Haim Saban is a billionaire who grew up in the middle east (born in Egypt, raised in Egypt and Israel), now lives in Beverly Hills California….and has been a huge donor to the Democrat Party for a good many years.
Now, however, Mr. Saban – who is also a huge supporter of Israel – just may be starting to realize what the Democrat Party has devolved into.
From Mallory Shelbourne’s article at thehill.com:
Haim Saban, the Israeli-American billionaire who donated to Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign, has called Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) an “anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual.”
The remarks come as Ellison pushes to shore up support in his bid to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
“If you go back to his positions, his papers, his speeches, the way he has voted, he is clearly an anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual,” Saban said Friday during a forum at the Brookings Institution, according to CNN.
Ellison has received criticism over past comments defending Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. A 2015 report from the Anti-Defamation League highlighted a number of Farrakhan’s comments on the Jewish community over the years.
In 2012, according to the report, Farrakhan said “that the Koran says that Jews are the most violent of people. I didn’t write it, but I’m living to see it.”
Ellison responded by calling himself “a strong supporter of the Jewish state” and saying he’s voted for more than $27 billion in aid to Israel and was committed to the safety of the Jewish state.
keith ellison is a strong supporter of Israel? Yeah, sure. And david duke is a strong supporter of the American Jewish Congress.
What troubles me is not keith ellison’s lies about his “support” for Israel. I expect lies from ellison. And I’m certainly not troubled by Haim Saban’s realization that ellison is an Israel hater and anti-Semite.
What troubles me is that Mr. Sabin, certainly a savvy , intelligent man, did not see this coming.
Did he not notice that Hillary Clinton surrounded herself with Israel-hating, Jew-hating people? Did he not know about Huma Abedin’s family (her included) and its Muslim Brotherhood background? Or the self-loathing Jewish Israel-haters, like sidney blumenthal, his son max blumenthal and george soros?
Why did it take him this long? Why wasn’t he demanding that Hillary Clinton disgorge herself of people like this before and during the presidential campaign? Could he possibly have been so blinded by his Democrat partisanship that he did not see what was in front of his eyes?
Far more importantly, when do other Jews – not billionaire sugar daddies like Haim Saban but just plain everyday Jews who have spent their lives supporting Democrats – realize that this is where their party is headed….and has been for years?
The only way this stops, and reverses, is if Democrats pay too much of a price to keep things as they are currently going.
And every day Israel supporters, Jew and non-Jew alike, give Democrats a free pass on its direction regarding Israel is a day it stays in place.
