ADL demands Michael Oren walk back ‘unjustified attack’ on Obama

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he Anti-Defamation League lashed into former Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren Sunday for a number of “unjustified and insensitive” essays he published in US media, one of which claimed that President Barack Obama’s foreign policy may have been unduly influenced by his early upbringing among adherents of the Muslim faith.

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Foxman took issue especially with the Foreign Policy piece, which he termed “borderline stereotyping.”

“Ambassador Oren revives the meme of the president’s ‘Muslim heritage’ to make the case that American foreign policy in the Middle East is primarily being promoted and dictated by the president’s early upbringing in the Muslim faith and in Muslim traditions,” Foxman said,

President Barack Obama welcomes Ambassador Michael B. Oren of the State of Israel to the White House Monday, July 20, 2009, during the credentials ceremony for newly appointed ambassadors to the United States (White House photo)
US President Barack Obama welcomes Ambassador Michael B. Oren of the State of Israel to the White House Monday, July 20, 2009, during the credentials ceremony for newly appointed ambassadors to the United States (White House photo)

Oren’s essay, he continued, “veers into the realm of conspiracy theories, and with an element of amateur psychoanalysis he links US policies in the Middle East to the president’s personal history of having a Muslim father. Then, taking it a step further by suggesting this ‘worldview’ of Muslims and Islam has driven the president to embrace the Muslim world at the expense of both Israel and US national security interests. This results in borderline stereotyping and insensitivity.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/adl-demands-michael-oren-walk-back-unjustified-attack-on-obama/

Netanyahu has pointedly refused to dissociate himself from anything Oren has said.

Just how common is this racist, anti-American mindset in Israel?

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1. "Just how common is this racist, anti-American mindset in Israel?"

About as common as it is in the United States.

Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, etc. rant and rave about this stuff all day long to millions of American fans who agree with their every racist anti-Obama word.

To say nothing of the disrespect Obama has received from a wide variety of Republicans in Congress and several Republicans who are currently running for President.

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2. Which Congressional Republicans have been as explicitly bigoted

towards Obama as Oren has?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Crickets...