Identity, Religion

Pat Robertson: Jews Good With Money

Media Matters reports,

On The 700 Club, host Pat Robertson said “Islam is essentially a Christian heresy” that “picked up snippets of the gospels,” and other Biblical texts and is now taking “everything that Jesus said” and “transport[ing it] into this fictional Mahdi.” Robertson also perpetuated Jewish stereotypes in a discussion about the need for Israeli soup kitchens, stating that “When you think of Jewish people, you think of successful businessmen” who are “very wise in finance and who are prosperous.” Robertson later added that “[i]t shocks people” to find out “there’s poverty in Israel,” because “Jewish people” are “very thrifty” and “extraordinarily good business people.”

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13 thoughts on “Pat Robertson: Jews Good With Money

  1. Come on, people. Have we so internalized this stuff? Are you personally a good businessperson? Are other Jews you know? If we believe this, what does that mean for the large numbers of poor Jews, in the US and around the world, not just in Israel? Do they just not count?

  2. But to think there’s a man now in charge of a government with nuclear weapons that is willing to bring about the chaos that is necessary to fulfill what he believes is important.
    Right. Because we’re so much safer with conservative Christians at the helm of our nuclear arsenal, just waiting for Armageddon to begin.
    Which synagogue in Massachusetts had him on the bimah?

  3. But to think there’s a man now in charge of a government with nuclear weapons that is willing to bring about the chaos that is necessary to fulfill what he believes is important.
    Right. Because we’re so much safer with conservative Christians at the helm of our nuclear arsenal, just waiting for Armageddon to begin.
    Which synagogue in Massachusetts had him on the bimah?

  4. Dan, I’m sorry. I’m obviously an idiot, or else the HTML codes don’t work the same way in here that they do elsewhere.

  5. The synagogue outside Boston was Temple Beth Sholom in Framingham. The whole incident got a good bit of press, some of this can be read in the sidebar here.
    Jews honoring Robertson and his ilk is not an especially new thing. Jewish Women Watching distributed a great postcard on the subject.

  6. I say this stuff all the time. It’s a shame that Israel’s economy isn’t as strong as it could be (though it’s getting better) when we Jews are natural financial and economic gurus.
    Okay, so it’s not true and it’s not PC. Robertson is a putz. Do you expect any better of him?
    Btw, in China to be called a Jew is actually a compliment. In China, Jews are highly respected for their business skills. and this is coming from people in a communist country! Unlike over here where we always focus on the negative, the Chinese focus on the specific contributions of each ethnic group. Kind of like what Reggie White (pbuh) did when he talked about how blacks are good at dancing, “Hispanics are gifted in family,” “Indians are gifted in the spirituality,” etc. Take a look at the Chinese, I say. All Chinese are really good at not being hateful. Because racial generalizations are bad, and they realize it.
    haha jokes

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