Perhaps he's concerned that too many Jewish settlers will cause Israel to tip over.
7.25.2016
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Rep. Hank Johnson, a Democrat from Georgia, made the remarks during an event sponsored by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an anti-Israel, pro-BDS organization:
“There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been eaten up and you fall in on yourself, there has been settlement activity that has marched forward with impunity and at an ever increasing rate to the point where it has become alarming.
“It has come to the point that occupation, with highways that cut through Palestinian land, with walls that go up, with the inability or the restriction, with the illegality of Palestinians being able to travel on those roads and those roads cutting off Palestinian neighborhoods from each other. And then with the building of walls and the building of check points that restrict movement of Palestinians. We’ve gotten to the point where the thought of a Palestinian homeland gets further and further removed from reality.”
You may remember Johnson as the flickering bulb who in 2010 expressed concern that Guam would "tip over and capsize" if the population on the island grew any larger. Check out the video above for that jaw-dropping moment in American history.
He also said stated, with an historical ignorance that matches his geographical incomprehension, that Jewish people habitually steal land and property from Palestinians:
“You see one home after another being appropriated by Jewish people who come in to claim that land just because somebody did not spend the night there. The home their [Palestinian] ancestors lived in for generations becomes an Israeli home and a flag goes up... the Palestinians are barred from flying flags in their own neighborhoods.”
Johnson then went on to compare Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, a remark which the Free Beacon reports drew vocal agreement from those in the room:
“The fact is the Israeli government, which is the most right-wing government ever to exist in the state of Israel in its history, the most right wing government, you got a guy like Trump who is now the minister of defense in Israel calling the shots on defense."
The race-obsessed Johnson, who is a member of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, had called for the censure of Republican Representative Joe Wilson shouting “You lie!” at Barack Obama during the President's healthcare-related speech to Congress back in 2009, else “we will have people with white hoods running through the countryside again.”
He also declared that Treyvon Martin, shot in 2012 by George Zimmerman in an incident that ratcheted up racial tensions in this country to the breaking point, had been “executed for WWB in a GC—Walking While Black in a Gated Community.”
In addition, he has also stated that the NRA's opposition to gun control stems from racism, that Obama is the greatest president who ever lived, and that there is "a cultural issue within certain [police] departments... that enables or says it’s okay for law-enforcement officers to shoot to kill blacks, be they male or female, Hispanics—to use excessive force.”
Check out a full profile on Johnson at the Horowitz Freedom Center's Discover the Networks resource site to learn more.
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