Thursday 8 September 2011

Hoffa, Obama and Israel

James P. Hoffa Jr. the Teamster Union boss, introduced Barack Obama at the Labor Day rally in Detriot. Fox News did not like what Jimmy said about the ‘sell-outs’ among Republican and the Tea Party. Fox News, which tops the anti-Muslim propaganda – has called Jimmy’s statement “a hate speech”.

Here is what Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said about Republican: “Everybody here has a vote. If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to America where we belong“. Watch a video below.

Now, I don’t understand – why the Jewish Lobby is so upset by Jimmy’s call to boot Republicans out of office? After all, Republican, Democrats, Tea Party and even Hoffa family – are all ‘friends of Israel’.

How many Americans know that the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv had a memorial dedicated to Jimmy’s father, James Riddle Hoffa, in February 2008? The ceremony was attended by former President Bill Clinton, James P. Hoffa and his sister, Barbara Ann Crancer, a judge in Missouri at that time.

On February 5, 2008 – JTA published an article, entitled Remembering Hoffa as a friend of Israel in which Ron Kampeas claimed that Jimmy Hoffa helped the Jewish terrorist groups. Jimmy Hoffa is considered a hero among Israeli labor leaders for his support for Israel.
James Hoffa suggests a simple reason for the support of Israel: the central role Jews have played in building up American labor.

“The leaders have been Jewish,” he said.

Retelling his father’s story – and the story of Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister assassinated by a Jewish extremist who opposed his peacemaking – will help sustain that relationship, James Hoffa said.
Hoffa, even screened a film by Rabin’s daughter, Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff, for the Teamsters board about her father’s death.

“When we first brought this up, a lot of people on my board did not know the story of my father’s involvement in Israel, didn’t know the story of Rabin’s death,” he said.


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