Response to NJDC’s Steve Sheffey on Left-Wing Antisemitism

IsraPundit ^ | 8/16/07 | Bill Levinson

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The National Jewish Democratic Council is again trying to downplay, deny, and whitewash the vicious anti-Semitic hate speech that is coming from the Democratic Left. We are surprised that the NJDC would again bring itself to our attention in this manner, noting its own publication of anti-Semitic and anti-Christian hate propaganda. Nonetheless, we are always delighted to accommodate them, and we will take this opportunity to remind them that we asked them for their position on Al Sharpton, MoveOn.org, and Jeremiah Wright.

Surfin’ the Net By Steve Sheffey, NJDC Activist (http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2007/08/guest-commentar.html)

Whether it is because they have too much time to surf the net or whether it is because they are still chagrined that Al Gore claimed he invented it, some Republicans are now blaming Democrats for anti-Semitic postings on certain web sites. …However, it does not follow from the presence of bad comments posted on left-wing web sites or on sites that support causes that Democrats are weak on Israel.

This official MoveOn.org bulletin (http://www.stentorian.com/MoveOn/bulletin.html) was not the work of a couple of Israel-haters with too much time on their hands. It was the work of Noah T. Winer, who is an official representative of MoveOn.org. The bulletin blames Israel for the collapse of the peace process, as well as Palestinian violence...

...That’s not some blogger with a bottle of beer in one hand and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in the other. That is Noah Winer, editor of MoveOn.org’s official bulletins. The following anti-Catholic hate cartoon, which should be circulated to every Catholic voter in the country, did not come from shadowy bloggers either. It came directly from MoveOn.org, although it could have just as easily have come from the 19th century’s Thomas Nast, Know-Nothings, and “No dogs or Irish” crowd.

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Steve Sheffy concludes,

Our Republican friends are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. There are real differences between the two parties, but Israel is not one of them. There is not one iota of evidence that this disgraceful activity on the Internet is affecting the positions that the Democrats who matter—the Democrats who hold office—are taking regarding Israel.

(1) The facts, which our readers can verify independently, appear above.

(2) If the “disgraceful activity on the Internet,” which includes:

(a) MoveOn.org’s official bulletins that support the Palestinians against Israel while accusing “neo-conservatives” of “divided loyalties,”

(b) Democratic Presidential contenders posing with a vicious racist and anti-Semite who at least indirectly incited two violent incidents in which people were killed, while Nifonging innocent white people in Wappingers Falls NY (Tawana Brawley scandal)

(c) NJDC whitewashing MoveOn’s anti-Semitic hate speech while publishing anti-Semitic material of its own, (d) the YearlyKos inviting John Mearsheimer of “The Israel Lobby,”

(e) Barack Obama taking money from a fundraiser hosted by an individual who effectively called Jews “Christ Killers”

(f) Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor, racist, Israel-hater, and America-hater Jeremiah Wright,

(g) NJDC’s portrayals of Christians and Christian symbols as enemies,

(h) MoveOn.org’s derogatory photomanipulation of the Pope,

(i) MoveOn’s exercise of editorial control in favor of blood libels of Jews (citing the Talmud as a “hateful scripture” that commands Jews to hate and even kill Gentiles), denunciations of Jews as controlling the media while dividing their loyalties between American and Israel, use of “Jew” as an epithet, blanket denunciations of Catholics as pedophiles who are “raping your children,” and using “house slaves” to deride prominent African-Americans,

do not reflect the Democratic Party’s views toward Israel, American Jews, and perhaps Catholics and other Christians as well, then the Democratic Party has some very serious housecleaning to do. We will be quite blunt: the trash that needs to be taken out includes not only MoveOn.org, the Daily Kos, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, and Sharpton, but also the National “Jewish” “Democratic” Council itself.

Anti-Christian hate picture from NJDC itself