"Jews for Palin" group consists of one, maybe two Jews

[meegbear]

It's Passover, and Sarah Palin is wearing her Star of David necklace again. So it's a good time to check in on a group that launched just over one year ago, Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin.

The outfit, which launched to a fair amount of attention in 2010, describes itself as an "independent group of academic, religious and political leaders" devoted to promoting Palin. Its founder, a Philadelphia-based former newspaper editor named Binyamin Korn, told me last April that he would be releasing a list of prominent supporters of "Jews for Palin" within a couple of weeks. But that never happened. In fact, there's no evidence the group is anything more than a website and public-relations vehicle consisting of one member -- Korn himself.

Korn has not responded to an email I sent a week ago asking about all this. And he did not immediately return a phone call today.

While Palin has been known to make strange comments about Israel and polls very poorly among the largely liberal American Jewish population, Korn saw a potential champion in Palin. When he launched the Jews for Palin group last year, he told me Palin was "mainstream, charismatic, and she seems to get under the president's skin effectively."

Besides Korn, the only other named member of Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin is the anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller, who has described herself as a proud member of the group's "National Advisory Board." One cached page from the group's website states: "our national Advisory Board (in formation, tba) includes a distinguished scholar of Hindu-Buddhist-Jain, and Jewish, studies." The Hindu-Buddhist-Jain scholar in question is not named.

Meanwhile, the Jews for Palin website remains under construction.

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/sarah_palin/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/04/20/jews_for_sarah_palin

[PCIntern]

1. Buddy Korn, whose Dad dated my separated mother when I was 14,

is a slimy S.O.B., and lemme tell you this: his Dad was a very important Rabbi in the Reform movement whose expertise was American Civil War Jewry, particularly in the South. Buddy has never been able to live up to his father's erudition or command of a pulpit. His name is Binyamin like mine is Jahwahral...

On edit: people's past CAN catch up with them. This guy, you can take it from me, since I was also 'friends' with Doug Feith in my youth, is another "AZ"....Absolute Zero. There are two listed rightchere!

[Turbineguy]

2. Sarah Palin and Two Jews

walked into a bar.......

[PCIntern]

3. ...and the bartender said:

"What is this, some kind of joke?"

[Motown_Johnny]

7. Then Sarah said:

I never go anywhere without my lawyer and.....

[PCIntern]

12. my mohel!

[pwb]

4. The two could be the Koch brothers?

Or maybe Rupert Murdock and Roger Ailes. She may need their money and T V time so she can tell us how we are a christian nation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. quelle surprise?

[Raksha]

6. LOL! Why am I not surprised?

[rzemanfl]

8. Well, they'd need two or it would be "Jew for Palin" wouldn't it? n/t

[gratuitous]

9. Ordinarily, I'd agree with that

But considering the mendacious nature of practically everything connected to Quitterella, that "s" could be lying, too.

[csziggy]

10. Are they the entire former membership of "Jews for Buchanan"?

[rock]

11. Wow! Twice as many as I would have guessed.

n/t

[salinen]

13. academic

& Palin should not be used in the same sentence.