WATCH: ‘Disturbed’ Protester Unfurls A Nazi Flag At A Bernie Sanders Rally Thursday Night

Hill Reporter.com ^ | 3/6/20

[Impala64ssa]

WATCH: ‘Disturbed’ Protester Unfurls A Nazi Flag At A Bernie Sanders Rally Thursday Night

BY CHRIS WALKER March 6, 2020

During a presidential campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday night, a man in the crowd several rows above the candidate unfurled a red flag with a swastika emblazoned on it, the symbol of the Nazi Party in Germany from the 1930s and 1940s. The symbol, then and now, is symbolic of anti-Semitism and white supremacy, and was seen as a direct confrontation and disturbing protest against Sanders, who is Jewish. Supporters at the rally booed the man, and promptly tore the flag away from him.

The booing attracted the attention of Sanders himself, who turned and looked up at the direction it was coming from, but only did so after the flag was taken from the man and he was being escorted out by security. Later, the Democratic candidate for president said he was “disturbed” by the action, according to reporting from the Washington Post.

StanceGrounded@_SJPeace_

A white supremacist rasied the Nazi flag at Bernie Rally

Bernie Sanders is a Jewish man whose family was slaughtered by Nazis during the Holocaust

HIS IDENTITY MATTERS

You don't have to support him to show him some empathy & solidarity against this hate

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A rise in anti-Semitic crimes and actions in the United States has been documented by a number of agencies, including the FBI. Though he claims not to be anti-Semitic himself, the rate of hate crimes overall has gone up by leaps and bounds, corresponding with the rise of Donald Trump according to some experts, first as a candidate, then as he became president of the United States.

The latest display of hatred at a Sanders rally toward the candidate has prompted yet another call for the two top-tier candidates in the Democratic primaries to receive federal protection during the remainder of the race.

After protesters hopped on stage and interrupted a campaign rally for Joe Biden earlier this week — during which Biden’s wife, Dr. Jill Biden, took courageous action in physically stopping them from reaching the former vice president — it was suggested by many that the two top Democratic candidates still in the nomination races for president should receive Secret Service detail, The Independent reported.

“Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden need Secret Service protection,” former Obama Press Secretary Robbie Gibbs said. “What happened tonight was nothing short of genuinely scary. It’s happened to Senator Sanders and others on this trail.”

The Secret Service itself does not make such determinations. The Department of Homeland Security makes the final decisions on whether candidates require Secret Service detail or not, after a formal request is made by said candidates.

Featured image credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr

[Impala64ssa]

Was this heckler a real White supremacist acting on his own? OR a plant, a sleazy tactic designed to garner sympathy and attention for Sanders to show he's a fighter against anti Semitism? How did that a-holemget past security with that nazi rag? Thoughts???

[samtheman]

Or someone commenting on the fact that Sanders and his supporters are in fact all Nazis?

[Truthoverpower]

I for one do not see what the Democratic Party could do to be more anti-Israel and more anti-Semitic then they’re currently doing with the squad and all these other reprobates

[sport]

I agree with your assessment, Sam.

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly...

You don’t implement Bernie’s goals peacefully.

[Reily]

“disturbed” or accurate protester?

[simpson96]

Probably the first of many staged incidents by the Dem Establishment, to bring down Bernie.

[SMARTY]

Liberals’ inflammatory speech and hateful language could not help but bring out the very worst elements in this society.

Where exactly did anyone THINK all that hostility was going to lead America?

[Leaning Right]

Bernie Sanders - Democratic Socialist
Nazi - National Socialist

There is a common thread there.

[z3n]

false flag

literally

You are correct. Why would a real nazi sympathizer go to Bernie Sanders rally. I’m quite sure most everyone in the MSM would just assume they’d go to a Trump rally, no?

It’s so obvious that they want to set up and incense fears and passions, just like when they were paying aggitators to go in and try to start fights at Trump rallies (which didn’t work, BTW) so as to create the optics of violent and radical Trump supporters.

These people are so fake, and they are low low down in the dirt.

[PGR88]

The two great, evil ideologies of the 20th century were Communism, and its cousin, Nazism.

Communism was FAR worse and more deadly.

I ask every Bernie supporter I know - Given above, WHY would anyone supporting a Nazi be rightly shunned, while a Communist is still welcomed?

[Robert DeLong]

Snopes says Bernie's parents were not holocaust survivors

But Sanders claims CNN SOURCE:

"I am very proud to be Jewish, and being Jewish is so much of what I am," he said at the event in Flint, Michigan. "Look, my father's family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical, and extremist politics mean."

He said he remembered being a child and his mother taking him shopping, where they "would see people working in stores who had numbers on their arms because they were in Hitler's concentration camp."

Sanders could be the first Jewish U.S. president ever elected, though he has repeatedly described himself as a secular Jew without strong ties to organized religion.

So is Sanders being truthful, or is Snopes wrong?

We all know CNN isn't biased. /sarcasm

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Leaning Right :" Bernie Sanders - Democratic Socialist
Nazi - National Socialist
There is a common thread there.

True That !!

[Freee-dame]

“Without strong ties to organize religion”? Most communists are atheist.

[Olog-hai]

The Nazi flag was not a symbol of white supremacy, but German supremacy.

Here’s another headline from this “source”:

Trump Says He’ll be Cutting Entitlements Like Medicare and Social Security

I’ve seen a zillion headlines like this when the truth turns out to be that Trump is going after Medicare and SS fraudsters.

[lightman]

Nazi flag would have been appropriate for a Mini Mike rally.

The hammer and sickle belongs with Bernie.

[IronJack]

A hammer and sickle would have been more appropriate. Let Bolshie Bernie deny that one.

[\/\/ayne]

With so many fake hate crimes we must presume each one is a hoax until confirmed by non-liberal sources.

[Boogieman]

“A white supremacist rasied the Nazi flag at Bernie Rally “

Suuuure. A “white supremacist” got seated right behind Bernie, perfectly positioned where the cameras could catch his stunt.

Nothing suspicious about that.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Looks like an Alynski tactic.