Posted on 05/02/2014 7:23:43 AM PDT by SJackson
An Ethiopian-Israeli Knesset Member called racist statements attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, “disgusting” in a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
“As a Jew, as a citizen of a country founded on the ruins of racism in Europe, it hurt me to hear Mr. Sterling, especially on this painful day,” Yesh Atid MK Shimon Solomon wrote in a letter dated Monday, Holocaust Remembrance Day. “It is sad to see someone of the stature of Mr. Sterling, who instead of choosing to lead and influence to change and fight these incidents, chose to make racist statements, so pathetic and disgusting like the last uneducated person in society.”
Solomon also called on Silver and the NBA to take the team from Sterling, who referenced Ethiopian Jews in the rant attributed to him.
“The dismissal of Sterling from his position as owner of the NBA team will send a message loud and clear: ‘NBA will not tolerate racism, and racism will not be tolerated. There are more important things than the game itself.’ This message will go all over the world, and is an important step in the war against racism in our global village,” he wrote, also saying, “Now the responsibility to deliver the message, sir, is on you.”
The NBA is scheduled to address its investigation into Sterling’s comments in a news conference on Tuesday afternoon.
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the war against racism in our global village,
Global Village??? hey I once owned a Global VIllage MODEM come to think of it!
the “palestinisns” like that term too dont they?
Everyone is getting in on the act!!!
Did he write a letter to John Kerry for his comments on Yom Hashoah?
People with too much time on their hands and the mediots near by.
I don’t understand why anyone should care. And I am not suprosed that the MK comes from Yesh Atid, Junion Lapid’s anti-religious and anti-nationalist party.
John half-Jew Kerry?? Whose paternal grandparents were born Jews and converted and whose last name was Kohn? That John Kerry?
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