The Oldest Hatred *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Mar 01 2009 at 10:19 pm | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Regular commenter Lulu sent me the following email:
I am sending you a copy of a packet of sunflower seeds I found in a Russian grocery store [in Los Angeles] last week. Apparently it says, “Shalom from Israel” on one side and “Chew them up and spit them out” on the other.
I sent it to the ADL. They contacted the merchant but I don’t believe they intend to contact the importer. I wish they would. However, since they believe these are probably imported from Iran I think there is a story here and should be looked into a little more closely.
You cannot read it on the scan because it is in dark blue on the picture, but they are imported and distributed by
AHT International
Brooklyn, NY 11204
718 621-4000
Here’s the picture she took of that packet of sunflower seeds:
UPDATE: Thanks to an alert reader (you know who you are), I have more information about the sunflower seeds, which are packaged in Russia.
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As if the translation wasn’t offensive enough, the caricature completes the offense, along with the obvious … that AHT International is now importing antisemitism.
I am spittin’ mad!
BW:
Antisemitism is also ‘packaged’ in Russia. I didn’t know they had a license to export it to the USA.
For what it’s worth, I sent the info to the Brooklyn DA’s office.
What amazes me is that it is just so blatant. The image is hideous. Ugly. The only reason someone WOULD buy it is because of their hatred of Jews.
I guess I shouldn’t be but I guess I am still shocked that this would happen. It makes me realize the importance of seeing things for what they really are.
Guys,
The image is ugly. There was a post by LGF back in December about this:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32079_And_Now_Antisemitic_Sunflower_Seeds/
I commented there back then and will offer an explanation here now.
First of all, I did an experiment with my wife: I opened this image without text and asked her what she thought. She said: “Nothing”. I asked her if she thought it was offensive, and she asked: “Is it supposed to be?”
Many of you know of my background: I am a Jew originally from the former Soviet Union. So, let me translate what the writing on the package says.
On the left it indeed says: “Shalom from Israel”. On the right it says “Vezdepluika”.
The word “Vezdepluika” is a made-up word in the Russian language. It could be properly translated as “everywhere-spitter”. Eating sunflower seeds is an activity as popular in Russia as smoking, maybe more so. The way most people eat them (something I never could master) is they put a seed into the mouth and then spit the peel out.
A word about the owners and the customers of that “Russian” store in Los Angeles. They are all Jews from the former Soviet Union, or at least 90% of them. Like my wife, they don’t pay attention to the picture on the package, they simply buy sunflower seeds.
Back in December LGF reported that New-York Assemblyman Dov Hikind protested that this package was promoting “anti-Semitic sentiment with the Russian-American community”. Back then my comment was that there could be no “anti-Semitic sentiment with the Russian-American community”, unless it is Noam Chomsky’s self-hating anti-Semitism, because of a very simple reason: so-called “Russian”-American community consists of Jewish emigrants from the former Soviet Union. I also said that Jewish Democrats like Dov Hikind could have their time better spent resisting real anti-Semites, including the ones in the in-coming administration, rather than looking for non-existing “anti-Semitic sentiment with the Russian-American community”. 3 months later this still applies. The anti-Semites being appointed by Obama, like former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Charles “Chas” Freeman Jr., merit much more attention than these stupid seeds with ugly picture on the package.
Eric.
Just adding a comment, so I get e-mail notifications of the replies.
Eric.
eric:
The Jewish Democrats should have thought long and hard before pulling the lever for Obama. The signals and signs were as blatant as the caricature on the sunflower seed package. Most voters don’t do their due diligence by reading enough about their candidate and tend to rely on media visuals. I think this is why the package hit a sore spot. The owners/customers of the store may have bought the product blindly, but it is the exporters who are the real culprits.
I have seen this type of caricature used by the Arab media and hate groups here and elsewhere and I am surprised that you wife has not.
BTW..the shell spitting is an art also practiced in Israel. Must have been a result of Russian immigration years ago. I also tried mastering the shell spitting, with little success, in my youth.
If you people look back to the images the Nazis used in their propaganda, you will see that it is almost the same as the one up above. Except there’s like pigs and blood and what not.
The Jewish Democrats should have thought long and hard before pulling the lever for Obama
They were thinking with their hearts. Fake libs have two standards. One for us, and one for them. They vote in politicians, of course, that will make sure “our” standards fit their expectations.
They think their own personal standards will always be kept up ship shape. They think, but they are just deluding themselves. Megalomaniacs never leave people’s personal standards alone. It is always their way or the high way. The Jews thought they could get Dems to hold the line against abortion and Christians and patriotic Americans and that this would secure their own personal status and wealth.
Well, German Jews also thought that nothing big was happening in German, and thus refused to move. Their personal standards will be modified come the Point of no Return.
Ymarsakar:
Denial is denial, no matter who was foolish enough to believe that Obama was going to ‘deliver’ anything other than a well learned sermon from his mentor, Rev. Wright.
The greater problem with the Jewish community is that we have been raised with the ideal of ‘Tikkun Olam’ – to repair the world, to make things right. To lift the needy, to feed the hungry, to care for those that cannot care for themselves. I still subscribe to these values, but not at the expense of myself and family.
My great grandmother and grandfather, did indeed, leave Germany in 1937, but it took a lot of money and connections to do so. There were thousands that wanted to leave and could not. The sad tale of the S.S. St. Louis is one of many chapters in the history of trying to leave Europe and stands as an example of what did happen and can happen here, again.
To wrap it up with a lingering question mark – To Tikkun or not to Tikkun Olam?
Niemoller 1955
“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
>> The greater problem with the Jewish community is that we have been raised with the ideal of ‘Tikkun Olam’ – to repair the world, to make things right. To lift the needy, to feed the hungry, to care for those that cannot care for themselves.
Sadie, I think those sentiments are correct. The problem, as always, is in the implementation.
My example:
“To repair the world, what did I do? I gave the fellow next to me a hammer. Unfortunately, he smashed me over the head with it, robbed me, and left me for dead. I did not stop to think: We were isolated we two, and I had never bothered to divine his intentions.”
Noble sentiments + naivete = catastrophic result.
Mike:
You are correct in your summation and it can be applied across the board.
“Noble sentiments + naivete = catastrophic result.”
Maybe my lingering question should be a more emphatic statement:
DON’T TREAD ON MY TIKKUN OLAM
Headline Of The Day:
Jimmy Carter Gets New Museum for his 85th Birthday
Link: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/carter_library_renovation/2009/03/05/188611.html?s=al&promo_code=7B91-1
Jimmy’s walking down the hallway with his admirers, toothy grin and all, describing each exhibit.
“And here is my favorite section of all in my museum”, he said, taking his acolytes around the corner into a dead-end alcove. He pauses before the first exhibit.
“Here is where I sold the Israelis onto the dock”, he said, grinning that toothy grin.
He walks over to the next stand. “And here is where I sold them into the rowboat.”
And he walks to the third and last exhibit. “And here is where I sold them down the river.”
Mike:
As if today’s news wasn’t making me cranky enough. I know I can count on you to add fuel to my fire.
Things sure have changed (not really) since the days of Moses in the Bull Rushes to the Israelis being sold down the river on a barge of Billy Beer.
Mr. Habitat for Humanity is more than happy to take the millions to build his Ego Palace.
I’ll return the fire with fire.
I think I need a bigger mattress.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090305/pl_afp/financeeconomyusbankinggovernment
Sadie,
I guess it’s my job to ruin your every day.
To ruin your day today: It looks as though we’ve magically come up with another 500 billion buckos, this time for the FDIC. Your article link was prescient.
The iron laws of economics guarantee we are in for some dark, dreary times. Let’s magick up another one trillion bucks for something else! Why not? Is it any wonder the stock market continues to tank? There are plenty of clear-eyed people, with solid economic backgrounds, who can see the writing on this Obama graffiti wall.
Why am I certain that the entire Obama administration gathers in a circle each morning, hand in hand, and they chant, ten times, “There are no laws of economics. We can do whatever we want.” And then, as happy as little children that they’ve transformed their little fantasy world into reality, they start their little day.
$500Billion for the FDIC? Peanuts.
Now _here_ we’re talking about some _real_ money….
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/06/cap-and-trade-was-never-about-climate/
I’m beginning to feel like Noah – I’m just not sure the rainbow is going to show up in 40 days…
Mike & suek:
I see the two of you have decided to ‘tag team’ this week. Nice work (wink wink).
Mike, as you know the Evil Democrats forever now known as the Demoncrats also do their version of Turkey in the Straw Dance as well as they gather for a sing-a-long:
You put your right hand out…
You put your left hand out…..
Your put your right foot out…
Your put your left foot out…..
Then, you suck all the money out ….
No doubt someone here can improve on the new lyrics.
suek: You are beginning to feel like Noah and I am beginning to feel like Jonah and I don’t think the whale is going to cough me up in 3 days.
They’re playing Global Monopoly with carbon credits using my ‘real money’.
NEWS FLASH:
Chicken Little was almost right – it wasn’t the sky.