Hinchey cheered (in Ithaca) for war stance (accused troops of 'massacre')

ITHACA -- U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-22, received a standing ovation from a largely anti-war crowd of about 300 people Friday night at the State Theatre.

Hinchey was cheered as "courageous" for a letter he sent to supporters recently that decried the war in Iraq, and which said that history may come to view it as "a massacre."

During the Q & A, one member of the public declared that "Israel is a terrorist state that is more dangerous than Iraq or North Korea."

His statement met with cheers from many in the rabidly anti-war crowd.

In responding, Hinchey utterly failed to criticize or distance himself from the "Israel is a terrorist state" comment. Hinchey gave a bland response about the need for the US to do more to resolve the Israel/Palestinian conflict.

Imagine that someone at the event had made a blatantly racist statement. Hinchey would have fall all over himself to condemn the statement and make clear his disagreement.

But when someone accused Israel of being a terrorist state, there was not a peep of protest out of Hinchey.

Its been clear to me for a while that there is a sizeable chunk of the peace movement that has been co-opted by anti-semitism.

Check out http://www.adl.org for some examples

Here's some others:

Suzanne Davidson reports in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles on her encounter with the "antiwar" folks from "Not in Our Name," who turn out, on Davidson's telling, to be a bunch of anti-semitic thugs. The "peace" activists held a demonstration at L.A.'s federal building Oct. 6, across the street from where 25 Jews, many of them elderly, show up every other Sunday "to show support for Israel by carrying banners, signs and Israeli and American flags." Here's what happened: "We stood and held American and Israeli flags and our pro-Israel banners. People began gathering at the crosswalk signal in order to get to the Federal Building. When they saw us they started cursing. Without first saying hello, or anything, a young Latino man told us to "f--- off." He began yelling at one of our older Russian Jewish supporters, Isaac, "You are zionist Nazi pigs. You are Nazis!" It was surreal. People on the corner were all yelling at us in such a fevered pitch I couldn't hear myself talk."

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=9556

and

London Times columnist Andrew Sullivan on a recent "Not In Our Name" rally in Central Park, demonstrating against a potential war against Iraq: "(On) the edges of the rally, copies of the "Protocols of the Elders of zion," the classic forged document of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism, were being sold....this peddling of anti-Semitic tripe was not entirely accidental. One protestor told the Sun, "...the international financiers have their hooks in everything...Bush is ...a puppet of the zionists [who] control the media, the government and the economy. The Jews' book 'The Protocols of the Elders of zion' explains how they control the world and how they make people fight against each other." "

http://www.likud.nl/press246.html

Scary stuff.

U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-22, received a standing ovation from a largely anti-war crowd of about 300 people Friday night at the State Theatre. ... Hinchey was cheered as "courageous" for a letter he sent to supporters recently that decried the war in Iraq, and which said that history may come to view it as "a massacre." "This is still a democracy," Hinchey said. "We have a duty to speak out against this travesty on every possible occasion."

Hinchey and his socialist cronies are the travesty; these people are as disgusting, as hateful, and as anti-American as Hinchey.

"The Kingston congressman spent the first part of his presentation pointing out that it was the U.S. government who armed Iraqi President Sadddam Hussein in the 1980s, and that by doing so, helped the dictator obtain chemical and biological weapons."

Perhaps the biggest lie that goes unchallenged is that we "armed" Iraq in th 80s. We in no way provided weapons to Saddam.

Russia and the Euros did.

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