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Related: About this forumDershowitz booed at ZOA dinner for pointing out Clinton won popular vote
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Dershowitz-booed-at-ZOA-dinner-for-pointing-out-Clinton-won-popular-vote-473227American Jewish jurist professor Alan Dershowitz was booed during his speech at the Zionist Organization of Americas annual gala dinner on Sunday night for reminding the audience that the US presidential contest was a tie election, that one person won the electoral and one person won the popular vote.
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Although he was expected to attend the dinner, US President-elect Donald Trumps newly appointed chief strategist Steve Bannon was not present on Sunday night.
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I don't ever want to see ZOA, and I'm not suggesting this is happening, become the mirror image opposite of J Street, because that causes tremendous division within the Zionist community, he continued. The Zionist Organization of America should not take sides on Israeli domestic politics or on American domestic politics.
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Although he was expected to attend the dinner, US President-elect Donald Trumps newly appointed chief strategist Steve Bannon was not present on Sunday night.
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I don't ever want to see ZOA, and I'm not suggesting this is happening, become the mirror image opposite of J Street, because that causes tremendous division within the Zionist community, he continued. The Zionist Organization of America should not take sides on Israeli domestic politics or on American domestic politics.
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Dershowitz booed at ZOA dinner for pointing out Clinton won popular vote (Original Post)
ericson00
Nov 2016
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Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)1. why would he be booed? Who was booing?
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,532 posts)2. Yeah, don't get this... unless booing him for other reasons?
ericson00
(2,707 posts)3. Bc hes a moderate, yet the left demonizes him
And calls him a neocon, etc.
katmondoo
(6,495 posts)4. Maybe because that is what he is A neocon
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)5. ZOA is an extreme rightwing, racist hate group.
Virtually every person other than Dershowitz in that room voted for Trump.