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Ellison, who is vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, and noted by The Post to be "one of two Muslim members of Congress" insisted when vying for the head job at the DNC that his interactions with the blatantly anti-Semite, Farrakhan, ended in 2006.
He told this lie on the correct venue: "Morning Joe," on December 14, 2016. While he admitted working with the scumwafer Farrakhan in 1995, he claimed he disavowed the group in 2006:
"We're talking about something that happened in 1995. This was the year that the Million Man March took off. People were attacking the march at the time . . . Man, I'm telling you back in 2006 and before, I disavowed them. That's the ridiculous thing about this, that we keep on having to answer this kind of stuff."The Post also noted that in a CNN news report, two weeks prior to the "Morning Joe" appearance, Ellison's spokesperson told CNN that "President Obama, Stevie Wonder, Maya Angelou, and many others also attended the March." The spokesperson added that Ellison "had no additional involvement with March organizer Louis Farrakhan or his organizations, has long since denounced him, and rejects all forms of anti-Semitism" [except what's written in the Koran].
The Post cited a YouTube video discovered by The Daily Caller, showing Ellison talking with a group of men that included the scumquat Farrakhan, sometime between 2010 and 2013, and a 2013 dinner for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with Ellison and Farrakhan in attendance, as per The Wall Street Journal. Of course the Nation of Islam website supported this claim as well. There was also a private meeting between the two anti-Semites in 2016 where Ellison met with Farrakhan.
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The leading organization representing Jewish Democrats is slamming Ellison for his frequent appearances at Farrakhan-attended events, but stop short of asking for his resignation. They would rather have a Democratic Jew-hater, than a Christ-loving conservative.
The Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) accepted Ellison's lie that he didn't know that Farrakhan would be joining him at the dinner hosted by Rouhani, but they said that "when he realized Farrakhan was there, Ellison should not have tolerated Farrakhan's presence."
JDCA's chair, Ron Klein, a former Democratic member of Congress from Florida, said, "Even though Ellison was there to discuss the release of a former U.S. Marine held captive in Iran, personally, if I were invited, I would not have attended . . . Louis Farrakhan has a long history of anti-Semitism, racism and anti-LGBT rhetoric and should not be at all welcome in mainstream political or policy conversations."
The Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, and Jewish Council for Public Affairs, David Bernstein, both found Ellison's behavior very disturbing, but not disturbing enough to have him resign.
Their mothers must be proud how their sons give Ellison a free pass.
Other Jewish groups not associated with the Democratic Party aren't so forgiving. Ron Halber, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington said that Ellison "demonstrated exceedingly poor judgment by participating in a meeting with one of America's most notorious anti-Semites and the leader of a regime that has called for Israel's annihilation," and therefore "should resign as deputy chairman of the Democratic Party. Halber was vocal about this position even before the Daily Caller report came out.
The trend seems to be that practicing Jews tend to be adamant about Ellison being made to resign, while matzoh ball Jews, (those that identify more with the culture than the religion) don't care that Ellison is associated with a Jew-hating turd canoe. Just as long as he's a Democrat.
They might not feel that way if they knew how Ellison feels about them.
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