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Washington Post: Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) is a Jew who hates being Jewish |
Washington Post
September 19, 2006
The Senator's Gentile Rebuke
By Dana Milbank
First came Sen. George Allen's Macaca Moment. Then just when you
thought Virginia's U.S. Senate race couldn't get any weirder, the Jews
of Tunis are making a cameo.
At a debate in Tysons Corner yesterday between Republican Allen and
Democrat Webb, WUSA-TV's Peggy Fox asked Allen, the tobacco-chewing,
cowboy-boot-wearing son of a pro football coach, if his Tunisian-born
mother has Jewish blood.
"It has been reported," said Fox, that "your grandfather Felix, whom
you were given your middle name for, was Jewish. Could you please tell
us whether your forebears include Jews and, if so, at which point
Jewish identity might have ended?"
Allen recoiled as if he had been struck. His supporters in the audience
booed and hissed. "To be getting into what religion my mother is, I
don't think is relevant," Allen said, furiously. "Why is that relevant
-- my religion, Jim's religion or the religious beliefs of anyone out
there?"
"Honesty, that's all," questioner Fox answered, looking a bit
frightened.
"Oh, that's just all? That's just all," the senator mocked, pressing
his attack. He directed Fox to "ask questions about issues that really
matter to people here in Virginia" and refrain from "making
aspersions."
"Let's move on," proposed the moderator, George Stephanopoulos of ABC
News.
Yes, let's -- but not before we figure out what that was all about.
Turns out the Forward, a Jewish newspaper, reported that the senator's
mother, Etty, "comes from the august Sephardic Jewish Lumbroso family"
and continued: "If both of Etty's parents were born Jewish -- which,
given her age and background, is likely -- Senator Allen would be
considered Jewish in the eyes of traditional rabbinic law, which traces
Judaism through the mother."
.... Allen turned on the questioner with ferocity. He may have been
irked that the question was a follow-up to one noting that "macaca" was
a racial slur that his mother may have learned in Tunisia. He may have
been concerned that Jewish roots wouldn't play well in parts of
Virginia.
Citing reports about his "possible Jewish ancestry," Fox questioned
Allen's past denial that his mother is Jewish...
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19 Sep 2006 01:33:03 PM |
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"Oh, that's just all? That's just all," the senator mocked, pressing
his attack. He directed Fox to "ask questions about issues that really
matter to people here in Virginia" and refrain from "making
aspersions."
aspiration:
1. An unfavorable or damaging remark; slander: Don't cast aspersions
on my honesty.
2. The act of defaming or slandering.
1. An unfavorable or damaging remark; slander: Don't cast aspersions
on my honesty.
2. The act of defaming or slandering.
How is it slanderous, unfavorable, damaging or defaming to have a mother
who's Jewish? He refused to defend an attack against his mother or her
Jewish faith. If he wins, remind me to ignore everything he says.
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Pat
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