I wrote earlier this week about the reaction of a representative of Americans for Peace Now about the Arab League’s conference on Jerusalem. The Israel-bashing and denial of Jewish rights and history was so awful it even shocked the representative of a group that is desperately trying to ignore the truth about the unwillingness of the Arab and Muslim world to make peace with Israel. But while less naïve observers expect that from the Arab League, the news that a person connected to the U.S. State Department delivered a vicious denunciation of Israel at the same conference ought to disturb all Americans.
Kenneth R. Insley Jr., was listed on the Doha conference program as a representative of the State Department though his connection with the administration is somewhat tenuous. But a reading of his remarks at the Arab League conference should call into question any future business between his firm and an administration that has been going all out lately to assert the dubious proposition that the president is the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House. Given that his speech was put forward as representing the views of the State Department, Secretary of State Clinton should repudiate Insley’s assertion that Israel is an apartheid state and his assertion that Jews are racist.
Insley bills himself as a consultant to the U.S. government. His day job is director of public diplomacy at Capital Communications Group, an international consulting firm that has apparently gotten a government contract for coordinating visits for international delegations with various think tanks, congressional leaders, White House and other administration officials. But his main business seems to be promoting anti-Israel hatred. While ignoring Israel’s peace offers and Palestinian rejectionism and terror, Insley did not shy away from pandering to his audience’s appetite for slurs against Israel. After defending Jimmy Carter’s claim that Israel is an apartheid state, he denounced the efforts of some Jewish religious figures to urge people to marry within their faith:
Play this game with me: if you were to substitute the word “white” for “Jewish” and replace the word “Arab men” with “NIGGER,” then to most American ears, it sounds exactly like the pronouncements of racist segregationists in the 1950s and 60s in southern states like Georgia, which where Jimmy Carter is from. I think President Carter knows a thing or two about racial discrimination. And so should the Jewish people. … Perhaps it is understandable to be perceived as racist when you are considered by some to be “God’s chosen people.”
It may well be that Insley’s participation in this hate fest had nothing to do with the State Department. If so, the administration should say so and make sure Insley and his firm are no longer receiving taxpayer dollars for his highly objectionable activities.
These guys should get real. With the left, "Zionist" is the new "nigger". So let's play this game, replace the word "Arab" with "white" and the word "Zionist" with "nigger" and etc. etc. nOh by the way, if Islamic haters of Israel don't consider the Arab umma to be, *definitionally,* "God's chosen people," then Insley doesn't sit on this thumb when he isn't sucking on it.. It isn't the jooz who kill women for marrying out of the faith or murdering converts to other faiths on principle. Who are these idjuts?
Jonathan, this is a second strike for persons linked to the present State Dept. First, the ambassador to Belgium falsifying Jewish history. Now, this vicious bigot spewing un-American hatred. n nWhy do such bigots call Jews "racist"? Maybe they're taking revenge for heavy Jewish participation in the civil rights movement years ago, especially back in the 60s.
This is what the State Department has been like for the past century. Just, it used to be easier to get away with.
Talk about racist, this State Department has been anti-Semitic racist since at least WWII, and actually way before that time. The US is a disgrace and I am ashamed of this country with a State Department such as this one. That is one thing that I liked about Newt Gingrich when he said he would change this SD. Hopefully by firing everybody in it and starting fresh.