My co-blogger Charles over at my home blog Mercury Rising has been following the Honduras coup in detail, as has Al Giordano over at The Field, doing what the US corporate media won’t.
The latest twist: The right-wing pro-coup forces are trying to paint legitimate President Manuel Zelaya as — wait for it — an anti-Semite. Except that the anti-Semitic statements being used to paint him as such didn’t come from his mouth, but from somebody else’s mouth: Namely, that of David Romero of Radio Globo. (Giordano and his readers also take the AP’s Frances Robles to task for putting words in Zelaya’s mouth, claiming without evidence that Zelaya — who as Giordano notes has been a staunch defender of Jewish persons, and in fact filled several key government posts with Jewish Hondurans — was blaming Israeli forces for the use of the sonic weapons being trained on the Brazilian Embassy.)
Why is this such a big deal? Because the coupistas got both the right-wing-favoring ADL and the nominally-lefty Huffington Post to fall for it. Shades of what happened to Hugo Chavez, eh?





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‘Israel Lobby Inc.’ does seem strongly in favor of the coup. The article excerpted below refers to differing positions taken by Jewish groups, but the JINSA position seems the dominant one by far:
http://www.forward.com/articles/114862/
Ahmedinejad and Grayson were both essentially called anti-Semitic even though they are both Jewish apparently.
The Reagan Administration wrote the book on this more than a generation before when it methodically set out to portray the Sandinistas as anti-Semitic. The ADL bought into it then, as now, which signaled for me the start of its transition into an arm of the growing neocon machine.
The accusation was especially ludicrous given the documented anti-Semitic statements of the pro-Contra Cardinal Obando y Bravo of Managua.