Kahane vs. Wright
By Ami Eden on Mar 21, 2008 in Barack Obama, Presidential Race |
Dov Hikind, a Democratic state assemblyman from Brooklyn, has issued a press release saying Barack Obama must “sever his ties with Reverend Wright and Trinity Church” because the retiring pastor reprinted a Hamas Op-Ed that appeared in the Los Angeles Times. (Obama has slammed the piece as “outrageously wrong.”)
What’s interesting here is that Hikind was a top lieutenant to the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated mass transfer of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs, and wanted a law in Israel banning marriages between Jews and non-Jews. Kahane’s Jewish Defense League also engaged in some violent activities on U.S. soil and another of his Israeli organization, Kach, has been classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
Hikind’s assistant told us he’d be able to any questions about whether a Kahane loyalist is the best person to be calling out Obama about his pastor. But the New York lawmaker is in Israel and we haven’t been able to get through to him on his cell phone.
One slight difference between the 2 Kahana never bombed women and children..only advocated transfer - which by the way, Israel did to its own people when they removed 9000 people from their homesin the gaza Strip- Hoe dare you compare hamas murderers who send their own children to die while killing innocent people toa person such as Kahana?
Wliam | Mar 22, 2008 | Reply
Apples and lemons. There is no comparison this is merely an attempt to muddy Hikind. Among other things Wright is ANTI AMERICA and anti white. Obama is/was a leading member of the church he had a responsibilty to have input with Wright. Wright was spiritual leader of Obama. Obama accepted and followed wright who is totally different from Kahane. Any comparison is superficial and misleading
arthur | Mar 23, 2008 | Reply
That is a lie. Meir Kahane was a bigot, a racist, and a terrorist. He is the Jewish version of Louis Farrakhan. He formed the JDL in response to the Black Panthers and the Black Power movement. Reverend Wright never acted out in violence towards anybody, nor has he advocated violence against those who he disagrees with politically.
There is an obvious double standard in this whole “denounce and reject” thing. For example, if the same standard were applied Dov Hikind would have to denounce and reject the state of Israel itself. R. Odavia Yosef was on record saying that Hurricane Katrina was the fault of New Orleans’ black residents who were displaced because “they have no G-d”.
Yehuda Ben Yehuda | Mar 31, 2008 | Reply