Anthony Weiner Enters 2013 New York Mayoral Race (VIDEO)

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52. Are you familiar with ZOA?

While in Congress, he was a card-carrying member of that anti-Arab hate group.

http://zoa.org/wp-content/uploads/media/user/images/ZOAReportF09.pdf

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) gave his customary greeting that he hails from “the ZOA wing of the
Democratic Party.” He strongly rebutted the notion
that the U.S. should be funding the Palestinians:
“Until they demonstrate that they are not supporting
terror, they should not be getting one dime of
U.S. taxpayers’ money.”

http://zoa.org/2007/11/10630-jta-dinner-with-zoa-two-morts-a-weiner-bibi-sr-a-berkley-hawk/

Under the leadership of its president, Mort Klein, the ZOA has been the most consistent and, often, the most effective American opponent of Israeli territorial concessions and U.S. support for the Palestinian Authority.



The ZOA’s base is a mixture of secular and Orthodox right-wing Zionists, who can come together on at least one point: their belief that Arabs are murderous Jew-haters who will be motivated, not mollified, by Israeli and American appeasement. There were loud cheers when Klein insisted that peace could only be achieved after the Arab side was dealt a decisive military defeat and when he said that Jerusalem was more important than peace — that no deal would be acceptable, even if it were to bring peace.

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another Jewish Democratic congressman with strong ties to ZOA, Brooklyn’s Anthony Weiner, continued his annual tradition of showing up for the dinner and giving an impromptu speech. And, of course, he broke out his usual line, saying that he and Berkley “come from the ZOA wing of the Democratic Party.”



Weiner took what everyone I talked to understood to be a swipe at AIPAC:

That's right--Weiner considers AIPAC to be insufficiently anti-Arab.






He got his start in politics by engaging in anti-black racism.

http://www.salon.com/2011/06/07/anthony_weiner_1991/

It was at this point that Weiner’s campaign decided to blanket the district with leaflets attacking his opponents. But these were no ordinary campaign attacks: They played the race card, and at a very sensitive time. They were also anonymous.

Just weeks earlier, the Crown Heights riot — a deadly, days-long affair that brought to the surface long-standing tension between the area’s black and Jewish populations — had played out a few miles away from the 48th District. The episode had gripped all of New York and had been national news. It was just days after order had been restored that Weiner’s campaign distributed its anonymous leaflets, which linked Cohen — whose voters he was targeting in particular — to Jesse Jackson and David Dinkins, who was then New York’s mayor. It is hard to imagine two more-hated political figures in the 48th District at that moment. Jackson just a few years earlier had called New York “Hymie town,” and it was an article of faith among white voters in Weiner’s part of Brooklyn that Dinkins had protected the black rioters in Crown Heights — and thus endangered the white population — by refusing to order a harsh police crackdown. (Two years later, Dinkins would lose to Rudy Giuliani by an 80-20 percent margin in the 48th District.) The leaflets urged voters to “just say no” to the “Jackson-Dinkins agenda” that Cohen supposedly represented. At City Hall, Dinkins held up the flier and branded it “hateful.”

Fuck Anthony Weiner.