Keith
Ellison Embraces Anti-Semitic UK Leader Jeremy Corbyn
by Ariel Behar • Jul 3, 2019 at
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a former Democratic National
Committee deputy chairman, posted
a photo of himself Tuesday night with U.K. Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn's Labour Party has been embroiled in an anti-Semitism controversy
that has seen key leaders leave the party. Nearly 40 percent of British Jews said they would consider leaving the U.K. if he were to
become prime minister.
Ellison, a savvy politician, has to be aware of Labour's problems. That
did not give him pause about posing with Corbyn, who has embraced
terrorist organizations Hamas and Hizballah and called them his friends.
"Awesome day in London," Ellison wrote, "especially
meeting with Rt. Hon. Jeremy Corbyn – a true grassroots organizer."
Before becoming Labour leader, Corbyn praised a re-issue of a
century-old book that claims Jews control banking and the press. Corbyn
wrote a foreword in the 2011 edition of J.A. Hobson's "Imperialism:
A Study."
"I am sickened that Labour is now perceived by many as a racist,
anti-Semitic Party," MP Mike Gapes wrote in a February resignation letter posted on social
media. "But there has been considerable reluctance since then to
seriously deal with hundreds of cases of anti-Semitism and several
prominent anti-Semites have been readmitted to the Party."
An ongoing investigation by Great Britain's Equality and Human
Rights Commission (EHRC), drew 100 witnesses, The Guardian reported.
Despite the scrutiny, "Nothing has changed," Jewish Labour
Movement Secretary Peter Mason told the newspaper. "We continue to see
the same behaviour that we have seen for a very long time and no action
taken to tackle it."
Ellison, a former congressman, is also no stranger to embracing bigotry
and anti-Semitism.
In 2010, Ellison promised at a private fundraiser that Israel's
influence on American foreign policy would change once more Muslims got
involved in politics.
He was also forced to denounce Louis Farrakhan, a fervent Jew-hater, despite the fact that he met
privately with him in 2016. Ellison had said that his ties to the Nation of
Islam and Farrakhan ended
in the early 1990s.
Ellison insists he's being unfairly maligned. But he does himself no
favors when, as a state attorney general, he makes a point of showing the
world he's aligned with Corbyn. In 2015, Ellison criticized U.S. Rep. Steve King's invitation to
anti-Muslim Dutch activist Geert Wilders.
Wilders, who has advocated banning the Quran and Islam, has a right to speak, Ellison said. But "we
should not be offering the United States Congress as a platform for hate,
division and bigotry."
Somehow, it's okay to provide a platform for hate, division and bigotry
if it's in the United Kingdom?
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