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Fast Forward WATCH: Bernie Sanders Says Trump’s Climate Backtrack ‘Threatens Our Grandkids’
Bernie Sanders has a blunt message for President Trump after the White House announced a rollback of Obama-era climate change policies: he and other Democrats will not let the administration “threaten the lives of our children and grandchildren.” Mr. Trump: You are threatening the lives of our children and grandchildren. We will fight you every…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Former Sanders Staffer Simone Zimmerman “Outraged” At Israel Travel Ban
Simone Zimmerman, briefly the Jewish outreach coordinator to Bernie Sanders, blasted Israel’s new travel ban targeting supporters of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement. “I’m outraged there’s a chance I might not be allowed into this country,” Zimmerman said in a video by Israeli daily Haaretz. It has been shared 1,000 times. Zimmerman, an activist…
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Fast Forward There Are Now Bernie Sanders-Themed High Heels
Bernie Sanders is famous for his norm-core look, with his ill-fitting suits and rumpled shirts. But that hasn’t stopped one design house from using the socialist icon as inspiration for its new high-heels, debuting at Paris Fashion Week a shoe that incorporates the logo of the Vermont senator’s campaign. The Balenciaga high heel is red…
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News Bernie Sanders Embraces His New Jet Ski Role In The Trump Era
After the general election, senator Bernie Sanders was asked to reach out to America. So he undertook a national tour — on jet skis. At a crowded waterside meeting with reporters he was voluble in his defense of the economic policies he touted during his candidacy for the Democratic nomination and vituperative in his condemnation…
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Opinion Bernie Sanders Signals Liberal Push To End Israel’s Occupation — With Two States Or One
At the J Street Conference on February 27, Bernie Sanders delivered one of the most intriguing Israel-related speeches an American politician has given in years. Read it carefully, and you can grasp Donald Trump’s radicalizing impact on the America-Israel debate. The more Trump and his advisers question long-standing taboos by shifting right, the more Democrats…
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Fast Forward Sanders Mocks Trump As Health-Care Know-Nothing
After President Trump lamented that replacing Obamacare would be difficult because “nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated,” Senator Bernie Sanders that many people already understood the issue’s complexity. “Some of us who were sitting on the health education committee, who went to meeting after meeting after meeting, who heard from dozens of people,…
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Opinion Trump Is Elephant In Every Room As Shellshocked Jews Seek Path Forward
On Monday afternoon, February 27, Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered what appeared to be his first-ever keynote address to a national Jewish organization. His host, unsurprisingly, was J Street, the self-described pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy organization. The liberal Jewish group was holding its once-a-year national conference in Washington, D.C. The liberal Jewish senator couldn’t have asked for…
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News Bernie Sanders Electrifies J Street With Emotional Message On Israel — And Trump
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaking with affection of his life in Israel decades ago, told a rapturous J Street conference that one could sharply criticize the Israeli government’s policies and be pro-Israel. Sanders, I-Vt., speaking Monday in his first Middle East policy speech since ending his bid last June for the Democratic…
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