Attacking Jews that back Iran accord ‘offends’ Obama
US President Barack Obama says he is offended by attacks against American Jews who have voiced support for a nuclear agreement between Iran and the global powers.
In a Friday interview with the Jewish newspaper The Forward released Monday, Obama said those attacking the Jews are similar to members of the African American community who disagree with the president and therefore believe he is "not black enough," the Associated Press reported.
Obama said he is he's "offended” when hears members of the administration “who themselves are Jewish being attacked.”
“You saw this historically sometimes in the African-American community, where there's a difference on policy and somebody starts talking about, 'Well, you're not black enough,' or 'You're selling out.' And that, I think, is always a dangerous place to go."
The US president did not directly mention anyone but White House press secretary Josh Earnest mentioned former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who like other GOP presidential hopefuls, has spoken against the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 – the US, Britain, Russia, China, France, and Germany – in Vienna in mid-July.
Huckabee has likened the administration’s support for the agreement to "marching the Israelis to the door of the oven."
"It's certainly not the only example of the kind of political rhetoric that certainly the president and others find objectionable," Earnest noted.
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew (seen below), a Jew, was heckled this summer as he voiced support for the accord at a Jewish-themed conference in New York.
Pro-Israeli Republicans, including the 2016 presidential hopefuls, have been running a campaign against the agreement, which has also been backed by the UN Security Council.
Jeb Bush has called it a "terrible deal" while Marco Rubio labeled it "a dangerous and destabilizing failure."
Rick Perry has also pledged to kill the agreement as "one of my first official acts" as president.
Under the agreement, restrictions will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic.
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