Keith Ellison's long history of anti-Semitism has been covered previously.
And, back in 1989, Keith Ellison was already being condemned for anti-Semitism. The Minnesota Daily opinion editor, Michael Olenick, described Ellison’s writing as "a genuine threat to the long-term safety and well-being of the Jewish people, a threat that history dictates must not be ignored."
"Time and time again my people have been slaughtered after the words of Hakim (Ellison) and those like him influenced the masses," Olenick writes.
In a more recent comment, Olenick compared Ellison to David Duke.
In 2006, when running for Congress, he claimed that he had worked with “local members of the Nation of Islam” and other African-American leaders “over a decade ago” and "at no time did I ever share their hateful views... or approve their hateful statements directed at Jews."
Those are lies. Keith Ellison had defended Nation of Islam bigots from Khalid Abdul Muhammed (“that old no-good Jew, that old imposter Jew, that old hooked-nose, bagel-eating, lox-eating… just crawled out of the caves and hills of Europe, so-called damn Jew”) to Joanne Jackson ("Jews are among the most racist white people I know") through a large section of his early adult life.
And Keith Ellison is still lying.
Keith Ellison spent a likely eleven years of his life affiliated with a racist and anti-Semitic hate group. Since then he has lied about it and distorted his past. That alone should be disqualifying.
The radical extremists supporting Keith Ellison's candidacy have no response to this. So they have simply resorted to repeating the same lies. With the aid of a compliant media that makes it very clear that it has taken Ellison's side.
The JTA's latest news story about Ellison and the allegations of anti-Semitism is misleading in a very basic way.
Some 300 Jewish community leaders have signed a letter in support of Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who is running to serve as head of the Democratic National Committee.
About 100 rabbis are among the signatories to the letter that was issued ahead of the DNC-sponsored regional candidate forum in Phoenix on Saturday. The letter states that it is not an endorsement of Ellison for DNC chair, but rather “a call to reject the unfair and baseless accusations some have leveled at him.”
The story goes on this way largely quoting the letter and adding almost nothing to it. It does not specify who actually signed the letter or link to it. There's a very good reason for that.
The source of this "Jewish" letter is Keith for DNC. A website prepared and paid for by the campaign to make Ellison the head of the DNC. It's an open online signing setup trolling for signatures.
The JTA story functions as a press release repeating most of the letter's contents while making it seem like this was an independent initiative. No names are listed raising serious questions about whether the JTA's writer even saw such a list. The story is blatantly dishonest and it's another example of the extremists in the media promoting an extremist candidate using deceptive and dishonest tactics.
UPDATE: The JTA has updated its article/press release with several names. Most of them are anti-Israel activists, e.g. Jill Jacobs, Arthur Waskow, Sharon Brous. And there's Ilya Sheyman of MoveOn, whose tenure witnessed the group engage in a blatantly anti-Semitic campaign in defense of the Iran nuke sellout.