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Opinion Forum: A Guide To Our Coverage Of Bernie Sanders’s Anti-Semitism Op-Ed
On Monday, the magazine Jewish Currents published an essay by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, about his experience as an American Jew and his philosophy on fighting anti-Semitism. Sanders’s article, his most personal yet, not only touched on anti-Semitism but also his views on white supremecy, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Zionism The piece generated so…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders’ Oped On Israel And Anti-Semitism Leaves More Questions Than It Answers
Discussing Bernie Sanders often feels like peering into the examination room where a Rorschach test is being implemented: Discussing the Vermont senator’s Jewish identity and his politics spawns more questions than it answers. Is he Jewish enough? Is he too Jewish? And what does he think about Israel or wielding power as president anyway? Luckily…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders Is Blind To The Anti-Semitism On His Own Side
Bernie Sanders reminds me of Moshe Dayan. (Read on please.) He’s got a patch on one eye. Dayan wore his patch because of military injury. Sanders wears his for ideological purposes. It’s on his left eye and it prevents him from seeing what’s going on next to him. However, it leaves him eagle eyed for…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders’ Oped Settles It: You Can Be Both Progressive And Zionist
On Monday, the left-wing Jewish Currents news organization posted an op-ed by Senator Bernie Sanders on fighting anti-Semitism in America today. It speaks mainly to his progressive supporters in the Jewish community and articulates his progressive Zionist position on the Israeli occupation. It is a call for American Jews to recognize that the threat of…
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Opinion Senator Sanders, Fighting Anti-Semitism Requires Actions, Not Just Universalist Promises
You’d be excused if, like me, you felt as if Bernie Sanders‘s op-ed on Jews and anti-Semitism seemed oddly familiar. A hundred years ago, in a country far, far away, a group of left-wing revolutionaries sought to win over millions of Jews with their universalist message. Jews, they said, should give up their particularist concerns…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Goes Into Most Detail Yet About Judaism, Israel, Anti-Semitism
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders went into more detail than ever before about his ties to Judaism and Israel in an op-ed for Jewish Currents published Monday. Here are the key takeaways: He warned of the danger of white supremacy: Sanders described how his father’s relatives were killed in the Holocaust, and detailed the…
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Opinion Bernie Would Have Been My Zeyde’s Candidate. He’s My Children’s, Too.
I have no idea what my parents, both lifelong liberal Democrats, would have made of the current unwieldy crop of presidential candidates. But about my maternal grandfather, Max Blustein, I have no doubt. I’m certain my Zeyde, who died in 1969 when I was in college, would have been unwavering in support of Bernie Sanders,…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders Is The Only Presidential Candidate Who Truly Cares About Palestinian Lives
The 2019 J Street Conference, held last week in Washington, was the first time in recent memory that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was openly discussed and critically assessed in the mainstream American public sphere. Historically, presidential candidates on both sides of the political spectrum have been deaf to Palestinian grievances, blind to Israel’s injustices and defensive…
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