Defender of the Jews
Scott Johnson

So Howard Dean called the Iraqi prime minister an "anti-Semite" yesterday as a result of his failure to condemn Hezbollah. Somewhat closer to Dean's jurisdiction as chairman of the Democratic Party, ranking Democratic Congressmen including John Dingell, John Conyers, Nick Rahall, Pete Stark, and Neal Abercrombie voted against House Resolution 921 condemning Hezbollah's attacks against Israel last week. I don't recall Dean commenting on their vote against the resolution.

Cynthia McKinney, among others, didn't vote on the resolution. According to the New York Times, however, Ms. McKinney has made "a series of...incendiary, often racial comments." As Professor Edward Alexander observed in 2004:

This is The New York Times' delicate way of alluding to the stridently anti-Semitic character of McKinney's 2002 campaign, in which "Jews" were repeatedly blamed for her faltering in the polls and for her eventual defeat. Her behavior did not deter House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, then the Democratic whip, from backing her to the hilt.

Also in 2002, the Alabama Democratic congressional incumbent Earl Hilliard attacked his challenger, Artur Davis, in a flier that read: "Davis and the Jews, No Good for the Black Belt." (Both men are black.)

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Contributed by Bill Faith on July 27, 2006 at 12:39 PM in Bill Faith, Dem Dumbness, Politics | Permalink

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