BREAKING: Thompson Ignored Anti-Jewish Radio Caller, Says NY Post

by Staff Report

Democratic candidate for Mayor William C. Thompson did not respond to a radio caller who said Mayor Michael Bloomberg favored Jews, the New York Post reports today.

According to a transcript in today's paper, a caller to KISS-FM on Sunday morning identified as Carl from Harlem told Thompson, who was a guest on the station, "Bloomberg is divisional and he doesn't have all the people's worth at hand. He just think [sic] about helping the rich, the rich contractors and the Jewish people of his persuasion. And I think it's time for that type of thinking to be moved out of office."

The host then answered two other calls, but Thompson never mentioned the Jewish comment, according to the Post.

In a later statement, Thompson told the Post he "did not hear anyone say anything anti-Semitic. Obviously if I had have immediately denounced or any other statement offensive towards any New Yorkers."

Thompson supporter Dov Hikind, an Orthodox Jewish Assemblyman from Brooklyn who is outspoken on anti-Semitism and Jewish issues, said on Monday that he accepted Thompson's word that "he didn't hear anything." He also accused the Post, which has enthusiastically endorsed Bloomberg, of biased coverage of the mayoral race. "Anything in the Post regarding this you have to take with a grain of salt."

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