Martin Luther King On Zionism
Here you go, you ignorant waste of space
This "letter to an anti-Zionist friend", is a hoax and a lie.
Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CAMERA: Hoax: Martin Luther King's "Letter to an anti-Zionist Friend"
nice job posting lies, you Mossad agent. You're now two for two.
The Letter is not a lie, Hamas agent, it cannot be verified, and is in line with other verified quotes from MLK.
But Martin Luther's other quote regarding anti Zionism being anti Semetism is 100% true.
MLK Supported Israel.
With the predictability of hedgehogs, anti-Zionists are attacking me for protecting Martin Luther King Junior’s memory from what I called an act of intellectual grave-robbery. In demonstrating that it was disrespectful to King and demeaning to the university, for University of Pennsylvania fanatics to use the civil rights martyr’s birthday to libel Israel, I quoted from Bayard Rustin’s column condemning the 1975 Zionism is Racism resolution, in which “Rustin invoked King’s famous comment that ‘when people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism.’”
In writing that blog post—and in writing the chapter in my book "Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism"—I used this King quotation carefully, aware of the controversy surrounding one King statement on Zionism, and how critics used it to impeach the credibility of anyone who mentioned King’s support for Israel and contempt for anti-Semitism. I checked the King quotation issue before publishing it—and proceeded because I was summarizing Rustin’s column. Yes, the "flowery" letter which King supposedly wrote to an anti-Zionist friend has not been verified—that is what pro-Israel sources like Camera and others called a hoax. But just because one letter was not authenticated does not mean that every Martin Luther King quotation on Israel and Zionism is false.
Here's part of what Camera said—it's pretty rude and foolish to quote a fact-checker inaccurately: "The flowery, pro-Zionist 'Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend'… allegedly written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is apparently a hoax. However, the basic message of the letter was indeed, without question, spoken by Martin Luther King, Jr. at a dinner in Cambridge, MA, shortly before he was assassinated. At that dinner, he rebuked a student who made an anti-Zionist remark, saying, 'When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.' (See, e.g., 'The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel' by Seymour Martin Lipset; Encounter magazine, December 1969, p. 24.)"
