The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org removed several anti-Semitic messages from a bulletin board on its Web site concerning Joe Lieberman.

Citing several examples of what he said were anti-Semitic comments, Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman urged Moveon.org in a letter Thursday to condemn the messages. “Some of the examples are ‘media owning Jewish pigs,’ referring to Senator Joseph Lieberman as ‘Jew Lieberman,’ ‘Zionazis,’ and ‘why are the Jews so Jew-y?’ ” Foxman wrote MoveOn.org Executive Director Eli Pariser in the letter.

“We believe you should assume some responsibility to respond to this hateful content,” stated the letter, which did not expressly ask for the messages to be removed from the group’s Web site. “Haters may have the right to express their hate, but that hate should not go unchallenged.”

Lieberman, who is an orthodox Jew, is fighting to keep his Senate seat as a petition candidate after losing to Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary.
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