By COLlive reporter
Liel Leibovitz, a senior writer for Tablet Magazine and a host of the Unorthodox podcast, penned a scathing article titled “The Mind-Bendingly Insane, Completely Craven, Utterly Unconscionable Redemption of Al Sharpton.”
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs planned a virtual event this week with Sharpton whom Leibovitz calls “currently America’s only living pogrom leader.”
The event was eventually cancelled thanks to behind-the-scenes communications between the organization and a Chabad Rabbi and a Crown Heights official with COLlive.com playing a part as well.
But as Leibovitz points out, the fact that it was even considered acceptable is a worrisome development.
In 1991, “Sharpton was quick to arrive on the scene, leading a march in which participants burned an Israeli flag and called to kill all Jews,” Leibovitz writes.
During his eulogy for the black boy killed in a car accident by a Jewish driver, Sharpton “borrowed heavily from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, saying that the Jewish residents of the neighborhood practiced “apartheid” and were there only to further the Jewish global grip on money and power.”
The incitement came with a heavy price: 20 Black men surrounded Yankel Rosenbaum, a 29-year-old Lubavitcher, stabbing him in the back and beating him so badly they smashed in his skull. Rosenbaum succumbed to his wounds later that night.
“Sharpton showed up on the scene soon after, ensuring that the rioting continued for days,” the Tablet article points out, adding that Sharpton had “ample opportunity to apologize for his prominent role in this modern day anti-Semitic bloodletting. He never did.”
Now, he is a talk show host on MSNBC and an adviser who reportedly regularly speaks to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
So who is responsible for the “kashering” of Sharpton? Leibovitz points to the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and specifically it’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, a former aid to President Barack Obama.
When Jews were being assaulted in Brooklyn last year, Leibovitz says Greenblatt payed “lip service to anti-Semitic violence from groups traditionally associated with the left” because “it was impossible not to, given the swelling of violent incidents involving Black assailants battering Jews in New York, hardly a stronghold of the Klan.”
Greenblatt, she writes, “refused to even seek out the minorest price from Sharpton for bringing him back into the fold of acceptability—not even a simple apology that would at least telegraph a distaste for anti-Semitism to Sharpton’s many followers.”
VIDEO: News coverage of 1991 Crown Heights riots
The ADL was never not a leftist group. Nothing changed since 1991. The ADL (and the other Jewish Establishment orgs) ran for the hills during the pogrom.
We all remember this.
The ADL was established by Jews, for Jews and other disenfranchised, beat-upon peoples. In their righteous efforts to protect minorities, namely blacks, they forget why they were founded in the first place. They refuse to acknowledge that those victims are victimizing other minorities, namely their very own. The left tends to sympathize based on skin color. They are darker and therefore they are the victims, and whites are perpetrators, even if they too are minorities. The same principles are behind the assumption in the Left that darker ‘Palestinians’ are victims of ‘whiter’ Israelis. They ignore the facts of who is… Read more »