City Council Member Charles Barron blasted one of his colleagues yesterday for introducing a resolution that denounces the Independence Party leader who has been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks.

Mr. Barron, a Democrat from Brooklyn who was a member of the Black Panther Party as a teenager, said that comments made by Independence Party leader Lenora Fulani in 1995 were “taken out of context” and that his colleague, Council Member Lewis Fidler, was using the resolution to hurt Mayor Bloomberg, who is expected to accept the Independence Party’s ballot line in the November election.

In 1995, Ms. Fulani was quoted in a report by the Anti-Defamation League as saying 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.”

In a recent television interview on NY 1, Ms. Fulani refused to back away from her remarks and said she did not think they were anti-Semitic.

“I think we need to look at everything she said around that, and when she said it,” Mr. Barron said. “We need to look at it contextually, not just a line out her statement.”

Mr. Fidler defended his resolution and said it was “grotesquely unfair” of Mr. Barron to suggest that he would not condemn all types of discrimination as vigorously as he denounces anti-Semitism.