Rashid Khalidi is a supporter of the jihad against Israel. He is a Columbia University professor whom Hugh Fitzgerald terms a "long-time propagandist for the Arabs and quasi-academic engaged for decades in the 'construction-of-the-Palestinian-identity' project." He is also not always honest about his own statements about this -- and is apparently a close friend of Barack Obama.
The ever-vigilant Andrew McCarthy has details, via Stanley Kurtz, at The Corner.
Quite frankly it would not surprize me to see Obama if elected, choose Rashid Khalidi as one of his advisors in a high position in his cabinet as Obama moves from the center back to the left in his politics.
Do you know that it's racist to talk about Obama's associations? If you were in St Louis, you'd be arrested.
My parents/grandparents would constantly say this to me: that the company we keep says a lot about us.
What does a friendship with Khalidi say about Obama? The same thing it states about his other connections & friendships, so you connect the dots. Khalidi is just another name to add to the Laundry List:
1) ACORN… Obama gave them $800,000 this year?
2) Alinsky, Saul…..Obama is a follower of Alinsky
3) Auchi, Nadhmi… lent Obama over $3 million
4) Ayers, William Weather Underground unrepentent terrorist
5) Bean, Terrence ….raised 50-100K - once controlled the biggest producer of gay porn in America.
6) Chandoo, Muhammad Hasa College roommate #1 from Pakistan
7) Communist Party of USA ….ENDORSED Obama
8) Davidson, Carl …..SDS Member, associated with Chicago’s “New Party” - felt Dem party was TOO centrist
9) Davis, Frank Marshall……Mentor
10) Dohrn, Bernadine…. Weather Underground terrorist
11) Evans, Jodie ….Code Pink met with….Ahmadinejad (2008); Chavez (2006); pro-terrorist Iraqi’
12) Funnye, Rabbi Capers…. Michelle Obama’s cousin
13) Hamid, Wahid…. College roommate #2 from Pakistan
14) Jarret, Valerie MO’s boss, then BO’s Campaign team
15) Malley, Robert…former campaign Staff w/ties to Hamas
16) Mansour, Al, aka Warden, Donald…. Muslim financier of Obama’s Harvard education
17) Neier, Aryeh…. founder of SDS, now President of George Soros, Open Society Institute
18) Odinga, Raila… Kenyan radical muslim Cousin of Barack’s
19) Pfleiger Father ….
20) Pritzker, Penny ….Finance Chairperson of Obama’s presidential campaign helped develop the complicated investment bundling of subprime securities at the heart of the meltdown. Board Chair of failed Superior Bank.
21) Radthe, Wade…. founder of ACORN, leader of SEIU chapter (Service Employees Int’l Union)
22) Rezko, Tony ….Chicago Politics - convicted felon
23) Socialist Party of USA…. ENDORSED Obama
24) Wright, Reverend….. Pastor for 20 years
To name a few....and still growing!!
I keep thinking of Aesop's tale of the frogs and the stork.