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Democrats Must Scrutinize Keith Ellison’s Anti-Semitic Past And Ties To Radical Islam
The man poised to head the Democratic Party was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam well into his 30’s who publicly spewed anti-Semitism and later in life as a Congressional candidate knowingly accepted $50,000 in campaign contributions given and raised by Islamic radicals who openly supported Islamic terrorism and were leaders of front groups for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
And once in office as a Congressman, Keith Ellison more than hinted that 9/11 was an inside job carried out to create pretext for war against Muslims – a trope often pushed by anti-Semites who claim Israeli or “Mossad” complicity – by comparing 9/11 to the Reichstag Fire, the infamous 1933 arson of the German Parliament building, which the Nazis pinned on Communists and thus used to gain majority control of the government and establish Nazi Germany.
To be clear, Ellison has never genuinely repudiated his past anti-Semitism or his close association with the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) or its co-founder, Nihad Awad, who has publicly supported Islamic terrorism.
For nearly a decade, from law school through his first run for state representative in 1998, Ellison openly identified with the Nation of Islam. This was not simply a question of religious observance. He was dedicated to slamming “Zionism” and Jews, while repeatedly and vocally defending Farrakhan. As a law student and proud NOI member in 1990, Ellison helped sponsor a speech titled: “Zionism: Imperialism, White Supremacy or Both?,”
according to the respected Scott Johnson of Power Line Blog, who also noted that “Ellison reject[ed] the appeal of Jewish law students to withdraw sponsorship of the lecture.” In 1995, Ellison wrote in a local Minneapolis newspaper under his nom de guerre, “Keith X Ellison,” a stirring defense of repugnant and unabashed anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, stating emphatically, “Farrakhan is a role model for Black youth.” He even went the extra step of denying decades of evidence, saying, “[H]e is not an anti-Semite.”
Acting as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, a 33-year-old Ellison read aloud that he was there to “support the truth” of her alleged comment that “Jews are the most racist white people.” One of his pieces of evidence was that “in some Black areas, some exploitative shopkeepers are, yes, Jewish.”
It should be more than a little concerning that he felt the need to defend and expound upon the anti-Semitic remarks attributed to a woman who subsequently disclaimed any connection to them.
Perhaps if Ellison’s troubling judgment ended in the 1990’s, that would be one thing. But if anything, he continued exhibiting tight bonds right up until entering Congress with people whose views are, if anything, more disturbing than Farrakhan’s.
In his 2006 campaign that ultimately won him his first term in Congress, Ellison received roughly $50,000 campaign contributions that were given or raised by officials of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was spun off of Hamas front group Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). Several senior CAIR employees have been jailed and convicted for ties to terrorism, and IAP apparently shuttered in 2004after its was found liable in a 2004 civil court case of supporting terrorist organization Hamas.
This was not casual or incidental contact. Ellison had a nearly two decade-long friendship at the time with CAIR co-founder Nihad Awad, who declared in a 1994 speech at Florida’s Barry University, “I’m in support of the Hamas movement.” Hamas, of course, is a recognized terrorist organization dedicated to the mass murder of Jews and destruction of Israel. Awad’s CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad, explained his bizarre support for terrorism at the 1999 conference of IAP (both he and Awad were senior officials there before starting CAIR in 1994) by praising suicide bombers who “kill themselves for Islam”: “Fighting for freedom, fighting for Islam, that is not suicide. They kill themselves for Islam.” (Transcript provided by the Investigative Project.) Ahmad glorified suicide bombers at a
youth session, meaning he was addressing teenagers and perhaps even younger children.
Awad headlined a Minneapolis-area fundraiser before the September 2006 primary that, in a call at the time with this journalist that the campaign estimated raised upwards of $20,000, and he was the only speaker besides Ellison himself. A month prior, Awad also bundled $10,000 in contributions for the campaign (including his own $2,000 check). The month after my September 2006 reporting about this financial support from Awad and CAIR officials, Ellison travelled to Florida for yet another CAIR-hosted fundraiser, which netted over $20,000.
Ellison also received $500 from Esam Omeish, former president of the Muslim Brotherhood front group, Muslim American Society, who has publicly defended the “moderate” views of the Muslim Brotherhood and who reportedly pushed for the hiring at his local Northern Virginia mosque the radical cleric Anwar al-Alwaki, who later took refuge in Yemen as a spiritual leader of and recruiter for al Qaeda. (Al-Alwaki in 2011 famously became the first American targeted and killed by a drone strike.)