Clinton Campaign Refuses More Funds From Donor Labeled Anti-Semite

The Clinton campaign says it has stopped accepting contributions from a Turkish American who financed a film deemed anti-Semitic and anti-American.

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Sunday, March 09, 2008

The Clinton campaign says it has stopped accepting contributions from a Turkish American who financed a film deemed anti-Semitic and anti-American.

Clinton senior adviser Ann Lewis told the Jewish wire agency JTA that the campaign recently learned that "Hill-raiser" Mehmet Celebi, who is also listed as one of Hillary Clinton's delegates to the Democratic national convention in August, co-produced "Valley of the Wolves: Iraq."

The 2006 film co-stars Gary Busey as a Jewish American doctor harvesting organs from prisoners in Abu Ghraib and selling them to wealthy transplant patients in the U.S., Israel and Great Britain. The film reportedly tees off one real-life incident in 2003 in which Turkish special forces were arrested in northern Iraq and then plays on anti-American and anti-Israel sentiment throughout the fictional story.

"We were unaware of Mr. Celebi's involvement in this film and we obviously do not agree with it," Lewis told FOX News on Monday. "He is no longer raising money for this campaign."

In a debate with Barack Obama the week before the Ohio and Texas primaries, Clinton claimed she feared she would "pay a price" for denouncing an anti-Semitic group during her 2000 Senate campaign, but said, "I would not be associated with people who said such inflammatory and untrue charges against either Israel or Jewish people in our country."

Celebi is listed on the slate of Clinton delegates from Illinois' 13th Congressional District. The Clinton campaign did not respond to FOX News inquiries as to whether any of the roughly $100,000 already raised by Celebi would be returned.

Click here to read the JTA report.

 

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