Once Called a ‘Schwarze,’ Saban’s for Obama

by on August 31, 2008 4

The Jerusalem Post is saying that Haim Saban is supporting Obama for a reason very similar to my love of Obama, his statement at AIPAC  that the great martyrs Schwerner and Goodman, two Jewish boys, were "willing to die" alongside Chaney in Mississippi. Saban spoke to Portfolio magazine. Still haven't read the piece; got to. But I'd note that Saban is an Arab Jew, born in Egypt. In this interview in Haaretz, he remembers being derided as a "schwarze haya" or black animal, in Tel Aviv as a teenager. Ah, diversity!

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  1. otto says:
    August 31, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    Its rather odd to be endorsing Obama in terms of jewish self-congratulation.

  2. Richard Witty says:
    August 31, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    He supports Obama.

    A good judgement, from nearly every perspective that I discern.

    Spoken by a former Nader supporter.

  3. D. says:
    August 31, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    OT (via Xmphora)

    Another example of how discussion of the elephant is gradually seeping into the American media–

    James Wolcott, running through McCain's VP candidate list, calls Eric Cantor "an unregistered Israeli lobbyist."

    And Andrew Sullivan finds it funny. (But Jeffrey Goldberg is in a huff. He detects something called "antisemitism.")

  4. Joachim Martillo says:
    September 1, 2008 at 3:10 am

    The internal Jewish politics of support for Civil Rights is complex and interesting, but because the history is not something that Jewish plutocrats or gate keepers and facilitars in publishing or academia want to read, no complete book on the subject will probably ever be published although several have appeared that amount to self-congratulatory Jewish hagiography. [READ MORE]

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