Posted on 05/31/2019 5:25:03 AM PDT by SJackson
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined a growing crowd of progressives on Twitter on Saturday to denounce illustrations published by Politico as anti-Semitic.
The illustrations in question were published Friday as part of a Politico investigation into Sanders's wealth and how he came to be worth just over $1 million. One illustration depicts Sanders, who is Jewish, next to a tree made of money, while another shows a grinning Sanders appearing to hold his house in the palm of his hand while two other properties he owns sit on his shoulders.
In a tweet Saturday afternoon, the New York congresswoman wrote that the illustration was a clear example of historic anti-Semitic stereotypes surrounding Jewish people and wealth, adding that the news site published the images because Sanders is "a progressive politician they don’t like."
"Can @politico explain to us how photoshopping money trees next to the only Jewish candidate for president and talking about how 'cheap' and rich he is *isn’t* antisemitic?" the congresswoman wrote. "Or are they just letting this happen because he’s a progressive politician they don’t like?"
A second tweet accused the website's defenders on social media of "selectively" enforcing rules against anti-Semitism on the left, pointing to the numerous lawmakers and others who demanded apologies from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over remarks she made about the Israel lobby.
"Notice the people willing to explain this away, yet when Ilhan’s words are taken out of context, they are the 1st to jump on her," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Look at how these accusations are selectively enforced on the left, esp when it’s the *alt-right* actually committing antisemitic violence in the US."
Her criticism was echoed by other progressives on social media, including David Sirota, a speechwriter with Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign who previously worked as a reporter.
"Meet @Politico -- a DC newspaper that sees a president call Nazis 'very fine people,' and then decides to create a graphic putting a money tree behind the president's Jewish opponent, whose father's family was killed by Nazis," Sirota wrote on Friday.
Sanders's chief of staff, Ari Rabin-Havt, concurred with Sirota, calling the image an "anti-Semitic trope."
"What if we photoshop a money tree next to the Jew?" added Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein in his own tweet.
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Sanders, who is currently placing second in most polls of early 2020 Democratic primary states, would be the first Jewish president if elected to the office in 2020.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voiced her opposition on Saturday to Politico's recent story on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' wealth and the illustration that accompanied it.
"Can [Politico] explain to us how photoshopping money trees next to the only Jewish candidate for president and talking about how 'cheap' and rich he is *isn’t* antisemitic?" the New York Democrat asked. Subscribe to our new print magazine for more politics, deeper culture, better access Watch Full Screen to Skip Ads
"Notice the people willing to explain this away, yet when Ilhan’s words are taken out of context, they are the 1st to jump on her," she tweeted. "Look at how these accusations are selectively enforced on the left, esp when it’s the *alt-right* actually committing antisemitic violence in the US."
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism during her short tenure in Congress.
The Politico story Ocasio-Cortez responded to detailed how Sanders, a self-described socialist, accumulated wealth while bashing the rich. An original tweet sharing the story was deleted.
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The offending Politico article, The Secret of Bernie’s Millions
Huh??
The guy claims to be a socialist but made a heap of money and I’m SURE hired an accountant to pay a LOT LESS than he otherwise would have.
It goes against ALL that he says.
I also assume a REAL socialist would only keep just enough to live on.
He didn’t do that.
To say the least.
I see the hand of Hillary Clinton behind this. She is just vindictive enough to try to ruin Sanders again based on his disobedience to her prime directive last time!
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Sorry, the illustration and article are nt antisemitic, a claim as nonsensical that AOC has Jewish heritage, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration In the 15th century her relatives left Spain to escape the Inquisition, and chose a Spanish colony to flee to. No one is that stupid. As AOC knows, the Inquisition existed there, though through referrals to inquisitors in the region, Puerto Rico didn't have a court. But if this Jewish background is part of her heritage, so is the inquisition and slavery, which was abolished not long after our Civil War.
In fairness the article does mention Jews. Once.
Money was something the family, the whole neighborhood, was constantly preoccupied with,” he told the Atlantic in 1985. “The money question to me,” he wrote in a 2010 book titled The Jews of Capitol Hill, “has always been very deep and emotional.”
A quote from Bernie himself. If the article is relating Jews and money there, it's through Bernies that he has a deep preoccupation with the money question. His own words, in a policy context.
Jewish Banker, Haym Salomon, Funded American Revolution
https://educate-yourself.org/cn/salomonfundedamericanrevolution30dec12.shtml
My grandson has Jewish blood from his father’s side of the family.
If you criticize a liberal you are labeled a racist, a misogynist , an anti Semite, a fascist or worse. Sorry but however they reply, at their core they are left wing abortion loving lowlifes with blood on their hands.
I should have read further in the article I gave you a link for. The illuminati stuff is nonsense. I’ve been a Mason myself for over 50 years.
The patriotic Jewish banker was real.
Why is it ‘anti-Semitic’ to call anyone who is cheap and rich, cheap and rich? It seems to me that the racists are the ones making the charge.
The statement here is not any wealth related slur on his Jewishness, but rather is clearly a money grows on trees reference to his Socialism.
AOC has a lot more in common with Bernie than socialism.
Besides socialism (gag)....AOC’s COS used to be Bernie’s....wait for it.....”Director of Organizing Technology.”
JUST WONDERING .....does Chakrabarti have a reputation among Democraps for facilitating the conversion of campaign donations?
Maybe we should ask millionaire landowner Socialist Bernie (smirk)?
BACKSTORY: “Justice Democrats” and “Brand New Congress” are a group of Bernie Sanders ex-staffers who decided 2018 midterms
should be all about Bernie’s policies, finding 400 Bernie carbon copies to dump into races. They held auditions. AOC was hired to run in NY.
NOTE
<><> “Brand New Congress” mastermind is Saikat Chakrabarti
<><> “Justice Democrats” is Cenk Uygur, a Turkish-born Muslim.
Making a pile of money musta been a huge incentive. Read on.
FAST FORWARD TO TODAY.......an FEC complaint was filed alleging AOC’s COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, created multiple
private companies—LLCs—to siphon off campaign contributions from her various PACs for personal use......
AND THIS—Saikat Chakrabarti, is a proven tech expert.
(A) He co-founded a web design tool,
(B) He built up the product team at the payment processor “Stripe”.........
(C) He then came to the Sanders campaign after (cough) growing disillusioned with the tech world.
Saikat Chakrabarti was Bernie’s Director of Organizing Technology. Even old man Bernie knew enough to hire a tech expert.
So, I guess (smirk) Chakrabarti’s tech skills musta come in mighty handy when donations to Bernie were
wire-transferred to the DNC and ended up in 2016 candidate Hillary’s account.
Debbie W/S headed the DNC at the time and was ousted b/c of her bias for Hillary.
Course, none of us heard about any of this, but.....
<><> Chakrabarti-the-tech-whiz did find out about the DNC theft, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did speak to D/W/S about it, or to Debbie’s tech expert, Imran Awan, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti did tell Bernie he was fleeced, didnt he?
<><> Chakrabarti WAS working for Bernie, wasnt he?
Now the stunning details about that FEC complaint:
The FEC complaint asserts that AOC’s COS, Saikat Chakrabarti, early on established two PACs that raised big bucks for AOC’s campaign:
<><> the “Brand New Congress PAC,” and,
<><> the “Justice Democrats PAC.”
After mucho money was raised, Chakrabarti systematically transferred $885,000+ in PAC contributions to his private companies with similar names:
<><> the “Brand New Campaign LLC,” and,
<><> the “ Brand New Congress LLC.”
Saikat Chakrabarti’s private companies, unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures.
NOTE WELL: it’s a much-used criminal act to enrich oneself, to open bank accounts using similarly named
entities to siphon off money, to hide it from partners, associates, investors etc.
SIPHONINGS A CINCH It’s easy to siphon off money for oneself by putting checks into the new accounts with similar names, depositing checks that were made out to
the original entity. Even your bank advises that if a check-writer “mis-spelled” your name, to just endorse the check with the correct name.
AND PRESTO: a check made out to Brand New Congress PAC, is deposited in the Brand New Congress LLC account.
ANALYSIS -— Chakrabarti’s companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how AOC’s donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions, according to the FEC complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.
Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication “there’s something amiss.” They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning (A) the donations could have been pocketed, or, (B) used by the LLC’s to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.-—SNIP-—SOURCED FROM FR.
The problem with Bernie having that much money is that he does not think anyone should have that much money.
Will Bernie give away his money? Of course not.
Bernie isn’t cheap. He and his wife live very well.
Simple, AOC says it is. What more do we need?
No socialist wants to actually live the life they prescribe for others.
NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know who does, TRUE CHRISTIANS!!
They are all that I can think of that would.
Many actually want BETTER lives for others and give and give of time or money or resources until it hurts.
I am not one of them.
Boy is that hard.
Mom is closer.
Socialist equals atheist equals there is NO WAY you can care about another more than yourself.
That’s all?
Given his age, his income, his wife’s income he should be worth three times that amount. The man does not know how to handle his money.
As long as the dems embrace Omar and tlaib, forget discussing anti semitism.
Is the US electorate ready to go for an a goofy 80 yr old communist?
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