice. ...If Soros is correct when he says a 'supremacist ideology' guides the White House, what would you call the practices of the archfiend of Free Enterprise? The Soros deception would make Shylock proud. ... [I]t's not about anti-Semitism! [Outgoing Malaysian Prime Minister] Mahathir Mohammad was just stating the truth...."
Hall's column appears weekly at the GOPUSA Internet site. Under the motto 'Bringing the Conservative Message to America,' GOPUSA.com regularly features leading conservative writers such as Linda Chavez, David Horowitz and Alan Keyes. According to the Internet site, a GOPUSA Washington conference earlier this month was scheduled to hear from confirmed speakers such as Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Representatives Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and Steve King (R-IA), the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, the Campaign Manager for Bush-Cheney '04, the Communications Director for House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and former Representative Bob Barr (R-GA), among others. Without explanation, GOPUSA which itself is not formally linked to the GOP suddenly removed the page featuring Hall's November 17th article sometime on November 18th, though the text remains at the author's Internet site.
"Suddenly deleting such vile anti-Semitism from this Republican site with no explanation, and no apology simply won't cut it. Virulent anti-Semitism causes very real damage, and GOPUSA must acknowledge this," said National Jewish Democratic Council Executive Director Ira N. Forman. "While nothing can make up for originally providing a forum for this screed, a first step must be for GOPUSA to issue an apology. GOPUSA must also explain how this could possibly happen in an organization that bills itself as the megaphone for the conservative Republican movement and how this could happen in an organization that is supported by major GOP representatives and leaders at all levels, including the White House, the Bush-Cheney campaign, the Senate and the House. GOPUSA must at an absolute minimum sever its relationship with this obviously unacceptable author."
"We say it so often now that it has become utterly cliché, but in the face of the supposed all-out Republican effort to attract Jewish voters, I will say it once more: If this is the Republican idea of Jewish outreach, then I'd hate to see what antagonism looks like," Forman added.
