How would you feel about a congressperson who hates Israel enough to cozy up with a self-hating Jewish holocaust denier who actually said that the October 7th Massacre of over 1,200 civilians/taking of almost 250 hostages “warms every fiber of my soul.”?
From Matthew Kassel’s article at jewishinsider.com we have this:
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) introduced a controversial anti-Israel scholar, Norman Finkelstein, who has accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust to legitimize Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, at a panel discussion on the Israel-Hamas war last Sunday in Westchester County, where the congressman expressed his admiration for the polarizing author and activist.
“I’m a bit starstruck,” Bowman said of Finkelstein, whose 2000 polemic, “The Holocaust Industry,” has faced allegations of promoting conspiracy theories about Jewish extortion, and the other guests who participated in the discussion at the Andalusia Islamic Center in Yonkers. “I watch them all the time on YouTube.”
Finkelstein, a political scientist who in 2007 was denied tenure at DePaul University amid charges of antisemitism, which he dismissed as politically motivated, has long been a divisive figure for his comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Jewish son of Holocaust survivors has voiced support for Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon, and compared Israel to Nazi Germany, among other incendiary remarks.
Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attacks, Finkelstein also celebrated the massacre as a “heroic resistance” akin to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, writing that “it warms every fiber of my soul.”
I don’t care of you are Jewish or not Jewish. Black or not Black. Democrat or not Democrat. This sack of fetid waste needs to be booted from office.
But, given the political subservience of so many in his district (north Bronx/south Westchester) to the Democrat party? It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if he’s back again after the 2024 elections.
We get what we deserve. And we deserve what we get.
