I'm sure the media will be discussing this as much as they've discussed Obama's photo with Louis Farrakhan. And then they'll us that the real anti-Semitism we should be worried about is on Twitter.
Assemblywoman Diane Richardson’s 50-minute rant during the Board 17 meeting Monday night faulted Jews for gentrifying in her district, which includes East Flatbush, Flatbush, Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, according to an eyewitness.
During a rezoning talk, a board member complained that people constantly ring her doorbell to ask if she’s interested in selling her home.
“It must be Jewish people,” Richardson responded, according to Lew Fidler, a former City Council member who is Jewish and attended the meeting as a representative of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.
Before faulting Jewish interlopers, Richardson snidely referred to Brooklyn state Sen. Simcha Felder as “the Jewish senator from southern Brooklyn.”
Richardson suggested that the real-estate industry is gunning for her but developers had the mayor and the borough president in its pocket, an attendee said.
“All they have on me is a broomstick,” Richardson reportedly said.
That was a reference to her 2016 arrest for allegedly beating her son with a broomstick — a charge that was later dropped.
A broomstick seems appropriate. What the story leaves out is that Diana Richardson (proper spelling) is a creature of the Working Families Party. That's spelled ACORN. And is an incubator for radical leftists. And it's no surprise that a politician associated with the hateful WFP would be anti-Semitic. And you can bet that the WFP will keep standing by her. As they did during the broomstick incident.
Bill Lipton, New York State director of the small, left-leaning Working Families Party, said Richardson was committed to her son.
“He’s a really good kid,” he told the New York Times. “He’s super-precocious. I’ve seen her and her son together for many years. It’s a very close, loving relationship. He was on the campaign trail with her all the time,”Lipton said.
Bill Lipton had also signed on to a letter defending Linda Sarsour despite her support for anti-Semitic racists like Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam.
Three of the signatories to the Sarsour letter are with the Working Families Party. They include the WFP’s biggest bigwigs, Dan Cantor, its National Director, Joe Dinkin, its National Communications Director, and Bill Lipton, its New York State Director. Cantor is a former ACORN activist and Lipton is a former ACORN employee who studied under Eric Foner, an apologist for Communism and Iran.
It may be time to ask whether the WFP has a Jewish problem. If it defends Diana Richardson instead of doing the right thing, it will be guilty of tolerating anti-Semitism.
I have reached out to the NY WFP and Bill Lipton on Twitter. As of now, there has been no response.
Ruben Suazo, who describes himself as a, "Campaign Field Director,Outreach Coordinator, Activist, DREAMER", did defend Richardson on Twitter.
@nypost loves to target #DianaRichardson#CrownHeights because she is a woman of color. When th White man or Woman makes antisemitic comments of the Afro-Caribbean or Afican American Community, all are silent. This is simply #FakeNewshttps://t.co/kiCtjtklPx
— Ruben Suazo (@RealRubenRodas) April 5, 2018