{"id":131760,"date":"2020-06-19T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T17:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131760"},"modified":"2020-06-19T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T17:35:10","slug":"orthodox-jews-bob-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131760","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Jews & Bob Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc B. Shapiro blogs<\/a>: “I actually know of one gadol who used to listen to the Bob Grant show at home.”<\/p>\n

Comments: “A very reliable and exact friend of mine accompanied Meir Kahana to a live radio interview with Grant. After the interview my friend remarked to Kahana: It seems Grant is an \u05d0\u05d5\u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc. Kahana replied: Do not think for a moment Grant is such an \u05d0\u05d5\u05d4\u05d1 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc. Grant understands very well that to prosper in the New York City media one has to be on the side of the Jews and Israel.”<\/p>\n

“Gadol: RAM. It was well known at the time. By the way, he wasn\u2019t anti Semitic, but closetly didn\u2019t like Jews. Like the current mayor of NYC. Let\u2019s not get into that here either.”<\/p>\n

Jason Maoz wrote for the Jewish Press in 2014<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The recent death of longtime radio talker Bob Grant elicited a number of gushing tributes from readers on several Orthodox websites.<\/p>\n

Grant\u2019s popularity in segments of the Orthodox community had to have been a puzzlement, not to say an embarrassment, to thoughtful conservatives. Not only was Grant given to routinely expressing nakedly racist sentiments, he also played the cordial host to neo-Nazis and assorted other white supremacists and Jew haters (more on that later).<\/p>\n

The anti-black statements were legion. \u201cSavages\u201d and \u201csubhumanoids\u201d were two of his more favored epithets. At least one black caller was informed by Grant that \u201con the evolutionary scale, you\u2019re about 25 generations behind me.\u201d He\u2019d hang up on identifiably black callers with such charming locutions as \u201cI don\u2019t need the windows washed today\u201d and \u201cWe don\u2019t need the toilets cleaned today.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, his pet insult for David Dinkins, the hapless mayor of New York in the early 1990s, was \u201cwashroom attendant.\u201d Even Dinkins\u2019s harshest critics have to acknowledge the ugly stereotyping inherent in that phrase. Grant viewed many white politicians with at least equal disdain but never called any of them a \u201cwashroom attendant,\u201d for the obvious reason that the phrase has overt racial connotations.<\/p>\n

One of the excuses or rationalizations offered for Grant\u2019s hold on his Jewish listeners is that he was pro-Israel. But the fact that he was particularly popular in certain Orthodox enclaves hardly known for their Zionism certainly gives the lie to that one.<\/p>\n

(Besides, a pro-Israel radio host on the air in New York isn\u2019t exactly a rare commodity, as witness the popularity, over the years, of Barry Gray and Barry Farber and Ed Koch and John Batchelor and Dennis Prager and Mike Gallagher and Rush Limbaugh and Michael Medved, among many others, so it\u2019s not like Grant was a lone voice for truth whose flaws had to be overlooked for the sake of solidarity with Israel.)<\/p>\n

But what really makes one wonder about the affinity felt by certain Jews for Grant was the welcome mat he put out for some of the country\u2019s most pernicious anti-Semites.<\/p>\n

For example, on several occasions, including the 1995 premiere of his nationally syndicated show, Grant gave generous air time to Tom Metzger, a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and the founder of White Aryan Resistance \u2013 two members of which had been convicted of the 1989 murder of an Ethiopian man attending college in the U.S.<\/p>\n

And as The New York Times noted in its obituary, Grant had the notorious David Duke as \u201ca frequent guest on his show in the 1970s.\u201d Duke, like Metzger a former KKK grand dragon, is one of the world\u2019s best-known white supremacists and frequently speaks at anti-Israel and Holocaust denial conferences.<\/p>\n

(In 1993 a caller to Grant\u2019s show praised the National Association for the Advancement of White People, a David Duke creation, and asked if he could give listeners the group\u2019s contact information. \u201cGo right ahead,\u201d said Grant.)<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s William Pierce, the late white nationalist who in the 1960s was a lieutenant of American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell before going on to form the National Alliance, which advocated the violent overthrow of the American government.<\/p>\n

When a caller praised the group on a 1995 program, Grant responded, \u201cI have no problem with the National Alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierce himself was a guest on Grant\u2019s show for a full hour in 2001. He would write of that experience: \u201cDespite my reputation as being no friend of the Jews, Bob Grant was quite cordial to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grant did press Pierce on his belief that prominent Jews were trying to destroy American society and said he found the notion hard to believe, though even that was a double-edged sword as it gave Pierce the opportunity to explain his beliefs at length to Grant and his radio audience.<\/p>\n

The fact that Grant was yet again giving a platform to one of the country\u2019s preeminent haters, as he\u2019d done with Duke and Metzger and other like-minded but lesser known figures, should have been the last straw for his Jewish fans. Apparently, for many if not most of them, it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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