Jewish/Israeli Exploitation of Black Politicians

In 1989 the Los Angeles Times featured an expose on the questionable personal and business relationship between Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and his "friend" Abraham Spiegel. A federal grant jury was in fact beginning a criminal investigation, also subpoenaing Bradley's campaign fund-raiser (also Jewish), Ira Distenfield. (For his part, Distenfield, a Republican, yet the largest personal campaign contributor to Democrat Bradley in 1985, was eventually "sued by five current and former city commissioners for allegedly misappropriating their investments in a limited partnership that included several other political insiders.") [CLIFFORD, F., 3-27-85, p. B1; KRIKORIAN, G., 9-3-90, p .B1] "The City Attorney," noted the Times, "found no illegality in ... the way a top mayoral aide cut through city red tape for three Spiegel [real estate] developments ... Nonetheless ... the relationship raises questions about the degree of access to the mayor enjoyed by political contributors and supporters who have dealings with the city ... The sheer number and personal nature of Spiegel favors for the mayor ensures that he shares an intimacy with Bradley that few others enjoy." [PASTERNAK/BUNTING, p. 1]

Spiegel even drew the African-American mayor of Los Angeles into the web of international activism for Israel. "Bradley," noted the Times, "has traveled twice to Israel to participate in ground-breaking, and dedication of museum and university buildings donated by Spiegel. And Spiegel in turn raised funds at a Los Angeles dinner to establish a Tom Bradley Chair in Social Integration at a college near Tel Aviv ... Spiegel has often invited local officials to galas for visiting Israeli dignitaries." The Times noted one especially disturbing meeting Bradley had with Spielberg; the other two guests were former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Israel's Los Angeles consul general. "The discussion at their table," said the Times, "centered on two topics -- Bradley's friendship for Israel and Spiegel's construction projects in Los Angeles ... Spiegel became Bradley's 'point man' in Los Angeles' Jewish community, raising the mayor's profile among Israeli officials and thus among affluent local supporters of Israel." [PASTERNAK, J.; BUNTING, Glenn, F.; p. 1]

In Fall 1999, a Jewish Republican, Sam Katz, ran against an African-American, Democrat John Street, (who beat a Jewish opponent, Marty Weinberg, in the primary) to replace Ed Rendell as the (Jewish) mayor of Philadelphia. (Katz's dog, noted a Jewish journal, is even named Jabo, in honor of the famous right-wing fascist/Zionist Ze'ev Jabotinsky). 87% of the Jews of Philadelphia -- despite high nationwide Jewish proclivities to liberalism and the Democratic Party -- voted for Republican Katz. [FELDMAN, S., 3-2-2000, p. 1] Katz lost the mayoral contest, however, to the African-American by a narrow margin. A victory against Jewish political dominance? Hardly. Jews, after all, are central to the Democratic Party machine.

As the Jewish Exponent observed about the African-American candidate's victory:

"From mayor Ed Rendell to District Attorney Lynne Abraham to City Controller Jonathan Saidel to primary opponent Marty Weinberg to campaign co-finance chairman Robert Feldman to State Senator Allyson Schwartz -- it appeared clear that Street could not have gained his slim victory over Republican Sam Katz Tuesday without key Jewish supporters. Need more proof? Also on stage in the [victory] ballroom at the Warwick Hotel were campaign insiders Leonard Ross, Leonard Klehr and Mark Alderman; Rabbi Solomon Isaacson, who helped get the votes out in the far Northeast, and Philadelphia Federation of Teachers president Ted Kirsch, who prominently endorsed Street in September. In the back of the room, chief campaign spokesman Ken Snyder was busy fielding last-minute questions from reporters, and looking on was campaign media consultant David Axelrod." [FELDMAN, S., 11-4-99, p. 1] In a follow-up article, the Jewish Exponent noted that "As was the case during Street's campaign, Jews are playing prominent roles in the transition phase [to the new mayor]." Two co-chairs of the transition committee were Jewish: Leonard Klehr and Judith Rodin (the president of the University of Pennsylvania). Education Committee chiefs included Lee Annenberg, David Cohen, and Ralph Roberts; working under them were Lois Yampolsky and Deborah Kahn, who was later named to be Philadelphia's Secretary of Education. [FELDMAN, S., 3-9-2000, p. 15] The Government Organization Committee included Leonard Ross, Mark Adelman, and Alan Kessler. Marty Weinberg was in Policy and Programs. Jewish Task Force transition leaders also included Ed Schwartz, Emmanuel Freeman, Ira Lubert, Moshe Porat, Marciarose Shestack, David Marshall (Campaign Chairman for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia), Harold Goldman (president of Jewish Family and Children's Services), Michael Blum, Harriet Dichter, Ken Jarin, Robert Feldman, John Binswanger, Steven Cozen and Rabbi William Kuhn. [FELDMAN, S., 12-2-99, p. 10] Two weeks later the Jewish Exponent featured another article about the many Jews in mayor Street's entourage, joking to its Jewish audience that "the Jewish community is well represented in this round of appointments. In fact, if your name is not on the list, you just might feel left out." Appointments of Jews in city government included: Education: Shelly Yanoff, Sandra Fellman, Ted Kirsch. Government Organization Specialists: Bennett Levin, Larry Silverman, Michael Sklaroff, Ronald Caplan, Sandy Fox. Policy and Programs: Stuart Shapiro, Ellen Solms, Neil Stein, Max Berger, Richard Green, Sharon Pinkenson, Roseann Rosenthal, Larry Cohen, Bart Blatstein, Marvin Block, Howard Asher, Joseph Zuritsky, Mike Masch, Deborah Kodish, Adele Manger, Stephanie Naidoff, Marjorie Sarnoff, Sandra Stein, Sallie Glickman, Brad Blumberg, Jeffrey Batoff, Judith Eden, Kenneth Goldberg, Wendy Rosen, Ted Hershberg, Paul Levy, Ronald Rubin, Connie Beresin, Howard Kessler, Larry Frankel, Michael Karp, Vicky Weitzman, Joel Posner, Rabbi Lina Grazier-Zerbarini and Sharon Weinberg. [FELDMAN, S., 12-16-99, p. 18]

In the same time frame, the Exponent also did an article about the visit of the Tel Aviv mayor to Philadelphia, noting that the two sites were "sister cities." "There has been, for a long time -- or as long as I can remember," noted the Chairman of the Jewish Federation, Joseph Smukler, "a special relationship between Tel Aviv and Philadelphia." [FELDMAN, S., 4-20-2000, p. 13]

Among new mayor John Street's ceremonial tasks was to cut the ribbon to open Philadelphia's new "National Liberty Museum: America's Home for Heroes." The museum's Executive Director is Gwen Borowsky. Wealthy media mogul Irwin Borowsky founded the organization. He also is the founder of the "American Interfaith Institute, which aims to expunge anti-Jewish sentiment from editions of the New Testament." Borowsky's museum, like so many these days, clearly aims to appropriate American patriotic heritage under the umbrella of Jewish Holocaust mythology. In the heart of Philadelphia, one of the icons of American heritage, the Liberty Museum features a second floor "hall of heroes [which] is studded with Holocaust memories." [MONO, B., 1-20-2000, p. 9]

And new Philadelphia mayor John Street's inevitable bending to Jewish Zionist concerns and their ties to Israel? In 1998, while still a city councilman, Street, his wife, and son were flown to Israel for eight days as a guest of a Philadelphia Jewish businessman, Joseph Zuritsky. Criticism of Israel, nor Jewish loyalties, was not the focus of a Philadelphia Daily News story about the trip. After all, as the paper observed, "Most of the potential candidates in the 1999 mayor's race, as well as Mayor Rendell, have traveled to Israel at some point in their careers -- and in most cases the trip was paid for or subsidized by one of several groups promoting closer U.S. ties to the Jewish state." These politicians courted by Zionists include Happy Fernandez, Doug Evans, and John White, Jr.) [BUNCH, W., 11-2-98] Rather, the Daily News piece examined the economic self-interests of Zuritsky (the CEO of the Parkway Corporation, Philadelphia's major "parking lot developer"), in sponsoring Street's trip to the Jewish state. The future mayor's journey "was paid for by a parking-lot magnate at the same time his firm was lobbying the [City] Council for millions of dollars in low-cost financing for a Center City development ... Zuritsky said he had no motive in sponsoring the trip -- which had planning assistance from several local Jewish community leaders -- other than to educate Philadelphia's highest-ranking black leader about Israel and Mideast politics. He said he wanted to promote ethnic harmony." [BUNCH, W., 11-2-98]

Among the critics of the trip was the president of the Philadelphia division of Common Cause, Barry Kaufmann,

Israeli propagandizing influence in the African-American community -- from Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley across the country to Philadelphia mayor John Street [the African-American mayor of Washington D.C. -- also included Washington DC mayor Marion Barry, famed when he was busted for cocaine possession in 1990. He also had a Jewish "longtime friend and campaign fundraiser": Jeffrey Cohen. [LAFRANIERE, S., 1-19-90]

Jewish/Israeli influence in the Black community was also noted by the Jerusalem Post in 1996, in a piece headlined "The Israeli "Secret" Diplomacy Inside the Afro-American Community." As the Post observed:

"There are 100 Black colleges and universities in this country but only 41 are members of the United Negro College Fund presided over by William H. Gray, III, the ex-congressman. And he is the 'secret weapon' of Israel ... Black scholars, intellectuals and students are the new Israeli target group."

Softening African-Americans to Israeli propaganda is expedited by "Israel Cultural Days" at Black American colleges, visits by Ethiopian Jews (who, never stated, face, as Blacks, omnipresent racism in Israel: see Israel chapter), and vacations to Israel for seven presidents of African-American colleges to build "a new bridge between the academic community in Israel and the black academic community in this country." [NAHSHON, G., 3-96]

In 2001, after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC, even Al Sharpton, the controversial African-American religious leader who had long been at odds with Jewish organizations, visited Israel. As Rabbi Shmuley Boteach explained, Sharpton was known as "someone who was antagonistic to the Jewish community. But I think anyone who knew him privately, Rabbi Schneier, myself, [knew] that was clearly not the case ... After September 11 ... he said to me that he wanted to make a bold gesture of reconciliation to the Jewish community ... I hope that all my Jewish brothers and sisters will extend not just an olive branch, but a warm hand of familial friendship, seeing Rev. Sharpton as a friend of the Jewish community, as a friend of the State of Israel." [FORWARD, 10-26-01] The Village Voice also notes that Sharpton has also been courted by Jewish New York mayoral candidate Mark Green who "took Sharpton and his wife to the opening of a performance of Judgment at Nuremberg, a Broadway play about the Holocaust. At the same time Green was trying to kosher Sharpton, he was riding his coattails to popularity in the African American community." [NOEL, P. 10-22-01]

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Council's Minority Caucus Should Welcome Weprin, Newsday (Editorial) , March 4, 2002
"The Weprin name is as synonymous with Jewish affairs as it is with Queens politics. So some members of the City Council's Black and Hispanic Caucus were understandably taken aback when a membership application arrived from Councilman David Weprin - whose mother is a Jewish-Cuban immigrant. Some of the caucus' 25 members are resisting, which is troubling because of the message it sends. Even if the Hollis Democrat has not identified as much with Hispanic causes, he is emblematic of a city in which many people claim multiple heritage. That he's extending his reach later in life is a poor excuse for discouraging him from joining the caucus, which is not some private club."

Zionist Logic - Malcolm X on Zionism, by Malcolm X (Omowale Malcolm X Shabazz), Taken from The Egyptian Gazette -- Sept. 17, 1964, malcolm-x.org
"If the Israeli Zionists believe their present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of predictions made by their Jewish prophets, then they also religiously believe that Israel must fulfill its "divine" mission to rule all other nations with a rod of irons, which only means a different form of iron-like rule, more firmly entrenched even, than that of the former European Colonial Powers. These Israeli Zionists religiously believe their Jewish God has chosen them to replace the outdated European colonialism with a new form of colonialism, so well disguised that it will enable them to deceive the African masses into submitting willingly to their 'divine' authority and guidance, without the African masses being aware that they are still colonized ... The Israeli Zionists are convinced they have successfully camouflaged their new kind of colonialism. Their colonialism appears to be more 'benevolent,' more 'philanthropic,' a system with which they rule simply by getting their potential victims to accept their friendly offers of economic 'aid,' and other tempting gifts, that they dangle in front of the newly-independent African nations, whose economies are experiencing great difficulties ... The modern 20th century weapon of neo-imperialism is 'dollarism.' The Zionists have mastered the science of dollarism: the ability to come posing as a friend and benefactor, bearing gifts and all other forms of economic aid and offers of technical assistance. Thus, the power and influence of Zionist Israel in many of the newly 'independent' African nations has fast-become even more unshakeable than that of the 18th century European colonialists... and this new kind of Zionist colonialism differs only in form and method, but never in motive or objective."

Apartheid in the Holy Land, by Desmund Tutu [South African Bishop, Nobel Prize winner, and activist against apartheid],
The Guardian, April 29, 2002
"I have experienced Palestinians pointing to what were their homes, now occupied by Jewish Israelis. I was walking with Canon Naim Ateek (the head of the Sabeel Ecumenical Centre) in Jerusalem. He pointed and said: 'Our home was over there. We were driven out of our home; it is now occupied by Israeli Jews.' My heart aches. I say why are our memories so short. Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious traditions? Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden? Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured. The military action of recent days, I predict with certainty, will not provide the security and peace Israelis want; it will only intensify the hatred ... My brother Naim Ateek has said what we used to say: "I am not pro- this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti- injustice, anti-oppression." But you know as well as I do that, somehow, the Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticise it is to be immediately dubbed anti-semitic, as if the Palestinians were not semitic. I am not even anti-white, despite the madness of that group. And how did it come about that Israel was collaborating with the apartheid government on security measures? People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Well, so what? For goodness sake, this is God's world! We live in a moral universe. The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust."

Schuster, Joshua. Jews Want E. Bay School Activist Removed for Racism, Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, 3/5/1999, p. 12A
"Oscar Wright lit the fuse in December when he remarked that an attempt to oust the district's superintendent was a play for 'white and Jewish control' of the predominantly minority district. He has continued to make such comments at school board meetings and to the press, which has in turn given wide coverage to his statements. Wright, 76, is a community activist and the appointed co-chair of the school district's Task Force on African-American students. He has a a history of anti-Semitic speech dating back to at least 1993. 'Wright should be removed from the task force,' said Jan Malvin, who works for Oakland's Human Relation Commission and has been following Wright's case for several years. Malvin, who is Jewish, said, 'The issue is racist rhetoric at the school board in general. Anti-Semitism is part of the bigger picture.' In 1993, Wright told the board that a cadre of Jews from the schools to the government to businesses was responsible for some of the 'wickedest acts of institutional racism against black people.' Local Jews didn't want to hear it again. 'He's the wrong person to hold an official position,' said Barbara Bergen, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League ... Wright's anti-Semitic epithets, however, are apparently directed at school board member Dan Siegel and Alameda County Superintendent of Schools Sheila Jordan. Both are Jewish ... Wright has not been the only one to denounce Jews in the Oakland school district in recent history. Superintendent Jordan said that when she was on the school board from 1988 to 1992, a flurry of anti-Semitic remarks was hurled at Jewish board members. Some Jewish members ended up resigning."

Blacks and Jews: The end of an alliance,
Final Call, September 24, 2002
"The recent defeat of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the 4th District of Georgia by Judge Denise Majette has caused vast soul searching among Black Americans. We may quibble over the causes of McKinney’s defeat. Yes, there was a low Black voter turnout. Yes, White Republicans crossed over and voted against McKinney in the Democratic primary. Yes, certain prominent Black Americans withdrew their support for McKinney at a critical stage before the election. While all of the above were contributing factors to McKinney’s defeat, the most significant cause was an outside force that mobilized strong support for her opposition. When asked to identify this force, Georgia state legislator and father of McKinney, Billy McKinney, stated to the media: "J-E-W-S." Indeed, it was the Jewish lobby that not only orchestrated, headed, mobilized and funded Congresswoman McKinney’s defeat, these same organized Jews—particularly the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)—also defeated Alabama’s five-term Black incumbent, Representative Earl Hilliard, earlier this year ... While I share the outrage of many Black Americans over this, the latest successful move by prominent Jews to silence outspoken Black leaders and to set the Black agenda, I also sense that there is greater indignation now than ever before over this ongoing affront. So much so that for many Blacks, THIS IS INDEED THE LAST STRAW!!! Consequently, it is high time—no, long past time—that Black Americans everywhere re-evaluate the so-called Black/Jewish alliance ... This tendency of prominent Blacks to placate Jews by ignoring their excesses or deflecting criticism from them is precisely why so many Jewish leaders and organizations have consistently criticized, defamed, degraded and defeated certain Black leaders with impunity—AND WILL DO SO AGAIN. Jewish leaders have clearly decided that, no matter how widespread the outrage among Black people, if Black leaders—fearing Jewish reprisals—continue to cower before them, to rationalize their racism and to apologize for their flagrant disrespect for Blacks, Jews will suffer no consequences for their actions ... In light of the crisis before us, Black leaders must close ranks and act on one accord. The defeat of McKinney and Hilliard is not the work of a disaffected ally, but of cold-blooded racists who are willing to block Black progress—no matter what the cost to Black Americans in a loss of power and influence—if it conflicts with the overall Jewish agenda. It is high time, at this historical juncture, for Black Americans—the long-suffering, ever-obliging buffer between Whites and Jews—to step aside and let Jews fend for themselves so that White people will, at long last, stop focusing on Black people and get a good look at American Jews, whose McCarthyistic tactics and stranglehold on Congress threaten to make this country the United States of Israel."

Blacks, Jews meet to mend relations,
Washington Times, September 11, 2002
"The defeat last month of Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney has further widened the split between blacks and Jews, despite Democratic efforts to heal the rift dividing two key parts of an important coalition. Mrs. McKinney's loss in the Georgia primary was the second primary loss suffered by an incumbent black Democrat. Rep. Earl F. Hilliard of neighboring Alabama lost in June. In both elections, the incumbents blamed Jewish money flowing to their opponents ... Mrs. McKinney's father, state Rep. Billy McKinney, said before the Georgia primary that the effort against his daughter was a Jewish plot. 'Jews bought everybody. That's J-E-W-S,' he said."

Wither Congress, Wither America? Crushing Congressional Dissent: The Fall of Hilliard, Barr and McKinney,
Counterpunch, August 22, 2002
"Hilliard and McKinney join a long list of politicians who were defeated after advocating an independent U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: Senators Charles Percy, James Abourezk, James Abdnor, and J. William Fulbright, and Representatives Paul Findley and Paul McCloskey. The careers of Adlai Stevenson and William Scranton were similarly ended after they supported a Middle East policy less tied to the interests of Israel. Only Michigan's veteran Representative John Dingell was able to stave off a recent assault from the powerful American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) in a match off with fellow Representative Lynn Rivers in a redrawn congressional district."

Splenetic Thoughts for Dog Days From Cynthia McKinney to Katha Pollitt, to the ILWU to Paul Krugman,
Counterpunch, August 21, 2002
"One less radical black voice in Congress. One less champion of labor. One less brave soul unafraid to jump the traces of political orthodoxy. Cynthia McKinney, five-term US rep from Georgia's Fourth District, was beaten in Tuesday's Democratic primary by Denise Majette, also black, a former judge, put in with the help of lots of money from American Jewish groups and by a hefty Republican cross-over in Georgia's open primary. Don't you think that if Arab-American groups or African-American groups targeted an incumbent white liberal, maybe Jewish, congressperson, and shipped in money by the truckload to oust the incumbent, the rafters would shake with bellows of outrage. Yet when a torrent of money from out of state American Jewish organizations smashed Earl Hilliard, first elected black congressperson in Alabama since Reconstruction, you could have heard a mouse cough. Hilliard had made the fatal error of calling for some measure of even-handedness in the Middle East. So he was targeted by AIPAC and the others. Down he went, defeated in the Democratic primary by Artur Davis, a black lawyer who obediently sang for his supper of the topic of Israel. Then it was McKinney's turn. A terrific liberal black congresswoman. Like Hilliard she wasn't cowed by the Israel right-or-wrong lobby and called for real debate on the Middle East. And she called for a real examination of the lead-up to 9/11. So the sky fell in on her. Torrents of American Jewish money showered her opponent, a black woman judge called Majette. Buckets of sewage were poured over McKinney's head in the Washington Post and the Atlanta Constitution."

Impact of McKinney Loss Worries Some Democrats Tension Between Blacks, Jews a Concern ,
Washington Post, August 22, 2002
"Black and Jewish political leaders voiced concerns yesterday that the defeat of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.), a critic of pro-Israel policies, by a challenger receiving extensive Jewish support might intensify ill feelings between two important Democratic constituencies. Any increase in tensions between Jewish and African American voters, political activists said, could damage Democratic hopes of taking back the House and keeping control of the Senate. Aided by hefty contributions from Jewish donors and big vote totals in predominantly white precincts, former state judge Denise Majette soundly defeated McKinney -- 58 percent to 42 percent -- in Tuesday's primary in Georgia. Majette is strongly favored to win the Nov. 5 general election in the solidly Democratic district near Atlanta. Although both Majette and McKinney are African American, the unusual interest in their primary by pro-Israel groups backing Majette and by pro-Muslim groups backing McKinney triggered talk yesterday of a potential for sharpened conflicts between blacks and Jews -- in Georgia and elsewhere. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tex.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that 'at the grass roots' among African American voters, there is a growing perception that "Jewish people are attempting to pick our leaders. . . . There is some concern about that. It's concern about any candidate being targeted by a special-interest group for voting on any one issue.'"

N.J. Gov. Seeks Authority to Fire Poet, Newsday, October 6, 2002
"Gov. James E. McGreevey is seeking the power to fire the state's poet laureate, who has refused repeated calls to resign after writing a Sept. 11 memorial poem criticized as anti-Semitic. Legislation giving the governor the authority to end Amiri Baraka's two-year term could be introduced as early as Monday, McGreevey said Sunday. Last month, McGreevey demanded Baraka's resignation after the poet read 'Somebody Blew Up America' at an August festival. Then he tried to fire him, but the attorney general ruled he did not have the authority. The poem, written in October 2001, refers to an oft-repeated but long-discredited rumor, saying: 'Who told 4,000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers to stay home that day? Why did Sharon stay away?'"

N.J. Poet Strikes Back at Critics,
By Michael Weissenstein, Newsday, October 17, 2002
"Stung by accusations of anti-Semitism, New Jersey poet laureate [and African-American] Amiri Baraka struck back at critics from the stage of a downtown poetry cafe, saying he wanted to know 'why the Anti-Defamation League is not registered as an agent of a foreign power.' The Jewish civil rights organization and the governor of New Jersey have called for Baraka's resignation over his poem, 'Somebody Blew Up America,' which implies that Israel had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks. In a nearly hour-long monologue and question-and-answer session Thursday at the Bowery Poetry Club, Baraka criticized Israeli and Jewish groups' involvement in U.S. politics and reiterated that he would not give up his post ... New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey has sought Baraka's resignation as official state poet. A pending bill in the state legislature would give the state Council for the Humanities authority to remove the laureate. The title cannot currently be rescinded. Baraka also blasted McGreevey for appointing Golan Cipel, an Israeli national, as his unpaid liaison to New Jersey Jews. 'In New Jersey, there is an Israeli national shaping the opinion of the state's Jewish community,' Baraka said."

Investigation: Elections Official Accused Of Anti-Semitism Community; Relations Coordinator's Background, Beliefs Questioned,
Channel 10 (Florida), October 9, 2002
"An employee working for the Broward County supervisor of elections may find himself having difficulty with more than helping manage the election, Channel 10 News has learned ... Channel 10 reporter Jeff Weinsier has been looking into [African-American Jimmy] Davis' background and performance. Here's a sample of Davis' writing that Weinsier found in the Westside Gazette published in late 2000: 'How dare the Jews ask or have the nerve to demand an apology or compensation from their oppressors.' 'The Jews must turn that money over to blacks because they accumulated their wealth through the slave trade.' And later: 'It is difficult for me to find sympathy for what the Jews are calling a holocaust' ... Channel 10 News has learned that soon after Davis was hired, there were problems on the job. Elections officials found what they describe as anti-Semitic e-mails on Davis' computer in the supervisor's office. After less than two weeks on the job, personnel records show Davis' pay was cut, he lost his supervisor's position, and he was demoted. Weinsier was told that the reason Davis was not fired was because the evidence against Davis was 'second and third hand.'"

Sharpton Parley With Israelis Turns Focus to 2004,
[Jewish] Forward, October 11, 2002
"The Rev. Al Sharpton hosted a delegation of Israeli students at his Harlem offices last week in what many saw as a bit of image-polishing ahead of his intended run for president in 2004. The controversial civil rights leader, who antagonized many Jews and others in the past decade with his comments during several racially fraught episodes in the Empire State, welcomed the two Ethiopian-born and two native Israeli students at his National Action Alliance headquarters in a meeting arranged by the Israeli consulate. They discussed how terrorism had changed life in Israel and America, while the reverend showed the students some gifts he had received at an absorption center for Ethiopians during his trip to Israel last year. The consulate billed the meeting as 'another show of solidarity with the people of Israel' and a 'look at the human price of terrorism' ... Sharpton's relations with New York Jews also have ramifications for national Democratic politics ... Sharpton's consultant Ramirez said the minister had not yet decided to make a presidential run ... The Jewish vote is a crucial factor in Democratic primaries in New York and California. Dismissing any political concerns, the Israelis, for their part, professed themselves to be pleased with the Sharpton meeting. David Nekrutman, the consulate's director of community relations, said the consulate had staged two previous events with Sharpton: a meeting before his trip to Israel and a September 11 memorial prayer service six months ago. As far as Israel is concerned, such meetings serve to 'bring a face of Israel not shown in the media... meaning a black face' to the attention of Americans, Nekrutman said."

Interview: Alan Keyes, by Charley J. Levine. Hadassah [the women's Zionist organization], October 2002, p. 12
[Alan Keyes is African-American and a former member of the United States delegation to the United Nations]
"Alan Keye's quixotic run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000 may not have attracted many voters, but it made him a leading figure among conservative intellectuals. The protests, particularly among American Jews, over the cancellation of his talk show on MSNBC earlier this year showed his popularity broadening among at least one more liberal constituency ... Q: What is behind the love affair behind American Jews and Alan Keyes? How do you react to headlines this one in a recent Jewish newspaper: 'Jews Go Ga-Ga for Pro-Israel TV Host?' A: I've simply tried to talk about issues in a way that I think has integrity ...Q: Does the concept of Israel being a light unto the nations have meaning for you? A: The twentieth century and the culmination of the aeons-long saga of the Jewish people in the Holocaust set the stage for one of the most breathtaking demonstrations of the inextinguishable quality of the human spirit. Israel is the tangible manifestation of the truth that I see in Jewish people all the time and marvel at."

Southern Poverty Law Center,
Guide Star Pages (The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations)
"Financial Info: Fiscal Year: 2000. Assets: $147,441,903. Income: $32,520,416 ... Chief Executive: Mr. Joseph J. Levin, Jr." (President and Chairman of the Board).
[What about the Southern Poverty Law Center, famed fighter for the impoverished and African-American rights, especially in the South? It is based in Montgomery, Alabama, and in 1996 the local Montgomery Advertiser printed an embarrassing expose about the Center. The salary, noted the paper, for SPLC president and CEO (as well as SPLC co-founder) Joseph Levin was $137,798 a year. Not bad for a fighter on behalf of those mired in poverty. The Center's Legal Director, Richard Cohen, made $151,420. But that's not all. The Advertiser further noted that "One thing remains a constant at the nation's wealthiest civil rights charity, the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center: All the top-paid, top-level management jobs are held by whites." [What percentage Jews?] [RICHARDSON, SANDEE. CIVIL RIGHTS CHARITY CONTINUES TO HAVE WHITES IN TOP-PAYING JOBS. ASHVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES/MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER, 8-29-96, p. D7] In SPLC's 25-year history "no black person has held a top-level management position, and only one black staffer has ever been among the top five paid positions." In SPLC's team of five lawyers, one was African-American. [RICHARDSON, S., 8-29-96, p. D7] The next year, an editorial writer, Rose Sanders, expressed outrage that the SPLC publicly condemned Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam (a hero in large parts of the Black community) as a racist. She pointed out the hypocrisy of the charge, noting that "Joseph Levin says he is not a bigot, but how does he explain the bigotry evidenced by the employment practices at the Poverty Law Center? An example of the Center's racial prejudice is illustrated by its racial tolerance program. The program did not have a single black employee. No black person helped shape or design the program." [SANDERS, ROSE. CENTER'S CONDEMNATION UNJUST, THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER., 9-22-97, p. 7A]

Minister Louis Farrakhan,
Anti-Defamation League
Louis Farrakan comments about Jews:
"And you do with me as is written, but remember that I have warned you that Allah will punish you. You are wicked deceivers of the American people. You have sucked their blood. You are not real Jews, those of you that are not real Jews. You are the synagogue of Satan, and you have wrapped your tentacles around the U.S. government, and you are deceiving and sending this nation to hell. But I warn you in the name of Allah, you would be wise to leave me alone. But if you choose to crucify me, know that Allah will crucify you."
-Savior's Day Speech, Chicago, February 25, 1996
"They [Jews] cannot stop me in what I'm doing and the power of God is with me and it's time for them to recognize that everything they've done has been able to thwart our progress towards the resurrection of our people."
-New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, April 16, 1996
"What are [Jews] saying, that 'I'm the boss,' that crap is why I'm fighting. This is why I'm here: Because too many of our people are under the inordinate control of members of that family, and I can't sit idly by and watch you punk out in your life. You're a big man in front of me, but your future is controlled by somebody else. If you're a doctor, of the AMA [the American Medical Association], it's members of the Jewish community. If it's the lawyers, they're in there, I it's the social workers, if it's medicine, if it's science, if you don't play ball, you don't move."
-District Council 33 Union Hall, Philadelphia, April 22, 1996
"It becomes very difficult when people want to be exclusive. You know, like the Jews have an exclusive club, who are the 'chosen' of God -- that you are not 'chosen,' that he is not, that they are not. The question that I always raise is 'Are you using your influence to bring people to God? Or are you using your influence in a Satanic way?' That is not anti-Semitism. That is dealing with truth, as I see it. So when I see Jews and Anglo-Saxons involved in manipulation, like causing members of Congress to take away from the government the right to print money and instruments of credit, and then establishing a Federal Reserve system so the printing of currency of America is not owned by the government, but by families --that, to me, is Satanic, man!"
-Interview with Louis Farrakhan in Utah Business Magazine, July 1996
"Of course, it's true (that it is the truth to call Jewish, and other inner-city business owners bloodsuckers). A bloodsucker is as a bloodsucker does, whether it's Jewish, Asian, or Black. When you take from a community and give nothing back, what are you doing? You are living from that community. You put a leech on your arm and let that leech suck your blood, what does that leech give? Nothing. What does it take away? The lifeblood of that organism."
-Interview in Swing magazine, October 1996
"On the Jewish myth: [U]ntil Jews apologize for their hand in that ugly slave trade; and until the Jewish rabbis and the Talmudic scholars that made up the Hamitic myth -- that we were the children of Ham, doomed and cursed to be hewers of wood and drawers of water -- apologize, then I have nothing to apologize for."
-Interview in Swing magazine, October 1996

[Two-faced and loaded with Jewish "PAC" money, Lieberman seeks to buy the Black vote]
The Lieberman Coalition Guess who's coming to the support of his campaign? by Stephen F. Hayes, Weekly Standard, 1/27/2003, Volume 008, Issue 19
"It's odd to say the least --Joe Lieberman, first ever Jewish-American presidential candidate, leading the Democratic field in support from black voters. But according to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll asking black Democrats who they liked best from a list that included Al Sharpton, that's exactly what is happening today. The first explanation most political observers give for this popularity is also the most obvious: name identification. A former vice presidential candidate gets a head start from having his name on the leftover blue and red bumper stickers that still decorate the rear ends of cars across the country ... And since the 2000 campaign ended, even before he knew for sure he would run in 2004, Lieberman spent time cultivating support among African-American leaders in Washington and around the country ... Last spring, as he waited for Al Gore to decide whether to make another bid for the White House, Lieberman telephoned Eddie Bernice Johnson, then head of the Congressional Black Caucus, to ask which caucus members he might support with his PAC. She gave him a list of the CBC members thought to be most vulnerable, and Lieberman contributed to almost 20 of them. Among his contributions was a $1,000 check to the reelection effort of Rep. Earl Hilliard of Alabama. Hilliard had a long record of hostility to Israel. He refused to sign a resolution in support of Israel's war on terrorism, and sponsored a bill, after September 11, that would have lifted sanctions on states that sponsor terrorism. Columnist Cynthia Tucker called Hilliard 'a loose cannon, a dimwit, and perhaps a crook' who 'gained a reputation for trying to persuade his colleagues to vote against pro-Israeli initiatives.' Hilliard lost in a nasty June primary in which his opponent solicited and received large sums from Jewish Democrats. After the race, he warned of a 'future with a great deal of conflict between African Americans and Jews in this country' and suggested African Americans would seek 'retribution' for his loss. Lieberman's advisers point out that the money was given in late March, several weeks before the primary turned into a bitter referendum on the Middle East. But the senator's critics say the Hilliard contribution is one example of just how far Lieberman is willing to go to win support among black politicians and voters. Another, they say, came last week, when Lieberman blasted the Bush administration for filing a brief with the Supreme Court opposing the University of Michigan's affirmative action program. 'I am deeply disappointed by the president's decision today,' Lieberman said. 'This was an opportunity for the president to demonstrate his commitment to achieving real equality in education. Instead, he sided with the right wing of his party, and sent a signal that equal opportunity in higher education is a low priority for his administration.' It's a shot that might be expected from any of the other Democrats running for president. But Lieberman's own views on racial preferences in the mid-1990s put him arguably to the right of where President Bush is today ... Lieberman went further. He infuriated many in his own party when he said he would support California's Proposition 209--a 1996 statewide ballot initiative that banned racial preferences--taking a step then Governor George W. Bush would not ... [African-American] Representative Maxine Waters said Lieberman must be 'vigorously opposed' because 'what he's doing is dangerous.' A local Connecticut Democratic party chapter circulated a petition to oppose Lieberman's efforts, and Jesse Jackson teamed with the National Organization for Women to sponsor an anti-Lieberman rally at Yale University, Lieberman's alma mater. Jackson also fired off a four-page letter to Lieberman calling the senator's remarks 'particularly irresponsible,' later adding that on affirmative action 'Lieberman and Jesse Helms are indistinguishable.'"

[Same theme: Jewish money and Blacks at its mercy. Jews own the Democratic Party; march to the Israeli drum or you're history.]
Sharpton Will Seek Jewish Dollars, Says an Aide,
[Jewish] Forward, January 17, 2003
"Reverend Al Sharpton is seeking campaign contributions from the Jewish community like any other presidential candidate, according to his political adviser. Former Bronx Democratic Party chairman Roberto Ramirez told the Forward that Sharpton's 'progressive, populist and clear message' would attract Jewish campaign dollars despite his often dicey relations with the community. The civil rights firebrand is anathema to many New York Jews because of conduct many Jews viewed as inflammatory during two local racial incidents: the 1991 Crown Heights riots and the demonstrations that preceded the 1995 torching of a Jewish-owned clothing store in Harlem. Eight people died in those incidents ... 'I would hope and argue that in there lies a wealth of support,' Ramirez said in an interview in his New York office Monday. Jewish donors supply a vastly disproportionate share of the millions raised by Democratic presidential candidates; the amount has never been measured, but political operatives say that it is more than half. Ramirez said that Sharpton, who plans on creating a presidential exploratory committee later this month, did not need as much money as some others would ... Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and a Sharpton confidant, said the minister would have 'limited' support in the Jewish community. 'He has sought rapprochement with the Jewish community,' Schneier said, but "the Jewish community at large is very suspect and remains very much on edge when it comes to Al Sharpton and his candidacy.'"

ZOA Protests Campus Speaking Engagements by Tutu,
by Max Gross, [Jewish] Forward, April 11, 2003
"The Zionist Organization of America has denounced two universities for inviting Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak on their campuses. Citing at least half a dozen instances in which the anti-apartheid activist spoke out against Israel, ZOA president Morton Klein criticized Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law for hosting Tutu last week and the University of Pennsylvania for inviting Tutu to be its commencement speaker in May. Tutu, said Klein, 'is viciously anti-Israel. To give a podium [to a] man who hates Israel, who compared Israel to Hitler, is shameful.' In a speech last year in Boston, Tutu was quoted by the Israeli daily Ha'aretz as saying the Palestinian experience 'reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa.... I say why are our memories so short? Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation?' Tutu has also voiced support for efforts to convince American universities and municipalities to divest from Israel. The ZOA is not alone in objecting to Tutu. 'Many students would have preferred that Tutu not be chosen as commencement speaker,' said Rabbi Howard Alpert, executive director of Hillel of Greater Philadelphia. 'That being said, since he is coming, most students are hoping that their commencement, that their one graduation, will go on unimpeded.' Tutu could not be reached for comment by press time, but other Jews have defended Tutu against charges of antisemitism. 'He's the chief patron of the Holocaust museum' in South Africa, said Yehuda Kay, national director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies 'In no way is... Archbishop Tutu an antisemite.'"

[Unspoken: the complaintants below are Jewish and they have the right to tell the Black Caucus who is kosher for speaking engagements.]
Lawmakers object to Sharpton speaking,
By SVEN GUSTAFSON, The Oakland Press, May 9, 2003
"Tonight's Michigan Democratic Party Black Caucus awards dinner is drawing fire from some Republican state lawmakers who object to the group's choice of a keynote speaker. Led by Rep. Marc Shulman, R-West Bloomfield Township, a group of House Republicans has called on caucus chair Derek Albert to rescind the group's invitation to the Rev. Al Sharpton to speak at its awards dinner 'because of (Sharpton's) long history of intolerance, racism and anti-Semitic statements.' In a letter dated May 1 and signed by 27 House Republicans, Shulman cites examples where Sharpton, a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, was quoted making derisive comments linking ancient Greeks with homosexual behavior and Jews with 'diamond merchants.' In another quote, Sharpton reportedly referred to former New York Mayor David Dinkins as 'that n----- whore turning tricks in City Hall.' 'I'm disappointed,' said Rep. Shelley Goodman Taub, a Bloomfield Hills Republican who signed the letter. 'This is a really insensitive choice by the caucus, very insensitive to other minorities. Some of the things Rev. Sharpton said about Jews and Greeks and white people are just very offensive.'"

[Buying the Black vote:]
After controversial election battles, AIPAC reaches out to black caucus, By Eli Kintisch, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 13, 2003
"As it gears up for a struggle over the 'road map' toward Israeli-Palestinian peace, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is making special overtures toward the Congressional Black Caucus, a group with which it has had rough relations in the recent past. As part of its annual Washington convention, the pro-Israel lobby honored the caucus chair, Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), and the rest of the caucus at a special dinner March 30, attended by roughly 1,000 AIPAC donors from around the country. Then, on April 24 in New York, AIPAC’s executive director, Howard Kohr, joined other Jewish community leaders for a lunch with rap mogul Russell Simmons, who has tried to promote better relations between the caucus and the Jewish community. With Congress focused on domestic affairs, it may be too early to judge how effective AIPAC’s efforts have been to improve support from the black caucus on Middle East-related resolutions and initiatives. But the first test of that support suggests a decidedly mixed result: An April letter to President Bush that AIPAC backed, expressing concerns about aspects of the U.S.-supported road map, was signed by 313 House members — but only 18 of 39 members of the black caucus. An AIPAC official said the purpose of the March dinner was to continue efforts to 'strengthen relations between our community and members of the Congressional Black Caucus.' Another goal was to honor Cummings 'and the members of the CBC for their long-standing support of Israel and to reaffirm to our own community that most members of the caucus support a strong and secure Israel.' Since the Palestinian intifada began in September 2000, some CBC members have been among the most outspoken critics of resolutions they consider too biased in Israel’s favor. These include John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), as well as former members Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) and Earl Hilliard (D-Ala.). In May 2002, only 22 members of the caucus — which then numbered 38 — voted for a resolution expressing 'solidarity with Israel.' Five voted against the resolution, and 11 skipped or voted 'present.' The resolution, which made only a brief reference to Palestinian suffering from Israel’s anti-terror measures, passed the House by a vote of 352-21 ... Experts say that blacks and Jews agree on many political issues. The two groups strengthened their ties during the civil rights era, when Jews were an important ally to black groups, but they have frayed in recent years over such issues as affirmative action. In the 2002 election cycle, wealthy Jewish donors from around the country, many of them AIPAC members, supported Democratic primary challengers against incumbents McKinney and Hilliard. After bitter and expensive primary fights, the pair were ousted by black challengers, leading to accusations from black congressmen that outsiders were meddling in their elections. U.S. Reps. Denise Majette (D-Ga.) and Artur Davis (D-Ala.), the winners in those elections, signed the road map letter to Bush. Majette said her backing of Israel had nothing to do with the financial support she received from the Jewish community ... Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) ... is helping organize a trip to Israel for black and Jewish members of Congress, which would be a first. The trip, spearheaded by Hastings, Howard Berman (D-Calif.), Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Cummings, is tentatively scheduled for this summer."

[Philadelphia mayor John Street is African-American]
Street condemns official's remarks. Hanford Jones' complaint was considered anti-Semitic. His city job is protected by civil-service rules,
By Thomas Fitzgerald and Leonard N. Fleming, Philadelphia Inquirer,
June 5, 2003
"Mayor Street yesterday condemned a city official who complained that too many developers competing for city projects were Jewish, saying the remarks violated the mayor's standard of "respect and acceptance for all people." Hanford Jones will keep his job as coordinator with the Minority Business Enterprise Council - he is protected by civil-service rules - albeit with tight restrictions on his duties, administration officials said. "The administration stands for inclusion, not exclusion," Street said in a statement. "I want to make it unequivocally clear that I will not tolerate actions or statements that undermine our values of equality, respect and fairness." Jones also issued his first public apology to city employees who attended the April 17 staff meeting where he made remarks about "Jewish architects and Jewish lawyers" that many listeners considered anti-Semitic. He has been reprimanded by the head of his department. The controversy entered the mayor's campaign for reelection as Republican challenger Sam Katz went on talk-radio to say that Jones should be fired. City Council members also weighed in on the matter. "My comments were not intended to offend any group," wrote Jones, a city employee since 1989 who makes $64,650 a year. "I want to ensure everyone that I am not a racist nor anti-Semitic." In a brief, separate interview, Jones said that he did not believe he had uttered a slur in the meeting and that he was frustrated he did not get a chance to explain himself. "How come I didn't get a right to be heard?" Jones said. He said he was the victim of a "kangaroo court." "When they get a Hitler person, those Simon Wiesenthal people make sure [the accused Nazi war criminals] at least get a chance to talk to a lawyer," Jones said. Furthermore, Jones said, the comments made in April referred to a development project on Cecil B. Moore Avenue that did not have any minority architects on board. At the meeting in April, Jones was giving a presentation to workers from several city departments about boosting minority business opportunities, according to several people present. Jones began attacking the city Commerce Department for not doing enough to get minority firms involved in development projects in Philadelphia, according to one person familiar with the meeting. He mentioned the Penn's Landing project and several others, including a private project in West Philadelphia, participants said. Jones said that all of the "developer teams" were dominated by "Jewish architects and Jewish lawyers," according to notes taken by an attendee. Another source remembered a slightly different remark, quoting Jones as saying "all these teams are Jews - Jew lawyers and Jew architects." Councilman David Cohen, who is Jewish, said the comment was "a classic case of anti-Semitism" regardless of the exact phrasing. He said he was concerned that it took nearly two months for the story to come out. "Did anybody report it? Did anybody think it was wrong? Are they all complicit in their thinking? I can't accept that notion," Cohen said. "How can anybody trust the government that tolerates this kind of action?"

[More context for the above article: In Fall 1999, a Jewish Republican, Sam Katz, ran against an African-American, Democrat John Street, (who beat a Jewish opponent, Marty Weinberg, in the primary) to replace Rendell as the mayor of Philadelphia. (Katz's dog, noted a Jewish journal, is even named Jabo, in honor of the famous right-wing fascist/Zionist Ze'ev Jabotinsky). 87% of the Jews of Philadelphia -- despite high nationwide Jewish proclivities to liberalism and the Democratic Party -- voted for Republican Katz. [FELDMAN, S., 3-2-2000, p. 1] Katz lost the mayoral contest, however, to the African-American by a narrow margin. A victory against Jewish political dominance? Hardly. Jews, after all, are central to the Democratic Party machine. As the Jewish Exponent observed about the African-American candidate's victory: "From mayor Ed Rendell to District Attorney Lynne Abraham to City Controller Jonathan Saidel to primary opponent Marty Weinberg to campaign co-finance chairman Robert Feldman to State Senator Allyson Schwartz -- it appeared clear that Street could not have gained his slim victory over Republican Sam Katz Tuesday without key Jewish supporters. Need more proof? Also on stage in the [victory] ballroom at the Warwick Hotel were campaign insiders Leonard Ross, Leonard Klehr and Mark Alderman; Rabbi Solomon Isaacson, who helped get the votes out in the far Northeast, and Philadelphia Federation of Teachers president Ted Kirsch, who prominently endorsed Street in September. In the back of the room, chief campaign spokesman Ken Snyder was busy fielding last-minute questions from reporters, and looking on was campaign media consultant David Axelrod." [FELDMAN, S., 11-4-99, p. 1] In a follow-up article, the Jewish Exponent noted that "As was the case during Street's campaign, Jews are playing prominent roles in the transition phase [to the new mayor]." Two co-chairs of the transition committee were Jewish: Leonard Klehr and Judith Rodin (the president of the University of Pennsylvania). Education Committee chiefs included Lee Annenberg, David Cohen, and Ralph Roberts; working under them were Lois Yampolsky and Deborah Kahn, who was later named to be Philadelphia's Secretary of Education. [FELDMAN, S., 3-9-2000, p. 15] The Government Organization Committee included Leonard Ross, Mark Adelman, and Alan Kessler. Marty Weinberg was in Policy and Programs. Jewish Task Force transition leaders also included Ed Schwartz, Emmanuel Freeman, Ira Lubert, Moshe Porat, Marciarose Shestack, David Marshall (Campaign Chairman for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia), Harold Goldman (president of Jewish Family and Children's Services), Michael Blum, Harriet Dichter, Ken Jarin, Robert Feldman, John Binswanger, Steven Cozen and Rabbi William Kuhn. [FELDMAN, S., 12-2-99, p. 10] Two weeks later the Jewish Exponent featured another article about the many Jews in mayor Street's entourage, joking to its Jewish audience that "the Jewish community is well represented in this round of appointments. In fact, if your name is not on the list, you just might feel left out." Appointments of Jews in city government included: Education: Shelly Yanoff, Sandra Fellman, Ted Kirsch. Government Organization Specialists: Bennett Levin, Larry Silverman, Michael Sklaroff, Ronald Caplan, Sandy Fox. Policy and Programs: Stuart Shapiro, Ellen Solms, Neil Stein, Max Berger, Richard Green, Sharon Pinkenson, Roseann Rosenthal, Larry Cohen, Bart Blatstein, Marvin Block, Howard Asher, Joseph Zuritsky, Mike Masch, Deborah Kodish, Adele Manger, Stephanie Naidoff, Marjorie Sarnoff, Sandra Stein, Sallie Glickman, Brad Blumberg, Jeffrey Batoff, Judith Eden, Kenneth Goldberg, Wendy Rosen, Ted Hershberg, Paul Levy, Ronald Rubin, Connie Beresin, Howard Kessler, Larry Frankel, Michael Karp, Vicky Weitzman, Joel Posner, Rabbi Lina Grazier-Zerbarini and Sharon Weinberg. [FELDMAN, S., 12-16-99, p. 18] In the same time frame, the Exponent also did an article about the visit of the Tel Aviv mayor to Philadelphia, noting that the two sites were "sister cities." "There has been, for a long time -- or as long as I can remember," noted the Chairman of the Jewish Federation, Joseph Smukler, "a special relationship between Tel Aviv and Philadelphia." [FELDMAN, S., 4-20-2000, p. 13] Among new mayor John Street's ceremonial tasks was to cut the ribbon to open Philadelphia's new "National Liberty Museum: America's Home for Heroes." The museum's Executive Director is Gwen Borowsky. Wealthy media mogul Irwin Borowsky founded the organization. He also is the founder of the "American Interfaith Institute, which aims to expunge anti-Jewish sentiment from editions of the New Testament." Borowsky's museum, like so many these days, clearly aims to appropriate American patriotic heritage under the umbrella of Jewish Holocaust mythology. In the heart of Philadelphia, one of the icons of American heritage, the Liberty Museum features a second floor "hall of heroes [which] is studded with Holocaust memories." [MONO, B., 1-20-2000, p. 9] And new Philadelphia mayor John Street's inevitable bending to Jewish Zionist concerns and their ties to Israel? In 1998, while still a city councilman, Street, his wife, and son were flown to Israel for eight days as a guest of a Philadelphia Jewish businessman, Joseph Zuritsky. Criticism of Israel, nor Jewish loyalties, was not the focus of a Philadelphia Daily News story about the trip. After all, as the paper observed, "Most of the potential candidates in the 1999 mayor's race, as well as Mayor Rendell, have traveled to Israel at some point in their careers -- and in most cases the trip was paid for or subsidized by one of several groups promoting closer U.S. ties to the Jewish state." These politicians courted by Zionists include Happy Fernandez, Doug Evans, and John White, Jr.) [BUNCH, W., 11-2-98] Rather, the Daily News piece examined the economic self-interests of Zuritsky (the CEO of the Parkway Corporation, Philadelphia's major "parking lot developer"), in sponsoring Street's trip to the Jewish state. The future mayor's journey "was paid for by a parking-lot magnate at the same time his firm was lobbying the [City] Council for millions of dollars in low-cost financing for a Center City development ... Zuritsky said he had no motive in sponsoring the trip -- which had planning assistance from several local Jewish community leaders -- other than to educate Philadelphia's highest-ranking black leader about Israel and Mideast politics. He said he wanted to promote ethnic harmony." [BUNCH, W., 11-2-98]

Politics Mondays: Big Pimpin' the Black Vote,
By Faye M. Anderson, Black Electorate, June 9, 2003
"In recent weeks, a media firestorm has erupted over the Partnership for America's Families headed by Steve Rosenthal, the AFL-CIO's former political director. The new organization plans to spend $30 million on a massive voter registration and voter mobilization campaign targeting African Americans, Latinos and working women. Some have called Steve Rosenthal a "self-appointed messiah" and vowed to resist efforts to push aside affiliated groups like the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement in favor of an instant organization with no track record and no relationship with the black or Latino community."

[More Jewish "big pimpin'" for the Black and Latino vote:]
Split Affects Drive Against Bush. Group Designed to Be Liberal Umbrella May Feel Fallout,
by Thomas B. Edsall, Common Dreams (from Washington Post), June 5, 2003
"A bitter split within organized labor over control of $20 million earmarked for mobilizing voters is threatening to fracture a broader effort by liberal groups to ally themselves against President Bush's reelection bid in 2004. The dispute involves the new Partnership for America's Families, a political committee financed with $20 million from unions and as much as $10 million from individual, pro-Democratic donors. The partnership's executive director, Steve Rosenthal, former political director of the AFL-CIO, is pitted against Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Also at odds with Rosenthal are leaders of black and Hispanic labor organizations affiliated with the AFL-CIO. At one level, the battle has become a test of strength within the AFL-CIO between the leaders of two large public employee unions: McEntee of the AFSCME and Andrew L. Stern of the Service Employees International Union, a Rosenthal ally. McEntee and Stern regularly compete to organize government workers, and both are considered possible candidates for the AFL-CIO presidency when incumbent John J. Sweeney retires, although McEntee and Stern say they are not interested in the pos ... A fractured trade union movement could, in turn, severely hamper the incipient effort to create an alliance of liberal groups eager to defeat Bush. Labor and Rosenthal's partnership group are viewed as key pillars in the effort, which also includes the Sierra Club, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the NAACP, the Human Rights Campaign, the League of Conservation Voters and EMILY's List ... The Partnership dispute broke into the open two weeks ago when McEntee, the organization's board chairman, abruptly resigned, along with the other two board members. Under Rosenthal, McEntee said, the partnership "failed to win the support of key labor unions and leaders and other constituency organizations." Stern defended Rosenthal's leadership, saying the criticisms are "uncalled for, not true. This seems like a very personal effort without any concern for the implications for our members in a presidential election." The dispute reached new levels of hostility last weekend when a prominent black union leader sharply attacked Rosenthal. William Lucy, secretary-treasurer of the AFSCME and president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), an AFL-CIO affiliate, said Rosenthal's oversight of the partnership amounted to "paternalism." "We have told Mr. Rosenthal and his organization where he could go and what he could do," Lucy said in a press release. The issue "is about who will decide how the black community will be involved in its own politics and whether labor chooses partnership over paternalism." Lucy's criticisms were echoed by Oscar Sanchez, executive director of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), another AFL-CIO affiliate. "What we object to is Mr. Rosenthal, or someone like him, leading the charge," Sanchez said in a prepared statement. "Mr. Rosenthal proved throughout his seven-year tenure as director of the AFL-CIO's political department that he was not sympathetic to the causes of the minority community."

[Jews are the wealthiest ethnic group in America, bar none. Jews exploit minority groups as long as they can help Jewish self-aggrandizement and advancement. When they can't, or the usefulness is exhausted, the stepping stone is dumped and Jewish ethnocentrism looks around for someone/something else to exploit.]
Jewish Organizations Absent at Civil Rights Rally,
By DANIEL TREIMAN, [Jewish] Forward, August 29, 2003
"In 1963 leading Jewish groups lined up to support the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a climactic moment in the civil rights movement. The president of the American Jewish Congress, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, delivered an address that chief march organizer Bayard Rustin would later claim was the event's "greatest speech," eclipsing even Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" address. This past weekend, however, as a coalition of civil rights and anti-war groups converged on the Lincoln Memorial to mark the 40th anniversary of the march, Jewish groups were conspicuously absent — none were listed among the event's approximately 30 co-conveners. The AJCongress was not invited to participate, said the group's spokesman, David Twersky. Event organizers chalked up the lack of organized Jewish participation in the August 23 event to rushed planning on their part, as well as the scheduling of the event on the Jewish Sabbath. But after decades in which the historic black-Jewish civil rights coalition has slowly unraveled — thanks, in part, to occasional sniping over issues such as Israel, affirmative action and antisemitism — Jewish groups appeared relatively unconcerned about the lack of an organized Jewish presence at the commemoration. "History doesn't stand still and wait for anybody. African Americans aren't at the same place that they were at 40 years ago and American Jews aren't at the same place they were at 40 years ago," Twersky said. "And the two — in terms of evaluating their own interests and strategies to broaden human rights and civil rights — don't necessarily see things in the same way, and certainly not the same way they saw them back then" ... Speaker after speaker denounced the Bush administration in the strongest terms. A handful of speakers criticized American aid to Israel as part of their larger indictments of American foreign policy ... [M]any major Jewish groups would likely have been uncomfortable with the strident tone many speakers took in denouncing the Iraq war, as well as a handful of remarks criticizing Israel. American aid to Israel was criticized in a speech by Leslie Cagan, national coordinator for United for Peace and Justice, an anti-war coalition. "Today instead of our money going into schools and healthcare and the other things our communities need, instead our money goes to help maintain the deadly Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Today our tax dollars go to maintain U.S. military bases in every corner of the world," Cagan said. James Zogby, president of the Arab-American Institute, one of the event's co-conveners, said during his speech that the West Bank fence Israel is building is "imprisoning" Palestinians in a "situation that is worse than ever existed even in the bantustans of South Africa." He said that current American policy has failed both sides in the conflict. The low profile of Jewish groups in relation to the latest commemoration contrasts with past anniversaries of the historic march, which had often provided occasions for blacks and Jews to act out their increasingly strained relationship on the public stage. Organizers of the march's 20th anniversary commemoration scrambled in 1983 to secure the support of Jewish groups, some of which had declined to endorse the event because its statement of aims included language criticizing American arms exports to the Middle East. Ten years later, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan blasted Jews for allegedly blocking him from being permitted to speak at the 30th anniversary commemoration."

Minister Louis Farrakhan: In His Own Words,
Anti-Defamation League [indexed on September 4, 2003]
"On Jews. Farrakhan on past anti-Semitic remarks: "I can never apologize for telling the truth... I can apologize for the manner of telling the truth." BET Tonight with Travis Smiley, 9/11/00-9/12/00 ...
Farrakhan on Jewish control: Farrakhan said that he is fighting the "inordinate control" some Jews have over Blacks, particularly in entertainment and business. Associated Press, 7/31/00
"They [the Jews] are the greatest controllers of Black minds, Black intelligence. They write the scripts -- the foolish scripts on television that our people portray. They are the movie moguls that feature us in these silly, degrading, degenerate roles. The great recording companies that portray our people in such a filthy and low-rating way, yet they would not allow such a man as Michael Jackson to say one word that they thought would besmirch their reputation, but they put us before the world as clowns and as purveyors of filth. No, I will fight that." Meet The Press interview, 10/18/98
"Of course, they [the Jews] have a very small number of people but they are the most powerful in the world, they have the power to do good and they have the power to do evil...Now what do the Jews do best? Well, they have been the best in finance that the world has ever known...They finance a lot of stuff in the world, and there's nothing wrong with that, but they are not good politicians, they are the worst politicians because they don't recognize really their friends and as well their enemies..." Saviours' Day Speech, Chicago, 2/22/98
"I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government...Yes, they exercise extraordinary control, and Black people will never be free in this country until they are free of that kind of control..." Meet The Press interview, 4/14/97
"To continue to point out the truth of that control and how that control never will allow us to be full and completely men, free, justified, and equal. Why should we be controlled by the power, influence, and money of others? We should not be under that kind of control...going to Jewish philanthropists, begging them for money to support our causes, and through that money, there is control, and that kind of control limits the freedom of our people to speak freely, write freely, think freely, and act as free men..." Meet The Press interview, 4/14/97
"And you do with me as is written, but remember that I have warned you that Allah will punish you. You are wicked deceivers of the American people. You have sucked their blood. You are not real Jews, those of you that are not real Jews. You are the synagogue of Satan, and you have wrapped your tentacles around the U.S. government, and you are deceiving and sending this nation to hell. But I warn you in the name of Allah, you would be wise to leave me alone. But if you choose to crucify me, know that Allah will crucify you." Saviours' Day Speech, Chicago, 2/25/96
"I don't own Hollywood. Who depicted Black people? Who writes the books? Who writes the plays, the songs that make us look less than human? Do you mean to tell me that Jews have never done any evil to Black people?...Were they not involved in the slave trade? Yes, they were...and to the extent that they were involved, somebody has to bring them to account. And I believe that has fallen on me." Interview with New York Amsterdam News, 1/8/94
On 'Jewish Conspiracies': "We are not giving them [Jews] power by getting into the debate, they already have power. They control Black intellectuals, they control Black politicians, Black preachers, Black artists – they control Black life. I’m not against Jews, I’m against control by any group, of us… I don’t know how you can talk about Black liberation without confronting that and not talk about those who stifle Black thought, freedom of Black liberation." Daily Challenge, 10/12/00
"The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and other reactionary Jewish groups who want to maintain control of Black organizations by trying to tarnish independent Black voices who challenge their control, only prove the point when they hurl the same, tired invectives at leaders like Min. Farrakhan whenever he’s critical of, or raises questions about Jewish conduct." Final Call on-line, 8/29/00 (Note: Final Call is the newspaper of the Nation of Islam) ...
"I look at Lucianne Goldberg, Linda Tripp, Monica Lewinsky, and I ask myself, 'Why was this introduced at this time when Netanyahu was being pressured by the president to give up more land on the West Bank,'...I think we need to look deeper into this than just what appears on the surface." Meet The Press interview, 10/18/98
"Don't be afraid of the Zionists. Don't be afraid of their power, Mr. Clinton. Stop bowing down." Speech at Howard University, Washington DC, 10/16/98 "They call them [Hezbollah] terrorists, I call them freedom fighters...No one asks why they would do such a thing. Why would they do such a thing? What has driven them to this point? That's what the UN, the U.S. and Europe doesn't want to deal with because the Zionists have control in England, in Europe, in the United States and around the world." Speech at the District Council 33 Union Hall, Philadelphia, PA, 4/22/96 ...
"[U]ntil Jews apologize for their hand in that ugly slave trade; and until the Jewish rabbis and the Talmudic scholars that made up the Hamitic myth -- that we were the children of Ham, doomed and cursed to be hewers of wood and drawers of water -- apologize, then I have nothing to apologize for." Interview in Swing magazine, 9/24/96
"How did I get to be an anti-Semite...What have I done? I told the truth about Jewish involvement in the slave trade. Your own writers say the same thing. Well, if they're not anti-Semitic for writing it, how the hell am I anti-Semitic for reading what they wrote and then saying it?...I didn't write your history, you wrote it. And then the sad thing, when you confront them with what their scholars have said, they say, 'Well is this part of the old conspiracy talk?'" Mosque Maryam, Chicago, 3/19/95 ...
On Dialogue with Jews "I want to sit down and dialogue with members of the Jewish community with no preconditions. That demand for me to apologize comes out of an arrogance that makes one feel that if I am critical of Jewish behavior relative to Black people, that all of a sudden I have to apologize for being critical...I don't think that I should have to apologize unless I am shown that there is something that I have said that is not correct. Then I would have no problem...to ask for forgiveness..." Meet The Press interview, 10/12/97 "

[Hmmm. Why would our liberal justice-screaming Jews skip a major forum about racism? Unless they knew they'd be a target of discussion. All hail racist Israel!]
Jews Skip Europe Racism Forum,
by Ruth E. Gruber, JEwish Times, SEPTEMBER 13, 2003
"Pascale Charhon found herself part of a small minority this month when more than 300 delegates from 55 countries sat down in Vienna to discuss how to combat racism, discrimination and xenophobia. Charhon, the director of the Brussels-based European Jewish Information Center, represented one of only half a dozen or so Jewish organizations that attended the Sept. 4-5 conference. The lack of Jewish participation was not totally unexpected. Convened by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the meeting followed a parallel conference in June that had focused specifically on combating anti-Semitism. So anti-Semitism was not officially on the agenda of this conference. For Charhon, however, the broader focus provided all the more reason to attend this time around. "The Jewish people and the European Jewish world are definitely part of Europe; we are citizens of Europe," she told JTA. "This inclusive Europe will protect the rights of everyone, including Jews," she said. "We have a role to play ... Shimon Samuels, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Paris-based international liaison director, agreed. "We've begun to move a bit toward self-ghettoization," he said. But, he said, divorcing anti-Semitism from other hatred-related issues could prove counterproductive. "If you leave a vacuum, it will be filled by those who are hostile to us," he said."

[Everywhere, the same thing: someone getting agitated and savvy to Jewish power and getting attacked by the Jewish Lobby as a "bigot" for daring to speak the truth. The tide is rising.]
Rockland Pol Blasts ‘Evil’ Rabbi. Defense against inflammatory comments gets Legislature hopeful in even hotter water,
by Adam Dickter, Jewish Week, October 24, 2003
"A Spring Valley village trustee who is running for the Rockland County Legislature is having a rough time weathering the storm following his controversial comments about Jewish influence. Demeza Delhomme in an interview Monday with The Jewish Week blasted the Monsey rabbi who made public his remarks on cable TV as “evil.” On the same day, he reportedly told the Journal News of Rockland that he considered the rabbi, Justin Schwartz, a person “with 20 horns on his head, raping our community at large.” The latest comments follow statements made in Creole on a show aimed at fellow Haitian Americans. Delhomme accuses “the white man, the Jew” of creating policies that leave others behind. He adds later that “the poor person who used to give to the collection at church cannot do so anymore — it goes into the Jew’s pocket,” according to a transcript distributed to local officials and the media, including The Jewish Week, by Rabbi Schwartz."

Don King sues over anti-Semitism claim,
by Leon Symons, Jewish Chronicle (UK, paper copy), 2003
"Colorful American boxing promoter Don King [who is African American] has filed a High Court action over the allegations of anti-Semitism published on the Internet. The claims were made in two interviews to boxing websites by Judd Burstein, and American Jewish lawyer who represents world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis ... Burstein objected to King calling him a 'shyster lawyer' and was angered that one of King's in-house lawyers sent him a letter on the erev Yom Kippur demanding that he reply during the fast ... King donated $100,000 to the [Jewish] Kisharon school in Golders Green and was a guest of honor at one of its dinners. He has also given to the Lubavitch organisation [Chabad] in New York."

[On this Jewish count, Louis Farrakhan is of course largely right. Abraham Foxman and the Anti-Defamation League embody the censorial power that Farrakhan talks about. How come the Black nationalist movement, the globalist leftist movement, Arabs, Muslims, Malaysians, the White nationalist movement, masses of Europeans, and so many others agree on some important aspects about Jews and Zionism? Because Jews CAUSE what they call "anti-Semitism" by Jewish beliefs and actions.]
Farrakhan Makes Anti-Semitic Speech,
Anti-Defamation League, December 4, 2003
"Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, lashed out with a vicious attack on Jews in his November 23, 2003 sermon to followers at Mosque Maryam, the NOI headquarters in Chicago. In his two-hour speech, Minister Farrakhan depicted Jews as "masters of Hollywood" who are poisoning American society with "filth and indecency." Farrakhan also accused Jews of tampering with the Bible and promoting moral decay around the world. "There are beautiful members of the Jewish community who are trying their utmost to follow the law and the teachings of Moses and the prophets that God sent to Israel," Mr. Farrakhan intoned. "But there's another Jew who is not really a Jew; he is an imposter posing as a Jew. "In the Bible, in the Book of Revelations, says -- listen, listen, listen, then go check it out for yourself, you have a Bible -- those who say they are Jews and are not, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan. Who are the masters of Hollywood? How could you be a righteous Jew and promote that which is forbidden by the God of Israel? Come on now, how could you be a righteous Jew and publish the filth that is published daily, feeding the minds of the American people and the people of the world filth and indecency, and making it fair seeming in their eyes," Farrakhan said. Farrakhan has long expressed anti-Semitic and anti-white rhetoric which has marked him as a notable figure on the extremist scene. In past remarks, he has expressed hostility toward Jews and repeated the canard about Jews having too much control of government, the entertainment industry and African-Americans. More recently, Farrakhan has made efforts to dampen his charged rhetoric while insisting that he is not an anti-Semite. In an interview with The New York Sun, Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, said that mainstream Jewish groups had not been convinced by Farrakhan's efforts to mend fences with the Jewish community, and that his most recent remarks show that Farrakhan has returned to his anti-Semitism. "For a while, Mr. Farrakhan contained his anti-Semitism and tried to restrain himself," Mr. Foxman told the Sun. "When now anti-Semitism is so upfront over the world -- from the Prime Minister of Malaysia, to the composer of Zorba to the bin Ladens and those who speak in his name -- I guess Mr. Farrakhan no longer feels the need to be restrained."

Congressional Black Congress Target of Pro-Israel Lobby?, Members of the Congressional Black Congress Have Been Particularly Vulnerable to the Pressures Exerted by the Pro-Israel Lobby,
by Margaret Kimberly, The Black Commentator, December 18, 2003
"As the presidential campaign season heats up every day brings news of endorsement one-upmanship. In one week we witnessed Al Gore endorsing Howard Dean, Charles Rangel and other black elected officials endorsing Wesley Clark, South Carolina Black Congressman James Clyburn endorsing Dick Gephardt, and Al Sharpton angry because no one had endorsed him. It was expected that Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, would soon endorse Howard Dean as well. But Cummings’ endorsement hit a temporary snag. The Baltimore Sun reported that the Cummings endorsement was in jeopardy because leaders of Baltimore’s Jewish community were concerned about Dean’s commitment to Israel. Dean made headlines in September when he said that the United States should be “even handed” in dealing with Israel and the Palestinians. One would have thought from the response that Dean had expressed love for suicide bombers. It didn’t seem to help that Dean’s wife is Jewish and that his national campaign co-chairman, Steve Grossman, was formerly president of the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC). Anyone who steps outside of pro-Israeli orthodoxy gets the cold shoulder, even if his credentials are otherwise acceptable. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have been particularly vulnerable to the pressures exerted by the pro-Israel lobby. In 2002 Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and Earl Hilliard of Alabama were both defeated by challengers who raised large sums of money from Jewish groups outside of their states. Both McKinney and Hilliard committed the sin of being even handed. The message was not lost on other members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Toe the line or lose your seat. The ascendancy of George W. Bush and the American right wing has emboldened the Israeli right wing and its American allies. So much so that not only black elected officials are under threat. During a call-in segment on C-Span Senator John Kerry gave an odd response to a question about politicians who are afraid to stand up to Israel when its policies don’t merit American support. The caller “sensed a visceral fear of all the candidates to take this issue head on.” Kerry responded that he and other candidates had no such fear but he then went on to answer in such a way that he proved the caller right. He said in part, “Israel is fighting for its survival.” Israel is the only nation in that region with both nuclear weapons and the backing of the world’s only super power. That is not a description of a country fighting for survival. The unstated assumption of the Baltimore Sun article was that Cummings would suffer the fate of his colleagues if he didn’t ask “How high?” when he was told to jump. The story began to change a bit as time passed, however. The website of the Forward, a Jewish publication, reported that the Sun was incorrect and that the Cummings endorsement of Dean would proceed as planned. Congressman Cummings ended the suspense when he endorsed Dean on December 13, in Atlanta. The issues raised by this concentration of power effect more than the election chances of black politicians."

[What does Martin Luther King mean to the Black community? A celebration of Jewish racism? Israeli racism? Murdering Palestinians? Jewish slum lords? All the Jewish business hacks who run the sports world? "Blacks should fight" their oppressors and exploiters, and not be duped into being the veil the Jewish Lobby hides behind. Jews dominated the NAACP from Day One towards Jewish ethnocentrism and Zionism. Here Jews tell Blacks "if Martin Luther King were alive" what he would think, and what he would say. And how he would submit before American Jewry's Monster Zionism. What did Malcolm X say? "In America," noted Malcolm, "the Jews sap the life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies, and its continued aggression against our brothers in the East. This every Black Man resents." [KAUFMAN, J., 1988, p. 135] Amen.]
Blacks should fight for rights of Jews facing anti-Semitism,
By Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Dec. 31, 2004
"The Jewish people are under attack. Horrific expressions of anti-Semitism are spreading across the United States and the world. These attacks, both verbal and physical, are occurring at all levels of society, from the highest ranks of government to individuals on the street. This January, as we honor the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., we ask blacks to embrace his legacy and to join Jews in defeating the injustice of anti-Semitis ... Now the Jewish community needs the partnership, fellowship and courage of black Americans. The civil rights of Jews are now at stake. A recent national poll by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding found that 77 percent of blacks and 73 percent of Jews agree that they should work together on civil rights. Anti-Semitic incidents are up dramatically in the United States, including a 24 percent increase on college campuses in 2002. In England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey and other countries throughout Asia and Europe, synagogues are bombed, Jewish schools are torched and members of the Jewish community are forced to hide their yarmulkes and Star of David pendants. Were King alive today, he would speak out vociferously against this new wave of anti-Semitism."

Desperation and Drastic Measures The Use and Abuse of Martin Luther King Jr. by Israel's Apologists,
By FADI KIBLAWI and WILL YOUMANS, CounterPunch, January 17/18, 2004
"In formal logic, Argumentum Ad Verecundiam refers to arguing a point with an appeal to authority. This type is categorized as a logical fallacy. Citing one seemingly authoritative source is simply not conclusive evidence, even if the authority is seen as an expert on the given subject. For the sake of clarity, there are three degradations of this maxim enumerated in this essay. First, it is especially fallacious as proof when the quoted authority demonstrates no special knowledge on the subject. Second, when the authority who is not an expert on the given subject is also quoted out of context, the argument is even weaker. Third, the lowest violation of this formal logic principle is when an advocate uses a false rendition, or a fabricated quote, by the same authority who can claim no expertise. This is the best framework for understanding how various exponents of Israel have used Martin Luther King Jr. to promote their cause. Dr. King's expertise as a non-violent civil rights leader and visionary are unparalleled in U.S. history. However, that does not make him an informed commentator on Middle Eastern affairs or on the ideological facets of Zionism. As impressive as the references to his views on Israel may seem, this is a textbook example of Argumentum Ad Verecundiam. Finding direct and published utterances by Dr. King about the modern Middle East and Zionism is extremely rare. A cursory review of dozens of books on and by the civil rights leader turned up nothing. Nonetheless, defenders of Israel often refer to a letter by Dr. King. This letter is reprinted in full on many web pages and in print. One example of a quotation derived from this letter is: "... You declare, my friend; that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely 'anti-Zionist' ... And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews... Anti-Semitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitic, and ever will be so." Antiracism writer Tim Wise checked the citation, which claimed that it originated from a "Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend" in an August, 1967 edition of Saturday Review. In an article on January, 2003, essay he declared that he found no letters from Dr. King in any of the four August, 1967 editions. The authors of this essay verified Wise's discovery. The letter was commonly cited to also have been published in a book by Dr. King entitled, "This I Believe: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." No such book was listed in the bibliography provided by the King Center in Atlanta, nor in the catalogs of several large public and university libraries. Soon afterwards, CAMERA, a rabidly pro-Israeli organization, published a statement declaring that the letter was "apparently" a hoax. CAMERA explained how it gained so much currency. The "letter" came from a "reputable" book, Shared Dreams, by Rabbi Marc Shneier. Martin Luther King III authored the preface for the book, giving the impression of familial approval. Also, the Anti-Defamation League's Michael Salberg used the same quotes in his July 31st, 2001 testimony before the U.S. House of Representative's International Relations Committee's Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. The bogus letter was further quoted by writers in prominent publications one would imagine armed with fact-checkers capable of spending the short amount of time needed to verify the primary source. Mort Zuckerman, the editor-in-chief of the U.S. News & World Report quoted the letter in a column (9/17/01). Warren Kinsella followed suit in an article for Maclean's (1/20/03). Commentary, which is known more for its ideological zeal than any appreciation for factual scruples, ran a piece by Natan Sharansky. He quoted the false passage as a block--some ten months after CAMERA declared it a hoax. More recently, the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) featured excerpts from the letter prominently on its website. Despite its name, SPME is an advocacy group seeking to bolster Israel's image on campus--a mission it claims promotes peace in the region. Ironically, right under the false Dr. King quotation is an announcement of the formation of a task force "dealing with academic integrity with respect to fabricating and falsifying data when discussing the Middle East."

The Martin-Luther-King-Was-A-Zionist Hoax,
by Lubomyr Prytulak , Ukrainian Archive, January 20, 2004
"The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) supports the attribution of the statement that "anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism" to Martin Luther King, as is evidenced by its twice citing the statement at a total of eight locations on the CJC web site, the first of the two statements being anonymous, and the second being attributed to the Executive Director of the CJC, Bernie Farber ... The above instances of attribution may be inferred to have reached wide circulation by the first of them having been printed on T-shirts, and the second — Bernie Farber's — having been published in the Globe and Mail. However, the article The Use and Abuse of Martin Luther King Jr. by Israel's Apologists authored by Fadi Kiblawi and Will Youmans which I reproduce below convincingly argues that attribution of any "anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism" statement to Martin Luther King is unwarranted, and that even if Martin Luther King had uttered such a statement, it would lack force because he was not knowledgeable on the subject of the Middle East, and it would lack application because he would have been making the statement in a different age and in a different context and thus with different intent. Until such time as stronger evidence is adduced that Martin Luther King did ever say that "anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism," I hope you will have no objection to my referring to the seeming mis-attribution as the Martin-Luther-King-Was-a-Zionist Hoax. With the Canadian Jewish Congress struggling to retain credibility under the load of failed hoaxes that it carries on its back, you might consider beginning the labor of lightening the CJC burden by purging all CJC web site attributions to Martin Luther King of the "anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism" statement, and perhaps as well by asking Bernie Farber to notify the Globe and Mail of his retraction of his mis-attribution."

[Today's ADL "anti-Semite" is a newspaper called the San Francisco Bay View, the "National Black Newspaper of the Year." The ADL has been calling for a kind of Jewish jihad against Blacks, Christians, Mel Gibson, Palestinians, and just about everybody else.]
Anti-Defamation League accuses the Bay View of ‘being anti-Semitic’,
by Jeff Blankfort, San Francisco Bay View, January 28, 2004
"The Bay View received a letter last week from the Anti-Defamation League (see page 5) suggesting that the paper had “crossed the line from being simply critical of the policies of the State of Israel, to being anti-Semitic.” One of the two examples provided concerned JR’s report on the unsuccessful attempt of workers at the Rainbow Grocery Co-op to implement a boycott of Israeli products in protest against Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestinian land and the brutal and inhuman treatment of the Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli army. What the ADL objected to and characterized as “misleading” was JR’s reference to “Israel’s founders having simply ‘invaded and settled Palestine in 1948;’ the use of inflammatory phrases such as ‘the Israeli Zionist government ... steal[ing] more and more of the Palestinians’ land;’ as well as direct comparisons to South Africa during the Apartheid era.” It is true that Israel did not invade and settle Palestine in 1948. The settlement of European Jews, what the indigenous Palestinian Arabs (and JR) correctly perceived as an “invasion,” began as a trickle in the latter part of the 19th century. When Lord Arthur Balfour, the foreign secretary of Great Britain, the reigning imperial power of the time, declared in 1917 that Palestine should become the national home of the Jewish people, the influx gathered steam and gained the support of the Western powers. That a minister of one country awarded the land of another to a third has never troubled many who oppose the abuses of imperialism, but make an exception when Israel is concerned. What did happen in 1948 was the establishment of Israel and with it the destruction and theft of 382 Palestinian villages and the expulsion of their estimated 750,000 inhabitants who have never been allowed to return despite UN Resolution 194 guaranteeing them the right to do so. The 150,000 Palestinians who remained were held under military law in 1966 and to this day, as non-Jews, are restricted from owning or leasing property within 93.7 percent of Israel’s 1967 borders. The “ethnic cleansing” of the Palestinians from their land has never ceased, nor has Israel’s expropriation of what remains, as attested to by Israel’s ongoing construction of the 25-foot high “apartheid wall” through sections of the West Bank that has received international condemnation and whose legality is soon to be reviewed by the World Court in the Hague. When it objects to comparisons between Israel and apartheid South Africa, particularly when it does so in San Francisco, the ADL is treading on dangerous ground. It was 10 years ago this month that an embarrassed SFPD revealed that one of its officers, Tom Gerard, working together with Roy Bullock, a long-time undercover agent for the ADL, had been spying on the African National Congress, Black South African exiles, and the anti-apartheid movement, for South African intelligence. Since Bullock had been spying on the apartheid movement for the ADL, as he told SFPD Inspector Ron Roth, doing the same for the South Africans meant little extra work, since much of the information the South Africans wanted he and the ADL already possessed. As would be expected, the pair were already spying on Palestinian and Arab groups and individuals. But what was revealed in the more than 700 pages of documents released by District Attorney Arlo Smith was that the ADL was keeping files on more than 10,000 individuals* and 600 political groups that ranged across the political and racial spectrum - from the NAACP to the Asian Law Caucus to the San Francisco Labor Council - and that similar operations were being conducted by ADL agents across the United States, making the ADL probably the largest private intelligence gathering operation in the country. At the time, Bullock had been paid through a cut-out, a Beverly Hills lawyer, who would send him a check every week. The ADL’s response to the “revelation” that their agent was moonlighting for the South Africans was to put him directly on its payroll. At the time, Israel was a close ally of the apartheid regime, selling it weapons, tear gas, water cannons and high tech electronic equipment, and jointly developing atomic weapons, in violation of the international sanctions then in effect. As they were then and remain today, the ADL’s policies are indistinguishable from those of the Israeli government. When questioned in May 1993 about his organization’s spying on the ANC and the apartheid movement, the ADL’s long-time national director, Abe Foxman, was unapologetic. “People are very upset about (the files) on the ANC,” he told the Jewish Bulletin. “At the time we exposed the ANC, they were communist. They were violent, they were anti-Semitic, they were pro-PLO, and they were anti-Israel. You’re going to tell me I don’t have the legitimacy to find out who they were consorting with, who their buddies are, who supports whom?” Comparisons between Israel and South Africa are not new and have been made by critics of both regimes, including Bishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. In 1987, Israeli Uri Davis wrote “Israel: An Apartheid State,” and, more recently, Israeli Professor Tanya Reinhart of Tel Aviv University wrote: “By July, 2002 … Israel’s ‘separation’ can no longer be compared with the apartheid of South Africa. As Ronnie Kastrils, South Africa’s minister of water affairs, said in an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly, ‘The South African apartheid regime never engaged in the sort of oppression Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. For all the evils and atrocities of apartheid, the government never sent tanks into Black towns. It never used gunships, bombers, or missiles against the Black towns or Bantustans. The apartheid regime used to impose sieges on Black towns, but these sieges were lifted within days.’ Nor, we may add, had South Africa applied a systematic policy of bringing the Black population to starvation. What we are witnessing in the occupied territories — Israel’s penal colonies - is the invisible daily killing of the sick and wounded who are deprived of medical care, of the weak who cannot survive in the new poverty conditions, and of those who are approaching starvation” (“Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948,” Seven Stories Press, 2002). There is much more to this story that the ADL does not want us to know, so it will be continued."

[The Jewish Lobby's crushing of African-Americans and bending them to the Jewish-Israel Will. The author of this piece, Jeff Blankfort, appearing in this African-American newspaper, is of Jewish heritage. He is heroically honest with his assessment of the censorial Jewish Lobby.]
Cynthia McKinney is running again. Defying pro-Israel lobby’s efforts to control Black agenda,
by Jeff Blankfort, San Francisco Bay View, February 4, 2004
"Cynthia McKinney has announced that she will be running to regain her old seat in Congress this year, the one she lost in 2002 by failing to express her devotion to the state of Israel and to the dictates of its domestic lobby. While there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution, at least not yet, that demands of our members of Congress that they swear their fidelity to Israel, there is considerable evidence that such a requirement does, in fact, exist. San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Whip, and therefore the party’s most powerful member in the lower house, set what was, perhaps, a new standard for such subservience when she pledged her “unshakable” bond to Israel at least a dozen times in a speech in Washington last April to 5,000 members of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at the organization’s annual convention. AIPAC is Israel’s officially registered lobby with headquarters in the nation’s capital and branch offices throughout the country. To give the reader a good idea of how deeply Israel has penetrated our political system, AIPAC representatives, uniquely, do not have to register as agents of a foreign government. If they did, organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the American Jewish Committee (AJC), for example, would also be required to register because much of their work is done in behalf of Israel. The AJC, not as well known outside of the Jewish community, quietly lobbies foreign governments in behalf of Israel. Moreover, it is not just organizations that are doing this. According to the Jerusalem Post, San Francisco’s other representative in Congress, Tom Lantos, a Hungarian-born Jew, has represented Israel in countries where it has no diplomatic relations, such as Syria and, most recently, Pakistan and Libya. Whether as an organization or as an individual, this is an activity that normally requires those engaging in it to register as foreign agents. Half of the Senate attended that AIPAC meeting last year as did a third of the House. Two of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) who were reportedly among the guests were Artur Davis and Denise Majette, both African-Americans, who, with the support of AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League and pro-Israel Jewish donors from across the country, defeated veteran civil rights activist Earl Hilliard and his younger colleague, Cynthia McKinney, in the 2002 Democratic Party primaries in Alabama and Georgia, respectively. Controlling the Black political agenda as well as Black leadership have long been high priorities of the overall pro-Israel lobby and the CBC has always been one of its main concerns. Those who speak up for the Palestinians, who refuse to support Israel and genuflect to the lobby, and who don’t feel obliged to repeatedly sanctify Jewish suffering have found themselves hounded by the ADL, added to its list of “Black Demagogues” and shunted to the political margins. The lobby will not necessarily target a member of Congress that doesn’t always vote its way, but it will not tolerate any Black politician who has the guts to stand up to it, to challenge Israel publicly or to speak up for Palestinian rights. One of those who stood up and paid the price was Gus Savage, a Chicago congressman who in 1993 was the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to vote against the Foreign Aid Bill that raised U.S. aid to Israel to $4.5 billion, or one third of the aid budget and nearly seven times the allocation for sub-Saharan Africa. When AIPAC put up Mel Reynolds, another African-American candidate, and started soliciting funds from Jews across the country to defeat him, Savage went public with the names of the Jewish contributors, none of whom lived in the district. For that he was attacked as an “anti-semite,” described as “Savage Savage” in a racist headline in Washington Jewish Week, and denied funds by Democratic party chair and lobby favorite Ron Brown. Two years later, he was redistricted and defeated by Reynolds. This time around, Hilliard was the first to go. The mainstream Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz found his defeat significant, citing it as one reason for President Bush’s newfound affection for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Here is how Akiva Eldar, a Ha’aretz columnist, described it: “It’s worth taking a look at the Web site of the U.S. Federal Election Commission. Look for contributors to Artur Davis, a Black lawyer who won the Democratic primaries in the 7th Congressional District in Alabama …. Davis beat his rival, the 60-year-old, five-term Earl Hilliard, who is also Black, by a 56-44 percent vote. Here are some of the names from the first pages of the list of his contributors: there were 10 Cohens from New York and New Jersey, but before one gets to the Cohens, there were Abrams, Ackerman, Adler, Amir, Asher, Baruch, Basok, Berger, Berman, Bergman, Bernstein and Blumenthal. All from the East Coast, Chicago and Los Angeles. It’s highly unlikely any of them have ever visited Alabama, let alone the 7th Congressional District. (Now recall what happened when Savage named names like that.) “What do the Adlers and Bergmans have to do with an unknown lawyer running for a Congressional seat from Alabama. Why should Jews from all over the United States send hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign coffers, which reached $781,000 - compared to the $85,000 he had in his coffers the last time he ran, and lost? The answer can be found in the AIPAC index of pro-Israel congressmen. ... As reported in the Jewish weekly Forward more than a dozen years ago, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, told the annual conference of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, “There’s only one issue members (of Congress) think is important to American Jews — Israel.” McKinney had further angered the lobby by calling for an investigation of Israel’s prolonged attack on the USS Liberty during the 1967 Six-Day War, which took the lives of 34 U.S. sailors and wounded 171. This attack on a lightly armed U.S. spy vessel, which Israel claimed to have been a case of “mistaken identity,” has been covered up by the White House and Congress for the past 36 years and only recently has begun to attract national attention. That the Israelis were able to kill U.S. servicemen and get away with it is considered by many to be the defining act in the U.S.-Israel relationship. McKinney and Hilliard were the last of the outspoken members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and their departure was a major victory for the lobby. But it’s not content with that. As part of its 2003 convention, AIPAC honored CBC Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and on its eve, it hosted the rest of the caucus at a special dinner, attended by nearly 1,000 AIPAC donors from around the country. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, AIPAC wanted to honor Cummings “and the members of the CBC for their long-standing support of Israel and to reaffirm to our own community that most members of the Caucus support a strong and secure Israel.” The results of that effort have been mixed. A letter to President Bush, drafted that month by AIPAC and expressing concerns about the U.S.-supported “road map,” was signed by 313 House members, but only 18 of 39 members of the CBC were willing to affix their names."

[Blatant Jewish manipulation of African-American politics. The Jewish Lobby starts looking for a Black puppet for Zionism.]
McKinney, seen as a foe of Israel, to run for her old seat in Congress,
By Matthew E. Berger, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 30, 2004
"Jewish fund-raisers are looking for ways to prevent former Rep. Cynthia McKinney from returning to Congress. Jewish leaders were caught off-guard Monday when Rep. Denise Majette (D-Ga.) announced she would seek the Democratic nomination for Georgia’s open Senate seat, and would not run for re-election in the House. Just two days earlier, McKinney, a lightning rod in the Jewish community who has been called stridently anti-Israel, announced her intentions to seek the seat she lost in 2002. Majette received strong financial support from the Jewish community when she defeated the incumbent McKinney in the Democratic primary with more than 70 percent of the vote, and she was considered a favorite for re-election in the House this year. Her absence is expected to greatly aide McKinney’s chances, unless another Democratic primary challenger can be found. Morris Amitay, a leading fund-raiser in the Jewish community, said it was too early to determine how much effort the Jewish community would put into defeating McKinney this year, though he suggested there would be enough time to rally around a candidate before the July primary. “It depends if there is a viable candidate,” said Amitay, founder of the pro-Israel Washington PAC. “There is some time, but I haven’t heard anything.” Cathy Woolard, the openly gay president of Atlanta’s city council, announced her entry into the Democratic race for Majette’s seat Tuesday. Several other local candidates told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday that they were considering challenging McKinney in the primary as well. During her 10 years in Congress, McKinney angered many in the Jewish community with her anti-Israel comments and votes against resolutions supporting Israel’s right to self-defense. Notably, she asked a Saudi prince for the $10 million donation he had pledged for disaster relief after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani had rejected the money because the prince suggested U.S. support for Israel provoked the attacks. McKinney also suggested that President Bush knew of the terrorist plans to attack the World Trade Center, but did not prevent them because he wanted to launch a war. McKinney has enjoyed strong support from the Arab and Muslim communities, which view her as a strong proponent of a Palestinian state."

Background: Not AIPAC's first controversy,
by CALEV BEN-DAVID, THE JERUSALEM POST, Aug. 29, 2004
"A lobby is like a night flower; It thrives in the dark and dies in the sun." So wrote Steven Rosen, AIPAC director of foreign policy issues, in an internal organizational memo several years ago. Unfortunately for the influential pro-Israel lobbying group, this new affair is turning far too much of the media spotlight on an organization that prefers to work behind the scenes on Capitol Hill. But it is hardly the first time AIPAC has found itself at the center of public controversy, although never in such a serious matter as receiving classified security material. In 1988, the investigative show 60 Minutes ran a critical piece on AIPAC using information supplied by its former communications director (and ex-Jerusalem Post reporter) Barbara Amouyal. Among the material supplied by Amouyal was an internal memo suggesting that the media be fed stories regarding Jesse Jackson's private life. Also included in the 60 Minutes report was another internal memo which seemed to direct how political action committees should donate money to specific pro-Israel candidates, a possible violation of federal law forbidding lobby groups such as AIPAC from directly involving themselves in elections. A subsequent investigation by the Federal Elections Commission cleared AIPAC of any violations. Nonetheless, AIPAC continues to face accusations that it unduly interferes in the electoral process, especially from politicians who credit their defeats at the polls to the organization's efforts. The most notable example in recent years was the 2002 congressional race, in which two Georgia Democrats, incumbents Cynthia McKinney and Earl Hilliard, were defeated in party primaries by contenders perceived as more pro-Israel. McKinney subsequently commented: "Despite the fact that I easily won the Democratic vote, 40,000 Republicans maliciously crossed over and overtook the Democratic Primary. And because AIPAC had telegraphed in newspaper articles that they were going to target both Earl Hilliard and me, the Democratic Party was paralyzed" ... AIPAC's efforts to keep a low media-profile have also led to accusations that it has put undue pressure on journalists, especially from the Jewish press, who cover it critically. Among them is Washington Jewish Week reporter Larry Cohler, who earlier this year told an Internet site: "Their mission statement doesn't say anything about them mucking around in Jewish newspapers. AIPAC tried to get me fired, [and editor] Andy [Silow-Carrol] fired [from The Washington Jewish Week in 1992]." (AIPAC has denied those charges.) Given its task, it is inevitable that AIPAC will serve as a perennial whipping-boy for anti-Semitic Jewish conspiracy theorists, and as the phantom spoiler by disgruntled anti-Israeli politicians who fall short at the ballot box. But its reported involvement in the Pentagon-leak story will force it to handle mainstream-media damage control of the like the organization has not yet known."

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