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  • Sharpton-De Blasio Ties Bring Back Old Wounds For Some

    01/22/2014 1:17:58 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 10 replies
    The New York Jewish Week ^ | January 22, 2014 | Adam Dickter, assistant managing editor
    As a mainstreamed reverend enjoys access at City Hall, community leaders recognize change; but some still nurse grudges.Two decades ago, Rev. Al Sharpton was the ultimate civic iconoclast, speaking what he called truth to power, organizing rallies and attacking the establishment on behalf of the oppressed. Today, he’s under fire for being too mainstream. Last summer, another prominent black voice, Cornell West, attacked the National Action Network founder in a radio interview as a too-complacent “house negro” of Barack Obama’s “plantation,” failing to hold the president accountable for drone strikes or talk about “Wall Street criminality.” And as he emerges...
  • [Arab] Killer: Jews my target (Rashid Baz like Mohammed Merah)

    03/26/2012 3:19:28 PM PDT · by Milagros · 4 replies · 2+ views
    NyPost ^ | 26 March 2012 | L. Celona
    Killer: Jews my target Cabby in ’94 B’klyn Bridge outrage ’fesses By LARRY CELONA Last Updated: 4:33 AM, March 26, 2012 Posted: 3:13 AM, March 26, 2012The livery driver whose two-gun attack on a group of Hasidic students on the Brooklyn Bridge shocked the city 18 years ago has finally admitted that he targeted them because they were Jewish, The Post has learned.Rashid Baz was convicted in 1995 of murdering Yeshiva student Ari Halberstam, 16, and trying to kill more than a dozen others in a van with a hail of bullets he fired on a Manhattan approach to the...