[ May 8, 2024 ]
A senior policy adviser who works with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said her office in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions doesn’t really “care about anti-Semitism.” That’s according to two people who overheard the remark being made while in a meeting.
The HELP committee is in midst of confirmation hearings on Ken Marcus, the assistance secretary for civil rights at the Education Department.
And it was in this context, the eye-opening comment was reportedly made.
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Here’s a taste of why liberals hate Marcus, from the leftist critical point of view:
The Washington Free Beacon has more on Murray’s staffer, though:
Marcus has been the target of an aggressive campaign waged by leading anti-Israel groups seeking to derail his nomination. Marcus has worked to combat the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement on college campuses and is the founder of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a pro-Israel group.
During a meeting on November 28 with Sarah N. Stern, a former colleague of Marcus and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a senior adviser to Murray on the HELP committee told Stern the committee does not “care about anti-Semitism in this office.”
“We don’t care about anti-Semitism in this office,” Murray’s senior adviser said. “We care about transgenders, we care about blacks, we care about Hispanics, we care about gays, we care about lesbians, we care about the disabled.”
“We don’t care about anti-Semitism in this office,” he said.
Stern’s aide Jennifer Dekel confirmed the comments and said she was taking notes during the meeting.
Stern first addressed the comments revealing that Democratic members are not concerned about the anti-Semitic elements of the campaign against Marcus in an editorial for the Jewish News Service, published Tuesday. She provided the full quote to the Washington Free Beacon, saying she found the remarks “particularly egregious.”
Eli Zupnick, a spokesman for Sen. Murray, questioned the accuracy of the remarks attributed to the senior adviser, saying, “This is not an accurate quote and certainly doesn’t reflect the position of the office.”
The senior adviser did not immediately respond to request for comment.
The campaign against Marcus is being led by numerous anti-Israel groups, including the Arab American Institute, led by James Zogby who has referred to Israelis as “Nazis”; the National Students for Justice in Palestine, which has members who have openly celebrated murderers of Jews; and Palestine Legal, which has defended professors who have posted anti-Semitic comments online.
In her editorial, Stern details Marcus’s record on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and as the assistant secretary of education for civil rights under the George W. Bush administration, where he expressed commitment to “aggressively prosecute harassment” against students of all religions.
Stern also noted under Marcus, the Brandeis Center sent several letters to universities “decrying racism against Muslims and African Americans on their campuses.” For instance, he wrote to the president of San Diego University in November 2015 denouncing an attack against a Muslim student, saying, “While our organization primarily addresses the rights of Jewish college students, we support the right of all students to be free from invidious discrimination.”
Marcus condemned the incident, in which a female Muslim student was grabbed by her headscarf and called a terrorist, as a “hate crime.”
“We are appalled by this act of hate, and we urge you to take immediate action by condemning this incident and announcing that hate crimes of any kind will not be tolerated at SDSU,” Marcus wrote.
“Does this sound like the sentiment of a racist or an Islamophobe?” Stern asked.
“Yet while I was recently talking about Marcus with a senior policy adviser to the Democratic ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the adviser interrupted me with the response, ‘We do not care about anti-Semitism in this office,'” she wrote.
Sen. Murray serves as the ranking member of the HELP committee.
Palestine Legal, one of the anti-Israel groups targeting Marcus, has used the ranking member in its campaign against his nomination. The group, which is a leading activist for BDS, praised Murray for “grilling” Marcus during his confirmation hearing.
Marcus was scheduled for a committee markup last week, but it was delayed for scheduling reasons. He was originally nominated in late October, but his nomination was shelved into the new year.
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40 Comments
6 years ago
Slapping an Israeli Soldier More Newsworthy Than Shooting a Palestinian Child in the Face https://fair.org/home/slapping-an-israeli-soldier-more-newsworthy-than-shooting-a-palestinian-child-in-the-face/
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
REALLY ???? SHOOTING A MOSLEM KID IN THE FACE ??? WERE YOU THERE BY CHANCE ??? DID YOU SEE THE ACTUAL INCIDENT ???? OF COURSE ALL THE DEAD CHRISTIANS AND YZIDI MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE JUST PHOTO SHOPPED RIGHT ??? YEAH YOU STAND UP FOR YOUR MOSLEM BUDDIES WHO WOULD CUT YOUR THROAT WITH A SMILE AND SCREAMING ALL
AHU AKBAR .
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
muslims murder children frequently, why would you expect to be treated different than you treat others? “Tabari 9:69 “Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us” The words of Muhammad, prophet of Islam”.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
In actuality, clearing a house of cockroaches should be “More Newsworthy Than Shooting a Palestinian Child in the Face”.
6 years ago
In short, the Democrats mostly care about subverting, sabotaging and destroying the Judeo-Christian moral structure. Small wonder they also condone anti-Semitism . . . they also don’t care about the family, or women (their push for “transgender” bathrooms proves it), or children, or white heterosexual Christians, or the Judeo-Christian infrastructure that has kept society together for eons. The Democrats aren’t just the party of treason and sedition as Pamela has noted, they are also the party of moral rot and decay, debauchery, depravity, perversion, degeneracy, hedonism, debasement, licentiousness, libertinism, promiscuity and permissiveness. If they cared about people’s health as they claim with their so-called “war on tobacco” (which is really a vendetta against red-state America), they wouldn’t be so gung-ho about legalizing marijuana which is very much a blue-state drug, heavily concentrated in Democrat-controlled states and localities as it is.
6 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
WELL MANY DEMOCRATS ARE ACTUALLY SELF HATING JEWS WHO ARE EVEN AGAINST ISRAEL AND STAND WITH MOSLEMS AGAINST THEIR OWN BRETHREN . STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, AMERICAN JEWS AND THEIR MOSLEM TERRORIST FRIENDS . .
6 years ago
Reply to
Sgtsnuffy
You’re right. and besides helping to screw up the rest of us, a lot of them still carry on with the weird–almost Islamist style– fetishes. For example, I sometimes wonder if even Pamela, were she free, would go out to, say, a dance with me or would she run to some bearded rabbi for an opinion.
6 years ago
Reply to
Sgtsnuffy
so true! I have lost many old time Jewish “friends” who have chosen to be “politically correct” but I really don’t care, since I don’t want to associate with morons.
In any case GOOD RIDDANCE!
6 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
The “war on tobacco” was/is, solely, a tax stream. Between federal, state, and local taxes (not including sales tax), for “bargain brands”, the actual price for a package of cigarettes would be at, or about, one dollar per package. Over four dollars, per package, of cigarette taxes. In other words, a four hundred percent tax. And, other locales are significantly higher than this area. People, in Colorado, squeal about 25% tax on marijuana. Raise that, to the level of tobacco .. and you’d have riots in the street.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Viz marijuana, Democrats have a realization akin to the British when they were bringing opium to China in the late 19th century: That a perpetually stoned populace is one that is more easily manipulated, controlled, subjugated and, ultimately, enslaved.
6 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Extremely well said, Patriotic American. Your posts encapsulates the entirety of the rancid Democrats bigoted enchilada/plot.
6 years ago
Interesting. I’ll spread the word. Some of Patty Murray Jewish constituents might be interested.
6 years ago
Reply to
Phil McDonald
Remember . . . in the wake of 9/11 this Senator was known as “Osama Mama.” For good reason, evidently.
6 years ago
WHY IS THERE AN ASSISTANT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ???? I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE JOB FOR THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT . BUT ALSO WHY WOULD THE ED.DPT NEED A SWAT TEAM TOO , JUST LIKE THE SSN ADMINISTRATION HAVING A SWAT TEAM !!!!
6 years ago
Reply to
Sgtsnuffy
Why is there a federal Department of Education? It wasn’t started until 1979, under Jimmy, the Worthless One, Carter. Since that date, they have “dumbed” down SAT and ACT tests over eighteen times. Basic mathematics, reading comprehension, and science have fallen, dramatically, ever since its founding. Instead of why does the DOE have a civil rights department … Why do we have a DOE?
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
To suck out more money from taxpayers and to promote all kind of propaganda including the burning of American flag.
6 years ago
Reply to
tatka150
Hi, tatka150. Silly me… I should have realized that it had some purpose.
6 years ago
What a stunned dork. democrats will do anything sucking up to muslims, and brag about it. One person, one vote, throw the bum out.
6 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
Demoncraps have only one goal – the total annihilation of Jews and Christians
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
One person = at least 5 votes (if we are talking about muzrats voting.I count a master+his 4 illiterate dumb wives)
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
This stunned dork (thanks, Mahou) anti-Semitic commentary is not mind-blowing. He is after all a leftist progressive and of all things, a Democrat. Unfortunately, this does not cause a stir at the core of the racist Democrats, its Islamic Allies and others aspiring to annihilate Jews. Mahou, did you notice the brown ring on his nose? It confirms he is up and close to his Islam brothers.
6 years ago
Sums up today’s Democratic party to a T. When Hubert Humphrey became Al Sharpton, they lost me, and most of Middle America.
6 years ago
So what else is new? What’s worse is the leftist sons and daughters of Abraham that support the Democrat party in spite of this obvious fact…
6 years ago
Reply to
MAS
Sadly these left-wing Jewish jerks do exist who still support the insane demoncratic party.
Israel will stand despite pathetic traitors.
6 years ago
Reply to
Left Wing Jerks!
Well of course she will, God determines the fate of men and nations. It’s why the sons and daughters have maintained identity, language, culture, and returned to their homeland in spite of the diaspora for 2000+ years. No other race of people under the same circumstances has even begun to do the same. Divine provedence cannot be overruled…
6 years ago
Of course we already know Democrats do not care about Jews or anti-Semitism that was obvious from the chief anti-Semitic pig Obama.
Obama by the way God help us all is entering politics again. The Gods of karma and humility need to come calling soon for this egomaniac lunatic.
G-d bless President Trump for his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Am Israel Chai! Long live Israel the only democracy in the middle east today.
6 years ago
Another appointment that makes glad I voted for President Trump.
6 years ago
I don’t see nothing wrong with this guy. He makes sense. Put him IN!!! Let him loose. 🙂
6 years ago
Would the office of HELP care about a transgender, or a black, or a gay, or a lesbian, or a disabled, or even a Hispanic who happened to be Jewish? Doesn’t sound like it.
6 years ago
This is an interesting quote from the article….”During a meeting on November 28 with Sarah N. Stern, a former colleague of Marcus and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a senior adviser to Murray on the HELP committee told Stern the committee does not “care about anti-Semitism in this office.”
“We don’t care about anti-Semitism in this office,” Murray’s senior adviser said. “We care about transgenders, we care about blacks, we care about Hispanics, we care about gays, we care about lesbians, we care about the disabled.”
Indeed. This is how most Democrats think. And why the majority of Jewish American voters keep on voting for Democrats is beyond me. IF the demographics in America keep changing in favor of the Democrats….it will only be a matter of time before most of the voting population/Democrats…..will end support for Israel.
D
6 years ago
If asked another way, they would have said they cared about Muslims, too.
6 years ago
You bet most liberals don’t. Muslims are victims to them, while most are just ambivalent or neutral about Jews in general.
