News Brief19:00 PM

(IsraelNN.com) United States Presidential candidate Barack Obama is hosting leftist blogger Tony Wicher on his official website.  Wicher’s blog is promoted as “A forum for a new foreign policy based on peace, democracy, and human rights instead of hegemony and war, with particular attention to the Israel/Palestine conflict as the key to a new Middle East policy.”

Wicher repeatedly refers to Israel as an apartheid state, and in fact claims that Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Authority Arabs is “worse than apartheid.”  He also refers to the Likud party as “right-wing jingoists,” and insists that “Zionism means ethnic cleansing.” 

Israel’s current government, Wicher says, “is faithfully carrying out the Zionist policy, by relentlessly persecuting the Arabs until they give up and go to Jordan or whatever.”  He dismisses any who call his claims of Israeli “apartheid” anti-Semitic as members of the “Zionist thought police.”