Pilots didn't crash EgyptAir plane - there was an explosion
Greetings from... would you believe Lakewood, New Jersey?
Remember that EgyptAir plane that went down over the Mediterranean on a flight from Paris to Cairo back in May? This time, it wasn't a pilot suicide that crashed the plane. It was a more mundane form of terrorism: a bomb explosion.
Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation on Thursday said investigators
found traces of explosive materials on the remains of the victims aboard
EgyptAir Flight MS804.
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Egyptian officials in July said the word "fire" was clearly audible from cockpit voice recorder
before the plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, killing
all 66 people aboard. The plane was traveling from Paris to Cairo.
Electronic messages sent out by the jet showed smoke detectors going
off in a toilet and in the avionics area of the plane moments before it
crashed.
The ministry said a forensic report "included a reference to find traces of explosive materials some human remains for victims of the accident."
Think about that the next time you take off from Paris. Yours truly was practically strip-searched by French 'security' while boarding a flight from Paris to the US a few months ago. I guess I fit the profile (not!).
Sunday marked ten years since the murder of Ilan Halimi. That's Halimi in the square with the purplish pink around it. It's from a Muslim dating site. It was eventually taken down. Halimi was brutally murdered by a gang of Muslims, all but one of whom have been let go ten years later. On Sunday, there were a number of very small ceremonies in Paris marking Halimi's murder. They were only attended by Jews.
The small crowd and its Jewish focus illustrate the wide disconnect between how the Halimi case is understood within and outside of France’s Jewish community – and what that might mean for the French Jewish future.
For France’s Jews, it remains an intimately tragic affair, marking arguably the most savage and sadistic anti-Semitic crime in France since World War II. For many citizens of French or European Christian origins, it is indeed a despicable violent crime, but not one fuelled by anti-Semitism. For me this is a form of blindness, of denial – but also a mark of the failure of France's government and Jewish community to establish violent anti-Semitism as a central concern for the whole of society.
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Guershon N'duwa, president of the FJN, the Black-Jewish Federation of France, a constituent member of the French Jewish umbrella body CRIF, has organized the ceremony for Ilan Halimi for the past ten years, but he will not organize an eleventh. "The French government has always minimized the case of Ilan Halimi, and even now, has still not woken up to establish the link with the attacks of the past few years," says N'duwa, "and there is a definite link, a hatred of Jews.”
He continued: "But while Jewish community leaders have reached upwards, if you like, to French political parties on the right and left, they have not reached out to the non-Jewish public. So in spite of grandiose statements by politicians about fighting anti-Semitism, many French people still believe that Ilan's horrific death was a specifically Jewish affair, with few emotional links to the overall French nation, and not even necessarily a case of anti-Semitism. In reality, the intense emotional reaction by Jews here became a line that separated them from other French people, who reacted with intellectual disgust, but little more."
Both the Jewish community and the French government have been unable to engage the wider French public with the need to see, recognize and confront violent anti-Semitism and incitement against the community. This has diminished the number of French people who see anti-Semitic violence as a problem for all of France, not only its Jews and the government and security elite. For many, World War II had ended long ago, so it was easier to believe that this was a simple indecent but random tragedy committed by sociopaths.
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The anniversary event’s low turnout was also an indication of intra-Jewish politics that have weakened the community’s resonance to speak as a united voice on this issue. In fact there were five other competing Halimi commemoration ceremonies around Paris this year, somewhat atomizing the effect of fewer and more robustly attended events. There were no Halimi family members present at Sunday’s Boulevard Voltaire gathering either, though his sisters reportedly attended one of the other ceremonies.
"This has become a very politicized affair and I am unhappy enough about that not to do it again," says N'duwa, who comes from a Protestant family in Congo-Brazzaville, Africa. He converted to Judaism years ago in France and has also lived in Israel.
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Youssouf Fofana, who organized his kidnapping for ransom, will be in prison for years, in theory for life. Most of the others involved, including the woman used as bait, and the building superintendent who gave them the basement room and apartment in which Halimi was tortured in exchange for 1500 euros (which he never saw), have already been released.
Ten years after Halimi's murder, I still wonder why Jews remain in France. Neither they nor their non-Jewish neighbors understand what's going on in their country.
It's come to this: The leader of the Jewish community in Marseille, France, has advised his constituents not to walk around outside with kipot (skullcaps) on their heads.
The president of the Marseille Israelite Consistory, Zvi Ammar, said that it was an "exceptional decision".
"Life is more sacred than anything else. We are now forced to hide a
little bit," he told the AFP, adding that the move made him "sick to the
stomach".
The teacher escaped with only minor injuries. His attacker, aged 15, was caught soon after fleeing and arrested.
The teen later claimed to have been acting in the name of Daesh, the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
“He said several times he was acting in the name of Isis, because
Muslims in France were dishonouring Islam and French soldiers were
protecting Jews,” said Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin.
A Jewish councilman was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday morning,
prompting French media speculation of a racially motivated killing.
Alain
Ghozland of the Parisian suburb of Créteil was found by his brother,
who checked in on the city councillor after he failed to show in
synagogue the previous evening.
While a police source who spoke
with Metro News admitted that it was “too early to know the cause of
death,” Ghozland was reportedly found with stab wounds and bruising. His
apartment appeared to have been ransacked and his car was missing from
its spot outside.
The victim, whose father helped found the local
Jewish cultural association, was active in Jewish affairs and his death
has shaken his coreligionists, according to the French newspaper.
He
was described by the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de
France (CRIF), the umbrella organization representing French Jewry, as
“a prominent leader of the local Jewish Community.”
“People are upset. They do not know what to think and ask a lot of questions,” one relative was quoted as saying.
And last week marked the anniversary of the attack on the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris, which was the icing on the cake of a week in which mass murder was committed in the name of Islam at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Sorry but I don't understand why the flow of immigration from France to Israel isn't a wave. Why would any Jew want to stay there?
Confirmed: Suspicious package on Air France flight was a (fake) bomb
A suspicious package on an Air France flight from Port Louis, Mauritius to Paris that forced the plane to land in Nairobi has been confirmed to be a bomb.
BREAKING: Suspicious package found between Air France luggage headed from Kenya to Paris confirmed as a bomb. #AF463pic.twitter.com/k6WTEb3SWS
Lesson from the Paris terror attacks: Europe needs to join forces with Israel
Greetings from somewhere over eastern Kentucky - my next stop (which is not my final stop today) is Dallas, Texas.
David Harris of the AJC (not necessarily a source from which I would expect it) has some very wise advice for Europe.
And finally, when will Europe finally wake up and realize that democratic Israel is part of the solution, not the problem?
At the end of the day, the terrorism faced by France - or Belgium,
Denmark, Germany, Spain, the U.K., etc. - is a kissing cousin of that
confronted by Israel. Some European leaders go to great lengths to deny
that obvious truth, seeking instead to draw distinctions that are, in
fact, largely non-existent, or suggesting that Israel somehow "deserves"
what it gets, while implying that Europe does not.
Let's get real.
The authors of 9/11 detested who and what America is. They didn't give a
darn what political party was in power, because they attacked the Twin
Towers when Clinton was president and again when Bush was in the Oval
Office.
The same with Europe. The target is Europe's value system - its democracy, openness, freedom, and secularism.
And, yes, the same with Israel. The terrorists of Hamas (with which the
Palestinian Authority made a pact), Iranian-backed Hezbollah, Islamic
Jihad, and ISIS don't want Israel to exist, period. They're not
interested in who's in power in Jerusalem or how to get to a two-state
accord, but rather establishing their rule over the entire land.
One would hope that this would at least awaken Europe enough to get them to cancel the 'settlement product' labeling. Don't hold your breath. It won't. Anti-Semitism trumps all.
When I was in Chicago last week, I visited two old family friends who had a grandson visiting. I assumed it was one of their local grandsons, but it turned out to be the son of their daughter who married a Spaniard and was living in France. No more. The daughter and son-in-law are moving to Israel. This incident - in which a 13-year old wearing a kippa (skullcap) was beaten and robbed by six men outside his school in a clearly anti-Semitic attack - makes me wonder why any Jews remain in France. It's not like they are not free to leave....
The incident occurred on July 7 in the French
capital’s 19th arrondissement, near the Gare du Nord train station,
according to a report published by BNCVA, the National Bureau for
Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism.
The 13-year-old boy, who was not named, was
followed by six men of African descent as he exited the school while
wearing a kippa, the report said. One of his aggressors shouted: “Take
that, dirty Jew” while the group was hitting the boy. One of the young
men also stole the boy’s cellular phone before fleeing the scene.
The boy was taken to a hospital where he received stitches to wounds on his head.
Last year, the Jewish community recorded a
total of 241 violent attacks on Jews out of a total of 851 anti-Semitic
incidents. The previous year, those figures were 105 and 423,
respectively. In January, an armed Islamist killed four Jews at a Paris
kosher supermarket.
Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands are among
the other countries that saw increases in anti-Semitic attacks over the
same period.
Why Jews are remaining in France - or anywhere in Europe - is simply a mystery to me. They're free to leave, the costs are not prohibitive and the governments are not holding them hostage (unlike, for example, the Soviet Union). Why would anyone stay? Even if you have a business, move your family and commute (many Israelis commute to Europe - some even commute to the US traveling even more often than I do).
It's come to this: Louvre and other French tourist sites refuse to book Israeli student groups
Paris' famous Louvre art museum and several other French cultural sites have refused to book reservations for a group of art history students from Tel Aviv University who were planning to visit.
Last month, Sefy Hendler, who teaches in the university’s art history
department, began finalizing the itinerary. Hendler, who also writes
for Haaretz, contacted the administration of the Louvre and of
Sainte-Chapelle, the medieval Gothic chapel, to schedule visits there.
Both institutions declined his request. Sainte-Chapelle responded that
there was no space available on the date requested. The Louvre refused
to allow the visit even though three possible dates were proposed for
it.
“It surprised me that a place that receives nine
million visitors a year didn’t find room for us,” Hendler told Haaretz,
referring to the Louvre, “even though we asked to tour in the middle of
the week.”
After being turned down, Hendler attempted to make
arrangements for a visit on the same dates and times, using names of
fictitious educational institutions from Italy and Abu Dhabi in the
Persian Gulf – and was told that space was available.
At that point, the TAU faculty member said he
considered cancelling the entire tour, but ultimately he decided to
provide details of the incident to the president of French Friends of
TAU, Francois Heilbronn, who pursued the matter with the institutions
involved, as well as with French Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin.
The Louvre is claiming that they don't understand how this happened.
The administration of the Louvre responded that it was “disturbed”
over the incident and initiated an internal investigation into the
matter, but told Heilbronn added that the reservation system at the
world-famous museum is almost entirely automated. By contrast,
reservations for visits to Sainte-Chapelle are handed manually by staff.
Philippe Belaval, the president of the National
Monuments Center, which administers Sainte-Chapelle, said his
organization conducted an internal investigation that revealed recurring
irregularities, but at this stage it was not clear that the incident
involving the TAU students constituted a case of discrimination due to
their origins.
Hendler said he does not accept this explanation.
“It’s clear to me that when you say no to Israelis, it’s a
discriminatory and racist act. They don’t care whether you’re left- or
right-wing. They simple don’t want the Israeli in the narrow sense
through which they view him. It’s an incident that I simply don’t
understand,” he noted.
You don't say. And I thought that if we gave the 'Palestinians' their reichlet, the Europeans would suddenly become our biggest fans. You mean they won't? Oh my....
“What was the idea? That if we don’t see the 'Mona Lisa' [at the Louvre]
then the occupation [of the West Bank] would end? It’s completely
foolish,” Hendler said.
As my kids would say, "boker tov Eliyahu" (a colloquial way of saying "Welcome to the real world").
Buttes Chaumont Park in Paris (pictured) looks lovely, doesn't it? But on Friday afternoon, it nearly became a death trap for a 16-year old Jewish boy who was attacked by a group of Arabs.
The 16-year-old boy, who was wearing a Kippa (skullcap) at the time,
was attacked while returning to his home to prepare for Shabbat dinner.
According to French news service JSS, he was then approached
by four men, which the report described as looking North African and
between the ages of 17-20. The men robbed him, took his shoes, and
shattered his phone into the ground.
During the assault, two of the attackers held the victim down while a
third repeatedly delivered blows to his body and head, injuring one of
his eyes severely.
According to a witness, another man - also described as North African
- approached the group, but instead of helping the victim proceeded to
verbally assault him by calling him a “coward,” and then advised the
attackers to “break” the teen.
The attackers fled when a witness called the police. A report was filed with the police at the scene.
The Bureau National de Vigilance Contre L’Antisemitisme (BNVCA),
which monitors anti-Semitic attacks in France, has publicly pledged to
help the victim and his family, and has asked the police to make every
effort to identify, question, and detain the attackers.
The Buttes Chaumont district is home to many Jewish families, and has
recently been targeted on numerous occasions, including attacks on
Jewish businesses, and a recent shocking attack on a Jewish mother by three assailants of African origin.
The attack took place in Paris' 19th arondissement, which has a large Jewish population. I wonder if US President Hussein Obama will classify this incident as another 'random attack.'
In any event, for French Jews, the message ought to be clear: It's time to leave France. Jews aren't welcome there anymore (if they ever were).
French police
have thwarted five attacks, including a suspected plan to target
church-goers foiled in recent days, since the Islamist killings at a
satirical weekly and Jewish food shop in January, Prime Minster Manuel
Valls said on Thursday.
"Never has the threat been so
high," Valls told France Inter radio, noting the fact that hundreds of
French nationals were now in Syria where they risked being radicalized.
Valls
was speaking a day after authorities said they had arrested a
24-year-old Algerian national in Paris suspected of the murder of a
woman at the weekend and an aborted plan to launch an armed attack on at
least one church.
These people don't seem to get that first they come for the Jews, but it never ends there.
24 days - The truth about Ilan Halimi HY"D to be released on April 24
Received via email:
My name is Heidi Oshin and I work with Menemsha Films, a film distribution company. We are the distributors of the French film "24 Jours: La Verite sur l'affaire Ilan Halimi" (a/k/a "24 Days") (see the synopsis below). I am writing to let you know about the theatrical release of this film nationally.
We are opening "24 Days" on April 24, 2015. "24 Days" will have a nationwide release on that day. The film will be playing in several areas of South Florida, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and a few other cities currently being finalized. "24 Days" will also be available in the US and Canada on iTunes the same day.
"24 Days" is a very timely film and is certainly riveting. Screen Daily writes that French director Alexandre Arcady delivers one of the most “wrenching and politically astute” films to come out of France. Given the news of rampant anti-Semitism sweeping Europe, the film's message should be heard as widely as possible.
I am happy to provide you with a link to the film and trailer for your previewing. We are also happy to provide you with posters and flyers (either or both hard copies or digitally) as well a email blasts that you can send on to your email lists. Please let your friends, family, colleagues and students know about this important film.
I look forward to hearing back from you,
Heidi
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Here's a synopsis of the film:
January 20, 2006. After dinner with his family, Ilan Halimi called an attractive girl he had met at work and made plans to meet her for coffee. Ilan did not suspect a thing; he was 23 and had his whole life ahead of him. The next time Ilan’s family heard from him, it was through a cryptic online message from kidnappers demanding a ransom in exchange for their son’s life. Based on a book co-written by the victim’s mother, Ruth Halimi, director Alexandre Arcady’s cinematic adaptation offers a vicious circle of dangerously realistic events: from the kidnapping and torture of Ilan Halimi at the hands of the Gang of Barbarians, to the the 600-plus phone calls, insults, and threats received by the family, through the Parisian police’s incompetence in dealing with what was clearly an anti-Semitic crime.-- -- --
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Menemsha Films
Heidi Bogin Oshin
2601 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 100
Santa Monica, California 90405
Tel 310.452.1775
Fax 310.452.3740
heidio@menemshafilms.com
Here's a video of Maariv reporter Zvika Klein walking the streets of Paris wearing a yarmulka (skullcap) and tzitzith (fringes) worn by religious Jews.
Introducing the video, Klein writes,
"Welcome to Paris 2015, where soldiers are walking every street that
houses a Jewish institution, and where keffiyeh-wearing men and veiled
women speak Arabic on every street corner."
Klein tells of being yelled at, intimidated, and spat upon. Adults
shouted, "Viva Palestine," and "I'm joking, the dog will not eat you."
Klein recalled a teenage girl saying: "Look at that – it's the first
time I've ever seen such a thing." A child asked his mother, "What is he
doing here Mommy? Doesn’t he know he will be killed?"
Spending the day in Paris with a bodyguard and a photographer with a
hidden camera, Klein walked in the cold through Jewish neighborhoods,
around the Eiffel Tower, and then through mostly Muslim neighborhoods.
While the tourist areas were mostly calm, Klein said in other areas he
experienced "hateful stares," "belligerent remarks," and "hostile body
language."
"Is this what life is like for Paris' Jews?" Klein asked. He then
explains that Jewish leaders in France have told their community to wear
hats or nothing on their heads while walking the streets. Klein said
most Jews prefer staying indoors at night because it is safer at home.
President Obama may have sent his spokespeople to walk back his (andtheir) earlier comments about the murders of four Jews in a Paris Kosher supermarket being 'random,' but Mark Steyn isn't buying the walkback and neither should you.
For over a decade, I have been writing about the metastasizing
Jew-hate in Europe, and I have noted, aside from the physical attacks,
the casual acceptance of anti-Jewish slurs at the highest levels in
Continental society. But I find, say, the Holocaust gags favored by
Gretta Duiseberg, the wife of the then head of the European Central
Bank, far less disturbing than the absurd pretzel-twist logic deployed
by the Obama Administration to deny reality. It is creepy and profoundly
unsettling. Like Simon Peter denying the condemned King of the Jews,
the most powerful government in the western world thrice denied those
four dead Jews in that Paris supermarket.
German court rules firebombing of synagogue is a "protest". Belgian teacher tells Jewish student: 'we should put you all on freight wagons'. European Jewish population continues to plummet. British Vicar blames JOOOOOOOS for 9/11... Anti-Jewish attacks in UK at highest levels ever recorded... Teacher quits French school citing antisemitism.
Jewish social life in Europe now takes place behind razor-wire and
security guards, and newspapers placidly report polls showing that 58
per cent of British Jews believe Jews have no future in Europe. It is
utterly disgraceful that the government of one of the few western
nations relatively untouched by the new mass Jew-hate should devote so
much energy to insisting that there's nothing to see here.
But lies beget lies. The Obama Administration insists that the
Islamic State is not Islamic, Islamic terrorism is nothing to do with
Islam, there's no Islam to see here, no way, no how. You can't hold the
line at one lie, and tell the truth on everything else. The lie on Islam
infects everything else. If they're just "violent extremists" in
general, they have to be violent and extremist in general - or
"randomly", as the President would say.
I'm a free-speech absolutist and therefore have a high tolerance for "hate". But that's why free speech is important
- so one can address these subjects honestly. Islam is an incubator of
Jew-hate. It's unfortunate, but it is a fact. For example, Jordan is a
"moderate" Muslim country. What does "moderate" actually mean in this
context? Well, it means the Hashemites send their princes to Sandhurst
and marry them off to hotties. But other than that? Ninety-seven per
cent of Jordanians have an "unfavorable" opinion of Jews.
Our view has not changed. Terror attack at Paris Kosher market was motivated by anti-Semitism. POTUS didn't intend to suggest otherwise.
— Josh Earnest (@PressSec) February 10, 2015
So now Obama is trying to walk back his foolish statement that the Paris Kosher supermarket terror attack was a 'random' attack.
Does he really mean it?
Or was the outrage over such an obviously anti-Semitic and wrong statement too much for the Obama PR machine to leave it out there?
White House also doubles down on Obama claim that Paris Kosher supermarket attack was 'random'
Lest any of you think that Jen Psaki was off message in the previous post, here's Jon Karl grilling White House spokesman Josh Earnest over the Paris Kosher Deli Attack (I thought the place was a supermarket - so I was told by someone who has been there).
Note the eerie consistency between this post and the previous one. It indicates talking points.
Let's go to the videotape.
Hint: This isn't happening because Obama is a Judeophile....
State Dept Doubles Down on Obama Claim That Kosher Deli Attack Was 'Random'
Under withering questioning by @APDiplowriter (Matt Lee) at Tuesday's press briefing, the @StateDeptSpox puts her foot deeper and deeper into her mouth.
In an eye-catching headline, Ed Driscoll refers to Barack Hussein Obama's blind spot to anti-Semitism. Driscoll is referring to yesterday's news that President Obama referred to the Paris supermarket massacre as a random shooting. But the quotes that Driscoll cites prove that this is far more than a blind spot. It's active anti-Semitism.
His Vox comments are, in fact, far worse than his initial
reaction which was more a matter of omission than a conscious twisting
of events.
...
Let’s first note that his characterization of the assailants again
omits their Islamist loyalties and the fact that religion was the
motivating factor for their crime. This is consistent with
administration policy that seeks to cleanse ISIS, al-Qaeda, or other
Islamists of any connection with the Muslim faith. This is absurd not
just because it is wrong. It also puts Obama in the position of trying
to play the pope of Islam who can decide who is or is not a real Muslim,
a responsibility that no American president should try to usurp.
But it is also significant that once again the president chooses to
treat a deliberate targeting of a Jewish business filled with Jewish
customers as something that is random rather than an overt act of
anti-Semitism. Doing so once might be excused as an oversight. The
second time makes it a pattern that can’t be ignored.
This is a peculiar talking point especially since the increase of
anti-Semitism in Europe with violent incidents going up every year is
something that even the Obama State Department has dubbed a “rising
tide” of hate.
Why does the president have such a blind spot when it comes to
anti-Semitism? His critics will jump to conclusions that will tell us
more about their views of Obama than about his thinking.
But suffice it
to say that this is a president who finds it hard to focus on the siege
of Jews in Europe or of the State of Israel in the Middle East. Nor can
it be entirely coincidental that a president who treats Israeli
self-defense and concerns for its security as a bothersome irritant to
his foreign policy or seeks to blame the Jewish state’s leaders for
obstructing a peace process that was actually blown up by the
Palestinians would have a blind spot about anti-Semitism.
There was nothing random about it, at all. There are
about 310,000 Jews in the greater Paris area. Out of close to 12 million
inhabitants. The odds of killing four Jews randomly are pretty
daunting. But, thankfully, you don’t have to do the math because
Amedy Coulibaly said openly and proudly that he was targeting Jews. No
one disputes this, except for Barack Obama. He would never describe the
targeting of a black church by the Klan as simple random violence — nor
should he. And we know he’s perfectly comfortable denouncing crimes
committed in “in the name of Christ” no matter how ancient they may be.
But crimes in the name of Allah must not be named as such — or at all.
This is as much about a 'blind spot' as the killings themselves were random. It's anti-Semitism. Pure and simple. And it was on display for everyone whose eyes were open to see all the way back in 2007.
According to Lasky, Obama's spiritual mentor is Jeremiah Wright, who
openly
spouts anti-Israel invective, supports divestment actions against
Israel, supports Louis Farrakhan (Judaism is a "gutter religion") and
travels to Libya to offer support to the arch-foe of Israel and sponsor
of terror Col. Muammar al-Gadaffi (recall Lockerbie airplane bombing?)
Reverend
Jeremiah Wright, Jr. is the long-time Pastor of Obama's church, and
Obama has credited him as being an inspiration and guiding light for
him. He is a spiritual mentor to Obama and coined the term the "audacity
of hope" that Obama has essentially made a theme of his campaign as
well as the title of a book. He also has, in the words of the Chicago
Tribune, a militant past.
Moreover, Pastor Wright has beliefs
that might disturb some of Obama's supporters. He is a believer in
"liberation theology," which makes the liberation of the oppressed a
paramount virtue. The language of liberation all too often veers off
into anti-Jewish rants. For example, one of the founders of the
movement, Gustavo Gutierrez, has stated that the infidelities of the
Jewish people made the Old Covenant [between the Jews and God] invalid."
Pastor Wright is also a supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in 1984
traveled with him to visit Col. Muammar al-Gadaffi, an archenemy of
Israel's and America and a firm supporter of terror groups.
Wright has also been a severe critic of Israel. In his own words,
The
Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost 40
years now. It took a divestment campaign to wake the business community
up concerning the South Africa issue. Divestment has now hit the table
again as a strategy to wake the business community up and to wake
Americans up concerning the injustice and the racism under which the
Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.
...
Once
this history came to light, Obama started publicly distancing himself
from his spiritual mentor, disinviting Wright from various Obama
campaign events. Wright rationalized his current persona non grata
status by stating that otherwise
"a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell"
Wonder why?
If he walks like an anti-Semite, talks like an anti-Semite and acts like an anti-Semite, it's not just a blind spot. He's an anti-Semite.
Too bad all those American Jews had to prove that they were open-minded and liberal by voting for this anti-Semite because he's (half) black... twice.
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