A Farewell to Fulani?
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The chairman of the Independence Party in New York State, Frank Mackay, will on Sunday try to kick Lenora Fulani and some of her allies out of his party, according to a dispatch in the New York Post. The move, the Post reported, follows a push from the attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, and others, who want Ms. Fulani – an agitator against Jews – purged so that so they can accept the party’s nomination. This is at least a step up from Mayor Bloomberg who openly courted Ms. Fulani for the party’s nomination, received it, and accepted it. Senator Clinton refused the party’s nomination in 2000 because of Ms. Fulani, as did Eva Moskowitz, who is seeking the presidency of Manhattan.
We spoke to Mr. Mackay yesterday and he reckons that he will succeed in his effort to oust Ms. Fulani, who has a history of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. She has said that the September 11, 2001, attacks were because of “our government’s aggression and arrogance” and that Jews “had to sell their souls to acquire Israel and are required to do the dirtiest work of capitalism to function as mass murderers of people of color in order to keep it.”
It’s all well and good for Mr. Spitzer and other Democrats to pressure for ousting this trafficker in bigotry from the Independence Party. But it invites a question: Why are they trying to reform, rather than distance themselves from, a fringe party with an extremist leader? It’s a party that has never had anyone elected in a citywide election on its own line; its modus operandi is to tag its name to other party’s candidates and then claim credit if they’re elected. It would be far better for General Spitzer and Mrs. Clinton to confront the Rev. Al Sharpton and other demagogical figures in their own party. That’s when we’d know they’re serious about anti-Semitism in politics.