Campaigning in New York City, Bernie Sanders is invoking his Judaism as a basis for his understanding of racial injustice.
Sanders spoke Saturday at a forum on race and social justice issues at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. He says he can remember tears coming down his face when he learned as a child that most of his father’s family had been killed in the Holocaust.
He says that knowledge helped him understand that hatred based on the color of someone’s skin or accent is “grotesque and awful.”
Sanders says he knew from a young age he wanted to spend his life fighting that type of hatred and systemic racism
The Vermont senator rarely talks about being Jewish when campaigning. He told the crowd he finds it “uncomfortable” to talk about himself.
(AP)
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Was Sanders invoking his Judaism whilst in the midst of Chilul Shabbos beFarhesya?
He learned from the Holocaust to oppose segregation of blacks, but he did NOT learn from the Holocaust to condemn anti-Semitism. Here’s proof:
He will never condemn the anti-Semitic laws of the PA.
I dare anyone in the press to ask him to condemn the discriminatory law of the PA that forbids the sale of land to Jews. Below is a news item from January of 2016. What Nawi did is exactly the same as turning someone in to the Gestapo, but Sanders only response was to demand an end to Jewish “settlements”.
“The PA has long outlawed the sale of land to Jews in Judea and Samaria, and has made no secret of its position of executing Arab sellers. Nawi admitted he knew that by passing the Arabs’ names to the PA he was handing them a death sentence.
The expose regarding Nawi’s role in it all was revealed by Channel 2 on Thursday.
In recent months intrepid right-wing activists managed to have “planted agents” infiltrate the radical leftist circles and follow Nawi’s activities on the ground, without him being aware. One of the agents was even able to get very close to Nawi.
The planted agent managed to record Nawi giving testimony as to how he takes the names of Palestinians who want to sell land to Jews and hands them over to the PA Security Forces, fully aware of the bitter fate in store for them.
One of the activists taped Nawi’s bragging about how he turns in to the Palestinian security forces Arabs who plan to sell land to Jews, with full awareness of their fate after they are caught. “I hand them directly to the Palestinian security service,” Nawi boasts on the tape.
When asked what happens once Palestinian police lays its hands on the sellers, Nawi says, “It catches them, kills them.” He then added with a vicious smile, “First Zubur, then Gazanga.” Zubur is an Arabic word used in Hebrew to describe hazing—humiliation and physical torment. The Gazanga part is not a known word, but implies, in the context of the tape, the demise of the victim.”
What Sanders calls “Justice” is merely left-wing political correctness. It has nothing to do with justice, any more that being a class society has to do with equality (as in the famous satirical line “”All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” (from the classic work describing socialism, whose truth was painfully ilustrated to us when Eretz Yisrael was totally under socialist rule 50+ years ago). Sanders philosophy. like all socialists, and like the Democratic party as of late, is to distribute wealth and resources from your enemies to your friends (and unfortunately for us, people of faith, and from Sanders’ view people like us, are the worst of enemies).
I tired of hearing him called a socialist
It’s wrong he was and is a communist that honey mooned in Russia