Fareed Zakaria gives back award to ADL in protest

[YumYum]

I wonder if Fareed's career will survive this, or will he be playing dominoes with Helen Thomas?

Fareed Zakaria's Letter to the ADL


Dear Mr. Foxman,

Five years ago, the ADL honored me with its Hubert Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize. I was delighted and moved to have been chosen for it in good measure because of the high esteem in which I hold the ADL. I have always been impressed by the fact that your mission is broad – “to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens” – and you have interpreted it broadly over the decades. You have fought discrimination against all religions, races, and creeds and have built a well-deserved reputation.

That is why I was stunned at your decision to publicly side with those urging the relocation of the planned Islamic center in lower Manhattan. You are choosing to use your immense prestige to take a side that is utterly opposed to the animating purpose of your organization. Your own statements subsequently, asserting that we must honor the feelings of victims even if irrational or bigoted, made matters worse.

This is not the place to debate the press release or your statements. Many have done this and I have written about it in Newsweek and on my television show – both of which will be out over the weekend. The purpose of this letter is more straightforward. I cannot in good conscience hold onto the award or the honorarium that came with it and am returning both. I hope that it might add to the many voices that have urged you to reconsider and reverse your position on this issue. This decision will haunt the ADL for years if not decades to come. Whether or not the center is built, what is at stake here is the integrity of the ADL and its fidelity to its mission. Admitting an error is a small price to pay to regain your reputation.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/06/fareed-zakaria-s-letter-to-the-adl.html

[00_Pete]

He will survive simply because the ADL are nobodies next to the Big Dogs.

If the Big Dogs told him to shove the award up his arse he would do it.

[YumYum]

He will survive simply because the ADL are nobodies next to the Big Dogs.

If the Big Dogs told him to shove the award up his arse he would do it.

I am assuming that who you call the "Big Dogs" are the Jewish bankers...right? Why would Jewish Big Dogs let him insult the ADL?

[00_Pete]

I am assuming that who you call the "Big Dogs" are the Jewish bankers...right? Why would Jewish Big Dogs let him insult the ADL?

The Elite are both jew and gentiles. You are talking about the same group of people that created nazi Germany and let the jews of europe get kicked by the national-socialist steel-toe boot. This "lower" jews are nothing to them.

Bundy family, Bush family, Rockefeller family, DuPont...etc...every bit as powerful as the jewish families.

The "its the jews" explanation is popular because it provides an easy answer but the reality shows a different picture.

[jmdrake]

Way to go Fareed! I will no longer consider him a hyper-douche.

Anyway, he'll survive. Obama came out against those attacking the Mosque. So the "powers that be" are allowing their servants to disagree on this issue.

[jmdrake]

The Elite are both jew and gentiles. You are talking about the same group of people that created nazi Germany and let the jews of europe get kicked by the national-socialist steel-toe boot. This "lower" jews are nothing to them.

Bundy family, Bush family, Rockefeller family, DuPont...etc...every bit as powerful as the jewish families.

The "its the jews" explanation is popular because it provides an easy answer but the reality shows a different picture.

True. Zionist Jews even cooperated with Hitler prior to World War II in order to undermine a worldwide Jewish boycott of Germany that might have brought Hitler to his knees. And this information comes from a Jewish run historical site that supports Zionism.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Black.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/Zionism_Is_Not_Racism.html

[johngr]

The Elite are both jew and gentiles. You are talking about the same group of people that created nazi Germany and let the jews of europe get kicked by the national-socialist steel-toe boot. This "lower" jews are nothing to them.

Bundy family, Bush family, Rockefeller family, DuPont...etc...every bit as powerful as the jewish families.

The "its the jews" explanation is popular because it provides an easy answer but the reality shows a different picture.

When I saw the movie, Defamation, I could not shake the impression that Abe Foxman knew exactly what Mr Shamir was doing.

[LibertyVox]

Fareed returned the award back to ADL. Smart move. Zakaria is not a media media whore. But he is a very typical establishmentarian pauper(he is afterall one of the editors of Newsweek).

Pro corporatism, pro WTO and NAFTA.
Not ADL, but a definite Trilateralist and Council on Foreign Relations.
Pro-interventionist (ofcourse when he believes intervention would do good), .....such as Iraq.
Represents a Democratic party demographic. And sure enough supported Obama.
In short, and as said before, a very typical leftist MSM reporter, and an extremely mediocre one at that.
The press (and the neocons) love to spotlight him whenever they need some insider mozlim perspective on things ==> (implies that) he's a full blown charlatan.

In short, I don't think a typical Paultard would consider him an admirable voice. Not in the least. Not at all.


fo' gawd sakes peepul.

[LibertyVox]

From ADL's website: http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Mise_00/5828_00.htm


In a letter received today, Mr. Zakaria indicated that while he was "delighted" to receive the award then, he could not "in good conscience hold onto the award" after learning of the League's decision to urge the relocation of the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero.

"I am not only saddened but stunned and somewhat speechless by your decision to return the ADL Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize you accepted in 2005," Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, wrote in a letter responding to Mr. Zakaria.

That's rather silly. Zakaria-- who wouldn't know the meaning of liberty if it rammed him in the u-know-where-- refused the award not because of the simple principle of the thing but probably because ADL's stand offended his sensibilities. I guess he has to keep up with his progressive mozlim starlight image. But then again, Zakaria sees individuals in groups (and hyphens and minority/majority etc. clap trap). No wonder Mr. Foxman is so deeply shocked at Zakaria's refusal ("Why my fellow Goniff why??" :( ) .


Mr. Foxman said he hoped that Mr. Zakaria "will come to see that ADL acted appropriately" and would reclaim the award bestowed upon him.

You hope right Mr. Foxman. Afterall, disagreements are not uncommon between friends now, are they? There there. :) (smiley face)

[james1906]

CFR shill Zakaria can't come off as a total patsy.

[johngr]

When I saw the movie, Defamation, I could not shake the impression that Abe Foxman knew exactly what Mr Shamir was doing.

If I'm right it could mean that elite Jewry has learned something from their past mistakes and is becoming unusually self-critical in an attempt to tame the potential tiger they again have by the tail.

[LibertyVox]

True. Zionist Jews even cooperated with Hitler prior to World War II in order to undermine a worldwide Jewish boycott of Germany that might have brought Hitler to his knees. And this information comes from a Jewish run historical site that supports Zionism.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Black.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/Zionism_Is_Not_Racism.html

But so did Gandhi, Nehru and the Indian Cogress.

[BlackTerrel]

Good for him. I would have done the same thing.


Way to go Fareed! I will no longer consider him a hyper-douche.

Anyway, he'll survive. Obama came out against those attacking the Mosque. So the "powers that be" are allowing their servants to disagree on this issue.

What makes you think the "powers that be" are against the Mosque? Last I heard the Mosque was going ahead despite strong disapproval from the majority of Americans.

[jmdrake]

But so did Gandhi, Nehru and the Indian Cogress.

Reference? Anyway, that's irrelevant. Gandhi wasn't Jewish and Hitler did nothing to indicate he was coming after the Hindus. In fact he was in part influenced by a Hindu priestess. Did you just throw in this random factoid for noise? :confused:

The most I can find is a reference to two letters Gandhi wrote to Hitler where he referred to Hitler as "my friend". But Gandhi addressed everybody as friend. Further in the first letter written in 1939, he said that Hitler was the only one who could avoid dragging the world into war and implored him to do so. In the second letter written in 1940, he said told Hitler that he (Hitler) had done some "monstrous things" and implored Hitler to change his ways. How you can equate that to Zionists cutting a deal to undermine a boycott against Hitler organized by their own people is beyond me.

http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/fascism/gandhihitler.html

[LibertyVox]

Reference? Anyway, that's irrelevant. Gandhi wasn't Jewish and Hitler did nothing to indicate he was coming after the Hindus. In fact he was in part influenced by a Hindu priestess. Did you just throw in this random factoid for noise? :confused:

HI. Yeah.

The point was that zionists weren't the only ones who made alliances of convenience or subterfuge. Gandhi's batshit views on what jews should've done in front of Hitler were insane and idiotic. He was a die hard socialist and so were most of the Congress nationalists. Nehru/Gandhi were actually the bane of a classical liberal---they were Fabian socialists.
Zionists too were mostly socialists. Most of the nationalist movements for self rule that emerged in the colonial word (with very few exceptions) lacked an enlightened leadership.

[jmdrake]

Good for him. I would have done the same thing.



What makes you think the "powers that be" are against the Mosque? Last I heard the Mosque was going ahead despite strong disapproval from the majority of Americans.

Did you not understand what I wrote? I said the powers that be are allowing their servants to disagree on the issue. I never said what the position of the powers that be are one way or another.

[jmdrake]

HI. Yeah.

The point was that zionists weren't the only ones who made alliances of convenience or subterfuge. Gandhi's batshit views on what jews should've done in front of Hitler were insane and idiotic. He was a die hard socialist and so were most of the Congress nationalists. Nehru/Gandhi were actually the bane of a classical liberal---they were Fabian socialists.
Zionists too were mostly socialists. Most of the nationalist movements for self rule that emerged in the colonial word (with very few exceptions) lacked an enlightened leadership.

1) You still haven't provided a reference.

2) Why shouldn't he have formed an alliance with Hitler? We formed an alliance with Stalin.

3) You're missing the point with respect to the Zionists. Hitler didn't have any writings (to my knowledge) publicly calling Indians a threat to Germany. He had done that with the Jews. So the Zionists were working against the interests of their own people. The most you have on Ghandi (again without providing a reference) is that he (supposedly) from an alliance for the sake of his own people. (After all the main enemy to the Indians at that time were the British.

4) You're starting to sound incoherent.