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Israel/Zionism See other Israel/Zionism Articles Title: ADL chief: Pollard case ‘on the verge of anti-Semitism’ Abraham Foxman says Israeli spy’s lengthy incarceration is sign of ‘ongoing vendetta’ against the American Jewish community The Anti-Defamation League’s national director, Abraham Foxman, criticized the continued imprisonment of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, calling it “on the verge of anti-Semitism.” Foxman was quoted on the Pollard case in several Israeli news outlets on Tuesday, and echoed a statement he issued on the case earlier this month. Someone is trying to teach the American-Jewish community a loyalty lesson, Foxman asserted in an interview Tuesday with Israel’s Army Radio. ”That to me is on the verge of anti-Semitism,” he said. In a January 16 statement, Foxman said that when Pollard was sentenced in a plea bargain 28 years ago, many claimed that the sentence was anti-Semitic; however, an ADL investigation concluded there was no basis for such an accusation. Still, Foxman said, the fact that Pollard remains in prison despite having spied for an ally shows that there is an “ongoing vendetta” against him. Foxman adds: “If it were only a vendetta against one individual it would be bad enough. But it has now become one against the American Jewish community.” Foxman called for Pollard’s parole on humanitarian grounds. He called Pollard’s continued imprisonment “an effort to intimidate American Jews. And, it is an intimidation that can only be based on an anti-Semitic stereotype about the Jewish community, one that we have seen confirmed in our public opinion polls over the years, the belief that American Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own country, the United States.” The Foxman statement was in response to an editorial in Tablet Magazine which called for clemency for Pollard. An increasing number of figures involved in government when Pollard was given a 1987 life sentence for spying for Israel now believe his sentence should be commuted and have been calling for clemency. Poster Comment: The grasping fat Jew doesn't have a leg to stand upon. Spying and treason might well be an integral part of Jewish "culture". However Pollard is no low level spook who can be exchanged and he's lucky that he wasn't hanged or taken for a trip to the woods.. Anyone who uses the anti Semitism card to try to guilt trip people into freeing a guy who spied for a foreign nation needs to have their loyalty called into question. Deport Abe Foxman now. Someone would have to be a complete idiot not to see that his loyalties do not lie first with the country he currently lives in. Innocent "American jews" are not being tossed into prison left and right. Abe is aware of this, so how exactly does the intimidation factor come into play here? Maybe he is afraid of jews like himself facing some kind of problems as a Sayanim. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
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It's only treason if it harms Jews or Israeli interests.
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