Comments on: Smear Campaign Against Obama Circulates Among Jewish Leaders

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:32:03 +0000

Syria and Iran – the same ones that now want to destroy Israel because they claim (unfounded) that Israel killed Mugniyah

Most Israelis accept the fact that Israel had a hand in the assassination.

Syria certainly doesn’t want to destroy Israel although it is not at peace w. Israel. Only seriously right-wing Israelis believe that Iran, Syria or Hezbollah actually have both the will & the capacity to destroy Israel.

I am not clear on what his views on Israel are, and nobody really seems to know.

Sounds like you haven’t done yr homework. Obama’s views are known & clear on Israel. He wants to engage with Iran & Syria in hopes of resolving the conflicts bet. the U.S. & those nations. This approach will prove much more fruitful than the Bush Administration’s bellicosity & belligerence.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:56:54 +0000

Didn’t Obama just come out with a statement claiming he wants to reach out to countries like Syria and Iran – the same ones that now want to destroy Israel because they claim (unfounded) that Israel killed Mugniyah – a known highly anti-American terrorist for the past twenty years (people did hate America before GWB). I am not clear on what his views on Israel are, and nobody really seems to know. Obama is a fantastic orator and extremely charismatic and he seems fairly ethical. I don’t particularly care about his religious affiliation, but I am also not going to favor a President who is going to turn his head as these nations teach their people to deny the Holocaust and work towards the annihilation of Israel. Just some food for thought.

By: suprfan

suprfan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:32:58 +0000

You people need to get out more. I’m Jewish and I don’t know anybody who is also Jewish who isn’t supporting Obama. As far as that email, it’s so obviously a hoax that I’m worried for anybody who would actually entertain it as true, for a second — espec. given the swiftboating last time round.

I am more concerned about how Jews are so sensitive about being accused of this or that. Hold your heads high, people! And keep your eyes clear…

By: O

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:53:11 +0000

The campaign is working. Our neighbor downstairs, a smart, left-leaning, Bush-hating guy if there ever was one, surprised us by saying that if Obama is the nominee, he’ll vote for McCain. Why? Because, in his words, “it’s well-known that Obama is anti-semitic and won’t back up Israel.”
This is ugly racism covering itself with the usual coward’s appeal to unspecified antisemitism. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

By: solution seeker

solution seeker — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:55:28 +0000

Just for the record, I’m Jewish and I’ve donated to Obama’s campaign. I love it that he has ancestors who are Muslim. He can likely be a more persuasive saleman of the best of what our country has to offer as an example to the rest of the world.

We also don’t have any proof that these emails were started by Jews per se, and not by non-jewish campaign workers seeking to sink Obama.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:46:26 +0000

Debbie Schlussel is a well-known Jewish right-winger. But I don’t believe she’s the author of the hoax e mail. At least not based on what she wrote in that post. She’s certainly exploiting all the crap that’s in the hoax e mail & passing it off as true, which only adds to the hoax. But I don’t believe she’s the author unless someone can find firmer evidence of her connection.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:03:26 +0000

Is this the author of the hoax email?
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/12/barack_hussein.html

By: Venus

Venus — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:06:57 +0000

As much as its a smear campaign, I’m equally astonished by the response, which seems to be, “No of course he’s not Muslim, and here is the voluminous evidence to prove it.” Which is really falling into their trap, because it suggests that the smearers are right in saying a Muslim can’t hold senior public office.
Imagine if British Rugby player (and non-Jew) Ben Cohen was running for Parliament in the UK. If the newpapers suggested that he had been visiting several synagogues, and he responded by ostentatiously going to church…. well, it would make me wonder about his capacity to be manipulated by the press.
This kind of thing I find deeplt troubling: http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/12/obama_is_a_committed_christian.php

Would Obama equally proclaim loudly to have “never been a Jew?”