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BILL AYERS: ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
Obama’s association with Ayers became well-known during the campaign of 2008, although predictably enough, the real background of it never got a great deal of attention from the mainstream media. What was not as well-known as their Weathermen activities was Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn’s virulent anti-Semitism in the 1960s and 1970s—including the hatred for Jews and Israel expressed in Ayers’s 1974 book
Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism
—the “Political Statement of the Weather Underground,” which he coauthored with Dohrn.
The book’s dedication page lists numerous “victims of imperialism,” including Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 because of Kennedy’s support for the State of Israel. RFK’s murder is thought to have been the first “Palestinian” terrorist attack in the United States of America. In
Prairie Fire
itself, Ayers and Dohrn characterize Israel as an “expansionist power, based on Zionist colonialism.” They assert that “from its inception, Zionism has been an imperial ideology, presented as an alternative to communism,” and claims that “the Zionist state is clearly the aggressor, the source of violence and war in the Mideast, the occupier of stolen lands.… It is racist and expansionist—the enemy of the Palestinians, the Arab people, and the Jewish people.”
Ayers and Dohrn end their condemnation of Israel with a ringing peroration: “The U.S. people have been seriously deceived about thePalestinians and Israel.… SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE! U.S. OUT OF THE MIDEAST! END AID TO ISRAEL!” 3
WRIGHT AND FARRAKHAN
During the campaign, when unwelcome attention began to focus on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his anti-American and anti-Semitic statements at the Trinity United Church of Christ, a church Obama faithfully attended for twenty years, the candidate claimed not to have heard or approved of the offending statements.
That’s hard to believe. Twenty years is a long time to sit regularly in a pew, listening to a man preach, and never hear anything he says.
Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama and baptized his children. Obama’s children attended school in Wright’s church of hate.
On one occasion Wright was railing against Israel and then stopped himself, saying: “I said that dirty word again,
Israel
.” 4
The New Republic
reported in March 2007 that Wright was “a former Muslim and black nationalist.” 5 The Christianity preached in the United Church of Christ is a far-left variety that focuses upon few of the features of Christianity that distinguish it from Islam, or at least from the black nationalist amalgam of Islam, Christianity, and the racial anger that is the hallmark of that peculiarly American brand of Islam, the Nation of Islam.
Wright defended the church’s award to Farrakhan by saying: “When Minister Farrakhan speaks, Black America listens. Everybody may not agree with him, but they listen.… His depth of analysis when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye opening. He brings a perspective that is helpful and honest. Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African American religious experience. His integrity andhonesty have secured him a place in history as one of the nation’s most powerful critics. His love for Africa and African American people has made him an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose.” 6
The church’s
Trumpet Newsmagazine
said that Farrakhan “truly epitomized greatness.” 7
In an infamous March 1984 radio broadcast, Farrakhan said: “Hitler was a very great man. He wasn’t great for me as a black person but he was a very great German.… He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there’s a similarity in that
BILL AYERS: ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
Obama’s association with Ayers became well-known during the campaign of 2008, although predictably enough, the real background of it never got a great deal of attention from the mainstream media. What was not as well-known as their Weathermen activities was Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn’s virulent anti-Semitism in the 1960s and 1970s—including the hatred for Jews and Israel expressed in Ayers’s 1974 book
Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism
—the “Political Statement of the Weather Underground,” which he coauthored with Dohrn.
The book’s dedication page lists numerous “victims of imperialism,” including Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 because of Kennedy’s support for the State of Israel. RFK’s murder is thought to have been the first “Palestinian” terrorist attack in the United States of America. In
Prairie Fire
itself, Ayers and Dohrn characterize Israel as an “expansionist power, based on Zionist colonialism.” They assert that “from its inception, Zionism has been an imperial ideology, presented as an alternative to communism,” and claims that “the Zionist state is clearly the aggressor, the source of violence and war in the Mideast, the occupier of stolen lands.… It is racist and expansionist—the enemy of the Palestinians, the Arab people, and the Jewish people.”
Ayers and Dohrn end their condemnation of Israel with a ringing peroration: “The U.S. people have been seriously deceived about thePalestinians and Israel.… SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE! U.S. OUT OF THE MIDEAST! END AID TO ISRAEL!” 3
WRIGHT AND FARRAKHAN
During the campaign, when unwelcome attention began to focus on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his anti-American and anti-Semitic statements at the Trinity United Church of Christ, a church Obama faithfully attended for twenty years, the candidate claimed not to have heard or approved of the offending statements.
That’s hard to believe. Twenty years is a long time to sit regularly in a pew, listening to a man preach, and never hear anything he says.
Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama and baptized his children. Obama’s children attended school in Wright’s church of hate.
On one occasion Wright was railing against Israel and then stopped himself, saying: “I said that dirty word again,
Israel
.” 4
The New Republic
reported in March 2007 that Wright was “a former Muslim and black nationalist.” 5 The Christianity preached in the United Church of Christ is a far-left variety that focuses upon few of the features of Christianity that distinguish it from Islam, or at least from the black nationalist amalgam of Islam, Christianity, and the racial anger that is the hallmark of that peculiarly American brand of Islam, the Nation of Islam.
Wright defended the church’s award to Farrakhan by saying: “When Minister Farrakhan speaks, Black America listens. Everybody may not agree with him, but they listen.… His depth of analysis when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye opening. He brings a perspective that is helpful and honest. Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African American religious experience. His integrity andhonesty have secured him a place in history as one of the nation’s most powerful critics. His love for Africa and African American people has made him an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose.” 6
The church’s
Trumpet Newsmagazine
said that Farrakhan “truly epitomized greatness.” 7
In an infamous March 1984 radio broadcast, Farrakhan said: “Hitler was a very great man. He wasn’t great for me as a black person but he was a very great German.… He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there’s a similarity in that
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