30 July 2010

Say What, Now?

The New York Observer is reporting that a Democratic incumbent congressman, representing Staten Island, is circulating a list of "Jewish Money" donors to a potential Republican opponent.
The file, labeled "Grimm Jewish Money Q2," for the second quarter fundraising period, shows a list of over 80 names, a half-dozen of which in fact do hail from Staten Island, and a handful of others that list Brooklyn as home.
 "Where is Grimm's money coming from," said Jennifer Nelson, McMahon's campaign spokeman. "There is a lot of Jewish money, a lot of money from people in Florida and Manhattan, retirees."
 I know that the Left is the new home of antisemitism in the US, but this is pretty remarkable.  Taking as a given all the "what if a Republican did this" points, what could this jerk possibly have been thinking?  Presumably, he thinks that he knows his constituents.

4 comments:

PJ said...

He's probably projecting.

erp said...

Unfortunately given the ethnic makeup of Staten Island, it'll probably work.

Harry Eagar said...

It's a real stretch to propose that the left (whatever that is) is the new home of antisemitism, Jesse Jackson notwithstanding.

Antisemitism has always been broadly distributed. I associate Nazism with the right, but antisemitism in general with, well, with anybody.

Susan's Husband said...

Yes, it's not clear how new the juden-haas on the Left really is. Certainly the USSR, that darling o the American Left after WWII, was hardly friendly to Jews. Or look at how rapidly the Left adopted the genocidal Palestinian groups in the 1970s.