ADL Covering Up for Crimes of Financial Elites

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ADL covering up for crimes of financial elites

The ADL is accusing the New York Times Maureen Dowd of anti-semitism over a recent op-ed titled "Virtuous Bankers? Really!?!" The article about corruption on Wall Street specifically involving Goldman Sachs. In a letter to the Editor in the NYT, ADL National Chair Robert G. Sugarman stated, "While one can agree or disagree with Maureen Dowd's portrayal of Goldman Sachs and other bankers (column, Nov. 11), her statement that "the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple" potentially raises one of the classic themes of anti-Semitism linking Jews and abhorrent money-lending practices. However unintentional, Ms. Dowd's invoking the New Testament story to illustrate our current financial mess conjures up old prejudices against Jews."

Dowd is right when she states that Goldman Sachs CEO "Blankfein’s trickle-down catechism isn’t working. Now we have two economies. We have recovering banks while we have 10-plus percent unemployment and 17.5 percent underemployment. The gross thing about the Wall Street of the last decade is how much its success was not shared with society."

Dowd discuses Matt Taibbi who was also called an anti-semite for his critique of Goldman Sachs in Rolling Stones Magazine. Taibbi was accused of anti-semitism in his critic of Goldman Sach's greed and financial exploitation for saying, "the first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Taibbi never said anything anti-Jewish in his article but due to the fact that Goldman Sachs is associated by many as being a Jewish institution his critic of the firms financial parasitism brought about that accusation from many.

Maureen Dowd wrote another article a while back in the NYT titled "Blue Eyed Greed", where she agreed with Brazil's president Lula that the financial crisis "was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.” Dowd added "it is true, of course, that the upper-crust, underwhelming Anglo-Saxon leaders who allowed America’s financial markets to morph into louche casinos, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, were very, very white men with blue eyes." The ADL and establishment media were silent about Dowd's assertions about Anglo's being responsible for the financial crisis, however now the ADL is accusing her of anti-semitism for an article that does not mention anything about Jews.

The Bernie Maddof scandal attracted a lot of attention from both the Jewish community and so called anti-semites. Madoff became a pariah within the Jewish community for ripping off many Jewish organizations and prominent individuals such as Steven Spielberg and Elie Wiesel. However groups like the ADL are covering up for the crimes of Goldman Sachs which played a major role in the financial criss and ripped of the taxpayers through bailouts, which it spent on lavish bonuses for its executives. Goldman Sachs was President Obama's second top source of campaign contributions and donates heavily to many prominent politicians.

Goldman Sachs should be treated like a criminal entity much like ENRON was. However ENRON fit into the liberal establishment's stereotype of "Evil White Gentile Republicans, while Goldman Sachs has stereotype as being Jewish." It is no more anti-semitic to criticize Goldman Sachs than it is anti-WASP to criticize ENRON. However there is a notion put out by the likes of the ADL that any organization that is associated as being Jewish should be immune from criticism. The ADL also uses this tactic to silence any harsh criticism of Israel or the Israeli Lobby.

The ADL receives a large portion its funding from Wall Street and is therefore has a vested interest in what is good for financial interest rather than what is good for America as well as American Jews who are not part of the moneyed elite. The ADL has received large donations from Michael Milken's junk bond fortune and Wall Street crook Marc Rich, who many believed used to ADL to lobby for his pardon from President Clinton. Mod associate of Meyer Lansky Moe Dalitz was simultaneously the CEO of "Sterling Bank" and National Commissioner of the ADL. Even the ADL's current National Chair Glen Lewy was an investment banker involved with Wolfensohn & Co, Deutsche Bank, and a member of the CFR.

In his article "Why Jewish Bankers Love Anti-Semites" Anti-Zionist Jewish author Henry Makow says, "Jewish bankers love anti-Semites because they transform a legitimate political and economic grievance into a racial one that easily can be dismissed as "hatred." Anti-Semites are like dogs who drive the Jewish sheep into the bankers' pen. In spite of this, some Jews are questioning the instrumental role Jews play in the creation of the New World Order. Jewish bankers love anti-Semites because they transform opposition to the NWO into discredited racism. They ensure that Jews serve the NWO agenda and non-Jews remain divided."

Neither Dowd's nor Taibbi's article's about Goldman Sachs mentions anything negative against Jews. The ADL is only enforcing that stereotype by screaming anti-semitism over strong criticism of Wall Street. It is true that individuals of Jewish decent are over represented in Finance. Everyone should be judged as an individual, however the ADL puts collective blame on all Jews when they claim to speak on their behalf, and cover up for criminals because they happen to be Jews, or support the ADL agenda.