Did Jeremiah Wright also say anything anti-Semitic while he was going off on white Americans & Europeans ?

Question

Did Jeremiah Wright also say anything anti-Semitic while he was going off on white Americans & Europeans ?

Answer 1

I'm sure everything he ranted about whites he meant about Jews as well...

Answer 2

Short answer - NO.

After much scouring, here's the only thing I found that MIGHT (with much twisting and torturing of both logic and truth) be considered "anti-Semitic":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnI431s1r...

Wright is discussing America's non-participation in a conference on racism held in Africa.  America did not participate, according to Wright, because "someone dared to point out the racism that still supports here and in Israel."  This appears to be a comment on the state of race relations here in America and the "apartheid" treatment of Palestinians by Israel (Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa (a Nobel Peace prize winner) condemned the treatment of Palestinians by Israel in a speech made in the United States in April 2002, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/195764... (NOTE: This speech by Jeremiah Wright was given on September 2, 2002 (according to the FOX News caption), so Wright may well have been reacting to Archbishop Tutu's comments.)

After he mentions Israel in his speech, Wright says, "I said that dirty word again, Israel.  Every time I say Israel Negroes get awfully quiet on you, because they scurred [scared]. Don't be scurred. You don't see the connection between 9-11-01 and the Israeli Palestinian, something wrong. You want to bomb my glasses?"

Attempting to put aside the hysterical rhetoric that seems intent on making us unable to engage in intelligent discourse and rational thought - what does this statement actually mean?   This is, of course, from FOX News, so take that with a grain of salt, but even the anchor could only say, that Wright "APPEARS to take a swipe at Israel."  

My best interpretation, given my viewing of the ENTIRETY of the most controversial of Jeremiah Wright's other sermons, is that the conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine created a breeding ground for the radical Islamists who carried out the attack on America on 9/11/01.  Is this really anti-Semitic?  It seems fairly obvious that the conflict over the shared holy land that is now Israel is a major component of extremist groups' ideological anger and resentment of both America and Israel.  The connection couldn't be more clear than in Bin Laden's 1998 fatwa against the West and Israel. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/in...

How is pointing out that there is a connection between the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and the actions of al-Qaeda on 9/11 "anti-Semitic"???

It's entirely too juvenile to assume that Wright referring to Israel as a "dirty word" means that he's insulting Israel.  The context (something we seem not to care about much in the age of the sound bite) makes it clear that mentioning Israel is a loaded issue.  It even seems that Wright may be supporting Palestinians in the conflict.  But that does NOT make him an anti-Semite.  

And I have no idea what the reference to bombing glasses means.  But I doubt it's got an anti-Semitic slant.

I have been so disappointed by our country's rush to make a scandal where there is none.  Why are we so quick to think the worst without all the facts? We need to start thinking for ourselves, not what the media force feeds us.  

Hope this helps.