Anti-Jewish commentary is flooding the Internet in the wake of Bernard Madoff’s arrest on charges of masterminding one of the biggest Wall Street frauds in history, campaigners said Friday. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said there had been “an outpouring of anti-Semitic comments on mainstream and extremist Web sites.”
Madoff, 70, is Jewish and a prominent member of the powerful US Jewish community. He is alleged to have defrauded investors, including a number of Jewish-related charities, of some 50 billion dollars.
“Site users have posted comments ranging from deeply offensive stereotypical statements about Jews and money — with some suggesting that only Jews could perpetrate a fraud on such a scale — to conspiracy theories about Jews stealing money to benefit Israel,” the ADL said in a statement.
“Jews are always a convenient scapegoat in times of crisis, but the Madoff scandal and the fact that so many of the defrauded investors are Jewish has created a perfect storm for the anti-Semites,” said Abraham Foxman, ADL national director.
“Nowadays, the first place Jew-haters will go is to the Internet, where they can give voice to their hateful ideas without fear of repercussions.”
Does it count when you cheat your own “people”, or is that OK?
#21
That’s because one of my goals in life is to offend as many ethnic groups as possible.
I do so love this blog when it deteriorates thusly.
#20 Gary..
-thanks for the clarification/heads-up.
i rethought the issue…
the more i thought about it -and actually *read*
what i was reading about the scam, the more it appeared that this number was pulled out of hat, -for effect.
i’m more inclined now to think the majority of those involved knew what was(nt) going on and are using the “i’m shocked to find this out” defense so as to get an easy tax write-off on the loss. -ironically, it makes pulling numbers out of thin air even more believable.
I say the frontline *victims* came in knowing they could easily use the plausible deniability
of “not knowing” coupled with madoff’s shiny reputation to make some $$ on the way in, -and on the way out when it blew up..
call me jaded but the “hide it in plain sight” approach of the last decades worth of fraud and corruption at all levels of government, law enforcement, military, banking, media and wall street, leave me with no confidence to believe anything reported even resembles the truth.
-and with the new administration *first claiming ZERO contact* with Blago’s office in the chicago senate seat scandal, they have effectively set the precedence and tone for their term….Lies and Deceit as usual. -and everyone is going along with it.
-great way to start the new year..
-s
#41 Makes sense.
#38 Haha, Bobblo is still pissed that I dissed him in a past post. Fool.