McKinney’s Father Next On Jewish ‘Hit List’

WASHINGTON, 7 September — First, right-wing American Jews went after US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Now they’ve set their sights on her father, 30-year Georgia state representative Billy McKinney, as their next target.

McKinney, 75, has become the focus of the Atlanta-area Jewish community after his most recent criticism of Jews, which resulted in skyrocketing donations for his challenger’s campaign.

The problem? When he was asked about his daughter’s disappointing campaign the day before her defeat in the Aug. 20 primary, McKinney told a television interviewer: “Jews have bought everybody.” When asked to further explain his daughter’s political difficulties, he said: “Jews. J-E-W-S.”

McKinney, a senior Democrat in the Georgia state house and well-known civil-rights leader, has held his seat for 30 years with little difficulty.

But he was forced into a Sept. 10 runoff after failing to obtain the required majority. McKinney picked up 48 percent of the vote on Aug. 20, to his challenger’s, John Noel’s, 46 percent. The winner will gain the seat, as there is no Republican challenger.

Billy McKinney’s race follows two US congressional battles in which Israel supporters helped finance the defeats of Georgia’s Cynthia McKinney, and Alabama’s Earl Hilliard, both of whom had received campaign donations from Arab Americans, and were viewed by some Jewish lobbies as being too pro-Palestinian.

The Jewish targeting of these black politicians has ignited black-Jewish tensions. Several African-American political figures believe Jews are attempting to choose their black leaders.

“I definitely have some feelings about any outside group exerting this kind of influence in a race, and I’ve been receiving angry calls from black voters all day, saying they should rally against Jewish candidates,” Texas Congressman Eddie Bernice Johnson said last week in an interview with the New York Times.

“To have non-African-Americans from around the country putting millions into a race to unseat one of our leaders for expressing her right of free speech is definitely a problem,” said Johnson, who is the Democratic Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.

And Billy McKinney’s opponent has admitted Jewish support in his campaign: “The number of Jewish folks who have called me and offered financial support has been nothing short of outstanding,” Noel told Forward magazine “I wasn’t even going to make it a campaign issue, but it has become one,” Noel, who is white, told reporters.

Noel, a self-employed lighting contractor, said he has received calls from many Jewish voters in his district asking him how they can help him defeat Mr. McKinney.

“(Billy McKinney) has gotten out of control with his anti-Semitism,” said Sherry Frank, southeast director for the American Jewish Committee. She told the Washington Times that the Jewish community makes up about 5 percent of the district in metropolitan Atlanta.

“So Jews have reasons to want him out. Individual Jews are urging folks to give (Noel) money, just as blacks are urging to get out the vote for Billy. The question is whether (the Jewish bloc) will succeed,” said Frank.

Jewish activists are working hard indeed to succeed. They created a “goodbyecyntihia.com” website and last week introduced a “goodbyebilly.com” site in preparation for the runoff. The sites feature anti-McKinney messages and requests contributions and volunteers.

“We are trying for daddy now,” said William Head, an Atlanta criminal defense attorney who organized the effort to remove Mrs. McKinney.

Rosh Hashanah - Is A Reminder Of The Day of Judgment!
Joan Ann Warnell
Sep 06, 2002

ROSH HASHANAH - The Jewish New Year

The festival celebrated this coming weekend by Jewish people around the world is biblically called Yom Teruah, the Festival of the Blowing of Trumpets. It is a day that encompasses many themes and teaches many truths.

And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying, ‘Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no servile work therein; but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.” Lev. 23:23-25

It is a day of blowing trumpets unto you. Num. 29:1

One of the first things that must be understood is that the Jewish people have two calendars. The religious calendar begins in the spring with the first day of the month of Nisan. This is the calendar that is used in Leviticus 23. The civil calendar begins in the fall on the first day of the month of Tishri. Therefore 1 Tishri is the start of the new civil year. (We have a parallel in the west with our civil calendar beginning on January 1 but the fiscal year marked as beginning on July 1.) So in a manner of speaking there are actually two ‘Rosh Hashanahs’ – one that begins the religious year and one that begins the civil year. Rosh Hashanah literally means ‘the head of the year’.

Yom Teruah is a day for Israel to remember her God and all that He is, all that He has done in the past, and all that He will do in the future. It upholds the age-long hope of the coming of the Messiah to establish God’s Kingdom on this earth, restoring the Throne of David as the prophets foretold.

According to traditional Rabbinic teaching based on the Scriptures, there are a number of reasons why the Shofar is blown at Yom Teruah. This festival marks the creation of the world and acknowledges that God is the King of the Universe. It is sounded as a warning to repent for our sins against God’s Word, reminiscent that when the Torah was given on Mt. Sinai, Exodus records that ‘the sound of the shofar was exceeding strong.’ (Exodus 19). The Shofar also serves to remind us of the words of the Prophets whom the Scripture says were like the sound of the Shofar (Ezek. 33:1-7) When we hear the sound of the Shofar, we are to humble ourselves before the Creator.

Rosh Hashanah is a day of solemnity in that this feast also reminds us yearly of the coming Day of Judgment when the secrets of all men’s hearts will be revealed before a Mighty and Holy God.

Repentance is a key theme of Rosh Hashanah; a repentance that is meant to prepare the believer for either the beginning of another civil year with its hopes and its promises or the arrival of the Messianic Kingdom which Scripture indicates will begin on this festival in the appointed year of the Father.

I encourage you to read and learn all you can about the Feasts of the Lord and their prophetic and spiritual significance as from the beginning they were meant to teach us God’s plan of Redemption. There are a number of websites which will give you much more information and teaching about the important Fall Festivals. In your search engine, just type in 'Rosh Hashanah'.

Hmmm, just why is that more objectionable than having non-African-Americans from around the country (Arabs) putting lots of money into the race to defeat McKinney's equally black challenger, especially when those contributors support terrorists? Why doesn't Majette have the same right of free speech as Jihad Cindy?

By the way, even if Billy McKinney wins his race, I wonder if pressure can be put on the DemocRATs in the Georgia legislature to expel him from their caucus.

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