Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky finds herself in the unfortunate position of battling the very Progressive movement she has done so much to help shape. You see, she is a Progressive Zionist, and that puts her in direct conflict with her most radical Progressive colleagues, many of whom equate Zionism with colonialism and racism.

Over the weekend, Jan Schakowsky condemned the Progressive Democrats of America for their role in the coming Hamas Flotilla 2, set to launch June 20, 2011.

Good for you Jan. Now all you have to do is march down the hall and condemn the co-sponsors of your ‘tax the rich’ bill to their faces. It’s a lot of the same people.

There are reports that Muslims stoned praying Jews at the Western Wall today. That would be the equivilant of Jews stoning Muslims at Mecca.

Here is video of the incident, although it is hard to make out what is happening.

More info here:

Police enter Temple Mount to stop riots

Police and Border Guard forces broke into the Temple Mount compound on Friday after stones were hurled at the end of Friday prayers. Officers dispersed the rioters using crowd dispersal means and isolated them. No injuries have been reported. Three worshippers were arrested.

Dozens of youths began to hurl stones at the Moroccans’ Gate adjacent to the Western Wall as Friday prayers in the Old City drew to a close. Security forces were forced to enter the compound to put a stop to the violence.

No reports of anything that might have been said at Friday prayers to inspire this violence.

QUESTION: What do you do if you are a Progressive supporter of Israel, and your Progressive fellow travelers are proudly organizing the American wing of the Hamas Flotilla movement?

ANSWER: Nothing. You are powerless to stop it.

It’s called the Schakowsky Conundrum, named after Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky. Jan is fiercely committed to two things in this world, in no particular order: 1) Socialism 2) Israel. It must be torture for her to watch as her Progressive leadership supports the Flotilla.

Why is Jan Schakowsky a slave to her Flotilla-loving leadership? Because they are the co-sponsors of all of her pet legislation. For example, in the image above Rep. Grijalva is speaking glowingly of Jan and her proposal to raise taxes on the evil rich capitalists of America.

For those who have been keeping score, Rep. Raul Grijalva is the co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and a leading board member of the openly Flotilla-supporting Progressive Democrats of America.

Here is Rep. Grijalva unloading his love all over Rep Schakowsky:

Here is Rep. Schakowsky on (state run?) Russia TV that same day! She’s having lots of fun bagging on evil-selfish-rich-Americans.

Do you think Jan Schakowsky ever raises the issue of the Hamas Flotilla with her friends at the Progressive Democrats of America, or at (state run?) Russia TV?

Dubious.

The Hamas Flotilla 2 scheduled for launch on June 20th, 2011.

Yup, you read that title correctly. The Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) are endorsing the Hamas Flotilla II, which is set to launch June 20th 2011.

The following elected Democrats and radical organizers sit on the board of the Progressive Democrats of America:

John Conyers
Donna Edwards
Raul Grijalva
Barbara Lee
Jim McGovern
Lynn Woolsey
Dennis Kucinich

The following resolution in support of the coming Hamas Flotilla 2 is buried on the website of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA):

Resolution in Support of U.S. Aid Ship The Audacity of Hope

RESOLVED – We, the membership of Progressive Democrats of America, by democratic and representational vote, hereby affirm our support and endorsement of the U.S. aid ship The Audacity of Hope, due to set sail for Gaza in October of this year, as an expression of our insistence that Israel meet its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and end its occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands. As peace and justice advocates, PDA considers it our obligation not only to criticize immoral and illegal acts, but to back up that criticism with action.

CodePink is organizing the American front of the coming Hamas Flotilla 2.

CodePink sits on the board of the Progressive Democrats of America.

Progressive Democrats of America officially supports the American front of the coming Hamas Flotilla 2.

Would any of the above elected officials like to comment on the record regarding PDA support of the Flotilla movement?

Are there any Jewish elected officials out there who would like to comment on this??

Are there any Israel supporting elected officials of any stripe that would like to comment on this?

Here is a list of Americans who will be on the US boat named “The Audacity of Hope” The list includes at least one board member of the Progressive Democrats of America.

In the video, she compares Hamas and Fatah to black people of the segregated South of the 1950’s.

Let’s not forget that during the previous Hamas Flotilla, they chanted about Mohammed coming for the Jews – to kill them.

This was widely reported, so by continuing to support the movement wherein they chant about the Islamist dream of dead Jews, Alice Walker is de-facto endorsing this bloodlust.

Also, let’s remember how Hamas came to power:

And lets not forget their “systemic executions”

Let’s also remember what Hamas and Fatah teach their children:

Alice Walker, do you support Hamas? It sure smells like you do.

The most charitable explanation is that Alice Walker is a useful idiot for the Muslim Brotherhood. A less charitable explanation, especially after confirmation of al Qaeda terrorists participating in the previous Hamas flotilla, is that Alice Walker is a disingenuous anti-Zionist who is crapping all over the legacy of the civil rights movement while helping Sharia inspired genocidal maniacs realize their dream of annihilating the infidel Jews.

UPDATE:

Here is a link to Alice Walker’s blog at BarackObama.com. (Don’t worry, we downloaded the page just incase His Presidency decides to disappear it)

Also, here is a link that the Obama Campaign created to allow their followers to spam their own address books with Alice Walker’s glowing endorsement of Obama. (again, cached)

President Obama sure was capitalizing on Alice Walker back in 2008. Will she be a part of the campaign again? Or will they throw her under the bus?

Call it “The Schakowsky Conundrum.”

Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky finds herself in the unfortunate position of battling the very Progressive movement she has done so much to help shape. You see, she is a Progressive Zionist, and that puts her in direct conflict with her most radical Progressive colleagues, many of whom equate Zionism with colonialism and racism.

Representative Schakosky’s predicament is symptomatic of two ideological battles, both involving the Jewish community in America.

Battle #1:   Progressive Zionists vs. Progressive Non/Anti-Zionists

The end game for Progressives is a Socialist America (and world for that matter) under a system they call ‘Democratic Socialism.’ They do not deny this. Heather Booth and her gang at the Midwest Academy (who are working for the President’s reelection campaign), are very open about what they are trying to achieve.

One of the radical Left’s primary tactics is to work against American interests across the planet, in an effort to bleed her slowly over time. A little blood in Cuba and a little blood in Colombia and a little blood in Israel, and on and on.  To achieve these ends, they have demonstrated a willingness to work with just about anybody who also has America’s worst interests at heart. As it turns out, contempt for Free Enterprise and Liberty can make for extra-strange bedfellows.  The ostensible goal of whichever would-be-partner  is 100% irrelevant to the primary objective, namely:  to weaken the US government everywhere it can. That is why you see CODEPINK cozying up to the most gynocidal maniacs on earth, the mullahs in Iran. The real goal is to weaken the West, clitorectomies [warning VERY graphic images] be damned. By working with Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, Fatah, Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Isalmic Jihad, et al., they help edge the world ever closer to destroying Israel. Why? Because destroying Israel weakens the West.

Problem is, a large number of comparatively moderate American Socialists are Jews. And most of them are Zionists. And while they would happily usher in a Democratic Socialist paradise, they have no intention of feeding Israel to Jihad fanatics to do it.

Nowhere is this fissure between Pro-Zionist Progressives and Non/Anti-Ziontist Progressives more apparent than in the reaction of those on the radical Left to a recent bi-partisan letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey, urging him to halt the coming Hamas flotilla of 2011. (CLICK HERE for a detailed explanation of exactly which American organizations are organizing these actions against Israel)

From the letter:

Mr. Prime Minister-

We write today to express our serious concern over reports that the so-called Free Gaza Movement and the IHH are planning to send another flotilla to Gaza in the coming weeks to provoke a confrontation with Israel

The ultra-radical Left is not pleased that dedicated Progressive Democratic Socialists like Rep. Jan Schakowsky signed that letter.

From truthout.org, written by someone who will be on the next Hamas flotilla:

In the grand scheme of things, Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky is one of my favorite members of Congress: progressive, smart, articulate, willing to stand up for what’s right even when the pressure is on from the party leadership to go along with injustice, as when she worked to block the president’s deficit commission from recommending cuts to Social Security.

But when it comes to US policy toward Israel and the Palestinians, Representative Schakowsky not only fails to be progressive; she seems to go out of her way to sign onto the most outrageously right-wing “pro-Israel” initiatives imaginable, when she could just say: “let’s let this one pass us by,” as the vast majority of Democratic members of Congress do, when confronted with the most outrageously right-wing initiatives of the “pro-Israel lobby.”

Could there be a more Progressive member of Congress than Jan Schakowsky? And this is how she is treated by the radical Non/Anti-Zionist Progressive movement. Poor Jan is all but accused of being a part of the Jewish conspiracy to control the American government for the benefit of Israel. With friends like those, huh Jan?

At some point, the Pro-Zionist Progressives are going to have to square off against their Anti-Zionist counterparts. That might get ugly, proving a cold slap in the face to at least one core group of Socialists – no matter how it plays out.

Battle #2:  Classical Liberal American Jews vs. Progressive/Socialist Jews

There are a lot of Jews in America who are not Socialist-Progressive. They are moderates who span all the way from middle left to conservative right. And if the extremist behavior and rhetoric of radical Jewish Progressives endangers the very existence of Israel, and thus threatens and jeopardizes the security of Jews around the globe, there’s gonna be some ’splaining to do.

For a glimpse inside the epicenter of this divide in the Jewish community, just read Andrew Breitbart’s recent post about the shameful comments made by radical Progressive  MJ Rosenberg, of Media Matters. He called Netenyahu a terrorist, and accused AIPAC of holding more loyalty for Israel than for America.

AIPAC is a VERY mainstream Jewish organization that many in the Jewish community perceive as tending left, although maybe that tendency will change thanks to the likes of Rosenberg, and CODEPINK, and Progressive Democrats of America.

MJ Rosenberg may or may not be wise enough to be aware of just how inflammatory and dangerous his comments are, but it is likely lost on him just how ironic his Progressive libel is, since he -and others- can be accused of having more loyalty to Marx than to the Constitution.

The topic of the Obama White House banning a critical media outlet came up, and Schakowsky was asked if she would ever like to exclude any media outlets. She promptly responded that she would like to ban Breitbart from covering her, calling him a “Sleaze bag” in a vicious and uncivil personal attack. Full clip here.

She probably feels this way because while covering the Schakowsky-Pollak congressional race last year on behalf of Big Government, Founding Bloggers and Adam Sharp of Sharp Elbows had the temerity to ask Representative Schakowsky some basic questions that she couldn’t/wouldn’t answer: 1) Where in the Constitution does Congress have the authority to force someone to buy a product or service? 2) What is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and what is Democratic Socialism? Jan is a long-time supporter of the DSA, but for some reason she is shy about this association.

Here is the coverage that Democrat Representative Jan Schakowsky does not want you to see:

And the full report is here:

The First Amendment is designed to protect us from the likes of Jan Schakowsky. She practically admits that in the first clip above.