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In Bernie Sanders’ world, Israel is the fons et origo of America’s ills. It’s a nasty little Sparta, always causing or unnecessarily prolonging wars, unworthy of our support, and in America, its Jewish supporters are deplorably helping to move American politics rightward, as they did by supporting Donald Trump. Sanders uses his Jewish identity as a shield that allows him, he thinks, to get away with outrageous remarks about Israel. “Hey, I’m Jewish, so how can I be unfair to Israel?” For the answer to that, just point to Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein. More on Bernie Sanders, in aspect an upper-west-side schlemiel — with the vowels and consonants to prove it — who has made his mark as a Senator from Vermont, can be found here: “Why Does Bernie Sanders Feed Antisemitic Stereotypes?,” by Sheila Nazarian, Algemeiner, November 18, 2024:
Shortly after the presidential election, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders released a scathing statement blaming the Democrats for Trump’s victory.
Alongside a slew of criticisms of Democratic policies on healthcare and labor, Sanders tore into the party for their stance on the Israel-Hamas war, writing that “despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government’s all-out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.”
What “strong opposition” is that from a “majority of Americans” to providing Israel with the military means it needs to defend itself in a two-front war against the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah? Fewer than one in three Americans think that Israel may have “gone too far” in Gaza, while more than two-thirds think Israel’s conduct of the war is either just right, or that the IDF ought to be pressing Hamas even harder than it has been.
Bernie Sanders is also wrong about the importance American voters give to the war in Gaza — only 4% list foreign policy as a major concern, and of those 4%, how many are most interested in an impending trade war with China, or in the Russia-Ukraine war, or North Korea’s saber-rattling, rather than the war in Gaza? The future of democracy, the economy, immigration — these are the matters that voters cited as their main concerns. The war in Gaza matters so much to Bernie Sanders, and he has decided it must matter just as much to hundreds of millions of Americans. It doesn’t. And those most concerned with the war in Gaza are likely to be people who disagree with Sanders; these are the supporters of Israel who are worried about America standing by its embattled ally as it fights its multi-front war.
He refers to the “all-out war” he claims Israel is conducting “against the Palestinian people.” The IDF is not waging war against the people of Gaza, but against the terror group Hamas, which has brought only misery to ordinary Gazans. The IDF does everything it can to warn Gazans about areas and buildings that are about to be targeted. To this end, by March the IDf had dropped nine million leaflets, sent fifteen million text messages, and made sixteen million robocalls, all to warn civilians so that they could get out of the way of those sites in time. Israeli pilots are instructed to abort their missions whenever the risk of civilian casualties is too high.
As usual, Sanders’ statement is deeply off base — both about the situation in Israel, and about the impact of the war on the 2024 election.
Exit polls and voter surveys have painted a clear picture of American priorities in the 2024 election, and the war in Gaza was nowhere near the top of the list.
Instead, the leading issues were the state of democracy, which 34% of voters cited as their main concern, followed by 31% for the economy, abortion for 14%, and immigration at 11%. By contrast, only 4% of voters were most concerned with foreign policy….
Foreign policy includes many things besides the war in Gaza: the Ukraine-Russia war, and the North Korean troops now helping Putin; the looming trade war with China, and Beijing’s threats to its neighbors over competing claims in the South China Sea, as well as potential threats to Taiwan; the Paris Agreement on the climate; the defense spending of NATO members; North Korea’s nuclear threat. Of those 4% “most concerned with foreign policy,” how many were focused mainly on the war in Gaza? And of those, how many shared Sanders’ anti-Israeli views and how many were worried that Washington was not doing enough to help Israel?
Sanders has embraced the resolutely anti-Israel members of the Squad, particularly Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He stumped for Ilhan Omar both in her primary contest and in the election, constantly praising her as “not only one of the most courageous members of Congress—a leader who time and time again stands up for the working class against powerful special interests—she is also one of the toughest people I know.” Omar’s vituperative attacks on Israel don’t bother Sanders — for god’s sake, he agrees with her. He has also supported, and been supported by, Omar’s even more extreme colleague, Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib.
Tlaib endorsed Sanders for President in 2019. Since then they have been close. When Tlaib wanted to hold a meeting in the Congress Visitors Center to mark the “Nakba,” the Palestinian term meaning “catastrophe,” that refers to the Palestinians who left Israel during the 1948 war, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy thwarted her plan by reserving the space himself. Bernie Sanders then stepped in by chairing the meeting in another room in the Senate office building. At the meeting, Tlaib claimed that Israel was an “apartheid” state that commits acts of terror. Sanders made no objection. And Sanders is an ally not just of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, but also of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also well known for her Israel-bashing. But Sanders wants you to know that he’s Jewish, so no matter what he says about Israel, no one can accuse him of antisemitism.
Bernie Sanders. Know him by the company he keeps — Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Ortiz. Know him by the charges he makes against the state of Israel, that he declares guilty of “ethnic cleansing,” though he has held back on making the charge of “genocide,” stating that he prefers to wait for the ruling on that charge by the International Court of Justice. Know him by the anti-Israel bills he keeps introducing in the Senate, his latest being a bill that would halt a $20 billion military aid package to Israel, at the very moment when Israel is fighting a four-front war against Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran. But remember, Bernie is Jewish, practically a yeshiva bocher. He only wants to save Israel in spite of itself. He wants it to go back to being an even tinier state that it is now (scarcely discernible on a map of the world). He wants it to be squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines, with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea. Then the state of Palestine can come into being on all the territory Israel will have been pressured to give up. And peace, of course, will reign. Don’t we have Mahmoud Abbas’ solemn assurances on that very score?
Some people claim that Bernie Sanders’ heart is in the right place, but it’s not his heart that sends shivers down my spine. It’s his mind.
Bernie is a Jew.
The word Jew is a noun.
Bernie is not Jewish.
The word Jewish is an adjective, which refers to Jews who are properly Zionist.
Bernie is a n°***r whose parents were Jews.
Can’t wait for this jerk and his annoying NY accent to shuffle off this mortal coil.
There are many, many more waiting in line to replace him.
I guess we will have to put up with you for a several weeks, until you get bored.
So tough guy, what are you, personally, going to do about those pesky Jews? Maybe you should run for office, sell out your Communist principles, or your fascist principles, and get three lakeside villas in Vermont.
Bernie is worth over $5 mil because he sold out his Moscow buddies. How about you?
Stop boring us with your vendetta. You have nothing to offer. Ever.
But you have so much to offer, don’t you. Are you Rollie’s long lost brother?
I’d like to see him in jail first
Bernie Sanders must hate the fact he was born a Jew. Does that translate into his love for Muslims, at least those in Congress?
It almost certainly contributes to his lies and hate for Israel.
How does he keep getting re-elected? What has he done for Vermont?
Bernie is an antisemite of Jewish origin- he last was in a synagogue as a congregant during Eisenhower’s first term. None of his children or stepchildren are Jews, much like Doug Emhoff or Rob Reiner. He served as a presidential elector for the Socialist Workers Party, a Marxist Leninist political cult (historically Trotskyite, Castroite from the 1960s onward) a party opposed to Israe’s mere existence. His comrade Rashida Tlaib openly opposes Israel’s existence in any way, shape or form. She would finish Hitler’s work if she had the power, and Bernie would be her Chaim Rumkowski.
Yes, Bernie, like his other comrades-Chomsky, Finkelstein, Gabor Mate-are all by-products of the Soviet KGB’s “Operation SIG.” Everything these “useful idiots” say is verbatim right out of this 50 year long active measures campaign.
Blame everyone!!! Except themselves.
They have nobody to blame but themselves.
Israel had nothing to do with it.
In a country who has an election system, when a populace gets sick and tired of the party in power’s failures, they typically abandon that failing party and switch out the party of losers and hope the new party can fix the losing party’s mistakes.
Thank you Israel!
BS is an unrepentant Communist and self hating Jew
It was only a matter of time before they blamed the Jews. Sanders sold out his sole in 2016. Right now, he is an empty shell doing what the Woke Left wants him to do.
The current blame objects are Trump, Russia, and the Jews. They couldn’t blame Trump because he was the candidate running against Harris. They tried Russia but couldn’t make a case that people would believe. That left the Jews, for whom the “liberals” would believe anything.
It is a shame that the Republicans don’t take advantage of the vile anti-Semitism of the Democrats to switch the Jewish vote. They probably don’t do so because the Republican leadership (aka the Washington Spelunkers) wants to keep the Left in power so they don’t have to do anything themselves.. After all, the mantra of the Republican leadership is RWDS (Republicans Won’t do Shinola)
Bernie is a SELF-HATING JEW.
Nothing else.
Considering how many thousands of years and how many national, political and racial groups have hated the Jews, it’s amazing they still exist! It’s also as if they Divine protection!
No…. it couldn’t be that the DEMs lost because they are out of their fking minds??
Any non-Jew politician doesn’t wear their religion on their forehead, but to a Jew, that is the most important thing to cram down everyone’s throats. Why does any Jew feel it important to tell everyone else within earshot – that they are Jewish? Do they feel they are entitled to something, certainly being Jewish isn’t worth bragging about; or is this just a big screw-you to anyone not a Jew?
Jews, woke confused-sexuals, blacks all have entitlements in common. ALL should keep their race, pretend sexuality and their religion PRIVATE and to themselves.
Israel sucks at ethnic cleansing. The region is filled with stinking, dirty ethnics The smell is worse than camels at this point.
Do better Israel.
Sanders is as Jewish as George Soros and just as antisemitic
it wasn’t Israel, it was:
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1861885880501236024
Term limits would solve the Bernie problem. (others too)
Twelve total years.
Vermont. What does Mr. Three mansions do for you?
Please ditch this professional public “servant.”
He NEVER had private, WORKING employment.
Uselessness on two legs….
Bernie says what he says to justify his political ass…. Obviously, he is not to be held accountable for the fiascos and tragedies he and his far lefty idiot friends have helped create. Supposedly, his hands are clean, but he cannot wash them off verbally blaming everyone, but himself…..