Obama’s Church and Israel’s “Ethnic Bomb”
- 03.25.2008 - 5:41 PMIt is becoming clear that the Trinity United Church of Christ’s anti-Israel stance represents a significant aspect of its political agenda. The blog Sweetness & Light dug up a June 2007 missive published in the church’s newsletter accusing Israel of developing an “ethnic bomb” that kills only blacks and Arabs.
The piece was written by Ali Baghdadi, who was, among other things, “Middle East advisor” to Louis Farrakhan. The rant takes the form of a sappy and delusional open letter to Oprah Winfrey, in response to her accepting Elie Wiesel’s invitation to visit Israel. Baghdadi describes Israel’s “apartheid” regime and writes, “I must tell you that Israel was the closest ally to the white supremacists of South Africa.”
The real danger in Obama’s relationship to this church has barely been touched upon despite all the press the situation has received. There is a verifiable convergence of the ideas promoted in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s brand of black liberation theology and the anti-American, anti-Semitic doctrine of radical Islam. America’s current enemies are crazed clerics who wail about Israeli oppression and who damn America before cheering crowds. This description also fits Barack Obama’s pastor of twenty years. That the two types of hate-filled holy men have connected, at least in print, is hardly a surprise. And the slack that liberals want to extend to Jeremiah Wright is merely the “root-cause” terrorist argument re-purposed: We have to understand their reasons, etc. This is what Obama brings with him, and it’s an implausibly generous gift to those who want to destroy us.
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March 25th, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Isn’t time for Jews to stop supporting every minority group that repays Jewish support with support of every enemy of the Jewish people. What has our support of black causes gained us other than disdain and support of anti sematism?
March 25th, 2008 at 5:58 PM
That’s right, Lew. Let’s safe Dafur! The Jews of Sderot? Well…that’s another matter.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:16 PM
*Israel and the US were the closest allies to the white supremacists of South Africa.
Its not all crazy.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:17 PM
How long until someone digs up a connection between this church and a jihadist group?
March 25th, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Religious Christians in America are typically pro-Israel. Recently we have been learning that there are communities of religious American Christians, Jeremiah Wright’s congregation being the most obvious example, that don’t fit into this pattern.
It would be helpful if Obama gave a speech reminding us of the role Jews played in establishing the NAACP, in going to Mississippi to fight for voter registration, etc. Obama is the most loved American black in the world, and his words might make a difference. On the other hand, he might lose the votes of leftists if he dared to do so.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Most of it is true, and not at all crazy.
The ethnic bomb thing is absurd, and there are three hyperbolic or questionable statements. Most of the piece is a rather standard statement of Palestinian grievances against Israel, largely founded in fact.
TUCC’s blasé attitude toward silly conspiracy theories, which apparently abound among black Americans, is hardly to its credit, and tends to cast the causes it supports in disrepute.
If you can’t find Sen. Obama spouting conspiracist nonsense, you can tag him as a goo-goo liberal internationalist, which he appears to be, but not as an apologist for jihad. What a choice we have–the UNICEF-card internationalist would-be Messiah, the relentless apparatchik would-be National Nanny, and the last-in-his-class would-be Gen. Kong whom one can imagine singing “Bomb, bomb Iran” as he rides the Big One down the chute.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:11 PM
Grumpy,
Palestinian grievances against Israel, largely founded in fact
Facts? Really? The core palestinian grievance is the existence of Israel. The rest is intended for gullibles like you.
*Israel and the US were the closest allies to the white supremacists of South Africa.
Have you or Wright stopped to consider WHY and HOW Israel came to have a relationship with SA? When the arab boycott ended up scaring all the western dhimmies from dealing with israel, they did not leave it much choice.
Thnink of the middle agges when the jews were not allowed into any professions and ended up lending money and were later accused of being avaricious. It is a known pattern.
The amount of ignorance is amazing.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Bagdadi forgot that Mandela wrote in his biography that more than any white group in South Africa, Jews helped black South Africans gain freedom, that it was Jews who went to jail with him, it was Ruth Frist who escaped the country then was blown up by a letter bomb sent by the SA government because of her participation in the black fight for freedom, that Joe Slovo was a hero of the black fight for freedom.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:09 PM
oao
Further to your comments- remember UNGA resolution 3379 (Zionism is racism resolution)? effectively the int’l community encouraged Israel into relationships with pariah states like SA (combined with the Arab boycott etc) by proclaiming its national identity was racist
March 25th, 2008 at 9:24 PM
McCain’s oppo research is being handed to him on a silver platter. Even if he is as stupid as Geo. Bush, it will be hard for him to blow it.