During an interview on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday, Rabbi David
Nesenoff, known for exposing Helen Thomas’s anti-Semitic views, informed
viewers that, up until now, he has considered himself to be a liberal
Democrat – who even opposed the Iraq War and supported Barack Obama –
but now asserts that "I have to really reevaluate liberal and
conservative and really find out where I stand because I think I've been
a little blind."
As Nesenoff recounted that he had previously agreed with Thomas in
her opposition to the war in Iraq, and her challenging of President Bush
on the matter, he now sees himself as unknowingly being allied with
people who think that "Israel and the Jewish people don't have a
connection." Before being interrupted by host Howard Kurtz, Nesenoff
began to explain his evolution of thought:
They’re accusing me of being some right-wing ambusher,
and it really rocked my world because I have to reevaluate my life and
my standing in the agendas because, yeah, I’m a New York Democrat Jewish
liberal supporter of Obama, donated to his candidacy for a year, said
give him a chance … watched all these liberal media, and now I have to
reevaluate … I have to now speak to people with all different agendas
because if I was part of a team where their agenda was that Israel and
the Jewish people don’t have a connection – which is exactly what Helen
Thomas said – there’s no connection, why are they even there-
