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Keith Ellison’s ascent signals the Democrats’ willingness to redefine ‘pro-Israel’
Jewish Telegraphic Agency ^ | November 22, 2016 5:38pm | Ron Kampeas

Posted on 11/22/2016 6:02:47 PM PST by Olog-hai

The most shocking thing about talk of Keith Ellison’s Israel record as he rises within the Democratic Party is how few think it’s shocking.

Rep. Ellison, D-Minn., is a leading contender for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, despite a record of tough criticism of Israel that pro-Israel insiders say would easily have disqualified him a decade ago.

A supporter of the two-state solution and a frequent visitor to Israel, he also voted against additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system in 2014. In 2009, Ellison spear-headed a letter from 54 Democrats to Presdient Obama urging him to press Israel to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip.

That he is being seriously considered now — and with the backing of the party’s foremost pro-Israel stalwart, incoming Senate minority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. — is a signal of how far the party is willing to go in challenging the most influential pro-Israel groups, a relationship that not so long ago was hard to disentangle. …

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 114th; antisemitism; blackmuslims; dnc; dncchairman; ellison; keithellison; muslimvote; nationofislam; noi; proisrael; rop; twostatesolution
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1 posted on 11/22/2016 6:02:47 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

http://www.powerlineblog.com/?s=who+is+keith+ellison&x=18&y=17


2 posted on 11/22/2016 6:03:34 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah but Bannon! Oh boy that Bannon from Breitbart is an anti-Semite! It’s OK that Ellison is a racist, he’s a Dem!


3 posted on 11/22/2016 6:04:11 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy is the backup QB to a dictatorship)
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To: Olog-hai

Pro-Israel dims are kinda like pro-life dims.


4 posted on 11/22/2016 6:05:03 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Olog-hai

American Jews will still vote 75%+ for democrats...


5 posted on 11/22/2016 6:05:10 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Olog-hai

He took his oath of office on the Koran. Doesn’t that concern the Jews (not to mention the rest of the Rats)?


6 posted on 11/22/2016 6:07:34 PM PST by Truth29
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To: 2banana

I’m sad to say that you’re correct.


7 posted on 11/22/2016 6:08:54 PM PST by Artemis Webb (Ted Kennedy burns in hell.)
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To: Olog-hai

It is sad to think that if Israel is destroyed, it will be helped by liberal Jews.


8 posted on 11/22/2016 6:09:23 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: 2banana
JFTR, this page lists who leans which way. And in the US, liberalism/secularism is the majority among Jews, and they vote that way; but Christians that vote against their own religious freedom do not have an excuse.
9 posted on 11/22/2016 6:13:01 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: 2banana

Not that secularism is a valid excuse, that is.


10 posted on 11/22/2016 6:13:50 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The Muslim National Committee, or MNC....


11 posted on 11/22/2016 6:17:13 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Ellison’s “rise” is the wooden stake in the heart of the Democrat party. They have gone so far LEFT and so “INCLUSIVE” they have left the rest of the country behind in the center. They’ve become a 3 state party with no voters in the other (flyover) states ... and the “heads” of the party are in two of those three states. Put this guy in there, and that’s the end of ‘em. Amazing they cannot see what they are doing to themselves. I think that guy Ryan in Ohio is the only one who “gets it”.


12 posted on 11/22/2016 6:22:09 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: Olog-hai

With Ellison, we see the real goal of the puppet master behind the progressives. The subjugation and control over the unwashed masses via Islamification.


13 posted on 11/22/2016 6:22:20 PM PST by Fhios (In the end Hillary, MSM, and Obama were beat by Trumps pure strategic genius.)
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What I'm seeing is a power vacuum has formed after the latest election shellacking, and all the various factions are playing king of the hill until one reigns supreme, which will be most assuredly the nastiest of the lot. If people thought the Demos were lousy before, just wait.
 
 

14 posted on 11/22/2016 6:22:25 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Olog-hai

Go ahead, Dims. Do it!


15 posted on 11/22/2016 6:24:52 PM PST by Will88
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Anyone that criticizes the DNC leader will be labeled islamophobic.


16 posted on 11/22/2016 6:26:50 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Olog-hai
Well now the Democrats can boo Yahweh at their convention, along with God.
17 posted on 11/22/2016 6:42:21 PM PST by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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To: Olog-hai

I think it signals that they are abandoning Israel. Islam has the numbers, and the Democrats are all about numbers.


18 posted on 11/22/2016 6:43:34 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Not in the USA they don’t.


19 posted on 11/22/2016 6:45:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
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And why would anyone be surprised a black Muslim Congressman is virulently anti-Semitic?

I hope the Dems are stupid enough to appoint this Israel-hating Muslim as DNC: hopefully a few more American Jews will realize President Trump’s party is the ACTUAL pro-Israel, pro-Jewish party.


20 posted on 11/22/2016 7:31:11 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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