Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Well lookee here, seems someone's finally come and called out the Green-Rainbow Party's Grace Ross on her anti-Semitism and general weirdness. Ross is actually on the verge of winning a Worcester City Council seat. So whadayaknow? Some people are coming out on the record and forcing the media to talk about it. This was something the Boston Globe never did during her Gubernatorial run in something like 38 articles that mentioned Ross. They never talked about what the GRP is really about: Jewish leaders criticize Ross, Candidate addresses Sudan, Columbine remark
WORCESTER— City councilor-at-large candidate Grace Ross, the former Green-Rainbow nominee for governor, has come under criticism from local Jewish leaders for positions she and her party took denying that genocide is occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan and for comparing the Jewish people to the Columbine High School killers.
The criticism could be damaging to her campaign for one of six at-large City Council seats, because Jews have been prominent in the nationwide movement to end the killing in Darfur, which most in the mainstream Darfur movement consider genocide, and because liberal Jews form one of Ms. Ross’ likely constituencies in the city.
“What’s going on in Darfur is clearly genocide and for anyone who believes in justice to question that, when the evidence is so overwhelming, is like, ‘What are they thinking?’ ” said Jordan Millstein, rabbi of Temple Emanuel, a reform Jewish congregation, and an activist in the Save Darfur coalition. “And the reference to Columbine is completely bizarre. It’s absolutely absurd.”
The Green-Rainbow Party’s official statement on Darfur is that it is “a racist mischaracterization” to call the civil war in Sudan genocide and that U.S. military and economic intervention has impoverished and destabilized the northern African country.
Ms. Ross attended a Statehouse rally with other Green-Rainbow Party candidates last October, during her run for governor, and was photographed in front of another party official holding a sign that said, “Divest from Israel not Sudan.”...
I actually have video and photos of that rally. They're so obsessed that the usual suspects couldn't hold it together for an hour or so and not look like insane, Hizballah supporting freaks in front of the MSM while the GRP was busy trying to look norml. They had to get the banners out "Support the Resistance," etc...
...Ms. Ross, who said her parents were Episcopalian but that she grew up in a “Jewish community” in Manhattan, responded that stances of candidates in their political parties are not relevant to local government and that she should not be tied directly to the positions of her party from a year ago.
“I’m not a spokesperson for the Green-Rainbow Party. Deval Patrick is not a spokesperson for the Democratic Party,” she said...
Bull. GRP candidates have to agree to the GRP's platform and "ten key values." Many of us recall her campaign appearance at a local synagogue where she spoke under a banner (not hers, it was already there) that read, "Stand with Israel, Stand for Democracy" and how she had to defend herself (BTW, she contrary to what she says, she completely dodged the question of Israel and never said a word about the sign during her appearance) from attacks on their email list later for having the GALL to do such a thing, to speak under such a blasphemy. She had to argue that she didn't recall any such sign and it was even argued that the photo may have been faked. (I have the video to go with the stills, btw.)
Do check out the comment thread. Guess who makes an appearance, why if it isn't Karin...nice friends Ms Ross.
