By April MacIntyre Jul 28, 2009, 3:23 GMT
President Obama's policies have sparked parades of protest in Jerusalem.
US President Barack Obama (L) "It's absolutely an outrageously racist policy," Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told WND. "Especially in light of how Obama should be sensitive when it comes to anything that would remotely constitute discrimination of people based on ethnicity or religion." EPA/JOSHUA ROBERTS
The Jerusalem Post reports that 2,000 Israelis gathered in protest in front of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem.
"George Mitchell go home!" protesters were heard yelling.
Obama's envoy Mitchell was dispatched to relay the American administration's call to halt Jewish settlement activity, "including natural growth or accommodating the needs of existing Jewish populations in the areas in question," according to the Post.
"Obama should not be pressing Israel to compromise and freeze building in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem," protest organizer Yaacov Steinberg told WND.
Prominent leader Rabbi Eliezer Waldman called Obama a "racist."
"How dare he tell the Jews where they can or can't live! The era when Jews were banned from living in different places has ended," Waldman was reported saying.
"Obama beware. This insolence will bring about the downfall of the American leadership. Anyone who dares give an order to prevent Israeli life in Jerusalem or anywhere else in the land of Israel is destined to fall," he said.
"It's absolutely an outrageously racist policy," Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told WND. "Especially in light of how Obama should be sensitive when it comes to anything that would remotely constitute discrimination of people based on ethnicity or religion."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly rejected the State Department demand, according to the Post.Read_More
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