Jerusalem Post Opinion Valerie Plame tweeted antisemitic conspiracy, now claims "Jewish" ancestry
"Plame is running for Congress in New Mexico and in the past was seen as a victim of the Bush administration. But in 2017 she tweeted an article titled Americas Jews are driving Americas Wars.
US congressional candidate Valerie Plame, who once tweeted antisemitic conspiracy theories blaming American Jews for causing Americas wars, now claims to be of Ukrainian Jewish descent in a new campaign video. The snazzy new spot shows someone driving backwards in a sports car, while the candidate recalls that she was once an undercover CIA operative, whose identity was leaked.
Plame is running for Congress in New Mexico and in the past was seen as a victim of the Bush administration. But in 2017 she tweeted an article titled Americas Jews are driving Americas Wars which showed a photo of Bill Kristol. Challenged on the offensive headline and antisemitic tweet, she told people to calm down, re-tweets dont imply endorsements. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish. She walked back that claim later and said she had skimmed the piece. However she has consistently been contradictory about the tweet, first claiming that the article was provocative and thoughtful, and then claiming that she had just skimmed it. The headline, Americas Jews are driving Americas wars is antisemitic. There is no thoughtfulness in it. And it doesnt say neocons, a term that has been repackaged too often to mean Jews.
Later, on CNN in May 2019 when her candidacy became known she was asked about the tweet. Her story changed again, claiming she hadnt liked the article and that the only thing that I focused on in the article was that I thought it was a bad idea to get out of the Iran nuclear deal. There are tens of thousands of articles arguing why it might have been bad to leave the Iran Deal, why did Plame tweet the one claiming Americas Jews are driving Americas wars from an antisemitic site that spreads conspiracies? Asked by CNN she then claimed that she stupidly did not read the rest of the article. Which is it? She read the offensive headline and tweeted it anyway? Or she skimmed it? Or just read the part about the Iran deal and tweeted the headline anyway? Or she focused on the neocons.
She told CNN she was embarrassed by the whole episode, as if it was just mistake. But most people dont make mistakes and tweet that Americas Jews control America and cause Americas wars, unless they hate Jews. No one in recent memory has run for Congress so prominently and claimed Jews cause Americas wars. Plames contradictory statements raise questions about her judgement and underlying antisemitism or predilection for believing conspiracies. During the original scandal she had told people read the entire article, just for a moment, to put aside your biases and think clearly. So she told people shocked by the antisemitism that they were biased. Then she claimed that she had missed gross undercurrents to this article. Undercurrents? The articles headline said Jews drive Americas wars.
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Valerie-Plame-tweeted-antisemitic-conspiracy-now-claims-Jewish-ancestry-601210
nycbos
(6,033 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)since.
There are ample reasons to be concerned with Israel's outsized influence in the US government, but Giraldi is NOT someone you want to be re-tweeting when it comes to this subject. It's one thing to criticize the right-wing Israeli government, and Mossad, etc ... but it's a whole different tone (imo) to criticize 'Jews' as a group as Giraldi did in this article (and has done, many times)
I don't think Plame is anti-semitic, I think she just messed up ... but I do think Giraldi is ...
She needs to clear this shit up and quit waffling.
Just MHO.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,771 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Dear Israel,
Stay the fuck out of our politics and electoral process
I dislike the fact you can do a political hit job and label any repercussions as anti semitic.
Pound sand!
still_one
(91,946 posts)tweeted:
"On the first full day of Rosh Hashanah, unmasked CIA officer Valerie Plame tweeted out an article entitled, Americas Jews are driving Americas wars. As if the headline werent bad enough, the essay appeared on a website featuring such pieces as Its time to re-think David Duke. Its argument mirrored a classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theory: Jews run everything in America, and because of their irrational love for Israel theyre running us into foreign conflicts, too.
It is nigh impossible to argue that the article was anything but vile. It called for identifying Jewish Americans as such when they appear on television (much as, it said, one might affix a warning label to a bottle of rat poison). That didnt stop Plame from trying, at first protesting that many neocon hawks ARE Jewish. Finally, she progressed to the last of the all-too-predictable stages of post-Twitter meltdown grief and issued a full-throated mea culpa. She has since deleted her initial tweet."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/09/22/the-other-problem-with-valerie-plames-horrible-anti-semitic-tweet/
and one from CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/politics/valerie-plame-wilson-tweet/index.html