Dennis Prager: Claims of Antisemitism Against Bannon are ‘Libel’

Breitbart ^ | 17 Nov 2016 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[SJackson]

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dennis Prager called accusations of antisemitism against Stephen K. Bannon “libel” on Wednesday.

Prager, who is Jewish and wrote a highly respected book about antisemitism, was sharply critical of the campaign against Bannon, who is on leave as Executive Chairman of Breitbart News, and who was named Sunday by President-elect Donald J. Trump to be Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor in the White House.

“Calling Steve Bannon an antisemite is a witch-hunt … It’s just a libel, it’s fabricated, the whole thing is fabricated,” Prager said.

He reminded listeners that voters had been warned in 1980 that if Ronald Reagan were elected president, the KKK would be in the White House.

Prager’s guest Wednesday was conservative — and also Jewish — writer David Horowitz, author of The Black Book of the American Left.

“It’s the worst witch-hunt in American history, what’s going on now, and it’s going to continue,” Horowitz said.

“To take a pro-Jewish defender of Israel like Steve Bannon, and — with no evidence — call him an antisemite is hard even to comprehend.”

[bboop]

Prager was one of the first to get onboard with Trump after the primaries. He saw very clearly that it was about the Supreme Court and that Hilary and her ilk were essentially a crime family. He has been big-picture pro-Trump ever since, and he’s been very reasoned and even-keeled.

Medved also ‘came around,’ although his statement sounded very similar to other #NeverTrumpers’ - like they’d all had to sign something to keep their shows. “Donald Trump is our president and we support him; we will also hold his feet to the fire” or something generic like that.

[Yaelle]

I will have to tune in again. I love Prager but during the primaries we were irreconcilable. I hope now he feels that none of this welcome change we can expect would have come from any of the other republican candidates.