‘Jews for Palin’ group consists of one, maybe two Jews (including Pamela Geller)
Ah, there’s nothing like the fresh smell of political pandering first thing in the morning. Somehow I’m not surprised that Pamela Geller, whose anti-Muslim group SIOA was designated a hate group by the SPLC (a fact of which she is quite proud), is one of the two members named.
Here are some of the Google results for Geller on their site.
It’s Passover, and Sarah Palin is wearing her Star of David necklace again. So it’s a good time to check in on a group that launched just over one year ago, Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin.
The outfit, which launched to a fair amount of attention in 2010, describes itself as an “independent group of academic, religious and political leaders” devoted to promoting Palin. Its founder, a Philadelphia-based former newspaper editor named Binyamin Korn, told me last April that he would be releasing a list of prominent supporters of “Jews for Palin” within a couple of weeks. But that never happened. In fact, there’s no evidence the group is anything more than a website and public-relations vehicle consisting of one member — Korn himself.
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Besides Korn, the only other named member of Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin is the anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller, who has described herself as a proud member of the group’s “National Advisory Board.” One cached page from the group’s website states: “our national Advisory Board (in formation, tba) includes a distinguished scholar of Hindu-Buddhist-Jain, and Jewish, studies.” The Hindu-Buddhist-Jain scholar in question is not named.
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