DNC REP. RESIGNS AFTER Israel Email Leaked
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:20 pm
A Florida member of the Democratic National Committee last Friday resigned her post after being caught red-faced sending out hate-filled email against Israel. The emails were exposed by BizPacReview.com a week ago after first being shared with South Florida Democrats.
Garcia, who still hopes to win this year's race for the Florida House of Representatives, had sent out two particularly vicious emails in which she expressed hatred of Israel and its ignorance of its defensive policies over the past decades. In one, she accused Israel of committing “crimes against humanity.”
In an email sent on May 24, 2011, Garcia wrote, “Slavery was ended, apartheid was ended and so this occupation must end.”
On July 26, 2011, Garcia sent out a second email which said “by supporting Israeli occupation with U.S. foreign aid, we are all complicit and guilty of their crimes against humanity. Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust, and it's about time this guilt trip was taken off their backs.”
But that wasn't all. Garcia, whose potential new role representing the heavily Jewish District 88 would involve making decisions about how taxpayer money would be spent, had some definite ideas on the subject.
"I deeply resent U.S. taxpayer funds being used to continue Israeli aggression, (yes, confiscating other peoples' land and building illegal settlements is aggression), not to mention 'incursions' that kill PEOPLE, destroy civilian homes and infrastructure all over, mass concentration prison camps, etc, etc, etc.”
According to BizPacReview.com, the virulent emails began when Garcia forwarded a statement from the far-left CodePink organization criticizing President Barak Obama's alleged support for Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and announcing a conference to oppose it.
Even in her letter of resignation, Evelyn Garcia did not bother to hide her hatred, complaining that she was “passionately advocating [her] position supporting the rights of people [she] felting were being harmed...”
In a second, follow-up statement on the Mondoweiss.com website, Garcia commented, “Don't our loyalty and patriotism belong first to our country – the United States of America? Or did they (the group that released the emails) really intend a conversation among the wider electorate of the extent to which U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing an illegal occupation by Israel?
And, who says it's an occupation and illegal? Well, let me count the ways: numerous United Nations resolutions, J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, the Presbyterian Church, CodePink, religious and political leaders and public opinion worldwide.... How much longer will U.S. taxpayers subsidize the illegal, immoral occupation of Palestinian territories? How about conducting a discussion on that topic instead of persecuting one messenger? Don't Palestinians deserve their homeland too?”
Garcia, who still hopes to win this year's race for the Florida House of Representatives, had sent out two particularly vicious emails in which she expressed hatred of Israel and its ignorance of its defensive policies over the past decades. In one, she accused Israel of committing “crimes against humanity.”
In an email sent on May 24, 2011, Garcia wrote, “Slavery was ended, apartheid was ended and so this occupation must end.”
On July 26, 2011, Garcia sent out a second email which said “by supporting Israeli occupation with U.S. foreign aid, we are all complicit and guilty of their crimes against humanity. Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust, and it's about time this guilt trip was taken off their backs.”
But that wasn't all. Garcia, whose potential new role representing the heavily Jewish District 88 would involve making decisions about how taxpayer money would be spent, had some definite ideas on the subject.
"I deeply resent U.S. taxpayer funds being used to continue Israeli aggression, (yes, confiscating other peoples' land and building illegal settlements is aggression), not to mention 'incursions' that kill PEOPLE, destroy civilian homes and infrastructure all over, mass concentration prison camps, etc, etc, etc.”
According to BizPacReview.com, the virulent emails began when Garcia forwarded a statement from the far-left CodePink organization criticizing President Barak Obama's alleged support for Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and announcing a conference to oppose it.
Even in her letter of resignation, Evelyn Garcia did not bother to hide her hatred, complaining that she was “passionately advocating [her] position supporting the rights of people [she] felting were being harmed...”
In a second, follow-up statement on the Mondoweiss.com website, Garcia commented, “Don't our loyalty and patriotism belong first to our country – the United States of America? Or did they (the group that released the emails) really intend a conversation among the wider electorate of the extent to which U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing an illegal occupation by Israel?
And, who says it's an occupation and illegal? Well, let me count the ways: numerous United Nations resolutions, J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, the Presbyterian Church, CodePink, religious and political leaders and public opinion worldwide.... How much longer will U.S. taxpayers subsidize the illegal, immoral occupation of Palestinian territories? How about conducting a discussion on that topic instead of persecuting one messenger? Don't Palestinians deserve their homeland too?”
