{"id":63935,"date":"2018-09-10T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63935"},"modified":"2018-09-17T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:32:23","slug":"17-05-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63935","title":{"rendered":"WHY DID THE CLINTONS SHARE A STAGE WITH FARRAKHAN?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>WHY DID THE CLINTONS SHARE A STAGE WITH FARRAKHAN?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

ALAN DERSHOWITZ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Many younger people on the Left may not know the extent of Farrakhan\u2019s bigotry, or they may condone it by claiming that he did a service to black communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHY WAS Bill Clinton on the same stage of Louis Farrakhan.. (photo credit: REUTERS)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Imagine President Trump being invited to speak at the funeral of a white singer whom he admired (say Ted Nugent, if he were to pass), and he saw that David Duke was on stage in a place of honor. Imagine the reaction of the media if Trump actually gave a speech in the presence of David Duke. Well, former president Clinton gave a speech in the presence of Louis Farrakhan. (Hillary Clinton was sitting off to the right but did not speak.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Why would Bill Clinton, a good man and a friend of the Jewish people, do this? There are several possible answers:<\/span><\/p>\n

1) He was taken by surprise at Farrakhan\u2019s presence and didn\u2019t want to do anything that would disrupt the service. But the shoe-on-the-other-foot question remains: Would he have acted similarly if it had been Duke rather than Farrakhan?<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) Clinton doesn\u2019t believe that refusing to sit alongside a bigot is the proper response to bigotry. Again, the shoe-on-the-other-foot question: Would he sit alongside Duke?<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) Clinton doesn\u2019t regard Farrakhan as comparable to Duke. But that is simply wrong \u2013 Farrakhan is a blatant antisemite with an enormous following.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(4) Farrakhan\u2019s antisemitism is not as serious a problem as Duke\u2019s white supremacy. But without getting into comparative assessments of bigotry, antisemitism is surely a serious and growing problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Farrakhan is at least as bigoted as Duke. This is a man who only last year called Jews members of the \u201cSynagogue of Satan\u201d and claimed that Jesus called the Jews \u201cthe children of the devil.\u201d Farrakhan is also a homophobe who claimed that \u201cJews [are] responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into men.\u201d In the past, Farrakhan delivered similar remarks, claiming, \u201cWhen you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door\u201d and calling Hitler \u201ca very great mean.\u201d He\u2019s also a racist, claiming, \u201cWhite people deserve to die.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Many younger people on the Left may not know the extent of Farrakhan\u2019s bigotry, or they may condone it by claiming that he did a service to black communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

FOR EXAMPLE, Tamika Mallory, co-founder of the Women\u2019s March, called Farrakhan \u201cGOAT (greatest of all time).\u201d And Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison once called him \u201ca role model for Black youth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year a picture of Barack Obama smiling with Farrakhan emerged. (Although I supported Obama both in 2008 and 2012, I would not have campaigned as enthusiastically for him had I known about this suppressed photograph then.) Keith Ellison, who may become Minnesota\u2019s next attorney-general, later distanced himself from Farrakhan but, like Mallory, claimed that Farrakhan\u2019s contribution to black empowerment is \u201ccomplex.\u201d Would we accept this kind of complexity and nuance if a white singer\u2019s family had invited David Duke?<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals need to make unequivocally clear that the Democratic Party tent will never be big enough for antisemites and anti-Americans like Farrakhan (just like Republicans need to do the same with sympathizers of the so-called alt-right.) There are not \u201cgood people\u201d on the side of antisemitism any more than there are \u201cgood people\u201d on the side of white supremacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no place for a double standard when it comes to antisemitism. Black antisemitism should not get a pass account of the oppression suffered by so many black people. Neither should \u201cprogressive\u201d tolerance of antisemitism of the kind shown by Bernie Sanders\u2019s support for Jeremy Corbyn, the antisemite who heads the British Labour Party and may well become the next prime minister of America\u2019s closest ally.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just contrast the Aretha Franklin memorial service with the current controversy surrounding the decision of The New Yorker to invite Stephen Bannon for what promised to be a critical conversation with the journalist David Remnick. After many prominent liberals, such as Judd Apatow, Jim Carrey, and Patton Oswalt announced that they would not attend lest they \u201cnormalize hatred,\u201d Bannon was disinvited. Chelsea Clinton tweeted, \u201cFor anyone who wonders what normalization of bigotry looks like, please look no further than Steve Bannon being invited by both @TheEconomist & @NewYorker to their respective events in #NYC a few weeks apart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To that I would add, look no further than the Clintons sharing the stage with Farrakhan. I hope they will take this occasion to distance themselves from, and strongly condemn Farrakhan\u2019s antisemitism.
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Follow Alan Dershowitz on Twitter @AlanDersh and on Facebook @AlanMDershowitz.<\/em><\/span>
\nThis article first appeared in The Hill.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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