Posted on 07/06/2011 4:30:33 PM PDT by SJackson
A BLACK AMERICAN CLERGYMAN POINTS TO THE SOURCE OF THE PRESIDENT'S ANTI-ISRAELISM
Like Barack Hussein Obama II, I am a graduate of Harvard Law School . I too have Muslims in my family. I am black, and I was once a leftist Democrat. Since our backgrounds are somewhat similar, I perceive something in Obama's policy toward Israel which people without that background may not see. All my life I have witnessed a strain of anti-Semitism in the black community. It has been fueled by the rise of the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, but it predates that organization.
We heard it in Jesse Jackson's HYMIE town remark years ago during his presidential campaign. We heard it most recently in Jeremiah Wright's remark about them Jews not allowing Obama to speak with him. I hear it from my own Muslim family members who see the problem in the Middle East as a Jew problem.
Growing up in a small, predominantly black urban community in Pennsylvania , I heard the comments about Jewish shop owners. They were greedy cheaters who could not be trusted, according to my family and others in the neighborhood. I was too young to understand what it means to be Jewish, or know that I was hearing anti-Semitism. These people seemed nice enough to me, but others said they were evil. Sadly, this bigotry has yet to be eradicated from the black community.
In Chicago , the anti-Jewish sentiment among black people is even more pronounced because of the direct influence of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Most African Americans are not followers of The Nation, but many have a quiet respect for its leader because, they say, he speaks the truth and stands up for the black man. What they mean of course is that he viciously attacks the perceived enemies of the black community white people and Jews. Even some self-described Christians buy into his demagoguery.
The question is whether Obama, given his Muslim roots and experience in Farrakhan's Chicago , shares this antipathy for Israel and Jewish people. Is there any evidence that he does? First, the President was taught for twenty years by a virulent anti-Semite, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. In the black community it is called sitting under. You don't merely attend a church, you sit under a Pastor to be taught and mentored by him. Obama sat under Wright for a very long time. He was comfortable enough with Farrakhan Wright's friend to attend and help organize his Million Man March. I was on C-Span the morning of the march arguing that we must never legitimize a racist and anti-Semite, no matter what good he claims to be doing. Yet a future President was in the crowd giving Farrakhan his enthusiastic support.
The classic left wing view is that Israel is the oppressive occupier, and the Palestinians are Israel 's victims. Obama is clearly sympathetic to this view. In speaking to the Muslim World, he did not address the widespread Islamic hatred of Jews. Instead he attacked Israel over the growth of West Bank settlements. Surely he knows that settlements are not the crux of the problem. The absolute refusal of the Palestinians to accept Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state is the insurmountable obstacle. That's where the pressure needs to be placed, but this President sees it differently. He also made the preposterous comparison of the Holocaust to Palestinian dislocation.
Obama clearly has Muslim sensibilities. He sees the world and Israel from a Muslim perspective. His construct of The Muslim World is unique in modern diplomacy. It is said that only The Muslim Brotherhood and other radical elements of the religion use that concept. It is a call to unify Muslims around the world. It is rather odd to hear an American President use it. In doing so he reveals more about his thinking than he intends. The dramatic policy reversal of joining the unrelentingly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and pro-Islamic UN Human Rights Council is in keeping with the President's truest albeit undeclared red sensibilities.
Those who are paying attention and thinking about these issues do not find it unreasonable to consider that President Obama is influenced by a strain of anti-Semitism picked up from the black community, his leftist friends and colleagues, his Muslim associations and his long period of mentor-ship under Jeremiah Wright. If this conclusion is accurate, Israel has some dark days ahead. For the first time in her history, she may find the President of the United States siding with her enemies. Those who believe, as I do, that Israel must be protected had better be ready for the fight. We are.
NEVER AGAIN!
E. W. Jackson is Bishop of Exodus Faith Ministries, an author and retired attorney
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"wait wait, I got it I got it...wait wait....cuz he's a Mooslum"
True words Mr. Jackson. True words.
Why?
Because he’s perfect for the role of a
—TRAITOROUS
—ANGRY
—HOMOSEXUAL/BI-SEXUAL
—MUSLIM
—COMMUNIST
—GLOBALIST
—DEMONIZED SATANIST
—DUPLICITOUS
—RUTHLESS
—SELFISH
—NARCISSIST
—SUICIDAL
—GENOCIDAL
—. . .
. . .
JERK.
He could even conceivably be, I suppose . . . a reptilian or cloned bio-puppet.
And Hillary is native Chicago, Methodist, some black outreach early on. A pair.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_E.W._Jackson_Sr.
This guy is no slouch; I wonder if the liberal media will report his commentary or bury it...
Obama swam in the water of antisemitism for so long he's not even aware of it.
Southerns in the early 60's were the same way - they did not think of themselves as racists - and often spoke of the 'Mammy' who raised them and how much they loved her...
The irony of the black attitude toward Jews is that back in the bad old days no other group befriended and supported blacks more than Jews.
Jews championed black equality and were the best friends blacks had. That was before democrats became the blacks new best friends.
The transition started in the Kennedy / LBJ days when democrats worked up a strategy to lock in the black vote by destroying the black family and getting them addicted to living on government handouts in place of a father’s paycheck.
Because his employer is Satan...
...I am a graduate of Harvard Law School... have Muslims in my family... am black... was once a leftist Democrat... I perceive something in [Zero]'s policy toward Israel which people without that background may not see. All my life I have witnessed a strain of anti-Semitism in the black community. It has been fueled by the rise of the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, but it predates that organization. We heard it in Jesse Jackson's "HYMIE town" remark years ago during his presidential campaign. We heard it most recently in Jeremiah Wright's remark about "them Jews" not allowing [Zero] to speak with him. I hear it from my own Muslim family members who see the problem in the Middle East as a "Jew" problem. Growing up in a small, predominantly black urban community in Pennsylvania , I heard the comments about Jewish shop owners. They were "greedy cheaters" who could not be trusted, according to my family and others in the neighborhood. I was too young to understand what it means to be Jewish, or know that I was hearing anti-Semitism. These people seemed nice enough to me, but others said they were "evil"...
And some kind of jealousy, maybe?
Obomba is opposed to Israel, because he is a muslim. Simple as that.
You're right, and he'd refute the charge, his supporters have, with a list of his Jewish friends. But virulent antisemitism, were he not President, and likely when he's not, it would be welcome in his presence.
It's 3 weeks old, and after having someone bring it to my attention I had to search a bit to find a source to post it from. It's already been buried.
I find it so ironic that blacks whose ancestors were sold into slavery by arabs adopt the muslim religion. American blacks do not decry what is happening in Africa today, where arabs are still selling blacks into slavery. No, they see nothing wrong with the arab/black slave trade today - they just hate the Jews.
Yes, for some reason they've been the demographic with the highest level of antisemitic attitudes since surveys started in the early 60s
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