Note: John Hagee has blamed Jews for their own persecution, writing in "Jerusalem Countdown" that Jews "birthed" the ancient "curse" of anti-Semitism by worshiping idols, and this fleshes out that tact - by adding the claim that Hitler was "Jewish" (a discredited conspiracy theory) John Hagee has doubly implied that the Holocaust was the fault of Jews themelves, both instigated by Jews (who, Hagee says,"created" anti-Semitism in the first place) and ) perpetrated by a man who was "partly Jewish". That in turn raises the Nazi slur of Jewish "perversion", which is then fully made explicit in Hagee's claim that the anti-Christ will be a "blasphemer" and a homosexual. Hagee's delivered the coded, propagandistic message that Jews are perverted, and his sermon (referenced in the 1 minute video below) makes quite explicit the theme, common to many forms of classic anti-Semitism, that Jews are satanic and in league with the Devil.
oh my - we're up on the rec list: let the fun begin!
ACTION ITEM #1: Vote up, on Digg, Max Blumenthal's Huffington Post story
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ACTION ITEM #4: Sign J-Street petition, asking Joe Lieberman cancel his planned speech at John Hagee's 2008 CUFI conference, this summer in Washington DC.
QUOTE: "This New World Order antichrist scenario is just old anti-Jewish conspiracy theory - dressed up as biblical prophecy and waving an Israeli flag."
Why is this claim, from Hagee, anti-Semitic ?
See the material I've placed at the end of this post.
QUOTE: "Hagee and others are peddling the most vile anti-Jewish conspiracy theories in their futuristic New World Order prophecy. If they were selling this stuff out of trunk at a militia gathering we would know what to call it! But instead they dress it up as "pro-Israel" prophecy and broadcast these old conspiracy theories to millions of people and receive awards from Jewish organizations for their trouble."
Here's what can, with your help today, easily become next McCain-Hagee viral video. Along with an anonymous, highly dedicated friend and along with Max Blumenthal I've been working through the weekend, 18 hours a day, to bring this to fruition this Monday morning, June 2, 2008.
Max Blumenthal: Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, "Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler" (Paging Joe Lieberman!)
If you're a Clinton supporter, you may want to support this to fight the inevitable attacks that have been prepared in the event of a Clinton-McCain matchup, re "faith". After this one gets, with your help and support, the full media exposure it deserves NOBODY in the McCain camp will DARE to mention "FAITH" again
If you're an Obama supporter, you may want to promote this because what's contained in the video is even MORE inflammatory than John Hagee's "God Sent Hitler" statement. It's worse in it's own awful way than Hagee's The Jews themselves gave birth to historical anti-Semitism by worshiping idols claim.
Vote 'em up. Please.
And, I'm assembling this AM as you read this [working along with a friend who is probably one of the world's leading authority on the anti-Semitic nature of Christian Zionism], a press kit at Talk To Action : go there, grab materials, send those, or links to those, to all the press you can think of - and, send to all the blogs you can think of. Send to Olbermann, send to The Verdict, Send to the Daily Show. Send to the Moon and the melting North Pole. Send to Mars. But, send.
And, above all, pass it on to your friends. Call them, email them, help make this go viral wtih enough ferocity and velocity that it pops up on Countdown" and "The Verdict" tonight. It's got that potential...
It's another "Hagee said WHAT ?..."Oh my GAWD" moment.
But, it's WORSE than "God sent Hitler".
If "God sent Hitler was a '20' on the 1-10 offensiveness scale, as one commentator on Countdown said about the material in my John Hagee 'God sent Hitler' viral video, this one's more like a '30' or a '40'. Especially for the material that you'll have access too, sometime before noon today, in an adjunct, 2nd video I'm posting, which will demonstrate Hagere telling his flock that The Rothschilds, and other [Jewish] 'international financial power brokers based in in Europe', control the world economy and the American economy. Yes, you read that correctly. John Hagee says Jews pull all the strings, he suggests rich Jewish financiers are economically torturing hard-working Americans everywhere.
Did I mention, too, that John Hagee LOVES Jews ?
Yes indeed. John Hagee loves Jews to death.
The Tragedy of John Hagee's Christian Zionism:Purveyors of the Perverse Paradox
John Hagee is the perfect example of the tragedy of today's apocalyptic Christian Zionism. How is it possible that the most vehemently pro-Israel of Americans can hold such Judeophobic beliefs and spread them around the world? This is what I call the "Perverse Paradox" and Hagee is currently one of its best known worldwide purveyors. Behind the big Israeli flags and the protestations of great love for Jews, the foundation of this dispensationalist belief system is its total obsession with answering the problem of the Jewish rejection of Jesus. This obsession is pursued to the point of exclusion of other Christian doctrine. In dispensationalist theology, an elaborately detailed and futuristic prophecy timeline solves the problem as Judaism is ultimately defeated and humbled in a final bloody Holocaust, with only a repentant converted Jewish population being spared. A version of this narrative is the basis for sermons, movies, and literally millions of books sold in the last decade.
Historically philo-semitism has been a term to describe those groups that were tolerant of their Jewish population for whatever reason, whether that tolerance was based on acceptance or something less benign. However, apocalyptic philo-Semitism is not acceptance or even tolerance of the humanity of Jews or Israel; it is the other edge of the sword of anti-Semitism. Both anti-Semites and apocalyptic philo-Semites are obsessed with Jews and Judaism, and consumed with the imagined role that Jews play in world events. Both view Jews as supernatural in their abilities to alter the course of the world and both stereotype Jews in a way that suits their own goals but has little to do with Jewish reality. The difference is that dispensationalists see a possibility for eventual redemption if Jews will only fulfill their assigned role in the end-times drama, and they are driven by the belief that their generation is the one to finally bring about this miraculous transformation of Judaism.
One cannot blame previous generations of Jews for choosing apocalyptic philo-Semitism over overt anti-Semitism. Often in history there were no other choices for survival. But the great tragedy of the current relationship between some Jewish leaders and apocalyptic Christian Zionism is that there was another choice. Jews have been accepted in American society as something other than a supernatural pawn for many years. It is the humanity of American Jews which is being stripped away every time a Jewish leader stands on stage with an apocalyptic televangelist." [READ MORE
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BACK to the first video:
Listen very closely to what John Hagee says about the anti-Christ, at ~24 seconds into my 1st video.
According to John Hagee, the anti-Christ is going to be ______ , ______ and "partly _______ as was Hitler, as was Marx."
On that last bit (re 'as was Hitler, as was Marx') - that's a piece 'o conspiracy theory rubbish you can find making the rounds on thousands of anti-Semitic and Neo-Nazi sites. It might be true but there's no evidence to support it. So it's hypothetical, as in "George W. Bush might be a reptilian alien". Well, sure. Hagee's reference shows where Pastor John Hagee has been spending his research time; it suggests that Hagee wipes his brow, and his ample fundament too, with "Protocols of The Elders of Zion" toilet paper bought at his local Neo-Nazi corner store on the way to giving a sermon at the Cornerstone Church.
Back to the first video:
Listen, for the punchline, to what Joe Lieberman says about John Hagee, at the end of my video. Holy Joe!
Oh yeah, one more thing:
If any Olbermann, Verdict or Daily Show folks are reading this, last night a friend sent to me a charming photo, of John McCain, John Hagee and a random South Carolina restaurant owner and his wife, September 17 of last year.
The photo was found immediately outside a SC restaurant lavatory. A men's room. Which is, I suppose, about where it belongs. Though after this week I suspect the photo might just migrate into the men's room itself, to wind up immediately above a urinal.
hasta la vista, baby.
I have done extensive writing on the anti-Semitic aspects of John Hagee's theological views, at Talk To Action. Here is a sampling:
McCain-backer Hagee's 'Thrilling' Worldview: Rapture, Then "Holocaust"
(Bruce Wilson)
McCain Backer Hagee Envisioned "Worse Than Auschwitz" For Israeli Jews (Bruce Wilson)
AIPAC Event Helps Mainstream Allegations Of "Satanic Liberal Jewish Conspiracy" (Bruce Wilson - story details full extent of Hagee's ideological extremity)
"Pro Israel" Christian Leader Blames Jews For The Holocaust
"Be Jewish In Five Easy Days", The Twelve Tribes Of Hagee
Holocaust For Zion : CUFI's Christian Zionism Made Simple
GOP House Minority Whip Roy Blunt To Help Nuclear War Advocate
What Secret "Other Matters" Did McCain Discuss With "Apocalypse Now" Hagee ?
Dick Armey Denies Bush Administration Trying To Provoke "End Times"
AIPAC Cheers an Anti-Semitic Holocaust Revisionist (and Abe Foxman Approves) (Max Blumenthal)
Armey: Bush Believes in Tribulation, but not Trying to Make it Happen (Richard Bartholomew)
Here's the video I made which started it all:
ps - please return to this post in the next 2 hours for further action items.
ACTION ITEM #4: Read, Vote up Evan Derkacz's important, related story on the new Swiftboating campaign to smear Barack Obama as an "apostate Muslim".