Jews Big for Obama While Unrepresentative "Conference of Presidents" Hijacked by Republican Party
Greg Sargent shares this repulsive mailer the Republican Jewish Coalition is putting out in Ohio. Disgusting stuff. And totally racist.
But, hey, it's the Republican Jewish Coalition and these mailers are in keeping with the McCain/Palin campaign. If McCain/Palin was not running a racist campaign, neither would the RJC. They are a partisan organization and don''t pretend to be anything else.
Far more disturbing is the pro-McCain activities of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations as reported here. The Conference is made up of 51 major Jewish organizations including including good progressive ones like Americans for Peace Now. (My own organization, Israel Policy Forum has always rejected joining the conference.)
In any case, the Conference of Presidents is promoting McCain although it is nonpartisan by law. (Although not relevant in a legal context, 80% of the membership of the Conference's constituent organizations -- and most of the Presidents too -- are for Obama.)
What's going on here?
I don't know although the word on the street is that a few neocon staffers push the whole organization to the right. In any case, the Conference ought to shut down or start acting like a neutral umbrella group.
No wonder the public gets the (false) impression that Jews, the most Democratic of voting blocs, are a bunch of reactionaries.
I received something like that through my inclusion in a Haaretz mailing list. And I thought Haaretz is supposed to be the good guys.
November 3, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha'aretz has been awful on this election.
November 3, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
A schande for di velt!
November 3, 2008 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is there any evidence that the Conference would not have done the same thing had Sen. Obama's campaign asked it to notify its mailing list of an Obama conference call with Jewish leaders?
I'm strongly for Obama, but this is really a non-story. Did you ask Americans for Peace Now to comment on this? If so, what did they say? If not, why not?
November 3, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink