Why Does The Left Still Associate With Louis Farrakhan?

(Washington Post) Richard Cohen January 21 at 5:32 PM When and how did it become acceptable to be an anti-Semite? When did it become okay to socialize with and even praise a Jew hater? I am referring of course to Louis Farrakhan who spouts the most vile things about Jews yet retains the admiration of many on the left including notably leaders of the Womens March. They have now separated themselves from Farrakhans bigotry but not the man himself. He understands. They are doing what Jews want. To an extent they are. It has taken some pressure to get Womens March co-chairs Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour and others to distance themselves from Farrakhans views. Yet Mallory for one will not condemn the man who holds these views. In this she has plenty of company. On the stage with Farrakhan at Aretha Franklins funeral in September were Jesse Jackson Al Sharpton and Bill Clinton. Franklin apparently untroubled by Farrakhans Jew hatred had a friendly relationship with him and he was at the funeral for that reason. Still you could not imagine Jackson Sharpton or Clinton sharing the stage with David Duke. The Anti-Defamation League reports a surge in anti-Semitic incidents up nearly 60 percent in 2017. But the numbers are more shocking than they are troubling. More troubling if unmeasurable are the casually anti-Semitic statements or associations of figures such as Mallory and Sarsour. In 2012 Sarsour who is Palestinian American tweeted: Nothing is creepier than Zionism." This might be understandable from a Palestinian point of view but not her following sentence: Challenge racism." The slur that Zionism is racism must come as a surprise to the 135000 Ethiopian Jews in Israel roughly 25000 of whom were airlifted between 1984 and 1991.