65-70% of American Jews identify themselves as liberals.
12 Congressional senators are Jewish liberals
1 is independent but votes liberal
21 members of Congress are Jewish liberals Democrats
only 1 Jewish Congressman is Republican
Obviously, Blackie does not understand American politics. The challenge is for him to back up his claims with proof. This should be very interesting.
So what? It is the so-called "anti-racist" Liberal Left (the Liberal Left are more racist and bigoted than anybody) who are the main supporters and promoters of anti-Semitism. It is the so-called "anti-racist" Liberal Left and their Islamofascist buddies who are the anti-Semites, not the Right.
There have been plenty of Labour and Liberal Dumbocrats making anti-Semitic comments in recent years. The self-styled "anti-racist" Ken Livingstone is a fine example of this. When he was the Muslim-loving Labour Mayor of London a few years ago he, like many on the Left, was a self-styled defender of "rights for minority groups" in London. But that didn't include the Jews, apparently, because he ended up having to make a grovelling apology for comparing a Jewish journalist to - rather disgustingly and ignorantly - a "concentration camp guard". Red Ken, like many on the "tolerant" Left, would never say such remarks about Muslims or blacks or gays yet, like many on the "tolerant" Left, have no problem with saying it about Jewish people.
And then there have been the anti-Semitic comments made by Labour and Liberal Dumbocrat MPs on Twitter in recent weeks. Again all the comments came from supposedly "anti-racist" Lefties. As far I can tell there has not been one - not one - anti-Semitic comment from any Tory or UKIP MP.
It is the self-styled "anti-racist" Left who are the biggest anti-Semites, not the Right.
More about "tolerant, anti-racist" lefty Red Ken and what he really thinks about Jews:
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Ken Livingstone: what he really thinks about Jews
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Andrew Gilligan Politics
March 21st, 2012
The Telegraph
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The man on the right is Yusuf al-Qaradawi and he has called for Jews to be "killed, down to the very last one" and has been barred from entering the UK and France. The man on the left, the former Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, is al-Qaradawi's pal
Labour-supporting Jews in London have written a devastating private letter to the party leader, Ed Miliband, after a group of them including Jewish Labour councillors, Labour members of the Board of Deputies and Labour Friends of Israel met Ken this month to try to build bridges. Previous discussions, they said, had been "acrimonious" and this one doesn't sound any better.
In the letter,
obtained by the Jewish Chronicle, the Labour supporters write:
“Many of us had just about managed to vote for [Ken] in 2008. Today, many of us who would otherwise normally vote Labour are finding it harder and harder to consider voting for Ken, despite agreeing with his policies for London.”
Part of their problem, they said, was that
Ken determines Jews as a religious group but does not accept Jews as an ethnicity and a people… [though] black, Irish, women and LGBT groups are afforded the right to determine their own identity, many of us feel that Ken doesn't afford Jews that right…
At various points in the discussion Ken used the words Zionist, Jewish and Israeli interchangeably as if they meant the same, and did so in a pejorative manner. These words are not interchangeable and to do so is highly offensive, particularly when repeated over and again as was done. For example, when discussing Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi's extreme views on homosexuality, Ken said "one would expect the same views on homosexuality from extreme Christians, Muslims and Israelis" and using the word "Zionist" as an adjectival negative to criticise much more widely than what can be attributed to the ideology of Zionism…
Ken toward the end of the meeting stated that he did not expect the Jewish community to vote Labour as votes for the left are inversely proportional to wealth levels, and suggested that as the Jewish community is rich, we simply wouldn't vote for him. When we pointed to research undertaken by the Institute of Jewish Policy Research that demonstrates the Jewish community in the UK has a propensity to vote much more radically than its wealth, and this is attributed to Jewish values and sociology and history and also alluded to Democrats in the USA, Ken begrudgingly accepted this.
The real and more pressing issue is that of the strong perception that Ken is seeking to align himself with the politics of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian regime, whilst at the same time turning a blind eye to Islamist antisemitism, misogynism and homophobia, even when overt and demonization of Zionism and the derogatory use of the word Zionist and use of antisemitic memes.
We are concerned that this is more about infantile far left politics, being seen to take a stance against whatever the anti-establishment or anti-imperialism cause of the moment is. Boiled down, it's hard to interpret this in any other way than Ken basically having no sympathy for those that he perceives as bourgeois , which is why he isn't really attempting to appeal to, and perhaps why he is losing progressive as well as Jewish votes.
Ken's continued defence of al-Qaradawi (pictured) has been condemned
even by Val Shawcross, his own running-mate. It is chilling that Livingstone gave no ground even in a private meeting and instead invoked the stereotype of the fat, rich, selfish Jew – a favourite of anti-semites throughout history. This document is testimony to the fact that relations between Ken and one of London’s most important minorities have quite simply broken down.
Ken Livingstone: what he really thinks about Jews – Telegraph Blogs
65-70% of American Jews identify themselves as liberals.
12 Congressional senators are Jewish liberals
1 is independent but votes liberal
21 members of Congress are Jewish liberals Democrats
only 1 Jewish Congressman is Republican
Obviously, Blackie does not understand American politics. The challenge is for him to back up his claims with proof. This should be very interesting.
Here's more on the "tolerant", "anti-racist", sandal-wearing Left's problem with "the Jews":
What is the Lib Dems’ problem with ‘the Jews’?
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Charlotte Henry
25 July 2014
The Spectator
The Liberal Democrats have always been a party of contradictions. In the time I’ve been a member, as well as a journalist covering the party, few of its contradictions have baffled me more than the fact that it is called the Liberal Democrat party but it unequivocally fails to support the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
There has always been a strong link between British Jewry and Liberal (formerly the Whigs) parties, but the present day Liberal Democrats are broadly not trusted by the Jewish community. This is despite the best efforts of Nick Clegg and others to rebuild links.
This was brought home to me only a couple of months ago, when I was knocking on doors for the Lib Dems as a council candidate in the London Borough of Barnet. My ward took in part of the Jewish community in Golders Green. One evening a man answered the door, only to slam it very quickly when I told him which party I was from, shouting: ‘I won’t vote for you, you’re an anti-Semitic party.’ If only he had been a one off…
For a party that tries to be accessible and politically correct, the Lib Dems have a cultural blind spot over the Jewish community. A perfect example is that, come October, they will have held their autumn party conference over Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, four years in a row. Once happens, twice is a bad coincidence, four times and you’re telling a community that you don’t really pay them much attention.
You can’t help but ask: what is the Lib Dems’ problem with ‘the Jews’?
Many people joined due to a strong belief in human rights and a determination to stick up for the ‘little guy’. Honourable positions to hold, but easily warped when looking at the Middle East. Lib Dems, particularly at the grassroots level, see Israel with a thriving economy and a proper military, and assume that this makes it an evil Goliath, and the Palestinians therefore the noble David. It’s a binary view, not to mention a misinformed one.
They all too easily ignore that Israel is about the same size as Wales or the state of
New Jersey and has been attacked ever since its formation. They don’t think about the human rights of Israeli citizens to live their daily lives without being bombarded by Hamas’s missiles.
With these foundations laid, the likes of David Ward and Jenny Tonge can share their vile views under some political cover. Indeed, there are plenty of Lib Dem members who publicly agreed with David Ward this week, and the same was true of Tonge before she was finally given her marching orders.
It demonstrates how easily anti-Israel and anti-Zionist sentiment can veer towards what could be regarded as anti-Semitism. It’s hard for the party leadership to take action against these outbursts. The perpetrators can legitimately say that party members are backing them. The leadership fears a backlash from activists. The Lib Dems remain a member and process driven party. Many times this works to the party’s advantage. Not so in matters of discipline. I have little doubt that Clegg and his whips would have liked to show David Ward the door this week, but the bureaucratic way the party is setup made that almost impossible. That said, it’s hard to imagine either of the other two major parties hiding behind ‘process’ when dealing with such comments from their benches.
David Ward’s despicable comments this week were just the latest in a series of incidents that have dogged the Liberal Democrats. With a bit of subtlety and nuance, it’s more than possible to make comments that are stridently critical of Israel without approaching the realms of anti-Semitism.
Subtlety and nuance were exactly what was missing from Ward this week, and his defender, former
MEP Edward McMillan Scott. I have no idea how I’d now answer that man in Golders Green.
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