Food fight among the American Jewish 'leadership'
In an earlier post, I reported that Jewish liberal icon Alan Dershowitz has gone after the National Jewish Democratic Council for its attack on Sheldon Adelson. Now, so has the Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman. “I think it’s inappropriate and a rush to judgement,” Foxman told The Times of Israel, “and it’s taking politics to a level that’s inappropriate.”What these guys apparently don't get is that unlike most of the mainstream Jewish leadership - who are Jews who happen to be Democrats - organizations like NJDC and J Street are Democrats who happen to be Jews. It's long past time for the American Jewish 'leadership' to get out of bed with the groups like that.
Foxman noted that when financier George Soros’s character was under attack, notably from some on the American political right in 2010, the ADL “stood up and said it was inappropriate.” The current attacks on Adelson, he said, should not be immune from criticism simply because they were coming from Jewish sources.
Foxman was speaking days after David Harris, the president of the National Jewish Democratic Council, urged Republicans not to take Adelson’s “tainted” money.
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Foxman also protested the “selective” nature of the criticism. “Is the money tainted only when it is given to a political party?” he asked, noting that Adelson has made philanthropic contributions, too, to causes including Taglit-Birthright, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum, and the AIPAC pro-Israel lobby.
Matt Brooks, the director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, earlier said the NJDC call was “disgusting” because it was based on allegations in a lawsuit filed by Steven Jacobs, a casino executive who was fired by Adelson in 2010.
“Setting aside their partisan agenda, the NJDC should be ashamed of itself for attacking someone who has done more for the Jewish community and Jewish philanthropy than anyone in recent history,” Brooks said, also citing Adelson’s major contributions to Birthright and to Yad Vashem.
“If this is proven to be nothing more than rantings of an employee in legal battle, NJDC is going to have a lot of egg on its face,” Brooks said. “If they were truly mensches about it, they would wait until it is adjudicated.”
Labels: Abe Foxman, Barack Hussein Obama, Campaign 2012, campaign finance, Mitt Romney, Sheldon Adelson
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:11 PM
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