Posted on 01/26/2020 6:10:37 AM PST by karpov
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders launched a campaign video highlighting his Jewish identity and casting President Donald Trump as part of the white nationalist threat.
The four-minute video posted Thursday night on Sanders’ Twitter feed, interpolates excerpts from Sanders’ speech last year to J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, with commentary by Joel Rubin, the campaign’s Jewish outreach director. It starts with Sanders’ declaration of pride in being Jewish. “I’m very proud to be Jewish and look forward to becoming the first Jewish president in the history of this country,” Sanders says.
During his 2016 run for the Democratic nomination, Sanders at first played down his Jewish background, although he was the first Jewish major-party candidate to win nominating contests. This cycle, he has emphasized his Jewishness.
The video otherwise focuses almost entirely on the threat that Sanders says President Donald Trump poses to Jews and other minorities.
“Jewish values teach us that community matters, that tolerance matters, that engaging the other matters,” Rubin says, and notes his roots in Pittsburgh where in 2018 a gunman killed 11 worshipers at The Tree of Life synagogue complex, “some of whom were friends of my parents.”
“We live in a perilous time where not only are white nationalists attacking our synagogues and raising hate speech on the internet, we have a white nationalist right now sitting in the White House,” Rubin says, referring to Trump’s equivocation in condemning neo-Nazis after a deadly march in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
“We need to have someone in office who gets it, gets it in his kishkes, understands what it really means to ensure that we are healing our world,” Rubin says.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Trump is NOT a White Supremacist, NOT a White Nationalist, NOT anti-semitic, NOT a Bigot!
Stop saying he is.
STOP!
“They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore”...Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
**NON-PC LANGUAGE**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsoYKoqW5jM
Do American liberal Jews hate the Jews in Israel?
Don’t forget, there is always his next administration to make good on all the threats.
Second Thessalonians 2:9-12 speaks of a strong delusion God will send in the end times: “The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
Does Bernie Sanders believe in God as our Creator?
If not, then he isn’t religious at all. Just another Far Left atheist.
A significant portion of the population in Israel is secular. Indeed, on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, the beaches in Tel Aviv are crowded with Jews enjoying the sun and surf. By your definition, none of these people are Jewish because failing to attend religious services on one of the High Holy Days must mean they do not believe in God. The same applies in our country. Many Jews, liberals and conservatives alike, are not religious, but identify with their Jewish heritage and culture. This does not make them any less Jewish than the once or twice a year Jews who attend synagogue and then ignore the religion the rest of the time. All are Jews and, just like everyone else, their views are not all the same on things like religion, politics and economics. But, it doesn’t make them less Jewish, less patriotic or less American. And, it certainly doesn’t turn all non-practicing Jews into socialists.
This should be the first counterpoint made any time Trump is called a Nazi.
I know 1 Jewish person. She is my daughter’s best friend and has been forever. She has always been a commie. I don’t get it.
Facts and truth don’t matter one whit to these people. The narrative which pushes the agenda is the only thing.
Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. - George Orwell
Not my definition, none of these people are Jewish...
Romans 2:28-29
God doesn't break the Covenant with man. Man breaks it.
He called Netanyahu a racist.
Well, let's see: He's white, check; He puts America first, so he's a nationalist, check...
Hey, so am I!
See my #53.
I live in Broward county and hear this constantly. “Trump is Hitler”. No matter what Trump will never get more than 25% of the Jewish vote.
BTW, off topic, Froggy...FroggyTheGremlin was on the Big John and Sparky radio program in the 50s, right? “Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy...BOINNG...Hiya kids, hiya, hiya!
Nonsense. Jews are an ethnic group.
In the U.S., Leftism is the default ideology for non-religious Jews.
I wonder if Bernie actually gets the nomination how many Demoncrats will not vote for him now that he is [somewhat] embracing his Jewishness.
Some insane, leftist family members were at my place over the holidays. I overhead them as they were watching MSNBC (this was the day the news broke about the guy in NY who went into the rabbi’s home as he was celebrating a Jewish holiday with family and knifed a few people) going off on how much they hate Jews.
Now, these family members were going off on how awful Jews are not ten minutes after the host of the MSNBC show was saying it is crazy for people to not believe that Trump is the reason for heightened antiSemitism and increases in attacks against Jews.
So to them, Trump and his followers are awful because they are anti-Semites but Jews are lying, thieving people who are to be hated.
Yes. Or an anti-semite! But any honest person with a functioning brain knows that such charges are bogus--and part of the propaganda of the decadent, anti-American left and the Party of Hate and Evil.
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