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, 18:51, August 28, 2009Irish vs Jews
I'm reading [http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp this article] from the Claremont Institute to try to learn something about this mess. So far, it sounds like an anti-Republican smear campaign. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 14:35, 28 August 2009 (EDT)
I'm reading [http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp this article] from the Claremont Institute to try to learn something about this mess. So far, it sounds like an anti-Republican smear campaign. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 14:35, 28 August 2009 (EDT)
:::Joe Kennedy did use anti-semitic language privately, but he also was the person who tried--and succeeded--in getting the Catholic Church to silence the radio priest Charles Coughlin, who was broadcasting anti-semitic attacks every week. The context is that there was a terrific battle going on inside the Democratic party, 1930s-1950s, in major states (New York especially) between the more conservative Irish Catholics (led by Kennedy) and the much more radical-leftwing Jews (who led the American Labor Party and the garment unions). They had very hard words about each other: ''Anti-Semite! Anti-Catholic!'' The Jews were especially bitter about Kennedy because he was an isolationist in 1940. Our article on [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] touches on this (ER was not Jewish but they were her base in NY, where she fought the Irish hard.) See for example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abie's_Irish_Rose Abie's Irish Rose, which tried to defuse the tension with humor.] Ron Bayor has written a major book on the conflict[[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 14:51, 28 August 2009 (EDT)