Clinton, Trump Campaigns Make Final Pitch for Jewish Vote
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$38 MILLION Opinion. Tradition. RAISED THE DAY ON BEING AT FIDF AFTER THE A JEWISH GALA IN ELECTION PARENT LOS ANGELES A2. A9. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 | 10 CHESHVAN 5777 VOL. XLIV NO. 2281 Clinton, Trump Top Jewish Leader Says Voting Vital Campaigns Make for Community Final Pitch for Jewish Vote BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY American Jews must get out and vote on Election Day if they want to continue to be heard by politicians on matters of concern to them, a top US Jewish leader told Th e Algemeiner on Monday. “I hear too many expressions of indiff erence, or people who are confused and confl icted and therefore say they are not going to vote,” Malcolm Hoenlein — the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations — said in an interview with Th e Algemeiner. “Th at’s a decision, but it’s a bad one. It’s very important that people go out and vote their conscience. Commitment to American democracy requires giving Both campaigns made fi nal pitches to Jewish voters ahead of Tuesday’s vote. Photo: Tom Arthur via Wikimedia Commons. Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice president of the Con- BY BARNEY BREEN Clinton campaign foreign policy this divisive and violent rhetoric.” ference of Presidents of Major American Jewish adviser — said, “I am really proud Regarding Clinton’s views Organizations. Photo: YouTube screenshot. -PORTNOY that Hillary has stood up strongly on the Jewish state, Rosenberger Before the polls opened on against the BDS movement; said, “She knows the depth and the expression to the privilege and fulfi lling the right and obliga- Tuesday, the campaign teams she’s been very outspoken about connection between the American tion each of us has to vote.” of both presidential contenders antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Israeli people, she knows how Furthermore, Hoenlein noted, “many politicians may made a last-ditch pitch to the racism, and the anti-immigrant much we can learn from each have limited capacities, but they can all count. And they Jewish Insider about why Jews sentiment because we know that other, and that bond is something know who votes and who doesn’t vote. You have to vote if should vote for their candidates. these are all interconnected, and that is really personal to her. When you want to have a voice. If you fail to do so, don’t complain Calling the election a “wakeup this is something that is a testa- she was a senator, she was a fi erce about the results. call” for the US Jewish community, ment to her in what she believes champion for Israel, something Hoenlein said he was “bothered” by displays of antisemi- Laura Rosenberger — a Hillary in, that she’s been such a forceful that continued when she was Continued on Page A4 voice in speaking out [against] all Continued on Page A10 On a Slow ShabbatCalendar Parshat LECH LECHA Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 4:23pm | Shabbat Ends: 5:23pm פרשת לך לך Train to J a ff a P.O.B. 250746, Brooklyn, NY 11225-3203 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2016 Th e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 Opinion. The Day After the Election himself and his agents. The problem of unlawful FBI leaks has become perva- ALAN DERSHOWITZ sive, and it must be addressed by the new BOSTON administration. Replacing Comey will not be enough; the entire culture of the FBI must be changed and it must be restored to its rightful position as the silent inves- tigative arm of the Justice Department. With the world’s attention focused on Indeed, even more fundamental struc- the presidential election, some attention tural changes are now required. The entire must be devoted to the problems we will DOJ, of which the FBI is one component, continue to face the day after the election, has become too politicized. In most other regardless of who is elected. Here are some western democracies, there is a sharp of these problems: division between the minister of justice, 1. Following the election, President Obama who is a political aide to the president may try to tie the hands of his successor, or prime minister, and the director of regardless of who it may be. During the public prosecution, who is a civil servant A US voter. Photo: Wikipedia lame-duck period, when presidents can completely removed from politics. Only act without political accountability, he the director of public prosecution decides development, whether it involved accusa- elections, but it is essential that the loser may foolishly send the Israel-Palestine whom to investigate and who to prose- tions against Democrats like Hillary accept the result and that the winner be conflict to the United Nations. This would cute. The political minister plays no role in Clinton, or Republicans like Congressman gracious. Both Richard Nixon and Al Gore mean the end of the peace process. Pales- such decisions. But, in the United States, Tom Delay and Governor Rick Perry. The provide somewhat different models of tinians would be dis-incentivized from we merged these two distinct roles into criminal law must be reserved for willful appropriate responses. entering into the kinds of direct negotia- the job of Attorney General. This must deliberate and clearly defined crimes. We This election revealed that there tions without preconditions that the Israeli change if our system of justice is to be are moving away from that understanding are deep divisions within the American government continues to offer, which is de-politicized. and toward a dangerous expansion of the electorate. Some of these divisions are the only realistic road to peace. The only 3. This election has exacerbated the long- concept of crime in the context of political reasonable and indeed desirable. These hope of stopping this counterproductive standing problem of criminalizing policy differences. include differences over economic policies, move would be for the president-elect to differences. We are quick to confuse 4. Finally, the healing process must begin foreign policies and other political issues insist that her or his hands not be tied by differences in policy with charges of the day after the election. Lincoln’s words But this election revealed that there are the lame-duck president. criminal behavior. During this election, should be our guide: “With malice toward divisions across impermissible lines: racial, 2. The problem revealed by FBI director both sides accused the other of criminal none, with charity for all.” It is unlikely ethnic, gender, religious, class and a willing- Comey’s ill-advised statements over the conduct — Trump more so than Clinton, that either the winners or the losers ness to resort to violence. These divisions past four months will not end with the but even some Democrats were quick to will be able to avoid malice and extend will be much harder to heal. But the process election. Comey is a good man, but he cry “crime.” I have long railed against this charity following this most contentious of must begin on the day after the election. has demonstrated an inability to control Martin Kramer’s Scholarly Views on Israel, Islam and the Middle East a fine essay, “Policy and the Academy,” origi- Arab world; one on the twisting of Israel’s the nally published in the Middle East Quarterly, history; and one, mischievously entitled Algemeiner Journal JONATHAN MARKS he wrestles, via a meditation on Middle East “Elders of Zion,” on the leaking of “fantasies PHILADELPHIA historian Elie Kedourie, with the difficulties of Jewish power and control into mainstream (USPS 927800) is published weekly a scholar confronts when he or she “takes a academic and public discussions.” I cannot, of (except for the week of Passover political position as a citizen.” There is no simple course, cover all 25 of the pieces that make up and Succos) way of resolving the tension between scholar- The War on Error. Let me begin with an essay Subscription rate $40 per year ship and politics, but The War on Error, though that typifies the book. Martin Kramer chairs the Middle Eastern a collection of mostly previously published Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Algemeiner Journal and Islamic Studies Department at Shalem essays, blog posts and speeches, is held together Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia Univer- 508 Montgomery Street College, and recently completed a seven-year by its attempt to demonstrate by example how sity and, as Kramer points out, he was “trained Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 stint as president there. A scholar of the Middle the norms of scholarship are essential to clear as a historian.” In 2010, Khalidi spread, in more East, Kramer is perhaps best known as a sharp thinking about the Middle East. than one lecture, the claim that the influential Periodicals Postage critic of the field of Mideast Studies. His 2001 The book is divided into five sections: one novel, Exodus, though written by Leon Uris, Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. book, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of on Middle Eastern Studies (an “inexhaustible was “carefully crafted propaganda” guided by and at additional mailing offices Middle Eastern Studies in America, touched source of error in understanding the Middle “seasoned professionals.” Foremost among them off a debate that received coverage in, among East”); one on Islam and politics; one on the was Edward Gottlieb, regarded by some as “one POSTMASTER: other places, the New York Times. Kramer’s of the founders of the modern public relations Send address changes to warnings about the politicization of the field industry.” Gottlieb, who “desired to improve Algemeiner Journal have been more than amply validated by the Israel’s image,” commissioned the novel then P.O.