Only the progressive media could look at you straight in the face and tell you that a man who is putting his money--and his  life--on the line to stand in solidarity with Jews in Israel, is anti-Semitic.

Glenn Beck, whose rally last year in Washington, D.C. catapulted him from conservative talking head to the spearhead of an entire movement, took the world by surprise when he announced the sequel would take place in Jerusalem. Jews--along with conservative Americans--are being set up to be the 1930s-style scapegoats for a coming global economic collapse, according to Beck.

As he did in last year's Restoring Honor rally, Beck assembled a diverse group of religious leaders representing the world's major faiths to demonstrate that yes, we can all work together in peace to preserve human freedom. Israel is the canary in the coal mine, and considering that, like most Christians, the devout Beck believes Jews are God's chosen people, he elected to hold the Restoring Courage rally at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

That move shocked the Left, who always seem to be two steps behind the conservative firebrand. While they treated him like a talk-radio nut when he was on CNN, he was busy predicting the financial collapse of 2007-2008. When he moved to Fox News in 2009 (and quickly rose to the top of President Obama's enemies list) the Left painted the weepy Beck as an unhinged madman who fooled people into buying gold and who imagined socialists everywhere he went (even as the price of gold doubled and a top presidential advisor turned out to be a self-confessed Marxist). Beck outflanked them again with a tribute to Martin Luther King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech. And after he departed Fox News this summer, the Left celebrated his demise even as Beck went global.

In Tempe, a pro-Israel student group is holding a Restoring Courage rally and viewing party at ASU with Rabbi Arthur Lavinsky and Pastor Eddy Paul Morris. Morris is the Arizona director of Christians United for Israel. The viewing party will be one of a thousand or so that are planned around the world. One wouldn't expect either man to support a blatantly anti-Semitic event.

However, that's just what the progressive Left is labeling Restoring Courage.

Media Matters noted that 400 George Soros-funded rabbis wrote an open letter criticizing Beck for cheapening the Holocaust by pointing out that Nazis were national socialists, and for suggesting the Soros collaborated with the Nazis (he did as a fourteen-year-old boy, something that Beck went out of his way to excuse).

Beck is also accused of exploiting Israel to "get back on top," and the Restoring Courage moniker is twisted to say that Beck believes Jews aren't courageous.  Some even are predicting he'll trigger a global calamity by holding his event during Ramadan celebrations. If so, it's curious why the mainstream media is doing their best to ignore the event.

In the opening paragraph of the Associated Press's widely distributed wire report on Glenn Beck's massive Restoring Honor rally, it noted the demographical makeup of those that showed up at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday.

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King's message.

Although five of the first 12 paragraphs of the article mention Sharpton's much smaller rally, there is no mention that the crowd there was predominantly black.

The AP also didn't mention the degree of tribute Beck's event paid to minorities, while I did.

In fact, Beck was one of the few male, white speakers at the rally. Of the eleven other presenters, only two were white men--St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa and Special Operations Warrior Foundation President Col. John Carney, Jr.

All three of the achievement medals Beck minted were given to minorities (albeit the third medal was accepted on behalf of philanthropist John Huntsman, who is white), in front of a banner of Frederick Douglass.

Naturally, the closing paragraph ends by stating that a person handed out fliers with Obama with a Hitler-style mustache. Possibly three hundred thousand people there with nothing controversial on their person, and the AP--one of the world's premier news agencies--decides to close on a note describing one person with an extreme message.

If Glenn Beck is such a racist, why would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s niece attend a rally he organized on the anniversary of her uncle's most important speech?

Quite simply, because Alveda King has taken the time to speak to Beck to find out who he really is.

"I am attending this rally to help reclaim America," she told "Good Morning America's" Ron Claiborne today from Capitol Hill. "I'm joining Glenn to talk about faith, hope, charity, honor. Those are things that America needs to reclaim. Our children need to remember to love each other how to honor each other, their parents, God and their neighbors. I agree with Glenn on all of those principles. So that's why I'm here. For me it's principles over politics."

Were he a racist--as many on the Left contend--I doubt very much that King would join him in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, and she certainly wouldn't have said that her uncle would have attended were he alive.

In fact, Beck was one of the few male, white speakers at the rally. Of the eleven other presenters, only two were white men--St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa and Special Operations Warrior Foundation President Col. John Carney, Jr.

All three of the achievement medals Beck minted were given to minorities (albeit the third medal was accepted on behalf of philanthropist John Huntsman, who is white), in front of a banner of Frederick Douglass.

The crowd didn't boo. They did just the opposite--they gave standing ovations to the King legacy. They sang Amazing Grace after hearing Beck tell the story of the slaveship captain-turned-abolitionist who wrote it.

Beck is following in the footsteps of Martin Luther King, much to the irritation of the "real" heirs to the King legacy--Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the latter of whom held a counter-rally commemorating the anniversary of King's speech.

But Jackson and Sharpton aren't exactly the messengers of peace and dignity. Jackson is a professional shakedown artist that exploits race to extract reparations from corporations. The reverend admitted to having a love child in 2001, and called Jews "hymies." Sharpton, for his part, referred to Jews as "diamond merchants" at a funeral with signs that read, "Hitler didn't do the job." Shortly after, 20 black men murdered a 29-year-old Jewish man.

Does that sound like men carrying on King's tradition? Beck isn't a perfect messenger himself, as he freely admits. A self-proclaimed formerly suicidal alcoholic, Beck said he reformed himself after he found God.

While Jackson and Sharpton demonize Beck, Alveda King is standing by the conservative commentator and taking lumps of her own.

She's now vilified for her pro-life and anti-gay-marriage positions, even though her opinions on those issues coincide with the majority of the black community.

The source of the anger is the Left's failure to get their heads around the fact that Beck is doing a better job of striving toward King's dream than the so-called leaders of the Civil Rights movement. They've bought into their own narrative that any white person who discusses race must automatically be a racist. White people are scared to death of being so branded, so the race-card players are shocked when someone like Beck, who speaks frankly about race, memorializes King's legacy and leads his fans to follow in his footsteps.

This is a bad thing? I suggest the Left opens their eyes as Alveda King has.