Jews: ‘Stop Charles Barron joining US Congress’

New York City Council member and Israel’s critic, Charles Barron, is predicted to beat his opponent Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries 42, in the June 26 Democratic primary that could send him to the US Congress representing district’s 20% pro-Israel Russian Jewish population.

Pro-Israel Jewish groups are running crazy demonizing Barron. A recent poll taken among the Jewish community in the district denounced Barron in the harshest terms.

“They called him an anti-Semite, a hate monger for remarks calling Israel “the biggest terrorist in the world” and likening Gaza to a death camp. They also called him “viper”, a “bigot of highest order” and a “scary monster“, ” reported the NY Daily News on June 13, 2012.

Charles Barron 61, who has served in City Council for decade – is an outspoken Afro-American nationalist. Last year, he mourned the brutal murder of Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi, by saying: “out there they don’t know that Qaddafi was our brother. The man was a freedom fighter“.

The Jewish press has endorsed Barron’s opponent Hakeem to replace the retiring Rep. Edolphus Towns. Afro-American Baptist Towns has already angered Jewish groups by endorsing Charles Barron. However, the Jewish groups fear that Hakeem has no chance to beat Barron who has been endorced by federal labor unions (AFSC, ME, AFSCME, CSEA, etc.)

Israel lobby group, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has slammed Barron for praising Louis Farakhan, the leader of Nation of Islam (NOI); supporting British MP George Galloway , Malik Zulu Shabaz and Gaza’s elected government of Hamas. Abbe Foxman listed a few of Barron’s statements to prove that Barron is a Jew-hater.

“I am tired every time you criticize Israel, you are anti-Semitic. Well technically my pastor taught me about the Semitic people, the Semites are black.”

“Gaza is a concentration camp and you’re deliberately causing the death of people and you cannot continue to justify that by saying that you’re trying to secure Israel or you’re fighting against terrorism“.

“The young children of Gaza are dying at the hands of the Israeli army and the Israeli government and the United States is accomplice in this murder.”

“If you really want to do something, then block the military aid to Israel. If you want to sanction somebody, sanction Israel“.

Incidently, Hakeem is nephew of professor Leonard Jeffries Jr. (CUNY) who was fired from the university for his 1991 speech in which he claimed that rich Jews financed the slave trade.

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Brooklyn Democrats May Nominate Anti-Semite

New York City councilman Charles Barron may be on his way to winning the Democratic nomination for Congress in New York's Eighth District, despite a history of racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel rhetoric. Barron, who has earned the support of retiring congressman Ed Towns, would be representing a district with a sizable Jewish population.

In 2010, he told a reporter that in New York's Crown Heights neighborhood, Jews “only make up 20 percent of the population, but they've always walked these streets as if they owned them, and acted as if they are the only ones in the community that matter.”

Barron once referred to a fellow city councilman, who is Jewish, as a “coward” whose actions on the council were to “satisfy the Jewish lobby.”

Barron has also called into question the legitimate existence of Israel. “Where should we start [the discussion]?” he said at a Brooklyn church in 2010. “Should we start with the 1906 Zionist Convention, or in 1914, with the Balfour Declaration? With Menachem Begin, the terrorists, all the wars, you want to discuss Israel becoming a state in 1948 when it should not have? Who are the terrorists? You want to talk about the definition of terrorism? How do you define acts of piracy?”

And in 2009, Barron joined former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on a Viva Palestine convoy to undermine the Israeli blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, which he has compared to a “concentration death camp.” Here's what Barron had to say in 2010 about the blockade:

Israel is out of control. They’re off the hook, they’re out of line; and Barack Obama has to stand strong and so do does Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, to say that this kind of aggressive, terroristic behavior and act of piracy will not be tolerated and the blockade should be lifted immediately, immediately. There’s too many children and women and innocent men of Gaza dying because you’re isolating them and not allowing anything in. It’s like having a concentration death camp. It’s horrible, and the whole world is and should be outraged.

The New York Daily News ran an editorial this weekend warning voters about Barron's views:

A relic of a bitter bygone era, Barron is a former Black Panther who plays a one-note trumpet of racial grievance. He has called for training teachers in Ebonics. He has labeled housing development “a new wave of Jim Crowism.”

At a 2002 rally in support of reparations for slavery, he said: “I want to go up to the closest white person and say, ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.”

The Daily News instead endorsed Hakeem Jeffries in the June 26 primary. The seat is highly Democratic, and a win in the primary will be tantamount to a general election victory. The Daily News touts Jeffries “in the strongest terms,” citing his legal work and his ability to bridge racial and cultural differences across the new diverse district.

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