by Stephen Dietrich, Managing Editor
The left is foaming at the mouth over unfounded accusations against Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon. Since the announcement of his appointment, the media has whipped into a frenzy of shocking and – at first glance, alarming — anti-Semitic accusations against Bannon.
But while reporting on these incidents, there’s something the left is intentionally ignoring -– Turns out the liberal mainstream media frenzy of attacks against Bannon was independent of one key demographic: Jewish Americans.
In large part, Bannon’s appointment was met without condemnation from the Jewish community.
What the mainstream media also fails to mention is that, throughout his two-term presidency, President Barack Obama’s administration has been routinely criticized by Jewish leaders for what many critics called pro-Iran and pro-Palestinian moves.
“I’m just not feeling the outrage,” one Jewish conservative Israel activist in Washington, D.C. told POLITICO. “The Obama administration has spent eight years empowering Iran, promoting the Palestinians, and condemning Israel. If Bannon does something bad, I’ll be happy to criticize him. Until then, I’d rather worry about real threats to Jews.”
To his credit, Bannon has shrugged off the mainstream media feeding frenzy, telling The Hollywood Reporter, “It only helps us when they (liberals and the media) get it wrong. When they’re blind to who we are and what we’re doing.”
And he’s right.
To any objective observer, the ferocious attack on Bannon and the unfounded accusations of antisemitism by the mainstream media only undercuts their crumbling credibility.
Much of the condemnation from the media came after disgusting video surfaced of a small so-called “alt-right” group, The National Policy Institute, saying “Hail Trump” and giving Nazi salutes and reports that Bannon’s ex-wife claims he hesitated sending his children to a majority Jewish school.
You can understand the media’s alarm — but to condemn Trump’s administration as anti-Semitic is simply wrong, and proof of the media’s willfully biased reporting.
Both Trump and Bannon have condemned NPI, and the accussations from Bannon’s wife are only hearsay.
Here are the facts: Bannon has the support of numerous Jewish organizations and individuals (including the senior editor of his Breitbart team and the Republican Jewish Coalition), and has been an outspoken support for the state of Israel, where half the world’s Jewish population lives, for decades.
Meanwhile, during much of that same time President Barack Obama was surrounded by outspoken anti-Semites and racists — a fact largely ignored by the mainstream press.
No, we’re not just talking about Rev. Jeremiah Wright. We’re talking about eight years of anti-Israeli advisors, confidants, and endorsers that is totally overlooked by the liberal media.
For example, take Obama’s U.N. Ambassador Samantha Powers and her history of “anti-Israel” remarks, as reported by Fox News. In 2002, Powers called for the U.S. to halt all aid to the Israeli military, and instead invest billions of dollars in a new Palestinian state – and the United States should establish a “military presence”– what she called a “mammoth protection force” — on the ground in Israel to protect Palestine.
There’s more. Obama’s former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, who served in the president’s administration from 2009-2013, also “has a long history of anti-Semitic activities, including telling the ‘Jews to pay’ for the USO’s Haifa retreat, refusing to back action against Russia’s rising anti-Semitism in 1999, refusing to condemn Yasser Arafat’s 2000 Intifada, and stating in 2007, ‘The State Department has become adjunct to the Israeli foreign minister’s office.’,” according to Breitbart.
In 2009, Obama himself famously said he intended to put “daylight” between the United States and Israel, a country where half the world’s Jewish population live, and the president’s controversial 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was met with near universal condemnation by Jewish leaders around the world.
Still not convinced? It gets worse.
The New Black Panther Party, an anti-American government and outspokenly anti-Semitic hate group, was prominently featured on Obama’s “MyObama” campaign website in 2008.
The NBPP chairman, Malik Zulu Shabazz, first emerged to prominence when he gave a warm-up speech for Nation of Islam’s Khallid Abdul Muhammad at Howard University in 1994 where, according to The Village Voice, “In a series of Goebbels-like shouts aimed at evoking the correct responses from the crowd, Shabazz asked, among other things: ‘Who is it that controls the Federal Reserve? The Jews! Who is it that has our entertainers… and our athletes in a vise grip? The Jews!’ Then, with Khallid Abdul Muhammad in the wings, Shabazz said: ‘We want to bring on a man who makes the Jews pee in their pants at night . . . my big brother, Dr. Khallid Muhammad!’”
In the two-terms since taking office, the accusations of the Obama administration’s antisemitism have been routine. For example, The Jewish Press wrote an opinion piece of Obama’s 2016 State of the Union address titled, “The Invisible Anti-Semitism in Obama’s 2016 State of the Union.”
But don’t take our word for it.
Morton A. Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, recently told The New York Post, “Bannon is the opposite of an anti-Semite. Every article about Israel and the Palestinian Arabs he has published are all supportive of Israel. He’s had articles complaining about campus anti-Semitism at CUNY, and required his Breitbart reporters to call CUNY officials and Gov. Cuomo aides urging them to do something about it.”
And what does Trump himself say to so-called “alt-right” anti-Semites?
“I condemn them. I disavow, and I condemn,” he told The New York Times on Tuesday. “”It’s not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why.”
— Stephen Dietrich is the Managing Editor of The Horn News. He is an outspoken and unapologetic supporter of Israel.
No word from any of these “leaders” about the genocide of Christians in the Middle East. Israel has done little to help take in Christian refugees. Britain, France, the U.S. etc. have done little too.
Until they are vetted, anyone can call themselves Christians when in reality they just might be ISIS. We simply cannot open the flood gates to people who do not assimilate into our culture….diversity is great, but there must be a limit to what America will do….we ask that immigrants come here legally and that they take an oath to make America their country …. this does not mean that they have to worship as we do, it simply means that they assimilate into OUR culture….if they want to continue to live in THEIR culture, then they can return to their original country where they can have sharia law as they desire.
Have your taken in any of them! Obama is anti American………….Jewish and any other faith or group of people who do not march in Goose Step with his flawed view of the worls.
As usual, liberals have nothing credible to say so they resort to name calling. It’s very predictable. Best to ignore them……..
Let’s not forget our “Democratic” brethren started the KKK as their military arm of their party – what examples they have set and yet they rail against the right as racists – unbelievable. Of course William Jefferson Clinton the self described first “Black President” publically said Senator Fullbright a known radical racist was one of his favorite mentors. A real tribute and legacy of the Clinton Klan, pun intended.
What moderation is needed to my comment?
You left out Senator Robert Byrd and member of the Ku Klux Klan for 30 years and a top recruiter. Bringing in over 200 new members. And, what did President Bill Clinton say at his eulogy? “I’ll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that’s what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians.” Ain’t that the truth.
The Democrats of today are far worse than any klansman. Modern day Democrats would love to see all whites, Christians, heterosexuals and conservatives wiped off the face of the Earth. They are definitely the party of hate and hypocrisy. They scream about anti Semitism while their miserable excuse of a lame duck president still sides with Islam and against Israel.
The left has been blatantly anti Semitic for the entire Obama term. It seems their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
The anti-Jews as Obama and his cronies claim that others are anti-Jew to create false news, the same false new that Obama the hypocrite criticizes. As a Jew I support Bannon. I am leftist supporting Bannon and Trump against the monsters of Obama and Killary, puppets of the New World Order and the Illuminatis. Whether or not God exist it is better to be with the good than with the evil.
Don’t forget the $800.000.000.00 hillary delivered to hamas on behalf of obama as one of her first duties as sec of state.
The left is also anti – Semitic more than the right when it meets their political agenda ! Don’t be fooled !!!
When has the extreme far left progressive that now make up the Democrat party not called names in an attempt to shut down debate on race, sex, gender, color, income, Religion and any other way to use the powers of personal destruction. It has been used since FDR used the method in his campaign.
Obama and his ilk support true anti-semites from Iran etc. yet he is perfect. Get real or get lost. We have no time for idiots.
Obozo is totally corrupt.
What’s the buzz?
Libbie’s are just doing their typical projecting.
Obama’s been the most anti-Istael prez in forever.
I’m a gun-owning,freedom-loving and generally very liberal Jew, but I don’t get too excited by poorly educated white-trash or brown-trash hatred of Jews in the US. But I would be interested to hear from other people of good will, your opinions of why so many right wing haters of Jews are so in love with Trump, and do you think that Jews here have anything to be concerned about?
What right wing “haters of Jews” are you referring to? Any names?
Richard Spencer, The Daily Stormer people, and you know there are others.
I believe that Jews, Muslims, Mexicans and other visible minorities are going to have a lot to be concerned about. i do not believe that America will be great again under Donald Trump.
I am a white male who voted for Trump and I love Jews. I find it funny that you called yourself a liberal . Now I know why you twist the truth.
What truth did my post twist? I asked two questions. Where are your answers?
Hillary is the first name that pop in my head. You need to read books and hear interviews done by Dick Morris. Some insight into everything and everyone she hates. He was once a confidential adviser and supporter to the Clinton’s until he realizes just how corrupt, entitled, bigoted and racist they both were in the 1990’s.. It’s been confirmed by former staff, secret service agents. Please show me a comment that supports your theory? Democrats only like wealthy elitist like themselves. Liberal press claims that President Obama has a great relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu, but in his first term, he put Netanyahu in the basement office, left him alone while he went to eat dinner. That doesn’t sound like a great relationship to me. What was that about? Did he needed a time out or did Obama see him as a petulant child, sit in that room and think about what you just said.
Most Orthodox Jew who believe faithfully in the Torah, generally vote conservatively 50 plus years since the UN created the state of Israel,they’ve done everything since to try destroy it. I longer listen to the words they say but watch what they do and they’re polar opposites. Because from where I’m sitting I see liberal journalist siding with the Palestinians. it’s a theocratic state, Are they committed to destroying its neighbor, which uses civilians as human shields, tortures and kills its political opponents, persecutes homosexuals, and holds freedom of speech and the rule of law in contempt? Oh no… that’s Hamas, that’s what they do. No matter how appallingly they treat their own people and how many innocents get blown up, shot or kidnap, nothing can blot their playbook. The liberals want to give Hamas, weapons, rockets, bombs to them while they hand out straitjacket to the Jews. There’s a reason why the liberals in Israel have dropped and conservative belief have only risen. I wonder why American Jew haven’t realized that liberal aren’t there friends.. They talk a good game but their actions shows how they really feel.
So is this just about anti-Semitism? Or is it the rife within the Arab world? They’ve been a long-standing critics of Israel and probably pick up a little Jew-hatred along the way. But I don’t think it’s at the heart of Western, liberal antipathy and certainly not compassion or empathy. If anti-Semitism were to blame, it would be directed at Israel wherever it is in the world. Yet, it’s hard to imagine it having as much trouble with its neighbors, or attracting so much hatred, but if it were a European state, the chances are it would be another Switzerland, and would arouse the same amount of ill-feeling.
Your statement suggests that there are lots of repub Jew haters. There are some skin head types who would not vote for a dem because the dems advertise they are for diversity and minorities. There only alternative is the republican party. Just because there are a small number of Jew haters that are republican for the stated reason most republicans are honest people who judge people based upon character and not race or other silly things. It is illogical for any Jew, I’m half Jew and half Catholic from grand parents, to vote for anyone who imports Muslims. I’m a non believer, so it is not about religion for me. It is about what Muslims stand for. Granted there are good people who are Muslims, I know a few, but the problem is that good Muslims will NEVER speak out against the bad ones who believe in the Koran that infidels should be killed. Therefore, the more Muslims there are the more power they get and soon America will be taken over. A cult that advocates killing should not be called a religion. Islam needs to be gone as a religion and 1st amendment status denied. Jews who vote dem are voting for the increase of Muslims that hate them or that won’t speak out against those that do hate the Jews. And the bad Muslims will push gays off the roofs etc. So, Jews who vote dem are stupid and/or self destructive.
Norm,you’re just like most american secular Jews,who replaced religion with LEFTIST_marxist dogma.Thus,became
total deaf and blind to the fact o’bozo hates Eretz Isroel. In 8yrs he NEVER set foot in Israel,and even sent an A_15 TEAM six months prior to Israeli Election,to MOBILISE 1.9MILLION ARABS,bust the in to VOTE against BIBI.
When all his efforts FAILED,Bibi got re-elected,o’blamer was BITING his elbow,fuming-he-he-he
In addition one of the worst offenders is Soros aj Jew from Rumania who made his fortune by selling out his Jewish neighbors to the German SS, then grabbing their property and selling it for a big profit.He is the one who is financings the anti Trump riots
More of the same crap. I look at it as a great choice if the liberals outrage means they’re afraid they might be great at their job. Foaming at the mouth and watching their heads spin around like Regan in the Exorcist. It means there worried and no matter what, most American’s want to give Donald Trump a chance. The only ones listen to this clap trap are other liberals. Who knows maybe we can deport more liberals. Fear the unknown you liberal trolls?
I do not care much for Donald Trump. As for Bannon, he appears to be an okay guy. As a libertarian, I will support the Trump Administration, unless it becomes another fiasco, like the Obama years. As a Jew, I am taking a wait and see position. I do think that Donald will do right by America and the same for the Jews. Time will tell.
And what about Barack Hussein Obama’s 20 years in Jeremiah Writhe’s VIOLENTLY anti-Semitic, anti-White and anti-American “church”? While Obama didn’t notice ANY of his “pastor’s” excesses…And the Obamista “mainstream media” buried the story alltogether!
Not surprised by the liberal left, this is how they operate. I do not have much faith in the Trump era either. He spoke out about draining the swamp and holding Hillary accountable, no common core, but his picks for his cabinet are very telling so far, I see a police state on the horizon.
Just trust Trump!
The arrogance of the lame streams in the media and the leftist parties shows no bounds. The biased media has been totally discredited and they just continue on, without missing a beat, like they really count for something. The left, well, no explanation is needed to show the depravity of these “people”.
As usual the left accuses people of the very things they are doing. If the MSM were to actually do their job and point out this hypocrisy we would have an electorate that may be a little more well informed.
Dear Media, Liberals, Lefts, Past Administrations, Soros, Pelosi, Celebrities, etc:
Don’t you get it yet? You ignored the wishes of “WE THE PEOPLE” in favor of you own agendas. You’ve alienated many of our closest allies in favor of the “others”. Some of you, with no moral scruples, would sell out your own. It is time for you all to BACK OFF, in favor of the AGENDAS OF AMERICANS!
As usual the left makes remarks that come back to haunt them. They totally ignore all the money that they have taken from George Soros. Not only the money Clinton took but, Soros was the biggest contributor to both of Obama’s presidential campaigns and his senate campaign. George Soros was born in Hungary, of Jewish ancestry, during WWII he collaborated with the Nazi’s. Now anyone could say a 15 year old kid collaborating with the Nazi’s trying to stay alive can’t condemn him for that, and I would agree, but look at how he collaborated, look at how much money he made and where that money came from, he did a hell of a lot more than collaborate. For him to be able to do that to his own people shows how little conscience this creature has.
Why are jewish people hated by
Some. The jewish people ive
Known have been kind .. Smart
And intelligent..with a lot of
Common sense. After all this group
Of people have been through..i just
Dont understand the hate.