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JTA reports on what Jesse Jackson did or did not say at the World Policy Forum last week:

Sources close to Jackson said some of the quotes in Taheri’s article were fabricated – Jackson never used the term “Zionists,” for instance, they said.

It was not clear if Taheri claimed to be in the room when Jackson made his remarks, or if others had reported the remarks to Taheri.

Taheri has a controversial past. Some of his writings on his native Iran have been debunked by experts as based on fabrications and distortions. Canada’s National Post apologized for his 2006 report that Iran’s leaders planned to force Jews to wear yellow insignia after the claim was proved unfounded.

Let’s hope a transcript or recording emerges so we can judge who said what and to whom.

And when the results are in, let’s also debate to what degree it matters what Jesse Jackson says in this campaign.