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Also to Becky Johnson (Aug 26)

"ZIONIST RABBIE MARC SCHNEIER: A HUCKSTER AND A HOAXSTER"


ZIONIST RABBI MARC SCHNEIER is the guy that hoodwinked hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons into signing some formal letter that SCNEIER himself, of course, wrote calling for Blacks to ally themselves with Jews -- NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND -- NOT EVEN RECIPROCALLY -- in an alliance against "anti-Semitism".

NO CALLS -- OF COURSE -- BY ZIONIST RABBI SCHNEIER FOR JEWS TO ALLY THEMSELVES WITH THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY, ANTI-BLACK/-LATINO RACIAL PROFILING, THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, SUBSTANDARD BLACK EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, OR THE SO-CALLED "WAR AGAINST DRUGS" (A WAR AGAINST THE BLACK COMMUNITY).

NOW, WHO IS IN A BETTER POSITION TO HELP WHOM?

FORTUNATELY, THE LETTER DID NOT GO OVER VERY WELL AT ALL IN THE NATIONAL BLACK COMMUNITY -- ESPECIALLY SINCE SIMMONS TRIED TO MAKE *EXCUSES* FOR EMINEM'S RACIST SONG AGAINST A *BLACK* GIRLFRIEND (WHOMEVER *SHE* WAS!) THAT BROKE UP WITH EMINEN.

(Simmons must have had some, direct or indirect, financial connection with Eminem's label, publicist, agency or something.)


"Rabbi Marc Schneier: A Huckster and a Hoaxster: Another Zionist Liar"

Exerpts from:

"Fraud Fit For A King: Israel, Zionism, And The Misuse Of MLK"
- by Tim Wise

[E]ven with my cynic’s credentials established, the one thing I never expected anyone to do would be to just make up a quote from King; a quote that he simply never said, and claim that it came from a letter that he never wrote, and was published in a collection of his essays that never existed. Frankly, this level of deception is something special. The hoax of which I speak is one currently making the rounds on the Internet, which claims to prove King’s steadfast support for Zionism.

...In the item, entitled “Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend,� King proclaims that criticism of Zionism is tantamount to anti-Semitism, and likens those who criticize Jewish nationalism as manifested in Israel, to those who would seek to trample the rights of blacks. Heady stuff indeed, and 100% bullsh*t, as any amateur fact checker could ascertain were they so inclined. But of course, the kinds of folks who push an ideology that required the expulsion of three-quarters-of-a-million Palestinians from their lands, and then lied about it, claiming there had been no such persons to begin with (as with [the late Israeli Prime Minister] Golda Meir’s infamous quip ["There is no such thing as a Palestinian!" -- a form of rhetorical genocide: denying Palestinian Arabs even exist!]), can’t be expected to place a very high premium on truth.

...Though [Zionist leader Mark] Finkelstein only recited one line from King’s supposed “letter� on Zionism, he lifted it from the larger letter, which appears to have originated with * RABBI MARC SCHNEIER *, who quotes from it in his 1999 book, “Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish Community.�

...The letter also was filled with grammatical errors that any halfway literate reader of King’s work should have known disqualified him from being its author, to wit: “Anti-Zionist is inherently anti Semitic, and ever will be so.� The treatise, it is claimed, was published on page 76 of the August, 1967 edition of Saturday Review, and supposedly can also be read in the collection of King’s work entitled, This I Believe: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That the claimants never mention the publisher of this collection should have been a clear tip-off that it might not be genuine, and indeed it isn’t. The book doesn’t exist. As for Saturday Review, there were four issues in August of 1967. Two of the four editions contained a page 76. One of the pages 76 contains classified ads and the other contained a review of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s album. No King letter anywhere.

Yet its lack of authenticity hasn’t prevented it from having a long shelf-life. Not only does it pop up in the * [RABBI MARC] * SCHNEIER book, but sections of it were read by the Anti-Defamation League’s Michael Salberg in testimony before a House Subcommittee in July of 2001, and all manner of pro-Israel groups (from traditional Zionists to right-wing Likudites, to Christians who support ingathering Jews to Israel so as to prompt Jesus’ return), have used the piece on their websites.

In truth, King appears never to have made any public comment about Zionism per se; and the only known statement he ever made on the topic, made privately to a handful of people, is a far cry from what he is purported to have said in the so-called “Letter to an Anti-Zionist friend.�

...And it is a tragedy that instead of King himself, we are burdened with charlatans like those at the ADL, or the Des Moines Jewish Federation, or RABBIs like MARC SCHNEIER who think nothing of speaking for the genuine article, in a voice not his own.

www.zmag.org/sustainers/c...20wise.cfm

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