By Rabbi Aryeh Spero
Abe Foxman, Director of the Anti-Defamation League, continued doing last week what he has been doing for the last two decades: finding any far-fetched excuse to attack political conservatives as anti-Semitic. On his Jan. 21 show, Rush Limbaugh opined that Obama’s current populist rage against Wall Street could result in anti-Jewish feelings inasmuch as “Wall Street” is often a code-word used by those who wish to blame economic woes on Jews. Limbaugh’s chastisement of Obama for dangerously stoking the fires was paradoxically reversed by Mr. Foxman into an indictment of Limbaugh: “He [Limbaugh] reached a new low with his borderline anti-Semitic comments about Jews on Wall Street…”
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