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[mom cat]

ADL Calls on Bush-Cheney Re-Election Campaign to Remove Images of Hitler from Web Site


New York, NY, June 28, 2004 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed disappointment that Nazi images are still prominently featured in a video on the official re-election campaign Web site of President George W. Bush.

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:

We are disappointed that the Bush-Cheney campaign has not removed Nazi images, including Adolf Hitler, from the President's re-election Web site. The campaign's rehashing of what had appeared on the MoveOn.org site, which was removed after outcry from ADL and others, is inappropriate and offensive.

Using images of Hitler and terminology from the Nazi regime in campaign attacks is offensive and demeaning to the memory of the six million and others who died in the Holocaust. However well intentioned, the Bush-Cheney campaign's attempt to add a disclaimer to the video -- suggesting that they were only using it to show how their adversaries have used Hitler's image– does not go far enough. We urge the Bush-Cheney campaign to immediately remove the Hitler imagery from the video.

Earlier this year, after a proliferation of references to Hitler and the Nazis began appearing in the wind-up to the Presidential election season, we called on the Democratic and Republican parties to refrain from adopting Nazi imagery as a political attack tool. We had hoped then that both parties had heard our concerns. For us, this is neither a Democratic nor a Republican issue, but rather a matter of respecting the feelings of those who could be offended by such images, including Jewish Holocaust survivors and their families.

ADL has been consistent in condemning the use of Nazi images in political campaigns and in the public arena. In a letter to former Vice President Al Gore, the League expressed concern about his exploitation of Nazi imagery in his June 24 speech at Georgetown University Law Center. In a letter to Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, ADL said it was troubled by his comparison, in his June 19 speech to the American Constitution Society, of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore to the circumstances by which Hitler and Mussolini ascended to power.



The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/4523_53.htm

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Bush can't remove the images

of his hero from his site.

[maxrandb]

16. Referencing another thread

He can't because it would crash the computer system.

[skooooo]

2. Ha! This is great...

Bush probably just lost a good portion of what Jewish vote he ever had.

[quinn94704]

3. Jewish Voters

I hope so ... but who knows??? I think Jewish voters tend to be strongly Democratic right?

[hightime]

5. Yes, but I have seen a shift lately among my friends.

While they still hate Bush, they are beginning to question the support for the Palestinian issue. Some are wondering if their cause is losing support. I haven't seen any overt complaining about the Democratic support for Israel but I have heard some really telling remarks when the night gets late and the beers get cold.

[Malva Zebrina]

15. I have had the same experience

with so called friends.

Except there is not hatred of Bush. There is support of everything Israel, and Bush's invasion of Iraqm no matter what.

There have been really offensive e-mails attacking Theresa Kerry , who is running for nothing, followed by the mantra' "never forget"

I cannot understand the connection there at all and am puzzled by this unearned attack on a dignified lady.

This is really offensive to me and therefore I have broken off communication with these long time friends.

[Seabiscuit]

7. When I was in my 20's

your statement was true.

Now I have to wonder. I've never seen so many right-wing ultra-Zionist Jews in positions of power and influence as there are today. There is definitely a split in the Jewish community today. Some are still liberal. Others, like Lieberman (who is a right-wing supporter of Sharon even though he "pretends" to be a Democrat), and even worse, Wolfowitz, make Jews ugly to the rest of the world, particularly the Islamic world.

Come on, all of you from the Jewish faith - reclaim your religious base and your political base - we have no room in an American democracy for the neocon agenda, especially since it was crafted by Wolfowitz, originally in his original PNAC document back in 1991, and ever since, with its modifications, as a means of imperialistically taking over and imposing a Imperialist/Militarist/US/Zionist mentality throughout the Middle East.

Iraq has become the perfect example of why the PNAC model simply doesn't work. Nice as I can possibly say it without using profanities.

[struggle4progress]

13. AIthough I certainly disagree with Lieberman and Wolfowitz ...

how could their positions possibly "make Jews ugly to the rest of the world"? Surely, whether we agree with them or not, they are entitled to hold their own views on foreign policy.

I find your remarks offensive: people of goodwill do not seek to justify hatred directed at members of a religious group, whatever political issues are involved.

[wurzel]

4. More "Orwellspeak" from Republicans

Either NBC or ABC (I forget which) showed these campaign images on the newscast tonight. It shows an "angry" Dean, Gore, Moore, and Gephardt. The last was an image of Hitler with a caption that said something like "Where have we seen this before?" The Republican spokesman actually claimed: We are only doing this to prevent hate speech!!

[mom cat]

6. George Orwell was an optimist

[wurzel]

9. Brzezinski also complained of "Orwellian" language tonight.

On Lehrer. He said the administration has got to get real and stop using "Orwellian language". "Calling an "occupation" a "liberation" and describing "very limited authority" as "sovereignty""

[struggle4progress]

14. Yeah, they name the ad "Faces etc" and then intersperse ...

the faces of Democratic Party leaders and Hitler.

[Tom Kitten]

8. still the facts don't get right!

"The campaign's rehashing of what had appeared on the MoveOn.org site, which was removed after outcry from ADL and others, is inappropriate and offensive."

The original video was never featured on MoveOn.org. ,it was an entry for its contest and was linked to...

[Seabiscuit]

10. That's the main reason

..everyone has a right to bitch about it.

It was never approved. It was never shown. The Bush website *lies* because it doesn't tell the truth about where it came from and what happened to it.

Typical right-wing BS. The retraction is thorougly justified.

[radfringe]

11. doubt if it will have much effect

considering Card's statement to bush* in 2000

(sorry no link) it was reported here and there on back pages - in the that Card said "F**k the Jews, they don't vote for us anyways."

[dusty64]

12. Its VERY interesting

the contrast between the feigned media "outrage" over these despicable ads and the one created by MoveON. VERY interesting.

[struggle4progress]

17. kick

:kick: