NEW YORK (Op-Ed by Dov Hikind) – Calling a Jew an antisemite is one of the most difficult things a person who fights antisemitism has to do. Judaism tolerates dissent to a great degree, but arming antisemites with one’s Jewishness is perhaps the greatest and most vile of sins one Jew can commit against another. That’s why Bernie Sanders rightfully deserves to be called an antisemite.
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There’s no other way to explain his absolute lovefest with now notorious antisemites like Ilhan “Israel hypnotized the world” Omar and Rashida “the Holocaust gives me a comforting feeling” Tlaib, both of whom have endorsed his candidacy for president. We know he agrees with his socialist comrade Jeremy Corbyn, incidentally also a notorious antisemite, when it comes to being friends with Hamas and funneling them millions of dollars, even though those millions go to rockets that are aimed and fired with the open intention to kill and terrorize millions of Jews.
But what absolutely confirms that Bernie is a self-hating Jew who uses his identity to provide cover to the worst kind of Jew-haters like Linda “don’t humanize Israelis” Sarsour, his proud presidential campaign surrogate, is his lack of reaction to her latest antisemitic tirade.
Sarsour’s recent comments claiming that Israel “was built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else” didn’t garner as much as a response from Sanders let alone rebuke, or what a normal person would do: dissociate from the hater, and repudiate their hatred. What is one to think when Sanders fails to distance himself from his coterie of antisemites? That he’s unaware of their seething hatred? That he knowingly accepts it because he needs their support? Or worst of all possibilities, he actually believes in every word they’ve said? Does Sanders, who claims to be so aware of his Jewish history, also think that Israel is borne of Jewish supremacy?
The record of Omar’s, Tlaib’s, Corbyn’s, and Sarsour’s well-documented antisemitism is so expansive that it’s impossible to be unaware of their baggage. That Sanders knowingly accepts it because rejecting them would hurt him in the polls is obvious and clear. That Sanders actually believes the same antisemitic drivel is questionable, but so far he’s done nothing to quell those concerns. Instead he’s reinforced the notion that even a Jew can be an antisemite, and when they are, they end up being worse than the antisemites themselves. With Jews like Bernie, who needs antisemites?
Dov Hikind is a Former NY State Assemblyman; and Founder of Americans Against Antisemitism.
I agree that Bernie is not only a self hating Jew, but a friend of all who hate Jews and who hate Israel.
Do we still need to say it, that criticizing the State of Israel doesn’t make a person an antisemite? What a silly article.
keep saying it but nobody will listen. i mean we can criticize the government of iran and that does not make us anti-islam, but some how criticizing policies of the state of israel somehow means we hate jews. ridiculous and childish thinking
Bernie Sanders is a descendant of Jews who immigrated but had little love or none for being Jew. Look e.g the Rosenbergs. He was on shomer HaZair kibbutz which hates anything about Yiddishkeit and he married a non-Jewish woman. what do you expect
The Steipler Gaon called the leaders of Israel wicked. Does that make him an antisemite? The zionists stole the language, name, and symbols of the jewish people. They also stole the concept of antisemitism and use it to ward off all criticism. The PM of Israel mocks halacha, barely speaks to his frum daughter, and talks about assimilating Charedim. Is criticizing him antisemitic? This bubble we live in, this echo chamber, where we see antisemites under every rock, that anybody who ever criticizes any Jew for anything is somehow deemed monstrous, is pathetic narcissism.
Israel _____<<
You're here under different aliases and you vomit the same sludge all the time.
You're the number Jew hating, Israel hating 1 troll on YWN.
Q: who bred you?
Here is the jerk calling himself ISRAEL, this time.. If you’re not Jewish and reading this blog, please know that we have
an orthodox fanatical cult of anti- Zionists indoctrinated by dead fanatical religious leaders . They are a small minority but make a racket as if there are loads of them. Please keep this in mind.
Soros is worse since he is sponsoring the dems impeachment hoax
They are also known liars and extract quotes out of context or wholly fabricated , such as he does with a great Rabbi Steipler above.These haters sling their mud , also plagiarized from Muslim anti-Semitic websites , and throw them at their fellow Jews. The more the State of Israel grows, the more these cretins croak and quack. We know them, you should know about them too.
Notice he will never mention the many rabbis who supported Zionist movement.
Posters such as ISRAEL in fact persecute, curse and humiliate them. Let it be known to all.
Israel is in very panic mode lately.
Your beloved Shitt-eh falling apart?
You’re gasping for breath , boy.
anonymousyingele; is that the best you have? that the Barbecue was closed and videos?