Is Jared Lee Loughner Jewish?–Part 2

As Matt Parrott noted in a comment on my previous blog,

We’re not the ones who brought up Judaism. It’s the media that, with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, dreamed up the notion that Giffords was assassinated by an anti-Semitic White Nationalist. When we speculated that Loughner might be Jewish, we did so based on a solid lead from an interview in Mother Jones of his closest friend. It was very relevant, as his being Jewish would have disabled the media’s unprovoked attack on us.

Exactly right. I am certainly not wedded to the idea that Loughner was Jewish on his mother’s side. That’s why I had a question mark in the title of my blog.

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JTA now has a blog by Ron Kampeas that goes through most of the genealogy, concluding with the suggestion that Loughner’s mother’s grandfather may have been Jewish. (In a previous blog, Kampeas had dismissed the Jewish connection because Totman is “an old English name.” By that logic, Jon Stewart couldn’t be Jewish because he has  an old Scottish name.) In his most recent comments, Kampeas speculates that Loughner’s mother

might have mentioned her Jewish grandfather, beloved enough to live on in her brother’s name, with pride or interest. Under those circumstances Loughner, who sought “chaos” according to Tierney, might have sought to provoke his mother and his uncle by pretending to admire (or actually admiring) Adolph Hitler. He might have told Tierney that his mother was Jewish as a shorthand, or might have seen her as Jewish — like I said, not the most reliable reporter. Or he might have explained the lineage, and Tierney might understandably have conflated it as “mother Jewish.”

Pretty speculative but helpful in any case.  As we wait for a definitive account, the LATimes published an article (“Experts see echoes of extremism in Loughner’s ramblings“) that shows that efforts to blame the “extreme right” continue unabated.  The article quotes the $PLC’s notorious Mark Potok as an “expert.” Even after everyone with a brain is chalking it up to insanity, Potok writes, “I think you can find clues to some of the ideas that have influenced him, and I think many of them are clearly coming from the extreme right.”

Never waste an opportunity to vilify the right.

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48 Comments to "Is Jared Lee Loughner Jewish?–Part 2"

  1. January 13, 2011 - 2:43 pm | Permalink

    The lefties at the LATimes just couldn’t help but try to tie this thing into the birthright citizenship debate:

    Berlet noted Loughner’s declaration about a “second Constitution” — an issue debated by mainstream scholars and white supremacists alike over the markedly different character of the amendments that came after the Civil War.

    The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments deal with citizenship and voting rights for freed slaves, immigrants and all those born in the U.S., the latter being a key point of controversy in the modern immigration debate. They also establish the “validity of the public debt of the United States” — echoing, Berlet suggested, the issue of U.S. currency.

    “Reading the second United States Constitution, I can’t trust the government because of the ratifications,” Loughner wrote.

    There’s no way to know what Loughner meant by that sentence.

    The LA Times is trying to frame the sentence in a certain way for blatantly political purposes.

    If Loughner was/is against what Abraham Lincoln did to this country, he sure did a very good job of hiding it.

    • Tom's Gravatar Tom
      January 13, 2011 - 4:07 pm | Permalink

      Chip Berlet is just another marginally Jewish communist asshole like Loughner. ;)

  2. January 13, 2011 - 3:13 pm | Permalink

    Potok: “I think you can find clues to some of the ideas that have influenced him, and I think many of them are clearly coming from the extreme right.”

    Yes, and many came from the extreme left (Potok’s tribal set) as well. Indeed, the assassination attempt can be spun any way one wants to spin it: a manifestation of right-wing rhetoric, an internecine assassination as a consequence of left-wing rhetoric (the left-wing also “targeted” Giffords):

    “In fact, the Daily Kos once “targeted” Giffords, using imagery and rhetoric not unlike Palin’s over the Democrat congresswoman’s opposition to Obamacare. One Daily Kos blogger even had this to say about Giffords after the moderate Democrat opposed Nancy Pelosi as House Minority Leader: “My Congresswoman voted against Nancy Pelosi! And is now dead to me!”
    http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/01/11/the-lefts-new-low/

    But because the mainstream media are either left-wing or globalist-corporatist, “right-wing” Whites, patriots, sovereignty/freedom advocates, anti-Communists, Christians and tea partiers (many of whom aren’t “right-wing” at all) get framed and blamed.

    The whole thing was a pure patsy frame up by the corrupt, degenerate liberal-capitalist establishment that has thankfully fallen on its ear, and has actually affirmed what so many Americans already suspected: mainstream media are comprised of left-wingers, anti-White racists, and open-borders, American-sovereignty-undermining, globalist whack jobs.

    • January 13, 2011 - 3:23 pm | Permalink

      By “patsy,” I don’t mean Loughner was a patsy, I mean America-firsters were framed as to blame for Loughner’s actions, hence becoming the contrived scapegoat for political purposes, and we all know mainstream media and left-wing ADL/SLPC types had their talking points ready and were licking their lips just waiting for something that they could quickly blame on the tea partiers to happen.

  3. JJ's Gravatar JJ
    January 13, 2011 - 5:01 pm | Permalink

    The obvious conclusion to all of this post tragedy rhetoric is that if it is effective for the left it will undoubtedly lead to more violence in the political system. If the right had any brains they would be asking, is the left unconscious of this fact, or is it exactly what they are aiming for?

  4. felipeb's Gravatar felipeb
    January 13, 2011 - 7:51 pm | Permalink

    Totman could be an adopted name. Congresswoman Giffords is Jewish with a very WASP name. Her paternal grandfather Cliff Giffords was born Akiba Hornstein.

    Her overt Jewishness is of recent vintage, 2001. That year she visited Israel and found herself. The suspicion occurs to me that at the onset of her political career she decided it was advantageous in America to be a Jew, part of the elite. It would also help to have backers in Tel Aviv. I wonder with what pledges of support and money she returned with to launch herself? And what was the quid pro quo? First loyalty to Zionism?

  5. January 13, 2011 - 9:32 pm | Permalink

    Madeline Albright suddenly “discovered” she was Jewish after leaving the Clinton administration. Jonah Kohn aka John Kerry discovered he wasn’t an Irish Catholic either but a Jew also late in life. I thought the alleged shooter looked a bit Jewish but who are you going to believe, the JTA or your own lying eyes?
    I mean they would have no reason to pull a fast one would they?

  6. Govhater's Gravatar Govhater
    January 13, 2011 - 10:01 pm | Permalink

    Look at the photos of this alleged shooter. Put together the close up pic at the book fair, and the pic of the shooter at the jail… Notice a difference in scars?????? All the pics of the alleged shooter look different.. Am I crazy, or does anyone else notice this???

    • January 16, 2011 - 5:12 am | Permalink

      Govhater, I am a portrait artist. I too see huge discrepancies. Something is very strange here. The eyebrows from high school are TOTALLY different from either of the ‘newer’ photos. Questions should be raised… as in the Bin Laden videos & other issues.

  7. Gray Prince's Gravatar Gray Prince
    January 13, 2011 - 10:13 pm | Permalink

    Nor would partial Jewish heritage necessarily exclude anti-semitism as a motive.

    Someone mentioned the “Dartmouth murders” in another thread, in which two teenage boys brutally murdered an academic couple. The poster claimed that the boys had been Jewish and that the media covered it up. I looked into it, and I don’t think the boys were Jewish, but funny enough, I learned ANTISEMITISM was alleged as a motive. The murdered couple turned out to be ethnically German. It would be instructive to compile all the cases where anti-semitism was alleged and turned out to be false/invented.

  8. Jim's Gravatar Jim
    January 13, 2011 - 11:17 pm | Permalink

    12,000 – 16,000 murders every year in the US (for decades), and Obama has just now decided we need more “civility” in our society.

  9. Alexander's Gravatar Alexander
    January 14, 2011 - 12:20 pm | Permalink

    Judging by change.org a site that dedicates itself to petitions for various causes the media is not too accurate. The latest http://www.change.org/petitions/view/elle_magazine_apologize_for_trying_to_whiten_indian_skin is protesting the whitening off a famous Indian actress
    Bollywood actress as follows Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan appears on the January cover of Elle magazine, but she’s outraged by the image. Her skin appears far more pale than it is in real life. Her dark brown hair is shown to be practically red.

    Elle claims to celebrate women of color by featuring them on magazine covers, but this is the second time in just six months that Elle has blatantly made women of color more white. (The last controversy surrounded Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe.)

  10. Alexander's Gravatar Alexander
    January 14, 2011 - 12:55 pm | Permalink

    I just visited Rense.com and found Loughner’s Rabbi Debunks Rumors but the link was broken.

    [Please close tags like </i>, not like <i />.]

    • thm's Gravatar thm
      January 14, 2011 - 6:07 pm | Permalink

      You mean Gifford’s rabbi, right? I read that article. The rabbi simply said that she did not know the Loughners and she (female rabbi) consulted with other congregations in Tucson and none of them knew the Loughners either. She was responding to the rumor that the Giffords and the Loughners attended the same congregation. Doesn’t mean much either way, since probably most Jews in Tucson would not be known by the rabbis of Tucson.

  11. TicTac's Gravatar TicTac
    January 14, 2011 - 5:37 pm | Permalink

    I don’t think white advocates are careless enough to run around shooting Jews, non-whites-like something out of a William Pierce novel. No, that is actually assisting our enemies. There’s plenty we can do before we get to that stage. But when whites actually become a minority then individual whites and even white “terrorist” organizations will naturally arise. Probably be too late by then tho.

    • mark's Gravatar mark
      January 15, 2011 - 4:51 am | Permalink

      TicTac said:
      January 14, 2011 – 5:37 pm

      “But when whites actually become a minority then individual whites and even white “terrorist” organizations will naturally arise. Probably be too late by then tho.”

      Maybe that’s why some feel it is prudent to initiate some action before we get to that point. If we get to the point where it’s too late to save our people, everything you see here on this website will have been a complete waste of time.

  12. January 14, 2011 - 7:59 pm | Permalink

    “I cannot understand the double standard of the media and a good portion of the American public with regard to Jared Loughner’s shooting rampage. By all accounts the Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, seems to have been targeted because of Loughner’s political views. The United States and Israeli governments routinely commit these types of murders against their political opponents throughout the Middle East and there is little if any condemnation on the part of media pundits or the public at large. Often these state sponsored acts of violence are accompanied by a large amount of so-called collateral damage which often but not exclusively consists of the targets immediate family e.g. wife, parents, children etc. Perhaps if Loughner had dropped a thousand pound bomb on the apartment house where Giffords lived or fired a missile from a drone at his target the public would be more sympathetic to his actions.” — giuseppe furioso

    • January 14, 2011 - 10:11 pm | Permalink

      Excellent point!…However I for one condemn these U.S immoral acts as treason (done at the behest of a foreign Nation..namely Israel) Likewise I condemn this fanatic…and the Muslim fanatics (“terrorists”)
      We can all live together in peace if we all recognize the God of Nature and we all have our own place in the world.
      A place for everyone, and everyone in their place JMO

    • Jason Speaks's Gravatar Jason Speaks
      January 16, 2011 - 11:48 am | Permalink

      Are you serious? The rampant anti-Americanism on this site is revolting. You take things wildly out of context to accuse the US of “routine political murders” and compare US actions to the tragic shooting in Arizona. I had assumed that posts like this were due to disruptors, but now I fear these are the actual “thoughts” of many of the visitors. That is bad enough, but if that bleeds over to the writers and editors of this website, then this site will not be an effective engine for White Advocacy after all.

  13. Steve MacGarrett's Gravatar Steve MacGarrett
    January 14, 2011 - 8:39 pm | Permalink

    I wonder if I said, “My mom was is Jew”, do you think I could get this fellow from the JTA to do a geneolgy search for me. I can’t get past my great grandparents because “I’ve been assimilated” like the rest of the cattle…. Unreal how protective and paranoid Jews can be!

  14. Tom Brown's Gravatar Tom Brown
    January 14, 2011 - 9:59 pm | Permalink

    Well, why is it so hard to find out whether or not this nutcase’s mother attended Gifford’s synagogue or not? I swear, the bullshit being slung about makes you wonder if here’s any sanity left in this world.

  15. Z.O.G.'s Gravatar Z.O.G.
    January 15, 2011 - 1:45 am | Permalink

    The Jews are in full blown damage control mode. They are desperately trying to keep the fact that Loughner is Jewish from being known by the wider public. There is a striking parallel between this shooting and the Columbine massacre, where both of the shooters were Jewish(Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris). The Jewish media has been successful at covering up the Jewishness of the Columbine shooters up until the present day.

  16. Z.O.G.'s Gravatar Z.O.G.
    January 15, 2011 - 1:48 am | Permalink

    Little known fact:

    A good portion of the political assassins in the Western world have been Jewish.

  17. TicTac's Gravatar TicTac
    January 15, 2011 - 7:59 pm | Permalink

    I think guys like kevin ARE doing all that can be done at this moment. What else can we do? But what we are doing now doesn’t follow that it WILL have an effect on the people and get them all voting for a racially aware white party.

    It aint easy getting TOO’s message out to the masses. So we’ll probably just plod along until we actually are a minority.
    Then it’ll be make-or-break time. Time for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

    Jew control seems so tight that this outcome seems probable.

    btw—nothing at all on the night’s news in Britain about our mad-Jew friend. Nothing.

  18. TicTac's Gravatar TicTac
    January 15, 2011 - 8:03 pm | Permalink

    Simple: If you hear nothing about Loughner on the news—he’s a Jew.

    Damn!
    If he was a white nationalist he’d be on the news 24/7.

  19. Derry's Gravatar Derry
    January 16, 2011 - 2:27 am | Permalink

    “What else can we do?”

    Get on a CONSISTENT message that WORKS?

  20. January 16, 2011 - 5:09 am | Permalink

    The rule of the tribe is: Do not air our dirty laundry in public. They are very protective of their members.
    A good portion of the serial sexual killings too… They now know that Jack the Ripper was a Polish Jew hairdresser… http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article687489.ece
    My theory is that circumcision throws them into fear and some act our the insecurity thus caused and avenge the betrayal for the rest of their lives.

  21. Henry Ford's Gravatar Henry Ford
    January 16, 2011 - 6:20 am | Permalink

    I hope we can move on to more productive topics ! The sheeple are so easily manipulated.

  22. TicTac's Gravatar TicTac
    January 16, 2011 - 10:50 am | Permalink

    Derry,

    it doesn’t matter what the message is or how consistant it is if the Jews control publications, media, etc.

    And the only way to get the white masses to vote for a party like a3p or bnp, is to deliver to them TOO’S message — a message that is smothered and smeared as antisemitical, racist.

    Our message is one of advancement of the white race, preservation–and most people see that as racist. The Jew media has done its job well.

    Anyway, I believe the situation will fix itself: all the immigration, job losses, messed up economies–if that doesn’t wake our people up then nothing will.

  23. TicTac's Gravatar TicTac
    January 16, 2011 - 11:00 am | Permalink

    patriot,

    that’s good for we who are already believers but imagine saying that to one of your friends who hasn’t a clue?

    That’s the kind of propaganda that makes the dumb goyim think you’re a conspiritorial nut-case. The solution to the Jews has to be reached from a higher intelligence. You have to be exceptionally careful what you say and what you don’t say. Jewish influence is SO incredible that it’s not easy for noobs to believe.

    Even if Jews are responsible for everything we say, doesn’t mean we should actually say it.

  24. Caleb's Gravatar Caleb
    January 16, 2011 - 11:46 am | Permalink

    DOES MATT PARROTT HAVE “NEGRO” ANCESTRY?

    DID “GROPING” ALLEGATIONS LEAD TO MACDONALD’S CURRENT “SABBATICAL” FROM CSULB?

    Hey, I don’t entirely believe this stuff. Question marks…see the question marks…

    • ben tillman's Gravatar ben tillman
      January 17, 2011 - 11:41 am | Permalink

      The question regarding Loughner was hardly unfounded. It was based on a report from a friend who claimed Loughner himself claimed to be Jewish. That’s very different from the questions you ask. And surely you’re smart enough to understand that.

    • Caleb's Gravatar Caleb
      January 17, 2011 - 3:16 pm | Permalink

      UNFOUNDED, Ben? Isn’t that what the Jews say about the Holo-hoax and the Eisenhower death camps?
      How well founded are the ramblings of some fellow drug freak who claims to be a “friend” of Loughner?
      If the Jewish Telegraphic Agency had to research Loughner’s family tree three generations back to prove he’s 100 percent gentile I say let Matt Parrott prove there’s not an African-American in the woodpile in **his** ancestry.
      Then we can go interview some current and former co-eds at the Beach to see whether the prof really can keep his hands to himself.
      [Revisionist rules should be applied evenly.]

    • Gray Prince's Gravatar Gray Prince
      January 17, 2011 - 5:48 pm | Permalink

      Caleb, being half Jewish is not criminal like groping students would be. I might speculate that you are Jewish, which would be totally okay, but if I should speculate that you are a bank robber, then that would be defamatory. You are employing sophistry here.

    • Caleb's Gravatar Caleb
      January 17, 2011 - 7:16 pm | Permalink

      Not a crime to be Jewish? You must be new around here, Prince.
      In TOO world it might be the **only** crime.

    • ben tillman's Gravatar ben tillman
      January 18, 2011 - 1:28 am | Permalink

      How well founded are the ramblings of some fellow drug freak who claims to be a “friend” of Loughner?

      They weren’t ramblings, he isn’t a drug freak (but so what if he was?), and a friend of Loughner is exactly what you’d want as as source of info on Loughner.

      If the Jewish Telegraphic Agency had to research Loughner’s family tree three generations back to prove he’s 100 percent gentile….

      The author of that article called the Mother Jones source a mere ACQUAINTANCE of Loughner’s. The author was lying his ass off.

  25. Someday's Gravatar Someday
    January 16, 2011 - 12:40 pm | Permalink

    At least MacDonald had a question mark about the forbears of Loughner.

    Potok constructs intellectual genealogies without ever using a question mark. For him, white advocate = Nazi mass murderer.

    • Caleb's Gravatar Caleb
      January 16, 2011 - 4:37 pm | Permalink

      The prof tries to creep out of an embarrassing miscue by pointing to punctuation!
      It’s a centuries-old dodge, originally used to circumvent England’s harsher and much more restrictive libel laws. You take a defamatory statement and clap a question mark to the back of it.

    • Jason Speaks's Gravatar Jason Speaks
      January 17, 2011 - 11:46 am | Permalink

      Yes for Potok, white advocacy = Nazi murderers. And also that equation works for some of the posters here that are trying to push the site in that direction. The editors are scrubbing my defense of the US and the Founders but allowing the so-called neo-Nazis to post like crazy. Not a good sign.

    • January 17, 2011 - 11:59 am | Permalink

      1. It’s not “the editors”. It’s me.

      2. You were asked politely to stop the off-topic argument.

      3. I’m not allowing them “to post like crazy”. I’m removing their posts.

      4. You can’t simply delete one side of an argument, as you end up with a bunch of one-sided posts that are divorced from their original context. I know it’s aggravating to spend time on a post, only to have it removed. But I gave fair warning.

      If you had either checked your email or used a valid email address, this whole misunderstanding could have been averted.

  26. January 16, 2011 - 1:20 pm | Permalink

    Sometimes we just need to be reminded of this FACT.

    “Jews may use lies (“subterfuges”) to circumvent a (NON-JEWISH) Gentile”

    - Baba Kamma 113a, Jewish Talmud

  27. Rob's Gravatar Rob
    January 16, 2011 - 2:58 pm | Permalink

    Considering Giffords survived and appears to be recovering rather well (considering), she herself may yet be able to shed light on whether she and the Loughners had anything in common other than victim and perpetrator. It’s a long shot, I know.

  28. Oh Please!'s Gravatar Oh Please!
    January 16, 2011 - 3:54 pm | Permalink

    Tom Brown asks: “Well, why is it so hard to find out whether or not this nutcase’s mother attended Gifford’s synagogue or not?”

    According to Michael Collins Piper:

    “While one of Loughner’s forebears may have been Jewish, a tailspinner with known Israeli “intel” connections set loose on the Internet a totally fabricated (but cleverly crafted) story that Loughner and his mother were members of the same synagogue as Mrs. Giffords. This rumor totally muddied the waters.” http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/anti-defamation_league_linked_.html

    If this is true, then the non-movement has been made to look like fools.

  29. January 16, 2011 - 5:17 pm | Permalink

    Slogans & sound bites… that’s what they use. It’s what we need to do too. The public relations industry is the engine that moves their steamroller. Know any PR people? Or can we come up with a few pithy sayings here?

  30. January 16, 2011 - 6:33 pm | Permalink

    there are some very good sound bites in this flick… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

    “America has been hijacked”
    “They’re laughing at you, America”
    “What do the Fed and FedEx have in common?”
    “Why so many leaders with foreign accents?”

    Let’s collect some good phrases and begin to get them out there.
    Also… those little cartoons?… let’s make some…
    http://theelephantinthelivingroom.org/2010/11/where-did-my-america-go/

  31. monte's Gravatar monte
    January 17, 2011 - 3:41 am | Permalink

    We should keep an eye on the human side. Was that boy on medication? Prozac, for example, a highly dangerous drug and known to cause agressive dementia?

  32. Matt's Gravatar Matt
    January 21, 2011 - 10:20 am | Permalink

    The beauty is the media blamed us. Anyone that matters knows shooter is a jew; as well as congresswoman. Which means a double win for us!

  33. Joyce's Gravatar Joyce
    January 26, 2011 - 7:35 am | Permalink

    Considering the circumstances, the mother is being treated with kid gloves. This makes me suspicious.

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