{"id":73187,"date":"2019-09-17T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=73187"},"modified":"2019-09-11T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:44:52","slug":"17-00-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=73187","title":{"rendered":"VALERIE PLAME TWEETED ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACY.."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>VALERIE PLAME TWEETED ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACY, NOW CLAIMS \u201cJEWISH\u201d ANCESTRY<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

SETH J. FRANTZMAN <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Plame is running for Congress in New Mexico and in the past was seen as a victim of the Bush administration. But in 2017 she tweeted an article titled \u201cAmerica\u2019s Jews are driving America\u2019s Wars\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson poses during a photocall for the film Fair Game at the 36th American film festival in Deauville September 9, 2010. . (photo credit: VINCENT KESSLER\/ REUTERS)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

US congressional candidate Valerie Plame, who once tweeted antisemitic conspiracy theories blaming American Jews for causing America\u2019s wars, now claims to be of Ukrainian Jewish descent in a new campaign video. The snazzy new spot shows someone driving backwards in a sports car, while the candidate recalls that she was once an \u201cundercover CIA operative,\u201d whose identity was leaked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plame is running for Congress in New Mexico and in the past was seen as a victim of the Bush administration. But in 2017 she tweeted an article titled \u201cAmerica\u2019s Jews are driving America\u2019s Wars\u201d which showed a photo of Bill Kristol. Challenged on the offensive headline and antisemitic tweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, she told people to \u201ccalm down, re-tweets don\u2019t imply endorsements. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish.\u201d She walked back that claim later and said she had \u201cskimmed\u201d the piece. However she has consistently been contradictory about the tweet, first claiming that the article was provocative and thoughtful, and then claiming that she had just skimmed it. The headline, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Jews are driving America\u2019s wars\u201d is antisemitic. There is no \u201cthoughtfulness\u201d in it. And it doesn\u2019t say \u201cneocons,\u201d a term that has been repackaged too often to mean \u201cJews.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Later, on CNN in May 2019 when her candidacy became known she was asked about the tweet. Her story changed again, claiming she hadn\u2019t liked the article and that the \u201conly thing that I focused on in the article was that I thought it was a bad idea to get out of the Iran nuclear deal.\u201d There are tens of thousands of articles arguing why it might have been bad to leave the Iran Deal, why did Plame tweet the one claiming \u201cAmerica\u2019s Jews are driving America\u2019s wars\u201d from an antisemitic site that spreads conspiracies? Asked by CNN she then claimed that she \u201cstupidly did not read the rest of the article.\u201d Which is it? She read the offensive headline and tweeted it anyway? Or she skimmed it? Or just read the part about the \u201cIran deal\u201d and tweeted the headline anyway? Or she focused on the \u201cneocons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She told CNN she was \u201cembarrassed\u201d by the whole episode, as if it was just mistake. But most people don\u2019t make mistakes and tweet that America\u2019s Jews control America and cause America\u2019s wars, unless they hate Jews. No one in recent memory has run for Congress so prominently and claimed Jews cause America\u2019s wars. Plame\u2019s contradictory statements raise questions about her judgement and underlying antisemitism or predilection for believing conspiracies. During the original scandal she had told people \u201cread the entire article, just for a moment, to put aside your biases and think clearly.\u201d So she told people shocked by the antisemitism that they were biased. Then she claimed that she had \u201cmissed gross undercurrents to this article.\u201d Undercurrents? The article\u2019s headline said Jews drive America\u2019s wars.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now Plame is trying to whitewash the issue again with her video claiming to be related to Jews. \u201cI come from Ukrainian Jewish immigrants,\u201d her new campaign video claims. It\u2019s unclear why someone who now takes pride in their Ukrainian Jewish background would ever tweet an article headlined \u201cAmerica\u2019s Jews are driving America\u2019s wars.\u201d Like Plame\u2019s claim, some of my ancestors came from Ukraine. If your ancestors came from Ukraine then wouldn\u2019t you be particularly sensitive to conspiracies like the Elders of Zion that claim Jews cause wars? Plame doesn\u2019t seem to have internalized how horrid her tweet was, blaming a small American minority group, rather than the majority, for America\u2019s wars. Plame has never explained it. She\u2019s never really apologized or even shown an interest in listening to Jews concerned about it. She\u2019s tried at every juncture to add a new excuse, from pretending it was a re-tweet, which it wasn\u2019t, to asking people to put aside the headline and read it, to telling people to \u201ccalm down,\u201d as if being offended is the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

The more disturbing question remains. Why did Plame ever share a tweet from a conspiracy-laden website? Did she read the website often? Does she still read it? If she shared it because someone sent it to her, who sent it to her and why is she linked to people who share antisemitic articles? Will she end those connections to conspiracy theorists and antisemites now that she is running for Congress? How can someone who wants to be in Congress and reads the headline \u201cAmerica\u2019s Jews are driving America\u2019s Wars\u201d and doesn\u2019t notice the racism, convince people of anything else? In a period of rising antisemitism in America Plame has never taken seriously how offensive the article was, claiming in 2017 it was a mistake and a \u201cdoozy\u201d to share the \u201cproblematic\u201d article. She said she will read \u201cthoroughly\u201d next time. Plame still hasn\u2019t explained how she can both take pride in her Jewish immigrant ancestors and have shared an article headlined \u201cAmerica\u2019s Jews are driving America\u2019s wars.\u201d It\u2019s not a question of reading thoroughly or being a \u201cdoozy,\u201d it\u2019s pure, obvious, racist antisemitism. And she tweeted it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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VALERIE PLAME TWEETED ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACY, NOW CLAIMS \u201cJEWISH\u201d ANCESTRY SETH J. FRANTZMAN Plame is running for Congress in New Mexico and in the past was seen as a victim of the Bush administration. But in 2017 she tweeted an article titled \u201cAmerica\u2019s Jews are driving America\u2019s Wars\u201d. Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson poses during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73222,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73187\/revisions\/73222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}