Do we really need all Democrats

[leftynyc]

to have to answer for this? We will if Rep Ellison is the head of the DNC.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/keith-ellison-democratic-national-committee-chair

Michael Olenick, a Jewish student who clashed with Ellison and who was the opinions editor at the Daily, recalled Ellison maintaining that an oppressed group could not be racist toward Jews because Jews were themselves oppressors. "European white Jews are trying to oppress minorities all over the world," Olenick remembers Ellison arguing. "Keith would go on all the time about 'Jewish slave traders.'" Another Jewish student active in progressive politics recalled Ellison's incredulous response to the controversy over Zionism. "What are you afraid of?" Ellison asked. "Do you think black nationalists are gonna get power and hurt Jews?" (Ellison has rejected allegations of anti-Semitism. "I have always lived a politics defined by respecting differences, rejecting all forms of racism and anti-Semitism," he wrote recently. He declined to be interviewed for this story, and his office did not respond to detailed questions from Mother Jones.)


If Rep Ellison wont even answer to a friendly outlet like Mother Jones, we have bigger problems. We don't need this kind of division of loyal Democratic groups.

[guillaumeb]

1. What Ellison said:

I have always lived a politics defined by respecting differences, rejecting all forms of racism and anti-Semitism," he wrote recently

[leftynyc]

2. That's very easy to say

It looks like the people who ACTUALLY worked with him see it differently. I stand by my comment 1000% - we don't need this kind of distraction.