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Jewish World Review May 13, 2008 / 8 Iyar 5768 For pro-Israel voters, Obama's middle name should be the least of their concerns By Jonathan Mark Pro-Hamas advisor may be gone, but senator has more radical backers press is ignoring JewishWorldReview.com | Recent weeks have seen a considerable amount of coverage focusing on whether Sen. Barack Obama has too many friends with an anti-American bias, notably his longtime pastor, Jeremiah Wright, whom Obama has finally renounced, and William Ayers, a Chicago professor who was a 1960s radical with the Weathermen terrorist group, a friendship Obama dismissed as casual. But if Wright and Ayers have been thoroughly explored in primary debates and interviews, Obama's other relationships with radicals have been relatively unexplored. For example, the Los Angeles Times devoted a lengthy front-page story (April 10) by Peter Wallsten headlined, "Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama. They consider him receptive despite his clear support of Israel." The story was not picked up by any other American paper. It is rather unusual for a major daily to think a story worthy of front-page coverage and no other paper to share that assessment. The story focused on Obama's time as an Illinois state legislator, just five years ago, when he was friends, if not allied, with Rashid Khalidi, the vocal anti-Zionist professor at Columbia University who at the time was living in Obama's Chicago district; Edward Said, the late anti-Zionist professor and member of the Palestinian Authority legislature; and Ali Abunimah, a resident of Obama's district and editor of the Electronic Intifada online journal. At a farewell party for Khalidi, Obama is quoted as saying that his conversations with Khalidi had been "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases." Wallsten writes, the Obama-Khalidi relationship "have left some Palestinian American leaders believing that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to say." They base that belief on his presence at "events where anger at Israeli and U.S. Middle East policy was freely expressed," not unlike those who wonder about Obama's truest self after his relationship with Wright and his anger. "I am confident that Barack Obama is more sympathetic to the position of ending the occupation than either of the other candidates," said Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow for the American Task Force on Palestine, to Wallsten. The foreign minister of Hamas has recently endorsed Obama for president, another story that has sunk like a stone, barely reported other than by Fox and a popular right-wing website, even though Sen. John McCain brought it up on the campaign trail. In 1998, reports Wallsten, Obama attended a speech by Edward Said in which Said called for a nonviolent campaign "against settlements, against Israeli apartheid." Later, Obama and his wife were photographed at dinner with Said. "If only Obama could burn this picture," writes Al Ahram, but the Cairo paper printed the picture anyway. Abraham Foxman, national director for the Anti-Defamation League, told the Los Angeles Times, "In the context of [Obama] spending 20 years in a church" where anti-Israel rhetoric was repeated, "that's what makes his presence at an Arab-American event with a Said a greater concern." Wallsten reports that Abunimah of Electronic Intifada said he heard Obama call for an "even-handed approach" toward Israel. In 2004, when Obama was running for the Senate, Abunimah quoted Obama as saying that he was sorry he wasn't talking more about the Palestinian cause, but that his primary campaign had constrained what he could say. (Obama told Jewish leaders in Cleveland recently that a pro-Israel position is not necessarily a pro-Likud one.) And yet Wallsten's story of Obama's Palestinian-American support, while burning up the blogosphere from the Huffington Post to The Nation to Zionist sites, received almost no coverage beyond that. It was reprinted on a Fox TV Web site in Seattle and was mentioned in the Jordan Times. Obama has not been asked about it in the debates, and in meetings with Jewish communities in Cleveland and Philadelphia, where he has been asked repeatedly about Wright's relationship with Louis Farrakhan but not about his own relationship with Electronic Intifada. (Obama's Palestinian-American friendships have been reported in The Jewish Week on several occasions, the first time in 2007.) Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in Washington and in the media consider "must reading." Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Jonathan Mark is Associate Editor of the New York Jewish Week. Comment by clicking here. © 2008, NY Jewish Week