ISRAEL HAYOM
by Richard Baehr
July 26, 2015

…Far uglier is the transparent attempt to portray opponents of the agreement as ‎racist. A column in The Washington Post by Colbert King does exactly that, suggesting that pretty much all ‎opposition to Obama on the Iran agreement and on anything else is due to his ‎race, and that blacks have figured this out and now despise Israeli Prime Minister ‎Benjamin Netanyahu for daring to challenge the White House yet again. The article basically ‎calls on Jewish opponents of the deal to back off if they want to preserve ‎harmonious relations with African-Americans. The exact same strategy played out ‎before Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, when Obama met with ‎the Congressional Black Caucus and African-American congressmen, having ‎received their talking points, then argued that Netanyahu was being disrespectful for ‎showing up to speak at the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner. A large number ‎of the roughly 60 Democrats who boycotted Netanyahu’s talk were African-American. READ MORE