{"id":303639,"date":"2019-03-22T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=303639"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:27:42","slug":"anti-semitism-finds-home-in-the-democrat-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/22\/anti-semitism-finds-home-in-the-democrat-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitism Finds Home in the Democrat Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: It seems like it was only yesterday that the Democrats in the House passed a resolution that was supposed to prove that they aren\u2019t anti-Semitic, right? So now we learn that none of the 2020 presidential candidates are gonna go to the AIPAC, the American Israel Political Action Committee meeting, convention, whatever.<\/p>\n

They are boycotting the Jewish political action committee! And Trump is out there saying, “See? I\u2019ve been telling you, I\u2019ve been telling you the Democrats are a bunch of anti-Semites.” And this new crop of \u2019em definitely are. It certainly appears to be that way.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me see if I can fix that switch. Greetings, and welcome back. Rush Limbaugh here — 800-282-2882 is the number. Whatever you want to talk about, fine and dandy.<\/p>\n

It was just like yesterday the Democrats passed this resolution that was supposed to prove they are not anti-Semitic. They wouldn\u2019t even call out Ilhan Omar. And AIPAC — folks, the alliance between Jewish Democrats and the Democrat Party has been unbreakable. It has been as solid and as unbreakable as the alliance between the NAALCP and the Democrat Party. Now we have Move On and Code Pink and the rest of the George Soros crowd telling all these Democrats to avoid AIPAC, avoid anything to do with Jewish donors and contributors.<\/p>\n

This is much bigger than anybody is making this out to be. This is the severing, by all of the presidential candidates on the Democrat side, their ties to traditional Jewish allies in the Democrat Party. I mean, this is a huge thing. And the irony that just days after they went so, so far, they tried so hard to convince everybody that even though Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib or whatever in their party, no, we\u2019re not anti-Semites, don\u2019t think that at all, we love Israel and we love the Jewish people. But then when it comes time to go to AIPAC, (raspberry) you, Israel, we don\u2019t want any part.<\/p>\n

\"\"And Trump comes out and compounds it by claiming the Golan Heights is now officially part of Israel, which just irritates people to no end. And we\u2019ll have more on this as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n

Also, I got an email, “Rush, are you gonna talk about Peggy Noonan\u2019s column<\/a> today?” I hadn\u2019t planned on it. I\u2019ve known Peggy for a long time. Peggy has never been a big fan. She\u2019s lived off being a Reagan speechwriter for a long, long – (interruption) Well, she hasn\u2019t been a big fan. I remember one time she said, “You\u2019re the guy with all the truck drivers in the audience, right?” That was in like 1990, and it went downhill from there.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I hadn\u2019t seen the column, so I went and looked at it as a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal. It\u2019s a business expense, you know, so I can afford it. And her point today is that the crude politics of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar are the fault of Donald Trump, that they are following Donald Trump\u2019s lead, that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar have established this new, virulent, angry, mean-spirited, extremist mood in Congress, which is an approach to national politics that\u2019s combative, it\u2019s angry, and it\u2019s polarizing, and they learned it all from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s why I was asked if I was gonna comment on it. And I will since I\u2019ve been asked to. Normally I wouldn\u2019t have mentioned it or brought it up. But, Peggy, if I may use your first name, I think you\u2019re missing something very key and important here, very crucial. I don\u2019t think Donald Trump has a thing to do with Ocasio-Cortez or Ilhan Omar. They have nothing in common whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump loves America, wants to make it great. These two babes do not. They do not love this country as founded, and they are hell-bent on remaking it. And there\u2019s no question about this. If you ask me, and this is just my humble little opinion as host, but I think Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

I think Obama is who fathered them in terms of their political beliefs and their behavior mode, their confrontation, their desire to transform America. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any linkage between these two people, Omar and Cortez and Tlaib to Trump. It\u2019s all to Obama. And Peggy is supposedly a Republican. And this is the thing that frustrates me so much, and it\u2019s what\u2019s gonna frustrate you when you hear the Gerson piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"These people cannot work up one-third of the anger for Democrats that they have for members of their own party. I mean, it was Barack Obama who came along after Elizabeth Warren said it (imitating Obama), “You didn\u2019t build that. You think you own that business? You think you made that? You didn\u2019t build that. You couldn\u2019t done that. You couldn\u2019t done that without us and the roads and the water, you didn\u2019t build it.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, Donald Trump doesn\u2019t subscribe to any of that at all, but Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they subscribe to every bit of you didn\u2019t build that. It\u2019s so convenient to try to blame Trump for these people. But Barack Obama is responsible for so much of the partisanship. He is responsible for so much of the polemics. He is responsible for the direction the Democrat Party has taken.<\/p>\n

You think this anti-Israel position has nothing to do with Obama? It\u2019s right out of the Obama playbook. I mean, this is the guy that was paying Iran, paying them and striking a deal with them to further their development of nuclear weapons. Is Donald Trump exhibiting any such behavior with America\u2019s enemies? I could go on, but you get my drift.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more on the Democrats and Israel. “MoveOn.org Calls on Democratic 2020 Candidates to Boycott AIPAC Conference.<\/a>” They\u2019re “urging 2020 Democratic contenders to boycott this year\u2019s AIPAC policy conference, saying the pro-Israel group verges on Islamophobia.” Folks, there\u2019s another thing. I don\u2019t think a lot of Democrats are yet aware of what is happening to their party. They think they\u2019re gonna get it corralled and they think they\u2019re gonna get it contained, but they may not.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party is becoming the party of militant Islam in this country. When you have organizations like… The relationship between the Democrat Party and AIPAC is no different than the relationship between the Democrat Party and the NAALCP or the Democrat Party and the Service Employees International Union or the Democrat Party and militant feminazis or the Democrat Party and any of their other constituency groups. Now with MoveOn…? And there\u2019s another group, I forget what. MoveOn is not insignificant.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re coming out, and they are “demanding that every 2020 Democrat presidential candidate boycott AIPAC” because “the Jews” have “Islamophobia” and AIPAC is “verging” on it, and we can\u2019t have Islamophobia in the Democrat Party. Here\u2019s what MoveOn said in a statement. This is to Politico. “It\u2019s no secret that that AIPAC has worked to hinder diplomatic efforts like the Iran deal, is undermining Palestinian self-determination, and inviting figures actively involved in human rights violations to its stage.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Steny Hoyer are scheduled to appear at the AIPAC conference along with the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A lot of Republicans are gonna show prep too. “MoveOn is calling for the boycott after a poll in which three-quarters of its respondents supported the move” to boycott AIPAC. The Washington Free Beacon has the story. “No Democratic Presidential Candidates Will Attend AIPAC Conference.” But two years ago, “In 2017, Kamala Harris said it was ‘an honor\u2019 to speak before AIPAC.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. Kamala “Harris has previously spoken in warm terms at AIPAC\u2019s Policy Conference, calling it ‘an honor\u2019 to speak there in 2017.” Code Pink is the other group — and this is a bunch of nuts. I mean, Code Pink? This this this bunch? Pshew! There\u2019s nobody sane in that group, and they\u2019re joining MoveOn and telling all these 2020 Democrat presidential candidates not to show up at this Jewish policy group, and they\u2019re not going. They don\u2019t want to be accused of “Islamophobia.”<\/p>\n

By extension, they are acknowledging that AIPAC — i.e., Jewish Democrats — are Islamophobes! Now, let\u2019s make no mistake about it. There are a whole lot of Islamic nations in the Middle East who want there to be no Israel, and they want to accomplish this by forcing all citizens of Israel to march into the Mediterranean Sea and drown. I guess if you oppose being murdered, it might make you an Islamophobe to these people. But this is striking. Trump is right again. He\u2019s just calling it out. The Democrat Party is becoming anti-Jewish.<\/p>\n

I never thought I would live to actually see this happen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna tell you what happens, or what is happening. And you need to look at it from this perspective. The Democrat Party is trying to turn Israel into South Africa and the apartheid movement, and they\u2019re using the same exact language that they used against South Africa.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. Stunning! They are kicking to the curb a major donor base, if nothing else! It\u2019s not a full-fledged break. I mean, you got Pelosi and Schumer and these clowns showing up, the Jurassic Park Democrats. But these young whippersnappers are making it clear that they don\u2019t like the Jews. The Jews are Islamophobes, just like in South Africa. The Afrikaaners were a bunch of racists. I will never forget that.<\/p>\n

That all started — well, it intensified when I was in Sacramento and the Nelson Mandela era, was he gonna get out of prison or not. And you had Pieter Botha who was the president the South Africa, and he was doing his best to save South Africa from the African National Congress, which was Mandela\u2019s group.<\/p>\n

And you had American universities in a race with each other to see who could take their investment money out of South Africa the fastest. And Democrat presidential candidates joined that parade, started demanding disinvestment in South Africa. University of California Berkeley was leading the way out on the Left Coast.<\/p>\n

And I remember Botha, Jesse Jackson hated the guy, pronounced it Botha, Mr. Botha, it was a purposeful mispronunciation. But Pieter, actually it was one of his spokesmen. I wish I could remember his name. I remember his face. And I have perfected my impersonation of this guy. This had such an impact on me, and I can\u2019t tell you why.<\/p>\n

But this was during the fevered pitch where the United States was being pressured, every American corporation, every individual was being pressured to get the hell out of South Africa, stop endorsing the apartheid regime. And Winnie Mandela was out there necklacing their enemies, which was putting gasoline on automobile tires and then throwing those tires on their enemies while the flames were lit.<\/p>\n

And this spokesman for, and this spokesman for Pieter Botha, P-o-t-h-a was on Nightline, and they were trying to rattle this guy by calling him all kinds of names and calling his boss all kinds of names, and he just could not be rattled. No matter what they insulted, no matter what they tried, no matter what the allegations, he sat there, and every sentence he began, “Mr. Botha says destroy sub-Saharan Africa, and you will destroy the entire continent.”<\/p>\n

And you should have seen the outraged reaction to that. “Mr. Botha says destroy white South Africa and you will destroy all of sub-Saharan Africa.” And they went nuts! And there are beginning to be parallels here. We haven\u2019t gotten to the point of Netanyahu saying destroy Israel and you\u2019re gonna destroy democracy in the Middle East, but we\u2019re not far behind it.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s this new, young Turk bunch of Democrats that are making no bones about the fact that they have no love lost for Israel, no love lost for the Jewish people. And honestly, folks, I never thought I would live to see the day. I\u2019m looking for the sound bites. Yeah, grab sound bite number one and two. This is Trump this morning in Washington on the White House lawn.<\/p>\n

He once again met the press as he was on his way to Marine One, the helicopter, to go to Joint Base Andrews to catch Air Force One on his flight down here. He\u2019s spending the weekend here at Mar-a-Lago. And he always stops to engage the press. And some reporter started shouting at him, “Mr. President, you said you said Democrats are anti-Israel, they\u2019re anti-Jewish. They\u2019re all skipping the AIPAC conference next week. Is that what you mean?”<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: The Democrats have very much proven to be anti-Israel. There\u2019s no question about that. And it\u2019s a disgrace. I mean, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happened to them, but they are totally anti-Israel. Frankly, I think they\u2019re anti-Jewish.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: And, meanwhile, here are Pelosi and Schumer, and they are attending the AIPAC conference, but they\u2019re gonna catch hell for it within a certain segment of their caucus. Here is Netanyahu yesterday in Jerusalem talking about Trump\u2019s recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel.<\/p>\n

NETANYAHU: He did it again. First, he recognized Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and moved the U.S. embassy here. Then he pulled out of the disastrous Iran treaty and reimposed sanctions. But now he did something of equal historic importance. He recognized Israel\u2019s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. And the message that President Trump has given the world is that America stands by Israel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. A brief pause here for a personal story. Back in 1993, I took a five-day trip to Israel, and I crammed probably what would have been a semester\u2019s worth of education into those five days. I went to as many places and I met with — Mossad briefing at practically every stop and met with Netanyahu, David Bar-Illan, who was running the Jerusalem Post at the time.<\/p>\n

I had meetings with Shimon Peres who kept on buckling his belt during the meeting. It was the strangest thing, and he kept talking about how Reagan was destroying the trees. I think somebody had told him that I was some wild, extremist conservative and he was toying with me.<\/p>\n

And then Yitzhak Rabin, which was a fascinating — this was at a time where Clinton and everybody was on the verge of offering the Palestinians everything they wanted to make a deal, and I kept asking Rabin, “Why are you doing this? Is it generational? Are you tired of constant war and you don\u2019t want this for your kids?” And he said, “No, no, no, no. It\u2019s a good deal.” Anyway, Arafat turned it down \u2019cause he didn\u2019t want a deal. Clinton did offer everything that Arafat was demanding, and they walked away from it.<\/p>\n

But one of the stops was to the Golan Heights. And I\u2019d only read about this. I had looked at it on a map. It was just a flat two dimensional map. But when you go to these places, Israel is smaller than New Jersey in many ways, nine miles wide at its most narrow point. And I remember we had a military escort with us at the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

And a member of the Israeli Defense Forces, a 22- to 23-year-old young man. And somebody in our group asked him why he was doing what he was doing, why the Israeli Defense Force as a career and so forth. And he said, “I want you to walk over here with me.” We were right there at the top, Golan Heights. He said, “You see that direction there?” And we looked. “Right there are people who want to wipe this country off the face of the earth. Now turn and look there. See that?”<\/p>\n

I said, “Yeah.”<\/p>\n

“Well, that\u2019s another country and they want to wipe us off the face of the earth.” He could go 360 degrees. Well, not 360, because part of that would be looking into Israel. But right there you had Syria, Jordan. He could point out the surrounding nations that wanted to eliminate Israel, and they\u2019re that close. And that\u2019s why the Golan Heights were so strategically important, and they were fought over numerous times.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s one of the elements of the trip — well, I\u2019ll never forget any of it — but it\u2019s one of the elements I remember \u2019cause it\u2019s something we cannot relate to. Our enemies have to cross oceans — well, they don\u2019t anymore. They come in through the southern border. And that\u2019s not a joke. That is not a joke. Our enemies can easily come into the southern border. But this is 1993, and while we weren\u2019t looking at illegal immigration in the way we do now, our enemies had to launch weapons that had to be able to fly over oceans to get to us.<\/p>\n

We couldn\u2019t relate. The best we could do is pretend that we\u2019re in New York and think of New Jersey as a nation that wants to wipe us out, which is what Israelis face day in and day out. It changed my perspective on the geostrategic military aspects of Israel\u2019s existence, even though they didn\u2019t need changing, just reinforced them.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Trump, he had an interview with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox Business Network today. She asked him about the Golan Heights. She said, “The Golan Heights, you tweeted about this today in Israel. You said that it\u2019s time for the U.S. to recognize Israel\u2019s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Why now? Why did you send that one out?”<\/p>\n