Yesterday, early voting began in the runoff election for Georgia’s Senate seats, which will determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the legislature’s upper house. One contest pits the Republican Kelly Loeffler against the Democrat Raphael Warnock, a pastor with a history of using his pulpit to rail against the Jewish state. Jonathan Tobin remarks:
When Warnock compared Israel to apartheid-era South Africa in a sermon, he probably wasn’t looking ahead to a run for the U.S. Senate. Nor was he thinking about how best to mobilize the support of leftist Jewish groups when he compared the Palestinian war on Israel’s existence to the Black Lives Matter movement, or denounced moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Likewise, defending Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s pastor before he became president, came naturally to Warnock since he shares the radical Chicago clergyman’s [hostility toward] America and Israel, as well his belief that Jesus was a “Palestinian” rather than a Jew. Like Wright, Warnock has also defended himself by preemptively declaring himself innocent of anti-Semitism.
Warnock’s 2018 sermon in which he defended Hamas rioters who sought to breach Israel’s border with Gaza in the name of the “right of return”—which is indistinguishable from the terrorist group’s ongoing campaign to wipe the one Jewish state on the planet off the map—was not a question of a few off-hand remarks. He went into detail, claiming the violent attack on the border was comparable to U.S. civil-rights demonstrations, and falsely asserted that Israeli soldiers defending their country were committing indiscriminate murder.
Read more on Federalist: https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/11/leftist-jews-are-helping-whitewash-raphael-warnocks-long-anti-israel-record/