I happen to be one of those people who think that death does not get someone off the hook for having dabbled in anti-Semitism. With the whole world of pop and preadolescence in shock over the death of singer Michael Jackson, it behooves us to remind you all that Mikey also was prone to outbursts of anti-Semitism. This was many years before the reports that he was getting interested in Islam and building a mosque in Bahrain. (I am sure his interest in Islam was as genuine and deep as the interest by Madonna and Roseanne Barr in ka-BBBAAAALLLL-la – as they mispronounce it.)

A few years back Jackson took time off from riding the roller coaster with his 10 year old friends in “Neverland” and recorded a nasty anti-Semitic song with lyrics that included, “Kick me, Jew me,” and similar sentiments.  He also referred to Jews as leeches and other metaphors.

Here are some web items about Mikie’s little problem with members of the chosen people who were over the age of 10:

Jackson ‘has anti-Semitic streak’

A Jewish group has accused pop singer Michael Jackson of anti-Semitism based on remarks he allegedly made in 2003.

Is Michael Jackson a Jew Hating Brother or is it a Zionist Conspiracy?

Is Michael Jackson a hardcore, Mel Gibson-style anti-Semite, or is this just another case of the Jew-run media trying to make a brother look bad?

If you haven’t already heard, tapes have recently been released to the media of Wacko Jackson accusing Jewish people of trying to suck his blood.

Jackson even pretended at one point to have some interest in Judaism.  When that story was in the media, I posted this in the year 2000:

Michael Jackson’s Judaism

There are reports out this week that yet another Hollywood entertainer is suddenly interested in Judaism. The newest one though is none other than Michael Jackson. This is the same Jackson who recorded a couple of years back a song featuring the words “Kike Me, Jew Me,” which triggered a storm. At the time the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman, added Jackson to his list of Hollywood anti-Semites being granted papal absolution by Foxman, earning him his current nickname, the Twentieth Century Foxman.

Jackson’s sudden interest in Judaism comes after the other highly publicized cases of entertainers taking an look into Jewish mysticism, including Madonna and Roseanne Barr.  It is all part of a larger wave of Hollywood airheads getting “into” religion, which includes Richard Gere’s adoption of Buddhism and John Travolta’s levitating the molecules in his butt over to the Scientology “church”.  In Jackson’s case, he has reportedly approached the controversial Rabbi Shmuel Boteach for “spiritual counseling”. Boteach used to be a Rabbi at Oxford University, with ties to the Lubavitch movement, but is most famous these days for his saucy popularizing and discussing of Jewish attitudes towards sex (including an interview in Playboy).

Jackson’s sudden interest in Judaism raises a number of questions, not least regarding the anti-Semitic song he recorded earlier. SO let me give you my reading of this new “Jewish” Michael Ben-Yaakov.

First of all, Mikey’s “Kike Me, Jew Me” song appears in retrospect to be a desperate call to Reb Boteach to connect him to Judaism. Jackson=s constant grabbing of his crotch while singing has to do with his contemplation of that rite of passage necessary for any male to join Judaism and the fears it must arouse. Suppressed for decades is the fact that the REAL original unabridged name of the Jackson Five was the Jackson Fivebooksofmoses. And all that hanging around with twelve year olds that earned Jackson his reputation as a pederast? Why, he was just attending with them Bar Mitzvah lessons, that is all.

And what about Jackson’s famous series of surgeries and medical douches, the ones that have produced of him a creature of ambiguous racial and gender identity? Friends, this was nothing more than the consequence of Jackson studying the Scroll of Ruth from the Bible and then, well, deciding that he wishes to look like Ruth.