Congressional Candidate Charles Barron Slammed
Congressional Candidate Charles Barron Slammed
By JTA
Published June 11, 2012
While the Weekly Standard attempts to slander the Democratic Party by alluding that Charles Brown represents “The heart and soul of the Democratic party?” Democrats gather to oppose his candidacy.
Several current and former New York Jewish elected officials gathered to denounce the congressional candidacy of Charles Barron for his anti-Israel views.
Ex-Mayor Ed Koch, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), City Councilman David Greenfield and state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, among others, gathered in front of the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in downtown Battery Park at a news conference Monday to call Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat, an ‘enemy of the State of Israel’ and the New York Jewish community.
Barron, a city councilman, is facing state Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries in a June 26 Democratic primary in a bid to succeed 24-year incumbent Rep. Edolphus Towns, also a Democrat, who is retiring at the end of this year.
The politicians at Battery Park expressed support for Jeffries and called Barron an ‘anti-Semite,’ ‘hateful’ and a ‘bigot.’
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