Sunday, April 17, 2016

BERNIE IS BEING MADE TO LOOK LIKE SOME ANTI-ISRAEL EXTREMIST

How did Bernie Sanders' comments about the 2014 war on Gaza (which I predicted as well as its ferocity) go down in the New York Jewish community?

In other countries the remarks would have been considered run of the mill, said Daniel Sieradski, national organizer of the group “Jews for Bernie” which has 8,000 supporters on Facebook.

“But because the discourse in American Jewish politics has been pulled so far to the right in the last couple of decades, Bernie is being made to sound like some anti-Israel extremist,” he said.

...Sieradski disagreed. “I don’t think it’s political suicide,” he told AFP. “But it definitely didn’t help him among people who have hard-line views on Israel.”

Democrat Sharon Goldtzvik, 29, told AFP she was “really excited” to see a presidential candidate bring up the issue of Palestinian dignity.

She founded and runs Uprise, a non-profit focused on human rights issues in the Middle East. Goldtzvik has lived in Israel, is married to an Israeli, and describes Sanders as “a breath of fresh air.”

“I’m under 30. People in my cohort were not willing to accept (that) there is only one way to support Israel, so I do think that he represents the views of many, many Jews and a growing number of Jews.”

[source : Sanders’s Israel criticism has some US Jews feeling the Bern, Times of Israel, http://www.timesofisrael.com/sanderss-israel-criticism-splits-jewish-american-vote/, 17th April 2016]

This is encouraging.

The Holocaust, even if it was just one million, was terrible but the shocking memory of it seems to be fading, leading to more empathy within the Jewish community towards Palestinians.

But you still get your socipathic nutters shooting defenceless disarmed Palestinians in the head, who then get off with a lesser charge.



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