Hank Johnson took free trip to West Bank before he likened Jewish settlers to ‘termites’

AJC ^ | 08/10/2016 | Tamar Hallerman

[Prov1322]

Two months before U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson found himself in hot water for comparing Jewish settlers in the disputed West Bank to “termites,” the Lithonia Democrat and his wife embarked on a six-day trip to the territory funded by a pro-Palestinian group.

MIFTA, an organization that advocates for an independent and democratic Palestinian state, and the nonprofit American Global Institute picked up the more than $13,000 tab for the five-term congressman and his wife, DeKalb County Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson, to travel to Ramallah and Jerusalem in late May along with a handful of other House Democrats.

As we wrote in this morning’s paper, the trip was allowed under House rules. It was billed as an opportunity to meet with “Palestinian officials and business and community leaders to learn more about the regional economy, politics and culture.”

But the timing is tough for Johnson, who recently embarked on a listening tour with leaders of the Atlanta Jewish community in a bid to build trust with a key constituency that helped get him elected in his DeKalb-centered district.

“Because the congressman has a broad range of policy ideas and proposals that he has crafted into legislation and introduced, he believes travel and the exchange of ideas are an important part of the job,” a spokesman said more generally about Johnson’s traveling.

[LouAvul]

He’s the idiot “Guam could capsize”, isn’t he? And he stays in office because (political correctness precludes pinpointed the guilty demographic).

[LouAvul]

any other reason for blacks to hate Jews?

Because, blacks which are, in fact, racists, hate all non black races. And if their crime stats are any indication, those blacks also hate other blacks.

[TBP]

Hank Johnson is a racist moron.

[stinkerpot65]

Typical racist thug liberal.