If it weren’t enough that one Georgia Democrat candidate for the
US Senate is an avowed Black Liberation theologian, now comes word
that both candidates are campaigning with an individual who is not
only an anti-Semite, but one so hateful that he would like to see
Israel wiped from the face of the map.
Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, two Democrats hoping to
unseat US Sens. David Purdue (R-GA), and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA),
respectively, have hit the campaign trail with a Progressive
politician who aggressively compared Jews to “termites” just a
few years ago.
Ossoff and Warnock campaigned with US Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA),
who has had no issue with making anti-Semitic remarks in the past.
This move comes as
Warnock faces scrutiny for his being a Black Liberation
theologian and aligning with – and even championing – the
anti-Semitism of Rev. Jeremiah Wright who famously preached, “No,
no. Not God bless America. God damn America.”
Both Warnock and Wright have made anti-Semitic and anti-Israel
remarks that put them in the same ideological demographic as Louis
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
.@ossoff &
@ReverendWarnock
in the Senate will fight to protect
#healthcare for all American families by safeguarding
pre-existing condition protections, no matter how hard some
Republicans will work to strip them away. pic.twitter.com/24sLkAv0LN— Hank Johnson (@ReElectHank)
December 5, 2020
In 2016, Johnson compared Jewish Israeli settlers to
“termites” while speaking at an event sponsored by the
organization US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an
anti-Israel group that coalesces supporters of the Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS).
“There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can
get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been
eaten up and you fall in on yourself, there has been settlement
activity that has marched forward with impunity and at an
ever-increasing rate to the point where it has become alarming,”
Johnson said during the event.
“It has come to the point that occupation, with highways that
cut through Palestinian land, with walls that go up, with the
inability or the restriction, with the illegality of Palestinians
being able to travel on those roads and those roads cutting off
Palestinian neighborhoods from each other,” Johnson continued.
“And then with the building of walls and the building of check
points that restrict movement of Palestinians. We’ve gotten to
the point where the thought of a Palestinian homeland gets further
and further removed from reality.”
The US State Department has officially declared it recognizes
BDS campaigns as being anti-Semitic. Under President Trump – and
wholly in juxtaposition to the Obama administration – the US
government is identifying organizations that support BDS and
terminating relations and contracts with said organizations.
Johnson also suggested that “Jewish people” steal the homes
of Palestinians.
“You see one home after another being appropriated by Jewish
people who come in to claim that land just because somebody did not
spend the night there,” Johnson said. “The home their
[Palestinian] ancestors lived in for generations becomes an Israeli
home and a flag goes up,” he said, adding, “the Palestinians
are barred from flying flags in their own neighborhoods.”
This isn’t the first time that Ossoff and Warnock have stood
shoulder to shoulder with Johnson. He also campaigned with them at
an October event in Lithonia.
