Posted on 05/25/2016 7:17:12 PM PDT by SJackson
Dershowitz: Not Surprising ‘Ignoramus’ Bernie Sanders Tapped ‘Professional Israel-Hater’ for Democratic Policy Committee
he Palestinian activist appointed by presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders to the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee is a “professional Israel-hater,” internationally acclaimed legal mind Alan Dershowitz told The Algemeiner on Tuesday.
Dershowitz, a fierce defender of Israel and avowed supporter of the Democratic Party, was referring to Arab American Institute (AAI) President James Zogby, whom Sanders tapped on Monday to help draft party policy.
Dershowitz, who said he’s debated Zogby on numerous occasions, explained why he is “not surprised” that the senator from Vermont contending for the Democratic nomination picked him to fill such an influential position. “Bernie Sanders is an ignoramus when it comes to the Middle East, and he is very strongly biased against Israel. He gets his information from hard-Left, anti-Israel sources, and he doesn’t think for himself,” he said.
Regarding another of Sanders’ anti-Israel appointees to the committee — philosopher Cornel West, a BDS proponent who wrote that the crimes of Hamas “pale in the face of the US-supported Israeli slaughter of innocent civilians,” and accused President Obama of being “most comfortable with upper middle-class white and Jewish men who consider themselves very smart, very savvy and very effective in getting what they want”– Dershowitz said, “Putting two Israel-bashers on the committee risks dividing the Democratic Party over an issue on which they’ve always been united.”
According to a Morning Consult poll published Tuesday, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is only ahead of Sanders by six percentage points. Sanders, Dershowitz said, “poses a tremendous threat to Clinton’s election, and she should fight tooth and nail to keep the Democratic platform supportive of Israel.”
This is not, according to Dershowitz, because Sanders “will ever be president,” but due to his being “more dangerous as a losing candidate than he would be if he were to win the nomination, since if he did, he would be overwhelmingly defeated in November. As a loser, on the other hand, he threatens to push Clinton into positions that will make it much harder for her to win the general election.”
In other words, said Dershowitz, “I’m not worried about Sanders as a winner; I’m worried about him as a loser. And I will do everything in my power to see that he is marginalized in the Democratic Party, particularly on foreign policy, about which he knows nothing.”
In a blog post published by AAI, Zogby called American and Israeli support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “shameful,” claiming that “Israeli society is on a slippery slope — becoming increasingly tolerant of racist violence.” In a 2010 Huffington Post article, Zogby compared the “plight of the Palestinians” to that of the Jews during the Holocaust.
In an interview with Foreign Policy on Monday, Zogby — who has served on the executive body of the Democratic National Council for the last decade — said the language used by the Democratic Platform will have to adopt a more “toughened” approach against Israel and include the word “occupation” in relation to Israeli presence in the West Bank. He also hopes to increase the party’s support for Palestinians.
The party’s current platform policy seeks “a just and lasting Israeli-Palestinian accord, producing two states for two peoples, [which] would contribute to regional stability and help sustain Israel’s identity.”
The Algemeiner reached out to the National Jewish Democratic Council for comment, but did not receive a response by press time.
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And then there's Bernies other choice, Cornell West.
I bet the majority of Jewish voters will still vote for Bernie if he is the dimoKKKRAT nominee.
Another family feud...
90+%.
So Bernie wants to screw over Israel? Not surprising there. On the other hand Hillary wants to screw over Israel AND America as she rewards all her cronies.
They’re both unfit for office. They’re also unfit to be human beings but that’s another matter altogether.
Pot, meet kettle.
Dershowitz, a fierce defender of Israel and avowed supporter of the Democratic Party...
That’s not possible.
Communists are antisemites, not family. Dershowitz is wrong. This is not an error. Sanders is an antisemite and antizionist who was an activist int he campaign to end American arms sales to Israel in the 1970s, a campaign that was part of the Soviet war on Israel.
Alan Dershowitz is very, very close friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton...Alan Dershowitz also had sex many times with then 16 year old Virginia Roberts, Epstein's little lover that he passed around, even to Bill Clinton...Alan Dershowitz got Jeffrey Epstein off from going to prison for life and he served a “Get Out Of Jail’ free card that the Attorney General of Florida and him set up in a ‘back room’ deal which they called A Prosecutors Dream...
And these Jew haters will be representing the platform at the DNC Convention, so I want to see Jews here in America, who 80 percent of them vote Democrat, to come out and say that they are fine and dandy with a Democrat platform that will be full of Israel Jew haters..all they will be doing is showing their true covers
I think Dershowitz is over-analyzing this. No one remembers the party platform - it is one of the quaint formalities of the conventions. Come November, Jews will vote 75% for Hillary even if John Zogby has his way with the Dem platform.
They will..My Mom’s four Jewish friends could care less about Israel, their number one priority is making sure women can still murder their unborn children
Bernie is just another traitor from the rat party.
Dersh has to back Hillary after his trips to Pedophile Island with his pal Bill.
Bernie is a Kapo. Period.
Dersh, good points but I just can’t hear you over the testimony of Epstein’s 16 year old sex slave who remembers every detail of the several times you had sex with her, mostly on board the Lolita Express plane. Your morality and decency will always be in question because you thought it was ok to have intercourse with an underage teen instead of your wife.
Textbook example of cognitive dissonance
My above post also references the sleazy Dersh screwing little Virginia, but you have one mistake in your post. Virginia never slept with Clinton. She did see Epstein on Pedo Island “gifting” Bill Clinton two underaged, dark haired Russian girls. She saw no sex, just the giving of the girls as a present to Clinton at dinner. Virginia testified that she never had sex with Bill.
Dershowitz understands and articulates the facts about Israel. His inability to follow his own logical conclusions is pathetic.
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