From Our Archives: Meet Obama’s Other anti-Israel, NOI-friendly Supporter
By Bud White on August 2, 2008 at 5:30 AM in Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Black nationalism, Chicago politics, Current Affairs, Farakkhan, Hate Speech, New York Times, Race, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Superdelegates, Tony Rezko
Obama’s breathtakingly bad judgment in choosing friends seems to know no end. First it was the crude, anti-white Jeremiah Wright. Next came Obama’s benefactor, the corrupt Tony Rezko. Then it was America’s favorite terrorists couple, Ayers and Dohrn.Now Obama is listing on his Web page as a “testimonial” of “People of Faith” a woman who is a friend and ally of the rabidly anti-semitic, anti-white leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan. The person in question is Rev. Willie Barrow, now a superdelegate and co-chairperson of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition-Operation Push. But Willie Barrow is not just a friend of Louis Farrakhan. In what’s becoming a disturbing pattern — including Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan traveling to Libya together in 1984 and meeting with Mouammar Kadhafi — Barrow is a known supporter of the PLO, in addition to being a friend and ally of Farrakhan. In 1988, in a gesture towards Jesse Jackson and his supporters, Michael Dukakis appointed Barrow and two others to the Democratic National Committee. The New York Times reported at the time that:
A group of House Republicans charged today that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic Presidential nominee, had appointed three ”anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian” members to the party’s ruling body and challenged him to dismiss them.Representative Norman F. Lent, Republican of Nassau, said the three members were appointed to the 400-member Democratic National Committee after the party’s convention last July in Atlanta as a gesture of conciliation to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the defeated Presidential contender.Mr. Lent identified the three as the Rev. Willie Barrow, executive director of Mr. Jackson’s Chicago-based Operation PUSH; Robert Farrell, a Los Angeles City Councilman and close Jackson associate, and Ruth Ann Skaff of Houston, whom he said was a spokeswoman for the pro-Palestinian Ad Hoc Committtee on Lebanon.Mr. Lent said that Mrs. Barrow and Mr. Farrell were supporters of the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, a radical Muslim leader who has made anti-Semitic statements. He said Ms. Skaff had led anti-Israel demonstrations.
Barrow’s fondness for Farrakhan — a man who describes Jews as Satanic — is best summoned up in this quote:
Mrs. Barrow was quoted in a 1985 article in The Washington Post as saying, ”I love my brother, Minister Louis Farrakhan. The devil don’t like it, Chicago don’t like it, the world don’t like it, but we love it.”
Not only does Barrow love Farrakhan, he returns the love to Barrow:
And Farrakhan has loved Willie Barrow back, affectionately quoting her in his sermons. During the recent NOI scandal Willie Barrow served as the chair of the Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes. When the Nation of Islam Minister of Protocol Claudette Marie Muhammad joined the commission, its Jewish members resigned after Muhammad invited other commissioners to a speech by Farrakhan filled with anti-semitic invective. Barrow, however true to her ties with the Nation of Islam, continued to defend Muhammad and condemn the commissioners who resigned.
It’s now beyond doubt that Obama has surrounded himself with the leaders of the America-hating neo-left movement, a twisted form of “liberalism” which embraces and promotes anti-white and anti-Semitic rhetoric, fomenting resentment and demanding payback . Is America willing to accept and can it endure the moral relativism which Obama would bring to the White House? What would be the cost?
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