[IsraelTimes] Valerie Plame Wilson again apologizes for 'deeply offensive' piece with 'anti-Semitic tropes,' and for 'perpetuating any conversation that gives credence to anti-Semitism'Valerie Plame Wilson, a former CIA agent and author, announced that she was resigning as board member of a prominent American foundation, after she came under fire for tweeting a link last week to an article that argued that American Jews were a driving force behind US wars.
Wilson had initially defended the piece, urging followers on Thursday to "put aside" any biases and read the article ‐ titled "America’s Jews are driving America’s wars" ‐ but then apologized profusely, saying she had "messed up" and had only "skimmed this piece."
On Sunday, in a series of posts, she said she was resigning from the Ploughshares Fund.
"Actions have consequences, and while I have been honored to serve on the board of the Ploughshares Fund...to avoid detracting from their mission, I have resigned," Wilson said in consecutive tweets.
"I take full responsibility for my thoughtless and hurtful actions, and there are no excuses for what I did," she said, calling it a "grave mistake" and again apologizing for sharing the "deeply offensive" article, and for "perpetuating any conversation that gives credence to anti-Semitism."
On Friday, the Ploughshares Fund had said in a statement: "Our board member, Valerie Plame Wilson, seriously erred in retweeting an anti-Semitic article from The Unz Review."
"Ploughshares Fund condemns in the strongest terms what we believe to be white supremacist and anti-Semitic propaganda espoused by this site. The prejudices promulgated by this site are an affront to American values and human decency."
On Sunday, she acknowleged her actions, saying: "In the past, I have also carelessly retweeted articles from this same site, the Unz Review, without closely examining content and authors."
"Now that I have, I am horrified and ashamed," she wrote"
| In other words, not only did she not find anything objectionable about the site and the content of the articles, but neither did any of her Twitter followers, until someone made a fuss this time. Lovely people, all. |
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
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| Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz: Valerie Plame knew exactly what she was tweeting |