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Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is attacking Donald Trump for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's response to a tweet that critics say included anti-Semitic imagery.
“Donald Trump’s use of blatantly anti-Semitic image from racist websites to promote his campaign would be disturbing enough, but the fact that it’s part of a pattern should give voters major cause for concern,” Sara Bard, the campaign’s director for Jewish outreach, said in a statement on Monday.
“Now, not only won’t he apologize for it, he’s peddling lies and blaming others,” she added.
Speaking of blatantly anti-Semitic imagery, Hillary Clinton was a big fan of the blatant anti-Semitism of Max Blumenthal whose work was cited by the Kansas City Jewish Community gunman.
Max Blumenthal has a long history of vile remarks about Jews, the most recent of them was his response to the death of Elie Wiesel, And his work has often been embraced by anti-Semitic bigots.
Blumenthal is mentioned over 300 times at VNN (a violently anti-Semitic site); mostly for his attacks on Jews and Israel. VNN members eagerly ate up Blumenthal’s conspiracy theories about Israel and every bit of negative reporting about Jews. One Blumenthal video even suggested that Rabbis were plotting to kill non-Jewish children.
Even political allies on the left disavowed Blumenthal's bigotry.
Here's The Forward on Max Blumenthal. "Lest anyone miss the point, many of his chapters have titles like “The Concentration Camp,” “The Night of Broken Glass,” “This Belongs to the White Man” and “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People.”
Blumenthal has repeatedly ridiculed the Jewish community and even called for the eradication of Israel.
"Almost halfway through their 83-minute encounter (minute 34:00 on YouTube), Lustick emotionally asks Blumenthal whether he believes, like Abraham at Sodom, that there are enough “good people” in Israel to justify its continued existence — or whether he’s calling for a mass “exodus,” the title of his last chapter, and “the end of Jewish collective life in the land of Israel.”
Blumenthal gives a convoluted answer that comes down to this: “There should be a choice placed to the settler-colonial population” (meaning the entire Jewish population of Israel): “Become indigenized,” that is, “you have to be part of the Arab world.” Or else…? “The maintenance and engineering of a non-indigenous demographic majority is non-negotiable.”
Lustick appears stunned. And not only Lustick. Philip Weiss, founder and co-editor of Mondoweiss, who was in the audience, wrote afterwards, in a rare rebuke of his own writer, that he saw “some intolerance in that answer.”
We live in a “multicultural world,” Weiss wrote. There should be room for Israelis. “The issue in the end involves the choice between an Algerian and a South African outcome.” Mass expulsion versus coexistence. “I’m for the South African outcome.”
Blumenthal isn’t. It’s a chilling moment, even for the anti-Zionists among us."
Max Blumenthal was too anti-Semitic even for the German left.
The Green Party MP Volker Beck, who is also chairman of the German-Israeli parliamentary group, declared that “while there are legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy, Blumenthal has consistently made anti-Semitic comparisons between Israel and Nazism.”
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has included Blumenthal in its “top 10″ list of anti-Semitic slurs for 2013, because of chapter headings in “Goliath,” such as “The Concentration Camp” and “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People.”
But Hillary Clinton was a huge fan of Max Blumenthal.
Blumenthal's father, Sidney, often shared Max's articles with Hillary, including "The Great Islamophobic Crusade" where Blumenthal began his career of conflating all evils of the world to Jews and Zionists, blaming them for anti-Islamic initiatives and then moving on to pretend that all Jews in Israel support murdering Arabs for no reason. Hillary asked her staff to "Pls print for me."
If Hillary Clinton wants to talk about blatant anti-Semitism, she needs to start by talking about Max Blumenthal.