Double Standards/Selective Outrage: If #SteveBannon Is "Anti-Semitic"--What Is Al Sharpton?

By Larry Elder, Nov. 18, 2016 

Alan Dershowitz says "no evidence" exists to show that Steve Bannon, named senior advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is anti-Semitic:

http://youtu.be/NjyXAILMyU4



Here, the leader of a Zionist organization not only defends Bannon, but demands that the Anti-Defamation League retract their denunciation of him:

https://grabien.com/story.php?id=74311&utm_source=cliplist20161118&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cliplist&utm_content=story74311

This brings us to Rev. Al Sharpton, whose anti-Semitic words and actions continue to get a pass from the same media that scrutinizes and castigates Steve Bannon.
After all, Sharpton could be fairly described as a President Barack Obama "advisor." When Rudy Giuliani claimed Rev. Sharpton visited the Obama White House "80, 85 times," the Washington Post fact checker weighed in:

"Of the 82 visits logged for Sharpton, there were 10 entries that either appear to be duplicates, or are canceled appointments. We identified duplicates using the appointment start time; presumably, there was one Al Sharpton in a meeting starting at the exact same hour and time, in the same location, for the same purpose. The database even logged meetings that are canceled. That means there were at least 72 instances since Obama took office where Sharpton visited the White House for official business."

Goodness.

"At least 72" visits, according to the Washington Post, by Sharpton to the Obama White House?!? That's enough visits to at least call Sharpton an Obama BFF, if not qualify Rev. Al for frequent flyer miles. As such, one would think the media just might be interested in Sharpton's record of actions and statements of anti-Semitism.

Some highlights:

CROWN HEIGHTS/ “DIAMOND MERCHANTS”: In 1991, Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old black child was killed in a traffic accident in Crown Heights (in Brooklyn), when a car driven by a Hasidic Jew went out of control. Sharpton turned it into a racial incident. Sharpton led 400 protesters through the Jewish section of Crown Heights, with one protester holding a sign that read, “The White Man Is the Devil.” There were four nights of rock- and bottle-throwing, and a young Talmudic scholar was surrounded by a mob shouting, “Kill the Jew” and stabbed to death. A hundred others were injured. Sharpton said, “The world will tell us that [Gavin Cato] was killed by accident….What type of city do we have that would allow politics to rise above the blood of innocent babies?…Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights….All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise. Pay for your deeds.” Later Sharpton said, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”

ARAFAT: When Sharpton announced a 2001 trip to the Middle East, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach helped plan his itinerary. Sharpton, according to the Rabbi, promised not to meet with Yassir Arafat, yet only days later, Jewish New Yorkers opened the morning paper to see a smiling Arafat and Sharpton, meeting and shaking hands in Israel. Furious, Rabbi Boteach said, “Prior to our recent trip to Israel, U.S. black leader Reverend Al Sharpton and I discussed several times that there were to be no meetings with Arab or Palestinian leaders, not because I wished to set preconditions for our travel, but because the express objective of our mission was to show solidarity with Israeli victims of terror. The idea was to provide a magnanimous gesture of friendship and solidarity with the Jewish nation that would hopefully have strong reverberations for the relationship of the Jewish and black communities back home.”

FREDDY’S FASHION MART/”WHITE INTERLOPER”: 1995. A Jewish store owner in Harlem was accused of driving a black record store owner out of business, when the United House of Prayer, one of the largest black landlords on 125th Street, raised the rent on the Fashion Mart owned by a Jew, Freddy Harari, who then raised the rent on his subtenant, Sikhulu Shange, who ran a record store. At one of many rallies meant to scare the Jewish owner away, Sharpton said, “…There is a systematic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear…that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” Following a demonstration three months later, one of the protestors, a black man, stormed Freddy’s Fashion Mart with a pistol, screaming, “It’s on now! All blacks out!” In addition to shooting, he set fire to the building, eventually killing himself and seven others. Initially, Sharpton denied having spoken at any rallies. When tapes surfaced, he said, “What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?” Eventually, he apologized—but only for saying “white,” not “interloper.”

Moral to the story: Bannon, despite evidence to the contrary, is "anti-Semitic."  But, as to Sharpton, despite ample evidence of his anti-Semitism, it's "see no evil..."

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