Posted by
Defend America on Monday, March 01, 2010 5:07:49 PM
By Philip Klein on 2.27.10 @ 3:35PM
The Los Angeles Times editorial page has decided to give
U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell the benefit of the doubt --
for now -- on his past voting record on Israel and his numerous
past associations with terrorist-linked radicals. But the
editorial acknowledges that "His positions are fair game" and
urges those who are concerned to challenge him within the
confines of reasonable debate. I'm happy to oblige.
The editorial board was not pursuaded by Campbell's relationship
with Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida
professor who donated to the Campbell campaign and later pled
guilty to conspiring to help associates of the terrorist group
Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (More on their relationship
here,
here,
here and
here.) But in the Al-Arian case, Campbell defenders can claim
that when he defended Al-Arian on civil rights and academic
freedom grounds, Campbell didn't know the full extent of the
evidence that would later link Al-Arian to terrorism. It's much
harder to make that excuse, however, in the case of many other
radicals with whom Campbell was connected. Let's take the example
of another supporter, Abdurahman Alamoudi of the American Muslim Council, whose
views in support of Hamas and Hezbollah were well known -- and
captured on videotape back in 2000. Yet Campbell was still defending
him even as other politicians were running for
cover.
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/02/27/campbell-defended-muslim-donor