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 campaigns Jewish outreach director. It starts with Sanders declaration of pride in being Jewish. Im 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 Trumps 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.
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“If your ancestors were Jewish but you don’t believe in God, then you’re not a Jew. You’re just another white guy who is an atheist.”
Actually, still a Jew. One is Chosen to be Jewish (or you take the mantle on voluntarily). Nothing a man can do can undo the Choice.
He’s just an apikoros (see my profile page for definition).
He knows. One of his campaign spokesman wrote the threats off as political stunts which they don’t comment on. Don’t know about the second, the first was a paid campaign employee not a volunteer, and is still pounding the streets in Iowa. IMO a threat to any Iowans not willing to join the Revolution, subject to gulags or murder.
Come on heart attack!
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I personally want him to win the rat nomination.
Trump moved our embassy to Jerusalem, but he’s out “to get the Jews”.
Bernie, good grief...
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