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Monday, January 23, 2017

Anti-Semites harass rabbi who spoke at Trump inauguration

Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who delivered a blessing at the inauguration of US President Donald Trump last Friday, has been inundated with hundreds of anti-Semitic messages on social media in the two days since the inauguration.

Rabbi Hier blessed Trump at the inauguration and quoted from Psalm 137:“By the rivers of Babylon we wept as we remembered Zion. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning."

The anti-Semitic responses began almost immediately after Rabbi Hier finished his prayer, which was the first prayer given by a rabbi at a Presidential inauguration since 1985, and the first ever by an Orthodox rabbi.

Wiesenthal Center associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Jerusalem Post that Rabbi Hier's prayer at the White House was a "perfect storm" for anti-Semites of the left and the right. He said that his IT staff had removed hundreds of anti-Semitic messages from social media.

“Obviously a lot of people who don’t like Jews had a tough time seeing a Jew stand up proudly before the world,” Rabbi Cooper said.” To have a Jew wearing a kippa on an international stage and a declared and well-known Zionist - from the far left to the far right a lot of people were very angry.”

He said that the internet and social media allow rabid anti-Semites and other bigots and racists to post their hateful messages with ease and without fear of repercussion. However, he said that outside the digital world Rabbi Hier received warm support from people of all different faiths.

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6 comments:

  1. Ignorant people attacking a man of God. How shameful. The only thing that separates Jews from Christians is the second testament. Everyone around me were commenting on how nice it was to have an interfaith prayer. Can't get much more inclusive than that.

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  2. The rabbi was great. His prayer was sincere and spiritual. God will deal with those who railed against him.

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  3. Jews and christain worship the Good lord.
    Madonna, Hollywood,Islam and progressives belong to satan.

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  4. Jews and christain worship the Good lord.
    Madonna, Hollywood,Islam and progressives belong to satan.

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  5. There is nothing you can say to people like this except, SHAME, SHAME

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  6. Muslims killed nearly 3000 people on 9/11 and yet the left praises islam. Go figure. As the saying goes "I learned all I needed to know about islam on 9/11."

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