Kudos to Elizabeth Berney, candidate for Congress, for exposing the Democrat JINO (Jew in name only) anti-semite Gary Ackerman. We must out these enemies of our people. This slob is more interested in furthering his political ambitions with an antisemitic administration than he is in the survival of his own people.
He is the lowest of the low. We need to broadcast the evils of this glutton and rid ourselves of this pox on our people. He has the audacity to show up at Israel rallies, speak at AIPAC, all the while behind the scenes he is feeding and supporting the Arabic/Islamic narrative. There is where Jewish lay leadership fails us -- why invite this enemy to and give him the imprimatur of friend of Israel when he is nothing of the kind?
We expect this betrayal and lies from anti-semites. When blood libels come from a traitorous fraud who uses his Judaism to further his career among his Jewish constituents while stabbing us in the back, he must be made to pay a political price. He will answer to a higher authority.
We must support candidates like Berney who is decent and good. It's time to stop giving a free pass to cretins like Ackerman. Destroy the political career of turncoat opportunists like this pig.
CONGRESSMAN ACKERMAN: WE DEMAND THAT YOU IMMEDIATELY RETRACT YOUR FALSE ACCUSATION THAT ISRAEL PERPETRATED “POGROMS” AGAINST PALESTINIANS.
At a Congressional hearing this week, Congressman Gary Ackerman, Chair of the Mideast Subcommittee, falsely accused Israel of perpetrating “pogroms” against Palestinians. On Feb. 12, 2009, The Jewish Telegraphic News Agency reported:
“Ackerman
slams settlements, Israeli attitudes,”
Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House of Representatives Middle East subcommittee, made clear in a subcommittee hearing Thursday that he was not trying to draw a moral equivalence between Israeli hard-liners and Palestinian terrorists, "but they are all part of the same destructive dynamic."
In his opening statement, Ackerman described "downward pressure" that "comes from terrorism and the march of settlements. It comes from the firing of rockets and the perpetration of settler pogroms. It comes in daily images of destruction and the constant reiteration that 'they only understand the language of force.' " . . . .
Please join attorney Elizabeth (Liz) Berney in demanding that Congressman Gary Ackerman should immediately retract his outrageous false accusations that Israelis perpetrated “pogroms” on Palestinians. The accusation that Israelis committed such atrocities is totally untrue. This is the type of blood libel which has been used to instigate attacks on Jews around the world, similar to the false accusations in 2000 that Israelis killed al Dura (proven to be false in a trial in France), which were the pretext for Muslim riots and attacks on Jews in France. The libel that Israeli settlers perpetrated pogroms is also reminiscent of the false accusations of a "massacre" in Jenin, which never occurred. Ackerman should immediately publicly retract his false statements and issue an apology to Israel and all the people in our district who are outraged at his comments.
Elizabeth Berney, Esq.
Here is Elizabeth Berney's full oped piece.
OP ED By Elizabeth Berney, Esq.
CONGRESSMAN ACKERMAN SHOULD IMMEDIATELY RETRACT HIS FALSE ACCUSATION THAT ISRAEL PERPETRATED “POGROMS” AGAINST PALESTINIANS
Words can be very powerful - and can be very destructive. History has shown us the incredible damage that a false accusation can do. When I was a child, my father often spoke of his experience growing up in Germany in the 1930s. In the newspapers, the schools, and everywhere one went, citizens were bombarded with vicious accusations against Jews and characterizations of Jews as dirty and deceitful. Delegitimizing those of the Jewish faith with such accusations was the first step which led to the physical destruction of a whole people.
Like many people in our Congressional district, I was thus horrified and outraged this week when Congressman Gary Ackerman falsely accused Israelis of perpetrating “pogroms” against Palestinians at his Congressional hearing on the Mideast. See here.
The accusation that Israelis committed such atrocities is totally untrue. This is the type of blood libel which has been spouted all too frequently in recent years, and used to instigate attacks on Jews (and Westerners) around the world. The “pogrom” accusation is similar to the false accusations in 2000 that Israelis killed al Dura (proven to be false in a trial in France), which were the pretext for extremist Muslim riots and physical attacks on Jews in France after the libel was broadcasted there. Those attacks have continued to this day, stoked by further false accusations. The Paris police department is now reporting 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents per day, including numerous beatings. Synagogues and Jewish Centers in Saint Denis (near Paris), Montpellier, Strasbourg and Marseilles were recently firebombed. The recent libel that Israeli settlers perpetrated pogroms is also reminiscent of the false accusations of a "massacre" in Jenin, which never occurred, which has also been used as a pretext for attacking Israelis and Israel’s supporters.
Ackerman’s comments this week are especially damaging because they came from the Jewish head of the House Mideast Subcommittee who sometimes professes to care about Israel, which gives his untruths the appearance of credibility. His accusations that Israelis perpetrated “pogroms” are already being quoted on the Internet by those who want to destroy Israel. We have enough problems here already without Ackerman adding fuel to the fire. In the last months, we saw “demonstrations” in Ft. Lauderdale and other American cities, in which Muslim extremists screamed “death to the Jews” and “Jews to the ovens” (videos of which are available on the Internet).
One of the reasons why I ran against Ackerman in 2008 was his promotion of sending our U.S. tax dollars to the Palestinian Authority despite the fact that the P.A. gives 40% of the funds it receives from international donors to Hamas, and some of Ackerman’s prior accusations against Israel in Congressional hearings. Still, this latest statement shocked me to the core, and has alarmed many people in our community. Ackerman should immediately publicly retract his false statements and issue a public apology to Israel and all the people in our district who are outraged at his comments, before these comments do even more harm.
Elizabeth Berney is a securities fraud and consumer safety attorney, writer and violinist, residing in Great Neck. She was the Republican candidate for Congress who ran against Gary Ackerman in 2008. She is currently considering running again in 2010.
Ackerman palling around with Israel hater Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, Dec. 13, 2008.
In his inaugural speech to parliament, Suleiman affirmed the right of the Hezbollah-led "resistance" to confront Israel and obtain a disputed piece of property under Israeli occupation called the Shebaa Farms:
The continuing occupation of Shebaa Farms and the breaches and threats by the enemy [Israel] compel us to find a defense strategy that protects the nation coupled with a calm dialog to benefit from the competence of the resistance so that the achievements of the resistance are not consumed in internal struggles. And this way we can preserve its values and its national position.
He also said Lebanon would continue to refuse to grant the 400,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon passports in order to keep alive their dream of returning to a viable Palestinian state:
Our rejection of giving them nationality is not a rejection of hosting of our brothers the Palestinians and caring for their human rights, but an establishment of their right of return when a viable state is formed.
More here at LA Times.










Her Campaign MUST be a "Crusade"!
Herr Ackermann(spelling deliberate) would have been a "Jew-Catcher"(Jews in Germany and Occupied Europe who helped the Nazis find Jews in Hiding), during the Third Reich.
Beware of ACORN! Be Very AWARE
Posted by: CHOI | Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 05:03 PM