Newsmax, the thriving haven of wingnut thought, emailed around an article last week which may contain the most incendiary rant against President Barack Obama published by a “news” outlet to date. My post is a little late, but the column is vile enough to still warrant discussion.

The article, written by Rabbi Dr. Morton H. Pomerantz, has provided fodder for conservatives, who claim that Pomerantz is representative of Jewish liberals losing faith in Obama because he is a Reform Jew and thus a liberal.

This is the same Pomerantz who has a “profound admiration” for Jerry Falwell, planned to vote for Rudy Giuliani as Mayor of New York some years ago, and served on the Board of Directors of Morality in Media, an organization which aims to combat pornography. Suffice to say, Morton Pomerantz is not a liberal.

In his column, titled “Obama Breeds Climate of Hate Against Jews,” Pomerantz writes:

Our new president did not tell a virulent anti-Semite to travel to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington to kill Jews, but he is most certainly creating a climate of hate against us.

It is no coincidence that we are witnessing this level of hatred toward Jews as President Barack Obama positions America against the Jewish state.

Just days ago Obama traveled to Cairo, Egypt. It was his second trip in a short time to visit Muslim countries. He sent a clear message by not visiting Israel.

But this was code.

In Cairo, Obama said things that pose a grave danger to Jews in Israel, in America and everywhere.

And if his views are not vigorously opposed they will help create a danger as great as that posed by the Nazis to the Jewish people.

Just last week, Obama told his worldwide audience, more than 100 million people, that the killing of six million Jews during the Holocaust was the equivalent of Israel’s actions in dealing with the Palestinians.

No, Obama’s international trip to did not include a stop in Israel, which he visited during the presidential campaign, but he did visit Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany, in what can be read as a statement to the Muslim world that to deny the Holocaust is unmistakeably wrong.

Richard Cohen made a similarly baseless claim in today’s Washington Post, writing: “In his remarkable speech at Cairo University, President Obama only inferentially mentioned this aspect of what has become an ugly part of the Middle East: a tolerance for and advocacy of old-style anti-Semitism.”

In reality, Steve Benen notes, Obama strongly rebuked those who deny the Holocaust in his Cairo speech:

“Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed — more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, it is ignorant, and it is hateful. Threatening Israel with destruction — or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews — is deeply wrong, and only serves to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve.”

Apparently, Pomerantz did not catch this segment of Obama’s speech. Instead, Pomerantz makes the profoundly appalling claim that Obama’s recognizing the Palestinians’ plight may have emboldened white supremacist James W. von Brunn to shoot a guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. six days ago:

Obama’s clever construct comparing the mass genocide of six million Jews to the Palestinian struggle will not be lost on the estimated 100 million Muslims who tuned into to hear him.

Perhaps it was not lost on James W. von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist identified as the alleged attacker Wednesday at the Holocaust Museum. He apparently felt that he could easily take retribution against the Jews for the atrocities Obama implies they are guilty of.

The Examiner’s Robert Stark correctly identifies Pomerantz as one of the many partisans who deliberately exploited von Brunn’s attack at the Holocaust Museum to suit their own agendas.

Pomerantz then inadvertently makes clear that his rabid anti-Obama bias stems from his radical prejudice against Muslims, casually repeating debunked GOP talking points along the way:

You profess to be a Christian. But you seem more intent on protecting Muslims. In your speech you talked openly of your Muslim heritage, your admiration of their way of life, and so forth. You said in your speech that you have made one of your chief aims of your presidency repairing the image of Islam.

Why did you hide these views from the American public during the recent presidential campaign?

Why, as president, did you fully bow to the Saudi king, who refuses to allow any religious freedom for any Christian or Jew?

Pomerantz did not raise hell when President Bush bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, but he did say a prayer for Bush in late 2002. Pomerantz wrote in Newsmax, “We ask thy blessing upon President Bush, our commander in chief.”

Let me make this perfectly clear: Morton Pomerantz does not speak for Jews. Pomerantz is at best misguided and paranoid. At worst, he is an extremist who seeks to spread intolerance and hate.