Anti-Semitism and the Madoff Scandal
Comments on Popular Mainstream Sites
Posted: December 19, 2008
Anti-Semitic comments about the Bernard Madoff scandal appeared on popular, mainstream Web sites:
• "The greed and corruption of the Jews has brought the financial system and the American economy low," wrote Jeanrenoir on portfolio.com.
• "Ho hum, another Crooked Wall Street Jew. Find a Jew who isn't Crooked. Now that would be a story," wrote an anonymous poster on dealbreaker.com.
• "One jew thief robs another bunch of jew thieves - I suppose that's what you'd call a victimless crime," wrote XDFXDFXDF on nymag.com. "I suppose if he'd not scre*ed his fellow Jews - and robbed us poor gentiles it would've been absolutely kosher, eh?"
• "Jews ripping off jews. Priceless! haha now do the right thing Madoff and blow you brains out," wrote Avengers on nypost.com
• "Nice he could manage to send money to Isreal and pass the losses on to US investors," wrote Cbmiked on forbes.com.
• Responding to another poster who asked where the funds Madoff collected went, Guppyinthecesspooloflife wrote, "Money Heaven hmm, let me think , that'd be a underground vault somewhere in the Negev Desert in Palestine {isr-eal}," on huffingtonpost.com.
• "Well now we know…How Israeli banks have emerged unscathed as the rest of the world`s economy went into freefall," wrote Chris Linthwaite on haaretz.com.
• Patriot11 wrote on huffingtonpost.com: "What's more shameful are the charities that Madoff and peers fund... Since the uncovering of Madoff scheme, a whole underworld is now exposed. It's funny how a club can freely be called Jewish and exclusive. If it was any other way it would be again considered racist."
• An anonymous post on dealbreaker.com wrote, "Race, religion, party... None of that bullshit matters to me. People are people in my book. BUT - IT MATTERS TO THEM. From early childhood they are taught to look at the world in terms of 'Jew' or 'Other'. Thus, there will never be peace in Palestine, or anyplace to which they lay claim. In my experience, the worse thing you can assert to a hardnose JEW is that 'everyone is equal'."
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