Gorka: Left-wing parts of the US Jewish community have become anti-Israel
The “liberal elements” of the American Jewish community have “basically become anti-Israeli,” former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka said in a radio interview.
Gorka agreed with right-wing radio talk show host Michael Savage that The Forward had leveled a “smear campaign” against him (Gorka), saying the news website published 45 “hit pieces” against him in recent months.
Gorka said he believes the left wing has attacked him in the media because: “In everything I have ever done I have been a great friend of Israel, I have spoken with honestly about the threat of jihadism in the United States.”
He noted that “[s]ome great Jewish Americans came to my defense,” citing Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America.
Liberal American Jews are “doing so much to betray our [the United States’] great friendship with Jerusalem,” Gorka said.
He said his left-wing supporters “told me that this is one of the saddest phenomena of American politics now, that liberal, the liberal elements of the American Jewish population have basically become anti-Israeli. It’s the greatest saddest paradox. You know there are key people such as at the Forward, at the Forward, who are pro-BDS, who are pro-Iran deal. It’s this very tragic phenomena that the people who should be supporting Israel and US-Israel relations the most have really done so much, done so much, to betray our great friendship with Jerusalem.”
An investigation by the Forward months ago quoted leaders of the Historical Vitezi Rend, a namesake of a defunct order of merit that existed under Hungary’s Nazi-allied government, saying Gorka had sworn allegiance to the movement. The original group ceased to exist in the 1940s following Nazi Germany’s defeat. Gorka has worn the organization’s medal to public events, saying he does so to honor his father’s anti-Nazi and anti-communist activity. Gorka has denied membership in the Vitez Rend, the original group, but not in the Historical Vitezi Rand. He also has denied being a fascist or antisemite.
Gorka, a former editor of the right-wing Breitbart news website, is expected to return to Breitbart in some capacity.
(JTA)