Israeli Ambassador To Receive Award From Group Peddling Huma Abedin Conspiracy Theories
WASHINGTON ― Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. is set to receive an award from a think tank headed by a man who frequently claims that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top aide has ties to terrorist groups.
Ambassador Ron Dermer will be a guest of honor at the Center for Security Policy’s annual Freedom Flame award dinner in December, a formal ticketed event where donors can contribute $150 to $25,000 to attend. Top-dollar tickets include a “photo-op with dignitaries.”
It’s customary for diplomats to avoid being associated with partisan or extremist groups. But the Center for Security Policy, founded by Frank Gaffney, openly espouses far-right, anti-Islam views.
On Tuesday, for example, Gaffney tweeted a conspiratorial YouTube video accusing Huma Abedin, a Clinton aide, of having connections to a Saudi financier of al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. The video is “absolutely required viewing,” Gaffney wrote in his blog on the Center for Security Policy website.
Over the years, Gaffney has posited that President Barack Obama might be a Muslim, the Council on American-Islamic Relations is linked to Hamas, Muslim members of Congress shouldn’t be given access to classified information, and white nationalist Jared Taylor’s website is “wonderful.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ron-dermer-frank-gaffney_us_58191790e4b0f96eba96b6bd
Not an accident. The other recipient is a[nother] vile racist, Mort Klein.
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