Ann Coulter is going to be just fine. I love it that she hasn’t backed down.<\/p>\n
Maybe other political commentators will grow some balls and give criticism to other protected groups?<\/p>\n
From Algemeiner<\/a>: On the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, conservative political firebrand Ann Coulter expressed only a smidgen of regret for her now infamous Twitter tirade, in which she accused candidates at last week\u2019s Republican presidential debate of pandering to Jews.<\/p>\n Among a string of angry messages lambasting the contenders\u2019 focus on consensus issues, the pundit tweeted, \u201cHow many f\u2014ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?\u201d<\/p>\n Offered the chance to reconsider her choice of words in an interview with The Algemeiner on Monday, her first with a Jewish publication since making the comments, Coulter yielded only that, \u201cI would\u2019ve used the \u2018f\u2014ing\u2019 in a different part of the sentence.\u201d And even that would only be in order to prevent her critics from \u201cchopping up\u201d her words and putting together a \u201cbomb.\u201d<\/p>\n Throughout the course of the interview, Coulter claimed she has been inundated with \u201cfan mail from my Jewish fans.\u201d She asserted that she is \u201ca friend of Israel\u201d and stands \u201cagainst the enemies of the Jews.\u201d She also said that while Jews \u201care usually so good with real estate,\u201d Israel would do better if it relocated to the southern U.S. border. She called Donald Trump \u201cthe most Jewish\u201d Republican candidate \u2014 although she has yet to hear any criticism from Trump\u2019s Jewish daughter, Ivanka \u2014 and expressed interest in finding herself a Jewish doctor with whom to settle down.<\/p>\n But she was repeatedly dismissive of the maelstrom of antisemitism that her comments have ignited on social media networks, and rejected criticism from Jewish groups across the political spectrum that her comments played into antisemitic stereotypes about Jews having undue influence on American policy to the detriment of U.S. interests.<\/p>\n She pooh-poohed attacks from liberals, whom she called, \u201cutter frauds and hypocrites\u201d that \u201care constantly sucking up to antisemites,\u201d but she also refused to take criticism from Jewish groups that might usually be aligned with her politically.<\/p>\n The hawkish Zionist Organization of America blasted Coulter\u2019s \u201cappalling, anti-Jewish remarks which evoked the classic, antisemitic trope about Jewish manipulation of America for the purposes of supporting Israel at America\u2019s expense,\u201d and the Orthodox National Council of Young Israel condemned her \u201cill-advised decision to spew hatred by denigrating the state of Israel and the Jewish community.\u201d Commentary Magazine editor and conservative commentator John Podhoretz tweeted simply, \u201cShame on you.\u201d<\/p>\n But Coulter dismissed the condemnations from \u201cgroups I agree with\u201d as coming from people who \u201cwere deceived\u201d and are \u201cunfamiliar with my work,\u201d as well as others who \u201cmay just be naive.\u201d<\/p>\n Confronted by The Algemeiner with the prevailing wisdom that her tweet played into the most grotesque Jewish stereotypes, Coulter deflected, saying, \u201cI\u2019m throwing their Israel-pandering right in with their Reagan-pandering and their abortion-pandering.\u201d She also noted, \u201cIn fact, right after sending that tweet, I tweeted out: \u2018or maybe it\u2019s the evangelicals.’\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if she would repudiate the antisemitic hordes that have gathered in her defense under the #IStandWithAnn social-media banner, she claimed, \u201cI haven\u2019t seen any of those tweets. I hear about them but\u2026 I don\u2019t even want to acknowledge their existence. It gives them too much credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut for one thing,\u201d she added, \u201cIf, or to the extent that, they are antisemites, well, they are going to become familiar with my work, and they\u2019re going to see I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the strong implication to the contrary of her initial tweet, Coulter insisted that support for Israel in the U.S. is by no means a Jewish issue, but \u201ctruly an American cause\u201d and that she supports U.S. aid to Israel because \u201cthey are our only friend there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ann Coulter is going to be just fine. I love it that she hasn’t backed down. Maybe other political commentators will grow some balls and give criticism to other protected groups? From Algemeiner: On the eve of Yom Kippur, the … Continue reading