enhanced_deficit
10-02-2019, 11:42 PM
Does not seem like he's very bright.That said, those who call him 'Uncle Tom' cross the line, criticism should be without using such divisive labels.
Tried to look it up if he ever compared any American soldier to Mandela but so far did not find such a news report.
Cory Booker likened Gilad Shalit to Nelson Mandela
Media Analysis (https://mondoweiss.net/media-analysis/)
Philip Weiss (https://mondoweiss.net/author/philweiss/) on October 2, 2019
Nearly half of Americans are cynical about politicians’ use of Israel, according to a new poll. (https://www.businessinsider.com/american-jews-believe-israel-used-political-tool-us-politics-2019-9)“Around 28%… believed that ‘political figures often invoke Israel as a political tool more than genuine concern for the state,'” while another 18 percent believed that the politicians don’t “actually care about Israel at all, and strictly use it as a political tool.”
A 2012 speech by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker was lately published that might fulfill those skeptical attitudes, due to its over-the-top embrace of Israeli soldiers as “the most courageous men imaginable.”
Shabtai, a Jewish leadership group at Yale that Booker co-founded when he was a law student in New Haven, last month released a video (https://vimeo.com/357272468) of Booker at Shabtai in 2012, greeting Gilad Shalit, the former Israeli soldier/prisoner.
Shalit was captured by Hamas in 2005 and held for five years till he was released in a prisoner exchange. A year later, the 26-year-old came to the New Haven gathering with former members of his military unit.
Booker, who is on the right side of the Democratic field in his full-throated support for Israel, likened Shalit to Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years in South Africa.
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/10/cory-booker-likened-gilad-shalit-to-nelson-mandela/
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America-First: Trump's top funder Adelson wants his children to serve in Israeli military (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TFi-9wnspk)
Book: Trump inlaws Kushners funding behind Cory Booker, Kushner dad secretly met Booker (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?533660-Book-Trump-inlaws-Kushners-funding-behind-Cory-Booker-Kushner-dad-secretly-met-Booker&)
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/23/article-2429926-18340D7100000578-401_634x403.jpg
Cory Booker equates Israel to dream of MLK (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?430895-Cory-Booker-equates-Israel-to-dream-of-MLK&)
Cory Booker: 'You call me an Uncle Tom. I call you a fellow human being.'
Tried to look it up if he ever compared any American soldier to Mandela but so far did not find such a news report.
Cory Booker likened Gilad Shalit to Nelson Mandela
Media Analysis (https://mondoweiss.net/media-analysis/)
Philip Weiss (https://mondoweiss.net/author/philweiss/) on October 2, 2019
Nearly half of Americans are cynical about politicians’ use of Israel, according to a new poll. (https://www.businessinsider.com/american-jews-believe-israel-used-political-tool-us-politics-2019-9)“Around 28%… believed that ‘political figures often invoke Israel as a political tool more than genuine concern for the state,'” while another 18 percent believed that the politicians don’t “actually care about Israel at all, and strictly use it as a political tool.”
A 2012 speech by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker was lately published that might fulfill those skeptical attitudes, due to its over-the-top embrace of Israeli soldiers as “the most courageous men imaginable.”
Shabtai, a Jewish leadership group at Yale that Booker co-founded when he was a law student in New Haven, last month released a video (https://vimeo.com/357272468) of Booker at Shabtai in 2012, greeting Gilad Shalit, the former Israeli soldier/prisoner.
Shalit was captured by Hamas in 2005 and held for five years till he was released in a prisoner exchange. A year later, the 26-year-old came to the New Haven gathering with former members of his military unit.
Booker, who is on the right side of the Democratic field in his full-throated support for Israel, likened Shalit to Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years in South Africa.
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/10/cory-booker-likened-gilad-shalit-to-nelson-mandela/
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America-First: Trump's top funder Adelson wants his children to serve in Israeli military (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TFi-9wnspk)
Book: Trump inlaws Kushners funding behind Cory Booker, Kushner dad secretly met Booker (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?533660-Book-Trump-inlaws-Kushners-funding-behind-Cory-Booker-Kushner-dad-secretly-met-Booker&)
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/23/article-2429926-18340D7100000578-401_634x403.jpg
Cory Booker equates Israel to dream of MLK (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?430895-Cory-Booker-equates-Israel-to-dream-of-MLK&)
Cory Booker: 'You call me an Uncle Tom. I call you a fellow human being.'