Here’s another incident for the “Lost Tribe” – i.e. Jews who keep convincing themselves that the Democrat Party is their safe haven – to ignore.
From Larry Celona and Carl Campanile’s article in the New York Post:
A Brooklyn legislator was accused Wednesday of delivering a bizarre tirade against Jews, while ripping Mayor Bill de Blasio as a sellout, during a local community board meeting this week.
Assemblywoman Diane Richardson’s 50-minute rant during the Board 17 meeting Monday night faulted Jews for gentrifying in her district, which includes East Flatbush, Flatbush, Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, according to an eyewitness.
During a rezoning talk, a board member complained that people constantly ring her doorbell to ask if she’s interested in selling her home.
“It must be Jewish people,” Richardson responded, according to Lew Fidler, a former City Council member who is Jewish and attended the meeting as a representative of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams
Before faulting Jewish interlopers, Richardson snidely referred to Brooklyn state Sen. Simcha Felder as “the Jewish senator from southern Brooklyn.”
Richardson apparently knew her remarks were controversial because she had board officials shut off the board’s tape recorder before her comments.
Richardson, in a statement, did not deny making the offensive remarks.
She said she works closely with Jewish constituents on a daily basis and “if by any chance or for any reason something I relayed or repeated was misconstrued, and as a result I offended anyone in any way, I sincerely apologize. I see us, all of us as human beings, and at the end of the day, we all bleed red, it was never my intention to insult or hurt anyone nor would it ever be.”
Classic. Singling out people because they are Jews….after making sure the comments are not recorded. Then, when they became known anyway, “apologizing” – not for what she so clearly said, but because people may have misconstrued it – in other words, it’s their fault, not hers.
Importantly, the article I just referenced is four days old. In that time, have you heard a word from Democrat leadership demanding that richardson resign? Stating that the Democrat Party has no place for this kind of…
….never mind, we both know you haven’t. Just as we both know you have not heard a word from Democrat leadership about the personal meetings which eight Democrat congresspeople have had over the years with the despicable anti-Semite/Black supremacist louis farrakhan.
And Israel? This poll, from the non-partisan Pew Research Center tells the story in graphic detail:
Whether we are talking about anti-Semitism, or Israel, or the Iran “deal”, it is clear that the Democrat Party, whatever it was to Jews in the past, is wholly different today. Yet the Lost Tribers still keep running to it, like lemmings running to the sea.
In the words of Bob Dylan, “When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?”
