(Jewish Group) California Democratic Candidate Praised Farrakhan On Facebook

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPCET!!)

A Democratic candidate for California’s state assembly praised the anti-Semitic and homophobic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Facebook and accused Israel of committing “genocide” against the Palestinians.

Maria Estrada is running in District 63 in Los Angeles’ southeast suburbs. In a comment last year on a thread about Farrakhan’s infamous interview with Mike Wallace of “60 Minutes,” Estrada wrote, “I, for one, enjoy listening to Farrakhan’s sermons.”

Farrakhan has claimed that “Zionist Jews” were behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks and that Jews control the government and Hollywood and use their power to make black men gay.


A group called Progressive Zionists of the California Democratic Party compiled other controversial comments made by Estrada.

“Democrats turn a blind eye to the genocide against Palestinians and justify it by bringing up the Holocaust,” she wrote last year. “As if what happened 70 years ago justifies it. Anyone who believes they are one of ‘God’s chosen people’ automatically feels superior and justified in all they do. Religious fanaticism is used to justify apartheid and crimes against Palestinians and no one should be okay with it. #FreePalestine.”

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Once again, we see those trying to justify anti-Semitism and "appreciating" a rabid anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynist. Just goes to show Orwell was right in "Animal Farm" when it was declared "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Jews are toward the bottom of the list.

[Mosby]

1. she says she is anti-zionist, not anti-semitic

And apparently isn't aware of the contradiction.

Seems like this is starting to become a thing.

[grossproffit]

2. She told Eric Bauman to keep "your party, your religion, and your people in check."

She even bashed California Democratic Chair Eric Bauman for not keeping “your party, your religion, and your people in check.”

Estrada was later found posting an extremely questionable cartoon that showed a man with an Israeli flag stabbed into his back. The cartoon replaced the Star of David on the Israeli flag with the swastika of the Nazis.

http://www.loscerritosnews.net/2018/07/11/maria-estrada-assembly-candidate-for-63rd-district-praises-anti-semitic-nation-of-islam-leader-louis-farrakhan-slams-her-own-party/

[Behind the Aegis]

3. What Progressives Should Learn From the Left-Wing Anti-Semite Challenging California's State Assembl

----Maria Estrada is running as a progressive challenger to California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon in the state’s 63rd district. Endorsed by multiple local chapters of the Bernie Sanders-founded Our Revolution, she came in second in the June primary with 28 percent of the vote, assuring her a showdown with Rendon in the general. There’s just one small problem: Estrada is also an anti-Semite, and not a particularly subtle one.

On social media, she has declared that, “I, for one, enjoy listening to Farrakhan’s sermons.” Louis Farrakhan, for those in need of a refresher, is the anti-Semitic and homophobic cult leader who has blamed Jews for everything from 9/11 to the slave trade. (In fact, while this article was being written, Estrada exhorted her Twitter followers to “listen to Louis Farrakhan.”) This past May, Estrada also attacked Eric Bauman, the chairman of the California Democratic Party, telling him to “try keeping your party, your religion and your people in check.” (Bauman is an openly gay Orthodox Jew.) She repeatedly accused Israel of committing Palestinian “genocide,” a blood libel on a national scale given that the Palestinian Bureau of Central Statistics records a four-fold increase in the Palestinian population since Israel’s founding.

Estrada’s particular brand of anti-Jewish invective highlights a challenge for progressives on anti-Semitism. To their credit, leftists find it easy to recognize and call out anti-Jewish bigotry when it appears on the right as undisguised Nazism, which is more than can be said of the president. But many progressives have trouble identifying and expunging such hate when it comes from one of their own and masquerades as “criticism of Israel.”

Indeed, when confronted with her history of anti-Semitic statements, Estrada knew exactly what to say. “To be clear, I am anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitic,” she told The Forward. Estrada did not explain how attacking California Jewish political figures over their religion or promoting Farrakhan were “anti-Zionist” positions. But she knew that by simply throwing Israel into the conversation and bashing it, she might be able to cash a “Get Out of Anti-Semitism Free” card among her compatriots. Similarly, after Women’s March organizer Tamika Mallory was exposed as a longtime promoter of Farrakhan and refused to repudiate him, she belatedly booked herself a trip to Israel and the West Bank with an anti-Israel group, in an effort to gloss over her promotion of an anti-Jewish preacher with some newfound anti-Zionism.

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On a positive note...

SHE LOST!