Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who was US President Barack Obama's
pastor for 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ
on Chicago's south side, has endorsed the planned "March to
Jerusalem" slated for March 30th.
It follows on the heels of the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic
Doha Conference in Qatar on the
Defense of ‘Occupied’ Jerusalem," a two day long effort to
demonize Israel and deny Judaism’s more than three thousand
year connection to Jerusalem.
Both events are designed to reverse what their organizers
call the "Judaization" of "occupied Jerusalem."
The White House has refused to
comment on Wright's decision to endorse the "March
to Jerusalem", or the presence of State Department
consultants at the so-called Doha Conference.
The National Conference of Jewish Affairs said "That the
President's long-time pastor and "spiritual leader" is now endorsing the
Global March to Jerusalem, without a reaction from the White
House, underscores President Obama's failure to recognize
the unalterable significance of Judaism's multi-millennial
connection to Jerusalem, which is the capital of the Jewish State, Israel."
Wright, of "God Damn America" notoriety, has also asserted
on ABC News that the U.S. brought on the 9/11
attacks with its own "terrorism."
He has also made openly anti-Semitic statements saying Jews
have robbed him of his influence over Obama, “Them Jews
aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter,
that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck,
or in eight years when he's out of office."
"[T]he Jewish vote, the A-I-P-A-C vote, that’s controlling
him,” Wright also has also claimed.
Obama – who adamantly denied hearing any offensive
statements from Wright during his 20 years he was part of
the clergyman's flock, despite being shown numerous video
clips of them – has sought to defend Wright in the past.
"It's as if we took the five dumbest things that I've ever
said or you've ever said in our lives and compressed them
and put them out there — I think that people's reaction
would, understandably, be upset."
