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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sr K who wrote (11352)	2/28/2008 12:26:56 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 149317

Sr. K. Quick google search yields: In August 1991, an African-American boy, Gavin Cato, was killed in Crown Heights in New York city "when a car in a Hasidic rabbi's motorcade accidentally veered off the road and hit him." Subsequently, Slate reports, a "gang of black youths stabbed a rabbinical student to death, and black-Jewish tensions ran high." At Cato's funeral Sharpton said: "The world will tell us he was killed by accident. Yes, it was a social accident. ... It's an accident to allow an apartheid ambulance service in the middle of Crown Heights. ... Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights. The issue is not anti-Semitism; the issue is apartheid. ... All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise, no meetings, no kaffe klatsch, no skinnin' and grinnin'. Pay for your deeds." [3] "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house," he said. [4][5] sourcewatch.org It's tough to imagine this year's Republican National Convention featuring a prime-time speaker who once said that that "Zionism is a kind of poisonous weed that is choking Judaism." Or that he was "sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust." Or that traditional Democratic support for Israel is because of "the Jewish element in the party ... a kind of glorified form of bribery." And certainly not if he had ever referred to Jews as "Hymies" and New York as "Hymietown." The Rev. Jesse Jackson, of course, has made all of these comments, and more. Jackson said those things in his 30s and 40s, and has since apologized for them. But his speech at the Democratic Convention Tuesday evening is at the very least an interesting example of the double standard that clearly exists in the media's -- and the Democratic Party's -- sensitivity to anti-Semitism. archive.salon.com