[kabar]

"In the 2010 bid by Tom Campbell for the Republican nomination for Senator of California, a dispute was triggered by a letter Campbell had written to USF's president in defense of Al-Arian on January 21, 2002. Campbell said he had not been aware of the charges against Al-Arian when he wrote his letter asking USF not to discipline Al-Arian. He also said he had not been aware that Al-Arian had said, in a speech, "Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel." In the letter, Campbell said he had: "read a transcript of the O'Reilly Factor interview". Campbell said:

I did not hear, I did not read, I was not aware of statements Sami Al-Arian had made relative to Israel. And I would not have written the letter had I known about those. ... To say 'Death to Israel' is abhorrent, it's horrible.

Campbell said he erred in not researching Al-Arian more thoroughly before writing his letter, that while he was not aware he "should have" been aware of Al-Arian's statements, and that he now regrets having written the letter. “I was wrong,” he said. “I should not have done so. I regret it."

This is really a tempest in a teapot. I guess you consider him an anti-semite.

[firebrand]

You have hardly answered all of SoCal’s statements in post 230. Copying text from Wikipedia is OK, I guess, but you have not responded to all the charges.

We don’t need an anti-Israel senator in 2010. I haven’t noticed, either, that the two parties try to outdo each other in support for Israel, as you state in a reply above.