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There's a lot more not to like about Danielle Gilbert than her 'Jewbags'

I won't post the picture from Danielle Gilbert's Facebook page, but if you want to see it, you can find it here. You might recall that Gilbert is Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's liaison to the Jewish community, and in the picture, she and several friends on spring break in Florida posed as 'Jewbags,' a slur against Jews.

Wasserman Schultz continues trying to pass Gilbert's photo off as a childish and harmless prank.

“She was 20 when she posted that picture,” Wasserman Schultz said of Danielle Gilbert after an event in Sunny Isles, the Miami Herald reports. “I spoke to my own children and gave that unfortunate posting as an example of how, no matter what you think is funny among your friends, nothing on social media is private.”

The last time I checked, 20-year olds are responsible for their own actions. My 4th child (daughter #2) is currently 20.

But Daniel Greenfield reports that there's a lot more to dislike about Danielle Gilbert than her childish Facebook postings.

Danielle Gilbert’s twitter feed suggests that she attended the J-Street conference and she retweeted a call from the anti-Israel group to freeze “settlements.” Gilbert’s own anti-Israel background isn’t casual. She attended the London School of Economics and Political Science and while there was part of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.

Gilbert had volunteered at Givat Haviva, a leftist group dedicated to pro-terrorist activism. Givat Haviva had a presence at the J-Street conference and has its roots in Kibbutz Artzi, which was far enough to the left that it identified closely with the Soviet Union and its leader eulogized Soviet mass murdering dictator, Joseph Stalin. The roots of Givat Haviva lie with Artzi’s Arab Department whose goal was a one-state solution.

Ilan Pappe founded and ran the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva. Pappe is a former member of Hadash, the Arab-Israeli Communist party, who supports the destruction of Israel via a One State Solution. An article on the Givat Haviva website features a photo of Danielle Gilbert with one of her friends, who writes about his own support for the One State Solution.

Through Givat Haviva, Gilbert conducted interviews with the residents of the Muslim Bartaa village which straddles the Green Line and has become a cause celebre for the anti-Israel left. Since then she has been a Jeremiah Fellow at Jews United for Justice, another left-wing group, which also participated in the J-Street conference, and whose board members intersect with a number of anti-Israel groups.

In 2008, Gilbert wrote, “We cannot see Mumbai’s events as anything less than the gruesome epitome of systematic terror. However, such a tragedy rightly makes us question our unequal treatment of minority cultures within larger communities,” shifting easily to calling the brutal murder of the Holtzberg family and countless Indians by Muslims a “tragedy” that serves to call attention to Muslim suffering.

For Jews there is far more to be offended by in that than in Gilbert’s use of a Jewish slur. There is also far more to be offended by in the fact that the DNC chose to elevate a woman aligned with J-Street and that she then elevated someone like Danielle Gilbert to conduct outreach to the people they no doubt fondly think of as the “Jewbags.”

I wonder if Wasserman Schultz will dismiss those actions as childish things that Gilbert did when she was 20 (or 22).

By the way, Greenfield's money quote goes far beyond Gilbert:

Jewish Anti-Semitism is a very real phenomenon, but it’s not self-hatred, no more so than Bill Ayers’ desire to destroy America is self-hatred. The essence of the left is the rejection of the past in a perpetual war for a better future. The very nature of Jewish identity is built on a continuity of tradition and the nature of the left is to fly its progressive colors by showing contempt for tradition. There can be no balance between the two because to choose the one is to reject the other.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Campaign 2012, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jewish anti-Semitism, Leftist anti-Semitism, Leftist Jews

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:39 PM