[ April 17, 2024 ]
If you missed my speech on Islamic Jew-hatred to the ZOA, now's the time to watch it: video here.
Conservative Activist Rouses Local Crowd
March 21, 2012 – Bryan Schwartzman, Jewish ExponentStory continues below advertisementFirebrand conservative blogger and activist Pamela Geller told a Philadelphia audience that the majority of Jews have "their heads in the sand" regarding the threat Islam poses to America and Israel.
"The existence of Israel is an insult to practicing and devout Muslims. Whether you like that or not, that is the way it is," Geller, the New York-based founder of Stop Islamization of America, told the enthusiastic audience of more than 100 at the Center City program sponsored by the Zionist Organization of America.
Pamela Geller "Why are we caving to the most racist and radical ideology on the planet?" Geller said. "Now, you can say that I am exaggerating. No! You don't know" what is really going on.
The event was held at the Jewish Community Services Building, which is owned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Geller said she was shocked Federation was allowing her to speak in this space and that she is usually shunned by Jewish groups.
(Left-leaning speakers have spoken in the building, including Rachel Liel of the New Israel Fund.)
Geller, who also writes the blog atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com, gained notoriety in 2010 for calling attention to a proposed Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan. Along with the lawyer David Yerushalmi, Geller is one of the leading Jewish voices warning about Muslim efforts to impose Islamic law on the American workplace, legal system and cultural sphere.
According to material circulated by the Anti-Defamation League, Geller "promotes a conspiratorial anti-Muslim agenda under the guise of fighting radical Islam. The group seeks to rouse public fears by consistently vilifying the Islamic faith."
Tanned, sporting plenty of makeup and speaking with a pronounced New York accent, Geller rarely paused during her 45-minute talk. During that time, the onetime associate publisher of The New York Observer blasted the ADL and other mainstream targets, including The New York Times, which she called part of the "ene-media." Those organizations deliberately minimize the threat posed by Islam and refuse to offend Muslims, she said
Geller's latest spat with The New York Times came to light last week when it was reported by several news outlets that the paper decided to delay indefinitely an advertisement Geller's group purchased that called on Muslims to leave Islam. It came after the paper ran a similar advertisement urging Catholics to abandon the faith.
According to published reports, the paper said that it feared running the ad might put American troops at risk. Geller said it was a hypocritical stance coming from the same news organization that exposed the National Security Agency's wiretapping surveillance program.
"They gave all our secrets away and they are telling me about saving the troops' lives. They have no shame," she said.
Though ZOA is a non-partisan group, it was clearly a GOP-leaning crowd. Geller said that the "disaster of Obama" won't be felt for decades and that Americans should prepare themselves for an inevitable second term. Later, during a question-and-answer session, she recalibrated a bit and said the chances for unseating the president were closer to fifty-fifty.
Though she indicated she prefers former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as a candidate — and publicly thanked him for his controversial comments that the Palestinians are an "invented people" — she said the party's best chance is to unite behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
She said that GOP candidate Ron Paul, who opposes aid to Israel, would be worse than Obama, describing him as "nuts."
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14 Comments
12 years ago
u r awesome!
12 years ago
Orthodox visions of how the world and humans should be will bring enforcement of the dogmas, and the dogmas will, as did Nazism, Communism or Islam-finally result in mass murder. What happened in France is a taste of what will happen to the Jewish people and others if ever Islam dominates on this sorry planet.
Most of the other religions of the world see man as imperfect, struggling to form a relationship with Gd. Islam recommends slavery or extermination to those who refuse slavery to their Sky-god.
Kant once said “out of timber so crooked from which man is made, nothing entirely straight can be carved.” Islam is very crooked timber.
12 years ago
Tanned, sporting plenty of makeup and speaking with a pronounced New York accent,.. These are crimes in Philadelphia?
12 years ago
Musically Lady Gaga and Marilyn Manson may have nothing in common, but controversy seems to be a part of their persona onstage and off.
12 years ago
They call Pam “conservative activist”. That’s fine, but only if they call liberal activists “liberal activists”. And they don’t.
12 years ago
@Tom….
I thought perhaps that I just took that statement, you also posted, as a smear of some sort…being a woman and all….guess I wasn’t being a little sensitive.
Sounded like he was saying she was dressed like a hooker…sporting plenty of make-up.
What did he think she would talk like…someone from Texas, with a Southern drawl?
HEY BRIAN!…Most people from NY talk with that same accent! Duh!?
12 years ago
the left cant stand it that your good looking!….give em hell PG!!!!!!!
12 years ago
ZOA convinced Florida legislators to endorse permanent Jewish (with provisions for Christians) sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, up to the Jordan River. I have supported that position for 40 years. Those lands and Israel proper should be enforced as salafist-free-zones. But my minority position is that muslims should be excluded from a space formed by a radiated circle from Temple Mount to the extension of the Kingdom of David up to the outskirts of Damascus. Those people should not be in the Judeo-Christian Holy Lands. And the al-aqsa and umar abominations should be bulldozed off Temple Mount so that the Third Temple can be built.
There is no reference to Jeruslam (el-kadish) in the unholy quran because the enemy had to concoct “holy” (al-quds) claims in face of potential Christian restoration of their shared sovereignty with Jews. Dead Sea muslims are rape-spawn, with absolutely no right to claim “homeland” status. To me they are outsiders who were never welcomed. They can go back to the saud desert homeland.
12 years ago
Pamela, you were strong, you were awesome! You had to use your muscle to tell the TRUTH. You are still you though, feminine and proud of it! Beauty and brains sometimes baffle people, and sometimes it will IMPRESS THE SHIT OUT OF PEOPLE! That is all the left is fearful of. If you could clone yourself and be in fifty places at one time, Omgoodness, the left would collapse to their knees and cry out loud in frustration because of the number of people you would reach with the TRUTH. Real journalsim is dead, for people seeking the truth, and then there is PAMELA GELLER!
12 years ago
A certain type of reporting sucks the joy out of everything, but not Pamela Geller. Good for hobbit, ordinary barbarian, rabble rousing you!
12 years ago
Geller “promotes a conspiratorial anti-Muslim agenda
As they say, you are not being paranoid when someone really IS out to get you… and you aren’t promoting (assumed false) “conspiracies” when there actually IS a conspiracy. In this case, the conspiracy is well defined in Q’uran and articulated on a regular basis by Muslim clerics around the world.
Tanned, sporting plenty of makeup and speaking with a pronounced New York accent,
Well, now that’s making a really intelligent point. A Jewish website implying you are a J.A.P. ???? Guess that was the most potent put-down they could make! I am surprised they did not add a remark about your jewelry, hair style and shopping habits!
12 years ago
A man (woman) does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality ~ Winston Churchill
12 years ago
May I reference a blog post –http://hpflomberg.blogspot.com/ where I make the same observation as others. I was embarrassed by the comment. Pamela – you make me think. Thank you. And yes – though I live in Denver – I still have my brooklyn accent.
12 years ago
The Islamic jihad is based on faulty interpretations of the Quran…
And use the words of marxist atheists to justify their grievances…
Satan invented the lie and attempted to usurp the Rights of the Great God…
The Islamic jihad lies about the People of the Book and then kills them based on the lies, using the words of the unfaithful as justification…
Islamic jihad is satanic, is it not?
