Emerge’s original banquet announcement
Breaking: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National Committee and a Florida congresswoman, has apparently bowed out of speaking to a Muslim organization’s event under pressure from a right wing campaign.
Emerge is a political organization dedicated to empowering Muslims in Florida. Look at some of the work they do at the link– stopping an industrial waste site next to a mosque, getting Muslims to vote in elections.
This April Emerge is having its annual banquet in Florida. Its facebook page made this announcement in the last day:
EMERGE USA is happy to announce that Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin of Teaneck,NJ will be speaking at our April 21st banquet
But you can see the original announcement, as posted by a rightwing group, above. I am told that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has withdrawn under pressure. I just called her office now.
This rightwing pressure group, for instance, slammed Wasserman Schultz for agreeing to appear at the event and cited David Horowitz’s Islamophobic organization, Front Page:
FrontPageMag.Com – A radical Muslim group with ties to the Obama Administration will be featuring the head of the Democratic National Committee, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as the keynote speaker for its annual fundraising banquet this coming April. By agreeing to partake in the event, Wasserman Schultz is helping to further this organization’s nefarious agenda of placing Islamists into positions of American power and influence. It is this stealth jihad which threatens our country not from abroad, but from within.
Here is the Front Page article, with the Israel/Palestine angle:
Wasserman Schultz likes to flaunt her Jewish identity and (false) pro-Israel persona, but how can she begin to do so, when the organization she will be addressing maintains staff who display animosity towards the Jewish state?
Laila Abdelaziz, the Field Coordinator of EMERGE, denounced Israel in a question she posed to President Obama, during a January 2010 town hall meeting he held in Tampa, Florida. “[W]hy have we not condemned Israel and Egypt’s human rights violations against the occupied Palestinian people, and yet we continue supporting them financially with billions of dollars from our tax dollars?” she belligerently asked.
Emerge does not focus on the Israel/Palestine issue. It focuses on domestic issues and voter empowerment issues. But Wasserman Schultz has evidently bowed to pressure from the rightwing. Because she is part of Obama’s outreach to the Jewish community. If you go to her official site, the first photograph is of Wasserman Schultz with Netanyahu. Half embracing him. Then a photograph of her at Yad Vashem, the Israeli memorial to the Holocaust in Europe.
I don’t know what to say. This is so disheartening it leaves me speechless. And yes, it is about prejudice inside the Jewish community.
Prejudice or political opportunism?
I’m not a fan of Wasserman-Shultz so you folks take your pick.
I casually browsed the website you linked to, Frontpage, and found this ad:
http://imageshack.us/f/62/ohiostatestudentsmobili.jpg/
I wonder if it’s true. Even if we disregard the organization behind the ad; if it is factually true, doesn’t this concern you? I’m a bit shocked to be frank. I wonder if it’s factually true. If it is, it’s a stunner.
Taken together with Phil’s advice to fellow losers and observations on changes consider the US 2010 census:
Whites- 224 million
Blacks- 40 million
Hispanics – 50 million
Asians- 15 million
Mixed races – 9 million
Zionism can keep on trying to corral minorities in the US to support Israel but it isn’t going to work. The minorities aren’t minority ‘enough’ any more to need to piggyback the “Lobby” access to US gov and congress. You could take any smart Hispanic or Black leader and if so inclined or made worth his while, turn over 100 million other minorities into enemies of the zionism and Israel Firstdom minority as dangerous to their overall welfare in the US. No one has been interested in mounting an attack like this, but if one was, other minorities would be a force in eleminating Israel firsters in their congressional districts.
RE: “But Wasserman Schultz has evidently bowed to pressure from the rightwing. ” ~ Weiss
SEE: Is Avigdor Lieberman Too Dovish?, by Douglas Bloomfield, Jewish Week 01/10/12
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.thejewishweek.com/blogs/political_insider/avigdor_lieberman_too_dovish
we need a clean break from zionism, the clean break that got us into zionism has worked out well for its planners, but the one that will get us away from zionism will be more of a natural phenomenom, problem is though, that i think we still may be a few years away, unless of course the economy takes over again.
nature abhors a vacuum, and zionism is becoming an empty space, noone wants to be there anymore except the few, the proud…etc.etc.etc.
Bless Wasserman–Schultz’s dark little heart. We cannot expect courage from snakes such as her who have slithered their way up the political ladder. Grasping power is far too important to allow principle to interfere with retaining it. Her ‘morals’ and ‘ethics’ are as supple as a snake. Call her “Gumby” for the backbone she possesses. If one fears a Horowitz they live in fear and have been/ are not / will never be a reliable ally.