Naomi Campbell: “Anti-Semitisim is Anti-Me”
The ADL has launched a new ad campaign, which will appear on several hundred telephone kiosks across New York City over the next two months, including during the Republican National Convention. The message is carried in three dramatic posters, one with Supermodel Naomi Campbell, one with one of the nation’s leading Lutheran Christian ministers Rev. Kathleen Rusnak, and one a young Asian-American child, Jacob – age 3-1/2 yrs. I actually saw one of these in midtown Manhattan last week (the one with the minister).
But I am anti-Naomi-Campbell. Does this make me an anti-Semite?
No, but if you’re anti-me, you’re clearly anti-semantic.
If I’m anti-signs in general, I guess that makes me anti-semiotic.
You can find the child at 66th St. And 1st Ave (NE corner)
Ultracrepidarian: The kid is just sitting there?
Didja get him to autograph your personal ADL poster?
hahahahaha….. there the lutheran one is on 6 ave in the village. just sitting there
what a freaking embarrassment. our national jewish leadership is clueless and desparate.
I’ve seen the Campbell one and the Lutheran one and I assumed that the Lutheran woman was Jewish, not paying attention to her collar
But then when I saw the Campbell one I was wondering… Is Naomi Campbell Jewish? And if not then what the hell is the meaning
adl are wasting their money. bunch of idiots. foxman thinks i am an antisemite. no wonder he is spending money on signs in New York fucking city!!
and in the upper east side no less!
The 12th annual salary survey by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, published Oct. 2, showed Stephen Solender, president emeritus of the United Jewish Communities federation umbrella, topping the list of Jewish professionals with an annual salary of $450,417, not including benefits. The highest-paid federation leader was Robert Aronson, of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, who earned $380,940, plus benefits. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles, earned $449,836 plus benefits. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, made $357,375, plus benefits.
I think that Foxman may have a budget surplus coming off his recent Passion-fuled funding drives…
Seriously, I think the ADL is attempting to prove it’s relevance after it’s Passion overkill.
Honestly, if the reason to not hate us are:
a female priest
an asian child
and Naomi Campbell dressed up for a blacksploitation flick…
then we need more help than I thought!
Sometime the ADL is it’s own worst enemy.
Is Naomi Campbell Jewish? And if not then what the hell is the meaning
That racism affects all of society, not just those directly targetted by it. Call me a contrarian: I think this is a pretty good message.
somehow I don’t believe anti-semitism has any meaningful effect on Naomi Campbell
I don’t really quite understand the connection between the subjects of these posters and the message.
Relax ‘mericans. You don’t have to criticize and 2nd guess everything in life.
Anything to lower the ‘heat’ is worth trying because one day youll wake up and realize that ‘merica is now ‘France’. Besides that I’m really pessimistic about Jewish future in the States, I like this campaign since I think it at least postpones the inevitable so that you can ‘enjoy’ life a bit longer and push off the new reality onto your children who’ll have to face the fact that you didn’t prepare the goyim (who won’t remember Joseph) for their generation.
The Arab/Muslim population has already leapfrogged the Jews, and in another generation, they’ll realize their power and stop being afraid of the shadow of what American Jews once were and their friends.
Keep (un-constructively) criticizing your leaders and one day you’ll realize that you have no leaders, because no one wants to lead but everyone expects the sucker who did want to try to be what they aren’t.
How many Josh’s are on this blog?
Brown Babylonian writes that somehow I don’t believe anti-semitism has any meaningful effect on Naomi Campbell; Johnnie Walker doesn’t really quite understand the connection between the subjects of these posters and the message.
Their attitude of “racism? it’s not my problem!” is, I suppose, the one that the ad campaign is targetting. This is usually where the Niemoller quote (“first they came for the communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a communist”, etc) gets introduced, isn’t it?
8opus slandered: Their attitude of “racism? it’s not my problem!”
Neither myself nor Johnnie Walker said anything that would suggest that attitude
Neither myself nor Johnnie Walker said anything that would suggest that attitude Really?
You asked, Is Naomi Campbell Jewish? And if not then what the hell is the meaning? I responded: That racism affects all of society, not just those directly targetted by it.
You maintained: somehow I don’t believe anti-semitism has any meaningful effect on Naomi Campbell. I called this an attitude of “racism? it’s not my problem!”. You call this slander.
Readers should draw their own conclusions, obviously. In the meantime, if you still don’t get it, I suppose it can’t hurt to reproduce the usual Niemoeller quote in full. It’s an attitude that I think important for any minority group — but, given our history, I’d have thought Jews would especially take it to heart. Not all Jews, obviously.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I have wondered if The ADL are part of an anti-semetic, anti-universalist plot to prevent Jews from having honest dialog with the world about their communities and their resposibilities. If the jewish world was really impressing people with our commitment to healing the world (or, as needed, impressing the forces of conservitism with our commitment to maintain the status quo) would there be antiism towards them? If we just talked with each other about it in an open way?
What are the anti-anti-semites trying to hide!?
Got one of these… the one with the guy, outside my back door. He looks like a priest! All it did was confuse me as to how exactly anti-semitism was anti-priests. Waste of money, this campaign.
When I see little asian boy… the word “JEWISH!” doesn’t spring to mind…
I think they should’ve put Jerry Seinfeld or some other well known Jew in the ad. Or a teenager wearing a talit.