PRESS RELEASE:  September 19, 2005

 

FULANI  DUMPED AFTER RAMBAM RALLIES

 

“Jews function as mass murderers of people and color” (and Jews) “had to sell their souls” (to acquire the State of Israel), are just a few of the anti-Jewish rhetoric espoused by Lenora Fulani of the Independence Party’s Executive Committee. “It’s an outrage”, says Rabbi Zev Friedman, Rosh HaMesivta of Rambam Mesivta High School, “that Lenora Fulani, is given such prominence in the Independence Party when she has a track record of inflammatory and venomous anti-Semitic comments.” 

 

Hundreds of protestors from the Rambam Mesivta High School of Lawrence, NY held a protest rally in front of the Independence Party’s headquarters at 225 Broadway in New York on September 15, 2005 to show support for the Independence Party Chairman, Frank MacKay’s push for Lenora Fulani’s ouster from her function on the Executive Committee. 

 

Fulani has been given many opportunities to retract her statements but flatly refuses giving excuses saying “it’s impossible to have a serious dialogue and discourse in the city at this time on those issues”.  Regarding 9/11 Fulani has been quoted, -that America was “made vulnerable” to terrorist attacks as a result of “our government’s aggression and arrogance”.  Rabbi Yotav Eliach, Principal of Rambam Mesivta High School says, “The fact that she attempts to justify the Muslim terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center is obscene”.

 

“I’m very excited to hear she’s gone”, says Rambam senior, Zoli Honig, “because, an ‘anti-Semite’ like that has no place operating in government.  I’m sure the rally influenced the vote.  When you see 200 Yeshiva kids on a Thursday afternoon rallying in front of the Independence Party’s Headquarters, chanting to ‘kick her out’ and ‘clean up your party’, the Party’s attention focused on us as they came out of their building for their lunch break.”

 

The students of Rambam Mesivta from Lawrence, New York, have a long standing history of activism for Jewish and American social justice.  Their voice has been heard at rallies against Saudi support of terror and in support of US troops, against Nazi War criminals living in the United States, as well as Democratic Congressman’s Moran anti-Semitic remarks.