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Have They No Shame #1

A feature of the 2008 smear campaign against President Barack Obama in the Jewish community was the attempt to argue that Obama’s view toward Israel mirrored that of his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The McCain campaign refused to lower itself to such mudslinging. That did not, however, stop some GOP extremists in the Jewish community from doing so.

Now David Twersky, a former editor of the New Jersey Jewish News, is again dredging up this line of attack. Twersky, speaking about the President Conference’s Chair, Alan Solow, and his attempt to balance his statements on the tension between Israeli government and the the Obama Administration, said that “[h]e banked on the fact that he could square Jeremiah Wright and AIPAC.”

No serious observer of the Obama presidency believes that this Administration’s policy toward Israel is a reflection of Wright’s worldview. Yet someone with an ideological axe to grind, like Twersky, feels he can get away with such flinging of filth— a sad commentary on the state of political discourse in our community.

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