Black anti-Zionist pastor Jeremiah Wright, who once was U.S. President Barack Obama’s personal pastor and officiated at his wedding, blames the Jews from blocking him from even speaking to the president. In an interview with the Virginian Daily Press, Wright stated, "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office….”
The chiefs of staff for the president and for his wife are both Jewish.
Wright said that the Jews “will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.” He also charged that President Obama did not attend the recent Durban II anti-racism conference in Geneva because he did not want to offend Jews and Israel.
The black pastor also castigated what he called the “ethnic cleansing" by Israel in Gaza. “Ethnic cleansing (by) the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel," Wright said.
Wright’s views embarrassed the president during his campaign, forcing Obama to disassociate from him although he earlier had said that he could not disown him just as he could not disown his grandmother.
The pastor’s Trinity United Church newsletter once included an article by a Hamas leader who asked, “Why should any Palestinian recognize the monstrous crimes carried out by Israel's founders and continued by its deformed modern apartheid state?” In another article, Wright described Italians as “garlic noses.”
When relations between then-Senator Obama and Wright were close, Obama said he used the pastor as his “sounding board" to "make sure I'm not losing myself in the hype and hoopla," Rolling Stone wrote two years ago.
The magazine quoted leftist religious leader Rev. Jim Wallis as saying, "If you want to understand where Barack gets his feeling and rhetoric from, just look at Jeremiah Wright."
Obama chose Wright as his pastor after having left the influence of his atheist parents and wrote in his autobiography that when choosing Wright’s church, he felt the spirit of black memory and history moving through the church leader.