I reviewed some of the comments by Amir Abdel Malik Ali available on youtube, and while certainly a lot of people would find his views objectionable, there wasn't anything anti-semitic (anti-Jew) in them. Anti-Israel yes, to put it mildly, but not anti-semitic. I have to conclude that yes, indeed, Brian Levin was stirring up hate.

Look harder--actually, just find the SPLC's report on the moron.

Lyn:

That's an interesting conclusion you reach. Falsely saying the Hate Crime Act is a Jewish plot to censor criticism of
Jews sounds like anti-Semitism to me
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-levin-jd/whos-on-first-haters-cons_b_325406.html
Check out the video where he says the Hate Crime Act is a plot to stop criticism of Jews and to stifle discussion of the Holocaust

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/uci-jews-jew-2043215-people-zionist

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=952

As a Riverside interfaith activist, I am on CAIR's email list and have attended several of its events.

Many of their speakers are actually human righs activists, rabbis, pastors, and Imams who clearly condemn extremism, bigotry, anti-semitism, islamophobia, and government abuses.

CAIR was one of the first religious groups in the Inland Empire to publicly stand by the Riverside synogogue in the area (mentioned in the story) as it was targeted by the nazis. The rabbi of that temple actually praised CAIR and its leadership in the Islamic community, at a recent city hall meeting discussing the nazi threats.

What is obvious to me is that Brian Levin is so obsessed with his political support for Israel (ruled by right-wing fanatics) that he feels the need to defame and attack any group that ever criticizes Israel. Brian Levin hides behind his "Study of Hate" to cover his own extremist views.

Sally: So, do you support associating with bona fide anti-Semites?

I guess if you can't answer the question, just attack the questioner and his "extremist views".
(O My: http://criminaljustice.csusb.edu/facultyStaff/levin.htm )

Let's keep our eye on the ball here folks. The key issue here is why doesn't CAIR unambiguously denounce a neo-Nazi who frequently spoke at their events even after it was established he was a bigot who held a high-profile position in the Willis Carto empire (yes, the same one the Holocaust museum shooter worked for). Why don't they denounce another speaker of theirs who make wild anti-Semitic claims about Jews and 9/11 and the Hate Crime Act being a Jewish plot. There are more, but let's stick with this.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh0LNwH9LoM

I have not mentioned any other country as part of this discussion, except in as much as to clear up your spurious accusations, but I am glad you can make "obvious" accusations that you do not back up. I guess this establishes my "extreme" bona fides:

http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/localviews/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_S_op_24_ibish_levin_loc.405f806.html

I wonder who you really work for Sally because you echo exactly the same spurious taunts that were screamed at me unprovoked by CAIR folks at the NSM rally. You might as well lump President Obama in with me, because my position on peace is lockstep with his--nice try though,
you get an A- for smear, but hopefully for you no one will actually check the validity of your unsupported "obvious" charges.

Here's what Hussein Ibish of the American Task Force on Palestine (who I happen to be meeting with in DC at the moment) actually said about our efforts at peace.

"Historically, there has been little scope for common ground between American friends of Israel and American friends of the Palestinians. However, with a growing consensus nationally and internationally about the urgent need to end the occupation and create a Palestinian state to live alongside Israel in peace and security, unprecedented opportunities for cooperation are beginning to emerge. The development of a common purpose in favor of peace requires goodwill and outreach on both sides.

Rhetoric that clings to an outmoded "zero-sum" analysis that pits Israeli and Palestinian interests as irreconcilable and diametrically opposed, even though the future of both peoples depends on peace, is bad enough. Speakers who engage in demagoguery and spread anti-Semitic and violent ideals poison the national interests of the Palestinian people and their supporters in the United States. With "friends" such as Amir Abdel Malik Ali, the Palestinians need no additional enemies."