A May 24 WorldNetDaily article boosts Michael Savage’s continuing crusade against the United Kingdom’s ban on his entering the country, repeating a claim by Republican Rep. Allen West that “Savage was put on the U.K.’s banned-entry list with ‘ruthless criminals,’ including a Hamas terrorist and Russian skinhead” and Savage’s own statement that the list includes “actual murderers and terrorists.”
It can be argued that WND is now implicitly conceding that far-right Israel extremist Mike Guzofsky is a terrorist.
As we’ve detailed, when the banned-entry list first came out, WND originally described Guzofsky (aka Yekutel Ben Yaacov) as a “Jewish extremist,” but then retroactively changed it to “Jewish nationalist.” WND’s Aaron Klein — who has previously whitewashed Guzofsky’s connections to the banned far-right movement Kahane Chai and has admitted that he “agree[s] with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane” — ran to Guzofsky’s defense, claiming that he’s merely a dog trainer, ignoring the Kahane movement’s history of violence.
Oh, and about Guzofsky’s dogs? He told the New Yorker in 2004 that they’re for scaring Arabs:
“We don’t want the dogs to kill the Arabs, just immobilize them,” Guzofsky said. He said that the dogs could smell the difference between an Arab infiltrator and a Jewish resident. “The adrenaline of the Arabs, they can detect it. The Arabs are very scared of dogs. Muslims think they’re unclean.”
WND, as has become regular procedure, didn’t name Guzofsky among the people on the UK’s banned list. But the fact that it’s willing to call the non-Savage people on the list terrorists suggests that it may be getting tired of defending Guzofsky.