Democrats need to address anti-Semitism in their party

While we appreciate their concern for such things as “re-tweets,” Democrat State Committee Chairman John Currie, Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, and Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver should spend some time looking inward, at their own party, and to the sickening cult of anti-Semitism present within it. 

It calls itself the BDS Movement – the Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement.  As New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer has said, the BDS Movement targets Israel.  Democrat Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib are among its leaders.   

According to the co-chair of the Bipartisan Task Force on Combatting Anti-Semitism, “The BDS movement demonizes Israel and Jews and applies a double standard whereby Israel is always wrong, and the ‘oppressed’ Palestinians are always in the right – regardless of whether groups such as Hamas are engaging in terrorist acts upon Israeli citizens.”

Earlier this week, the United States Congress passed a resolution denouncing the BDS Movement on a vote of 398 to 17.  The only New Jersey House member to vote against it was Bonnie Watson Coleman. 

Shouldn’t the Democrat State Committee have taken the opportunity to make its position known on the BDS Movement and on Congresswoman Watson Coleman’s vote?  We know that “tweets” are important, even “retweets,” but actual votes on legislation we believe are so much more important.

As a member of the Assembly, Democrat Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver was one of just three legislators to oppose a resolution that prohibited investment of state pension and annuity funds in anti-Jewish companies that followed the BDS Movement boycott of the Jewish State and Jewish businesses.  We would like to know if the Lt. Governor has changed her position on the BDS Movement since taking that vote?  We think that should interest the Democrat Party as well.

“Tweets” are important.  So are “re-tweets”.  But so are votes in Congress and the Legislature.

Chair Currie proves Dems have a sense of humor

It was a moment of mock seriousness when Democrat State Committee Chair John Currie commented on an aside made by Republican Assemblyman Parker Space to his Democrat opponent at a debate Tuesday night.  Trying his best to maintain self-control, Currie said that the "episode was no laughing matter."

We all thought he was about to lose it but you have to hand it to the gentleman, he has self-control.  Tight-lipped and buttock-clenched he continued:  "Elected officials have a solemn duty to work on behalf of their constituents to promote a safer, more prosperous New Jersey.  Assemblyman Space’s statements from last night suggest that he is neither capable of nor interested in fulfilling those responsibilities."

And then we all started laughing, rolling around on the floor, crying even.  There wasn't a dry pair of underpants in the room. 

Who did they get to write that?  Maybe it was the lobbyist who signs all Currie's checks -- Democrat State Committee Treasurer Kelly Stewart Maer.  Remember her, Mr. Chairman?  Did you keep track of all those critters she lobbied for during the past twenty or so years?  Those are not mere words, those are actions.

Your Treasurer -- the person who signs off on every expenditure made by your committee -- is a master of the over-the-top hyperbole  you are engaging in now. Need we remind you that in 2003 (when she was a lobbyist shilling for the corporate man) she actually accused Senator Loretta Weinberg of pandering to pedophiles.  We shit you not Mr. Chairman.  That's the hammer your Treasurer laid down on Senator Loretta -- and mightily pissed she was too. 

Now we don't want to be telling you your job, Mr. Chairman, but you used the words "solemn duty."  Are you kidding?  You have Democrats in the Legislature who think it's their "solemn duty" to have their love-interests employed at taxpayers' expense.  Need we go there?

But hey, if you really and truly are concerned about elected officials who appear unwilling or disinterested in fulfilling their "solemn duty" to "promote a safer, more prosperous New Jersey" then we want you to call this number...

(856) 251-9801

You recognize that number?  Yep, it belongs to your good buddy Senate President Steve Sweeney.  Now brother Sweeney has bottled up an important piece of legislation designed to crack down on this...

You, Chairman Currie, you should call Senate President Sweeney and ask him... no, Mr. Chairman you should INSIST that Senate President Sweeney allow that legislation to come to the floor for a vote when the Senate is in session after the election.

See, Mr. Chairman, until you can GUARANTEE that violent attacks like this will not happen to New Jersey families people will want the right to protect themselves from violence, bodily harm, and death.  And with police response times falling in poorer and working class areas, it is especially important that people are allowed to defend themselves.  After all, the Democrat Party can hardly ask people to suffer violence and death just so a few rich lobbyists can make a fashion statement.