Jimmy Carter is being universally honored since his death last week, and I find this revolting. The wrinkled-up do-gooder was a disgusting antisemite who at his core combined medieval antisemitism with new wave leftist hatred of the Jewish state. For decades Carter taught antisemitic bible lessons in his weekly Sunday school classes. He often broke out the old dishonest trope of how Jews were Christ-killers. The Jews never crucified anybody…that was the Roman method of execution. If the Jews wanted to execute Jesus, they would’ve stoned him to death, like they allegedly did to his brother, James. This false accusation was an excuse for antisemitic mobs to mass murder Jews for 2 thousand years. Carter falsely claimed Jews had Jesus executed because he threw the moneychangers out of the temple. Note how this false accusation ties Jews with money–another antisemitic trope. Romans used crucifixion to execute people they deemed politically threatening to their rule, and his execution had nothing to do with his actions in the temple, if it ever even happened. Carter wrongly taught that Jews feel superior to Gentiles and hate them. This is not true, but Jesus did express superiority to Gentiles, something Carter never acknowledged, if he was aware of it. Carter claimed Jews used ritual sacrifice as an excuse not to take care of their parents–total nonsense. Finally, he tied his false claim of a Jewish superiority complex to the way Israel treats the Arabs who are trying to kill them.
Carter clearly hated Jews, and he vented his hatred in a book he wrote that wrongly libeled the Jewish state as practicing apartheid. The title of the book is Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. Obviously, Israel does try to keep Jew-killing terrorists separate from Jewish victims of terrorism. That is self-defense…not apartheid. Carter admits in his book that Israel is not really an apartheid state, yet he left the dishonest smear in the title. He doesn’t even define apartheid in his book and only uses the word 3 times. It’s clear he wanted to make Israel a pariah state, like South Africa was for a decade, to economically punish the Jewish state because they are defending themselves from terrorists. Arabs are elected to the Knesset (Israel’s legislative body), and over 30,000 Arabs serve in the Israeli Defense Forces. That is not apartheid.
Carter vented his hatred of Jews by writing a dishonest book about the Jewish state. This book was riddled with lies, inaccuracies, and unfair cheap shots. Critics and historians panned the book, and Carter blamed the “Jewish-controlled media” for the criticisms. Sounds like typical neo-Nazi antisemitism.
Carter’s book was praised by neo-Nazis. If you write a book that is praised by neo-Nazis, you are an antisemite.
Carter expressed sympathy for Hamas, a terrorist group dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state. He openly called for the U.S. to recognize Hamas as the leaders of the Palestinian people. Anyone supporting a terrorist group that wants to wipe out Jews is clearly an antisemite. Carter supported the BDS movement, an antisemitic organization that wants to economically punish Israel with boycotts for simply existing. Why does he single out the Jewish state? Why didn’t Carter call for boycotting China and other countries that actually do violate human rights? It’s just another excuse to take cheap shots at the Jewish state. Carter was visibly angry once when a reporter asked him, if he thought Arabs were in any way responsible for the violence in the Middle East. He claimed just the Jews were responsible. Sounds like Mel Gibson, the antisemitic actor. Here is a historical fact: Arabs began the violence between them and the Jews in this region about 100 years ago when Muslim gangs massacred Jewish villages.
Carter blamed his 1980 landslide loss in the Presidential election to Ronald Reagan on the Jews. He lost because he was a very weak President who presided over a terrible economy. Economists had to invent a name to describe Carter’s economy. They called it stagflation because inflation and unemployment were both in the double digits. Carter was completely impotent when Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran. He lost because he sucked as a President. Scapegoating Jews for one’s own failures is classic antisemitism. He still beat Reagan within the Jewish vote.
Carter established the U.S. Holocaust Memorial, but even here he demonstrated his antisemitism. He complained that there were too many Jews named to the council. The Holocaust happened to the Jews and the victims were Jewish. Of course, the council should mostly be made up of Jews. Nevertheless, Carter nixed the proposal of 1 Christian clergyman to the council because his name sounded “too Jewish.”
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