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<h1>Anti-Semitism czar's first target is Israel</h1></font>
<h2>Obama envoy hails group accused of working against Jewish state</h2></font>
<hr size="1">Posted: December 25, 2009
10:55 pm Eastern
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By Aaron Klein</font>
©2009WorldNetDaily
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JERUSALEM – In her first major interview since becoming President
Obama's newly appointed anti-Semitism czar last month, Hannah Rosenthal
yesterday blasted the Israeli government for its criticism of a lobby
group accused of anti-Israel activity.
Rosenthal characterized as "most unfortunate" a decision by
Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, to not attend
the annual dinner in September of J Street, a lobby group that is
mostly led by left-leaning Israelis and that receives funds from Arab
and Muslim Americans.
In an interview yesterday from Jerusalem with Israel's Haaretz
newspaper, Rosenthal said Oren "would have learned a lot" if he had
participated in J Street's conference.
Rosenthal was in Israel as the Obama administration's envoy to the Foreign Ministry's Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism.
"I came away realizing what a generational divide there is and I
don't know how it is in Israel. Young people want to be part of the
discussion, they feel they have fresh ideas and they feel that we have
to end the stalemate," she said, speaking of the J Street dinner.
Rosenthal stated it was important that new and different voices need be heard regarding Israel in the American Jewish community.
"It is not 1939," she said. "We have the state of Israel. We have laws in countries that are holding people accountable."
Regarding a recent U.N. report accusing Israel of war crimes during
the Jewish state's defensive war in Gaza last year, Rosenthal told
Haaretz, "it is not anti-Semitic to look at a certain policy of Israel
and say – I disagree with it. Half of the population in Israel isn't
anti-Semitic by not agreeing with policies."
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That U.N. report has been blasted as one-sided and as relying largely on Hamas information and Palestinian witnesses.
Continued Rosenthal: "I do believe that some of the criticism
against Israel is anti-Semitism but not all of it is. And I think that
healthy democracies – and Israel is one – ha[ve] to do self reflection
and the world looks at the light unto the nations and says I agree to
this policy or I don't agree – that is not anti-Semitism."
Rosenthal serves on the board of J Street, which states on its
website it seeks to "promote meaningful American leadership to end the
Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts peacefully and
diplomatically."
J Street supports talks with Hamas, a terrorist group whose
charter seeks the destruction of Israel. The group opposes sanctions
against Iran and is harshly critical of Israeli offensive anti-terror
military actions.
Reacting to Rosenthal's remarks yesterday, Jeffrey Goldberg at
The Atlantic commented, "the Obama administration official charged with
monitoring worldwide anti-Semitism makes her first target... the
Israeli ambassador to the United States? I'll be taking bets now on how
long Hannah Rosenthal lasts in the job."
The Israeli government, meanwhile, has been distancing itself
from J Street. When its ambassador, Oren, refused to attend the annual
J Street dinner, Israeli embassy spokesman Yoni Peled told the
Jerusalem Post his government has some "concern over certain [J Street]
policies that could impair Israel's interests."
The Powerline blog</span></font> (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120076#) previously documented how far-leftist Israelis (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/05/020634.php)
are influential in the J Street leadership, including former Knesset
Speaker Avrum Burg, who generated controversy when he stated, "To
define the state of Israel as a Jewish state is the key to its end."
Another key J Street member, Mideast expert Henry Siegman, has compared Israel to apartheid South Africa.
Rosenthal was anti-war activist
WND recently reported Rosenthal was a 1960s anti-war activist and community organizer (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117501) whose husband worked with the founder of a socialist party, of which, according to documentary evidence, Obama was a member.
Hannah Rosenthal, a former Health Department regional director
under the Clinton administration, started her position last month as
the State Department's special envoy to monitor and combat
anti-Semitism. She previously headed the Jewish Council for Public
Affairs, an umbrella U.S. Jewish organization.
Rosenthal was a community organizer who became involved in the anti-war and civil-rights movements in the 1960s.
Her husband, Richard Phelps, is an executive from Wisconsin. In
Madison, with 1.5 percent unemployment, Phelps worked with University
of Wisconsin professor and socialist activist Joel Rogers to create a
pilot program through the blue-ribbon Economic Summit Council to train
workers and match skills with jobs.
That same year, while running for a seat in the Illinois Senate
as a Democrat, Obama actively sought and received the endorsement of
the socialist New Party, according to confirmed reports during last
year's presidential campaign. Rogers was founder of the New Party.
The New Party worked alongside the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. The New Party's aim was to help
elect politicians who espoused its policies. Among New Party members
was linguist and radical activist Noam Chomsky.
Obama's campaign last year denied the then-presidential candidate was ever an actual member of the New Party.
But the New Zeal blog dug up print copies of the New Party News,
the party's official newspaper, which show Obama posing with New Party
leaders, listing him as a New Party member and printing quotes from him
as a member.
The party's spring 1996 newspaper boasted: "New Party members
won three other primaries this Spring in Chicago: Barack Obama (State
Senate), Michael Chandler (Democratic Party Committee) and Patricia
Martin (Cook County Judiciary)."
The paper quoted Obama saying, "These victories prove that small-'d' democracy can work."
The newspaper lists other politicians it endorsed who were not members but specifies Obama as a New Party member.
New Ground, the newsletter of Chicago's Democratic Socialists of
America, reported in its July/August 1996 edition that Obama attended a
New Party membership meeting April 11, 1996, in which he expressed his
gratitude for the group's support and "encouraged (New Party members)
to join in his task forces on voter education and voter registration."
A former top member of the New Party recounted in a WND e-mail interview Obama's participation with his organization. (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107731)
"A subcommittee met with (Obama) to interview him to see if his
stand on the living wage and similar reforms was the same as ours,"
recalled Marxist activist Carl Davidson.
"We determined that our views on these overlapped, and we could endorse his campaign in the Democratic Party," Davidson said.
Davidson was a Chicago member and activist within the New Party.
He told WND he handled some of the New Party member databases and
attended most of the party's meetings.
Davidson is also a notorious far-left activist and former
radical national leader in the anti-Vietnam movement. He served as
national secretary for the infamous Students for a Democratic Society
anti-war group, from which the Weatherman domestic terrorist
organization later splintered.
Davidson remembers Obama attending one New Party meeting to thank attendees for voting for him.
Davidson said that to his knowledge Obama was not a member of the New Party "in any practical way" – using qualifying language.
Becoming a New Party member required some effort on behalf of
the politician. Candidates must be approved by the party's political
committee and, once approved, must sign a contract mandating they will
have a "visible and active relationship" with the party.
Asked whether Obama signed the New Party contract, Davidson replied there was "no need for him to do so."
"At the end of our session with him, we simply affirmed there
was no need to do so, because on all the key points, the stand of his
campaign and the New Party reform planks were practically the same,"
Davidson told WND.
The socialist-oriented goals of the New Party were enumerated
on its old website. Among the New Party's stated objectives were "full
employment, a shorter work week and a guaranteed minimum income for all
adults; a universal 'social wage' to include such basic benefits as
health care, child care, vacation time and lifelong access to education
and training; a systematic phase-in of comparable worth and like
programs to ensure gender equity."
The New Party stated it also sought "the democratization of our banking</span></font> (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120076#) and financial</span></font> (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120076#)
system – including popular election of those charged with public
stewardship of our banking system, worker-owner control over their
pension assets [and] community-controlled alternative financial
institutions."
Many of the New Party's founding members were Democratic
Socialists of America leaders and members of Committees of
Correspondence, a breakaway of the Communist Party USA.
The New Party, established in 1992, took advantage of what was
known as electoral "fusion," which enabled candidates to run on two
tickets simultaneously, attracting voters from both parties. But the
New Party went defunct in 1998, one year after fusion was halted by the
Supreme Court.
According to DSA documents, the New Party worked with ACORN to
promote its candidates. ACORN, convicted in massive, nationwide
voter-fraud cases, has been a point of controversy for Obama over the
presidential candidate's ties to the group.
In 1995, the DSA's New Ground newsletter stated, "In Chicago, the New Party's biggest asset</span></font> (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120076#) and biggest liability is ACORN.
"Like most organizations, ACORN is a mixed bag," the newsletter
said. "On one hand, in Chicago, ACORN is a group that attempts to
organize some of the most depressed communities in the city. Chicago
organizers for ACORN and organizers for SEIU Local 880 have been given
modest monthly recruitment quotas for new New Party members. On the
other hand, like most groups that depend on canvassing for fundraising,
it's easy enough to find burned out and disgruntled former employees.
And ACORN has not had the reputation for being interested in coalition
politics – until recently and, happily, not just within the New Party."
Aside from founding the New Party, Rogers also was co-founder
of the Apollo Alliance, a group of U.S. business, labor, environmental,
and community leaders which reportedly aided in the drafting of Obama's
stimulus and cap and trade</span></font> (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120076#) bills.
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