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Belafonte Is Worse Than An Idiot

As Ronald Radosh put it in a New York Post column three years ago: “In June 2000, Belafonte was a featured speaker at a rally in Castro’s Cuba, honoring the American Soviet spies, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Tears, one observer reported, ’streaked down’ Belafonte’s face, ‘as he recalled the pain and humiliation his friend [Paul] Robeson had been forced to endure’ in 1950s America. Undoubtedly, he was pleased to hear Cuba presented ‘as an example of keeping the principles the Rosenbergs fought and died for alive.’… Speaking in October 1983 at a ‘World Peace Concert’ run by East Germany’s official Communist youth organization, Belafonte gave his blessings to the Soviet-sponsored ‘peace’ campaign pushing unilateral Western disarmament, at a time when the Soviets were putting SS-20 missiles in East Germany.”

This is a very bad guy, a Stalinist-tyrant-lover, and scratch a Stalinist-tyrant-lover and you know what you find underneath when it comes to Jews, Jonah…

John Podhoretz, a New York Post columnist for 25 years, is the editor of Commentary.
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