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Obama shared podium with virulent anti-Semites in '07

I posted things like this over and over again in 2007 and 2008 and very few people listened. I debated whether to cover this story at all this time. But I decided that perhaps now, with three years of America's post-racial President and his contemptuous treatment of Israel behind us, seeing this kind of thing will influence some of you not to support his reelection campaign regardless of who the Republican nominee is (Ron Paul possibly excepted, in which case I allow you to stay home to pack for your move to Israel).

Andrew Breitbart posted the picture above as part of a larger story on Monday about Barack Hussein Obama, then a Senator from Illinois and a candidate for President, marching with the New Black Panther party in 2007 (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).

New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.

The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before it was scrubbed, are the latest evidence of the mainstream media’s failure to examine Obama’s extremist ties and radical roots.

In addition, the new images raise questions about the possible motives of the Obama administration in its infamous decision to drop the prosecution of the Panthers for voter intimidation.

The images, presented below, also renew doubts about the transparency of the White House’s guest logs–in particular, whether Panther National Chief Malik Zulu Shabazz is the same “Malik Shabazz” listed among the Obama administration’s early visitors.

Tomorrow, J. Christian Adams, the Department of Justice whistleblower in the New Black Panther Party case, will release his new book, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department (Regnery).

The book exposes Obama administration corruption far beyond the Panther dismissal, and reveals how the institutional Left has turned the power of the DOJ into an ideological weapon.

Adams’s book also describes, in detail, the Selma march at which then-Senator Obama was joined by a group of Panthers who had come to support his candidacy.

Among those appearing with Obama was Shabazz, the Panther leader who was one of the defendants in the voter intimidation case that Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed. Also present was the Panthers’ “Minister of War,” Najee Muhammed, who had called for murdering Dekalb County, Georgia, police officers with AK-47’s and then mocking their widows in this video (7:20 – 8:29).

Injustice includes a disturbing photo of Shabazz and the Panthers marching behind Obama with raised fists in the “Black Power” salute.

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It is true that then-Senator Hillary Clinton and Al Sharpton were also in Selma at the same event. But the Panthers explicitly came to Selma to support Obama, as Adams details in Injustice.

They spoke with Obama at the podium shown above, and departed together with Obama for the main march itself, as shown by this grainer image captured from YouTube:

Obama seems not to be reviled by the Panthers in any of the video or photographs. And Obama’s own campaign website would post an endorsement by the New Black Panther Party in March 2008. As Adams writes in Injustice:

Somehow, the fact that the future President of the United States shared a podium with leaders of the New Black Panthers, marched with them, and received a public, formal greeting from their party has vanished from the history of Obama’s campaign. Apart from [Juan] Williams’ single dispatch, no other media outlets ever reported it.

After NPR initially reported that the Panthers were present at the event with Obama, subsequent reports from Selma omitted any mention of the hate group appearing with the future President.

Had any of Obama’s opponents appeared at an event with the KKK or Aryan Nation, The New York Times would have had to double its ink buy.

Read the whole thing. Anyone who followed the Jeremiah Wright story during the 2008 campaign cannot be too surprised by this. It fits the pattern. In fact, I am waiting for a White House statement that Obama didn't know who Malik Shabbaz and the New Black Panthers are and what they stand for. Astoundingly, the same low class scum that harass Andrew Breitbart through his Twitter account are doing so with respect to this story as well. I cannot tell you that they're in denial - they probably support the NBPP's goals.

So what does all this have to do with Israel and Jews? Alana Goodman explains.

I don’t buy into theories that Obama is a secret radical interested in pushing an extreme Panther agenda. But he does have an alarming pattern of association with anti-Semitic conspiracy peddlers, whether it’s for political gain or because he feels some sort of camaraderie with them.

Shabazz gained notoriety for leading anti-Semitic chants in the mid-90’s (“Who is it that controls the Federal Reserve? “The Jews!”). And in 2005 – just two years before Obama reportedly shared a stage with him at a campaign event – Shabazz penned the forward for a book entitled “Synagogue of Satan.” In case the title doesn’t give it away, it’s apparently a book full of noxious conspiracy theories about Jewish manipulation of foreign policy. From the Anti-Defamation League summary:

The book’s overarching theme is that unknown to most, the world is being manipulated and corrupted by Satanic powers led by Jewish elites. In exposing these powers, the book trades heavily in Jewish conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. It alleges that these Satanic powers are influenced and guided by the theology of Judaism, and by an inherent Jewish predilection for immorality.

The ADL calls the New Black Panther Party “the most anti-Semitic and racist black militant group in the U.S.” The group hasn’t commented yet on the photos Breitbart published.

Goodman suggests that seeing these photos and Obama's ties to the NBPP could set off 'alarm bells' among Jewish voters. Given that 78% of American Jews voted for Obama despite the Jeremiah Wright story in 2008, I am doubtful that any alarm bells could be loud enough to wake the Jews from their catatonic stupor of voting Democrat.

What could go wrong?

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, campaign 2008, Jeremiah Wright, Malik Shabazz, New Black Panther party

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:30 AM