A man I'm proud to call my friend, Dr. Lawrence Franklin, accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States (FBI) of being anti-Semitic. For a period of time in 2004, he admits to having served as a double agent for the FBI, pretending to "spy" for the America Israel Public Action Committee (AIPAC), while also feeding AIPAC and the Israeli Embassy, through Keith Weissman of AIPAC and Naor Gilon with the Israeli Embassy, false or misleading information. At least that is what I think I have gotten out of the articles I've read. According to Arutz Sheva, his claims are backed up by former AIPAC staffer Steven Rosen, who was interviewed by the Jerusalem Post.
This article in the Washington Times, details his long and tortuous story, though it has also appeared previously in Haaretz (in articles written by Yossi Melman) and earlier in Haaretz as well as in the Forward in articles by Nathan Guttman.
The story in the Washington Times recites
"You know, I felt dirty sometimes,” Franklin said, detailing his talks with FBI handlers. “One agent said to me, 'How can an Irish Catholic from the Bronx get mixed up with all these....,' and I finished the sentence for him: 'Jews?'” he recalled.In the Jerusalem Post, Steve Rosen is quoted as saying,
"What these guys believe is that there's a Jewish cabal, a Jewish conspiracy."Most Jews who grew up in the United States (who are over 50 at least), know that a great deal of Jew-hatred is to rife in certain branches of the government there, with prominent examples being the FBI, West Point, and the State Department. There is just no getting around that. It is there, and you run into it in myriads of ways, small and large. Anti-Israel sentiment fomented in the State Department, and now fomented by the by a man in the White House who has ripped the mask of "friendship" from the Israel-America relationship, revealing it for the bullying imperialism it really is, is just part of the whole picture, something too many American Jews do not have the guts or honesty to understand or to absorb.
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— go to most recent comments1 - roger nowosielski
Do you think it is individual- or or institutional racism, Ruvy? If the former, I wouldn't be surprised because old prejudices are hard to break. If the latter, then it's cause for concern.
2 - Ruvy
This is institutional racism, Roger. If this was "I don't like Stein because he is a kike", that would be individual racism. But this stuff goes back decades before I was even born.
A Jew who could get through West Point was considered rare and tough, because of the institutional Jew-hatred there. That is why the haganá tried to recruit Col. David Marcus after WWII to help organize an Israel Defense Force. He not only had battle experience, he had formal schooling in military tactics, AND he had dealt with the hell of Jew-hatred at West Point.
3 - zingzing
everyone hates you because you're jewish ruvy. right?
4 - roger nowosielski
You're personalizing it, zing. I have no reason to disbelieve that institutional racism exists.
5 - zingzing
i'm not personalizing it. and i'd bet there are plenty of racists in the fbi, just as there are anywhere else. there's good old boys who hate the jews and there's good old jews who hate the arabs and there's black people hating honkey and little old white grandmas "tolerating the negroes" and the chinese despising the japanese and everyone in east asia looking down on south east asia and the puerto ricans and polish thumbing their noses at the hipsters... blah blah blah.
but, judging from the actions of the government towards israel, i'd have to say that they don't believe in a jewish conspiracy or cabal. if there is one, we're in on it. but there's not one. for ruvy to suggest that we think there's a jewish conspiracy to control the earth, then, just a few sentences later, to alternately suggest that we bully and manipulate israel doesn't make much sense. who's scared of whom?
whatever. there's just too much nonsense flying around for me. ruvy would fight the whole world if he could, even his allies. he's so convinced that everyone hates the jews. so much fear and paranoia spills from his writing, and he's not the only one out there. and that's (part of the reason) why the middle east is a big bloody mess.
6 - roger nowosielski
I happen to agree. I do believe we've progressed beyond the point when Jews were the one and only scapegoat. That ideology has been tried before and, at too great an expense, it failed. Which isn't to say that institutional racism or anti-semitism doesn't exist, especially in closed-societies, such as West Point.
Don't forget the inbred notion of Anglo-Saxon superiority.
7 - zingzing
"Don't forget the inbred notion of Anglo-Saxon superiority."
just go type in redneck on google image search.
8 - roger nowosielski
Well taken.
9 - Ruvy
zing,
Read my article and read the links. The condemnatory accusations are not mine, but those of Larry Rosen who was falsely accused of spying, and of my friend, Larry, who was convinced into spying for the FBI. When he realized that what he was doing was wrong, when his conscience couldn't swallow the vomit the FBI was serving, he told them to go to hell. For being an honorable man, Dr. Franklin was framed and damned near jailed.
Re-read what Dr. Franklin told the Washingon Times.
"You know, I felt dirty sometimes,” Franklin said, detailing his talks with FBI handlers. “One agent said to me, 'How can an Irish Catholic from the Bronx get mixed up with all these....,' and I finished the sentence for him: 'Jews?'” he recalled.
Larry Franklin is not Jewish, and is not spoiling for a fight with the world. He is a good Catholic, and a patriotic American. And he is disgusted with what he saw in the FBI.
10 - Ruvy
I ran into a site called Dissident Voice. They are a typical pile of left-wing trash. They cannot handle a dissident voice.
11 - Silas Kain
Frankly, Ruvy, if someone in the U.S. says something the least bit off-color about Jews they're labeled anti-Semitic. If the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants opined against Rom,an Catholics, they are branded as anti-Papists. Yet if someone says something against Islam, it seems acceptable.
I'm sick of labels. I'm weary of religious fundamentalists inserting themselves into our national discourse in such a way that the U.S. is arguably more divided today than it was in Lincoln's day. As I have indicated before, Ruvy, we have no business in the affairs of the Israeli people. If peace is to be achieved by enlightened youth, Israelis and Arabs need to start talking to each other and leave us the hell out of it. And while we're at it, this also means that the United States should not give a red cent tp Israel and its' neighbors. Enough is enough.
12 - Ruvy
Silas,
You, like so many others, assume that peace is what should be pursued here.
In doing so, you've entirely missed the issues here.
1. Larry Franklin was concerned about the threat Iran posed to the United States.
2. He attempted to talk to folks higher up - who didn't want to listen.
3. In attempted to reach the unreachable higher-ups, he wound up framed being talked into spying for the FBI against Israel.
4. After realizing what he was dealing with, he pulled out - and was framed for spying himself by a Jew-hating "law-enforcement" agency.
Dr. Franklin's motives have little to do with Arabs against Israel.Enough self-delusion is enough.
13 - zingzing
ruvy: "You, like so many others, assume that peace is what should be pursued here."
jesus christ.
14 - Ruvy
jesus christ
Leave my dead relatives out of this will you, zing?
15 - roger nowosielski
Funny!
16 - Silas Kain
You, like so many others, assume that peace is what should be pursued here.
You're damned right peace is what should be pursued here! And, I'll take it a step further, a tribe of people who claim to be the chosen people of God doesn't have license to impose their beliefs upon those who do not submit. That can be said of Jews, Muslims and Christians. After all look at the C Street operation where demons like Ensign, Sanford and others dwell. Those freaks believe THEY are the "chosen people," Ruvy. Yet these same people are the ones who fund the hatred that emanates from Israel. It's time for enlightenment, NOT imposition.
17 - Ruvy
Silas,
I am little worried about C Street, J Street or all the other "Streets" that fools design. I primarily worry not my Arab neighbors will not "submit", butr that their goal is my death. And I'll not go quietly into the night, Silas. It may be my fate to die violently in this country, Silas. But if it is, my enemies will go with me to their deaths as well - to rot in whatever hell they create for themselves.
18 - zingzing
ruvy: "Leave my dead relatives out of this will you, zing?"
aww, i see that sense of humor. it's pretty.
anyway, if you believe genesis, ain't we all relatives anyway? meh. with all the begotting, i get lost.
19 - roger nowosielski
There are two Genesis, zing, I and II.
20 - Dr Dreadful
There are indeed. Two Genesis creation stories anyway.
In the first version (Gen. 1.1-2.3), God creates the Earth, the heavens and the oceans, populates them with living things and then delivers the coup de grâce by creating Man and Woman - SIMULTANEOUSLY. He does this over a period of seven days.
In the second version (Gen. 2.4-25), God creates Man first, then fashions the Earth (aka the Garden of Eden), then finishes up by plucking out one of the man's ribs and making Woman (they are not yet referred to as Adam and Eve).
They are two quite separate, distinct and contradictory creation myths, and it's amazing that many people don't realize this.
21 - roger nowosielski
Touche, Dreadful. Surprised you're aware of it.
22 - Clavos
Touche, Dreadful. Surprised you're aware of it.
What did you do to Roger, Doc?
23 - roger nowosielski
I hope I wasn't disrespectful, Clavos.
24 - zingzing
but remember that god decided to wipe us out (original genocide?) and start over with noah. right? noah? anyway, wasn't he an old man at that point? and doesn't it get dangerous (for the mental health of the child) to have kids past a certain age? that would explain something about us...
25 - Ruvy
DD,
You are right that there are two descriptions of the creation of Man.
The first is essentially a description of the universe with the Divine camera, as it were slowly focusing in on the sun and the third planet from it, and the life created on it.
The second deals with the specific creation of what makes Man different from all the animals, the creation of a neshamá, a spirit that communicates with the Almighty, and with the issues of good and evil, and of free will.