Anti-War Rally Misinformation about Jewish Groups' Role in McKinney's Defeat

Anti-War Rally Presenter Misinforms About Pro-Israel Jewish Groups’ Role in McKinney’s Defeat

As is typical in not only political discourse in Bush’s regime, but even in the liberal –left-progressive- democrat public discourse, any reference to pro-Israel Jewish groups enormous political influence is pointedly omitted or only obliquely referred to.


It’s still the big elephant in the room that, with the exception of a few brave souls, is rarely talked about publicly, and certainly not very loudly. However, you will be able to read much more about Jewish pro-Israel influence in a Jewish publication such as http://www.forward.com than in mainstream U.S. corporate media. Of course there are some alternative websites such as http://www.antiwar.com and http://www.electronicintifada.net which will also set the record straight, yet not with the pro-Israel slant of course. But even many so-called liberal, socialist or progressive websites, newspapers, and magazines often seem to have a policy to omit or obfuscate the uniquely influential role of pro-Israel Jewish groups and individuals in shaping U.S. policies and public discourse, with the main goal of keeping the status quo with regards to the US-Israel relationship.

For example, how ludicrous that the much bally-hooed “Project Censored”failed to mention the words “Jews”, “Zionists”, “Israel”, or “pro-Israel” in its top, number-one censored story which highlighted the Neo-Conservatives role behind the war on Iraq, when everyone knows that most of the Neo-Conservatives are right-wing, militaristic, pro-Israel Jews such as Wolfowitz, Perle, Kristol, Abrams, Libby, and so on. The security along with the further empowering and expansion of the Jewish state of Israel is the driving agenda behind these Neo-Conservatives. To omit this important fact is outrageous misinformation and obfuscation.

No wonder so many Americans are confused.

No wonder so many Americans fail to see the connection between Israel’s racist, colonialist aggression towards Palestinians and the war on Iraq (and maybe soon, Syria and Iran). The war on Iraq is Israel’s war by proxy (the U.S.), as the Malaysian prime minister referred to in his controversial speech last week. Everyone knows it’s true in the rest of the world. However most Americans remain in the dark about this. But one only need look at the Neo-Conservative’s website http://www.newamericancentury.org to see that the U.S. is being steered to do Israel’s bidding.

So why should I be surprised to hear the presenter of Cynthia McKinney at the anti-war rally yesterday give more misinformation (lies?) about McKinney’s defeat in the primaries last year?

The presenter said that McKinney, a democrat from Georgia, lost the election for keeping her position as Congresswoman, last year due to the Republicans. What a joke. First of all, McKinney lost in the primaries! She didn’t even make it past the democratic primaries.

McKinney lost to another Black democrat, Denise Majette. There was a big flap about it too, because after the primaries, McKinney’s father blamed it on “the J-E-W-S” and he was predictably trounced by the ADL as “anti-semitic”. In fact, McKinney, like another Black democrat, Earl Hilliard, was pro-justice for Palestinians, and Jewish groups from across the nation poured money into their opponents campaigns. McKinney and Hilliard were outspent by over $1 million each, and clearly out-maneuvered, and both lost their seats.

Many Jewish republicans also crossed the line to vote democrat in order to oust McKinney and Hilliard. In that way, there is a grain of truth to the statement that republicans helped to oust them. But the main factor was not that the voters were republican, but they were pro-Israel Jewish voters. To pin McKinney’s defeat on republicans is certainly obfuscation of the truth, and most likely this was done deliberately as it is done so often in U.S. media.

For more info:
http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.23/news2.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0822-06.htm