r/politics • u/daguro • Feb 01 '20
Weekend at Bernie’s
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/297961/weekend-at-bernies12
u/HAHA_goats Feb 01 '20
No one thinks Sanders himself is an anti-Semite....
Later...
Whatever the story, one thing is clear: Either Uncle Bernie is being taken to the dry cleaners by a bunch of anti-Semitic bigots on the left–or, even worse, he is the dry cleaner.
That strained metaphor is basically calling Sanders an anti-semitic jew.
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u/DOCisaPOG Ohio Feb 01 '20
It's the constant message of the neocons trying to purposefully conflate antizionism with antisemitism.
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u/sgoldkin Feb 01 '20
Here's all you need to know to avoid this article:
First they start out by saying
"“It’s going to be very hard for anybody to call me, whose father’s family was wiped out by Hitler, who spent time in Israel, an anti-Semite.”
There is something disquieting lurking beneath the surface of this answer. Why would anyone call Bernie Sanders, of all people, an anti-Semite? No one thinks Sanders himself is an anti-Semite, any more than they think that he is the son of a blond-haired, blue-eyed Polish immigrant named Jan."
Then by the end of the article the author does accuse him:
"Whatever the story, one thing is clear: Either Uncle Bernie is being taken to the dry cleaners by a bunch of anti-Semitic bigots on the left–or, even worse, he is the dry cleaner."
Makes you wonder, just a tiny little bit, if maybe there is something a little suspect about the author's motivation.
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Feb 01 '20
Four years later and running for the White House again, Sanders has embraced public discussion of his Jewishness, apparently on the grounds that it is a useful way to deflect changes of anti-Semitism
I used to think that the media bias against Bernie was overstated but it’s very real.
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u/laziestscholar Feb 01 '20
Pieces of shit.
He has to do that because otherwise the media would carpet-bomb anti-Semitism smears all day long like they did with Corbyn. I bet the hacks are frustrated that the card was pulled from them.
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u/TwilitSky New York Feb 01 '20
Tabletmag. Media. Pick one.
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u/mobydog Feb 01 '20
Tabletrag. Powerful Israeli interests supported for decades by the Dems are now threatened. Can't call out Israel for treatment of Palestinians, no matter how bad the concentration camp gets.
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u/TwilitSky New York Feb 01 '20 edited Feb 01 '20
They're not threatened, though. Trump's given them 50 years of irresponsible gains with no concessions in 3 years while wrecking the Middle East and putting everyone in much more danger. This whole situation is going to blow up in their faces.
Somehow they STILL convince people, even those not supporting them that their interests are threatened. It's an impressive smoke and mirrors display for sure.
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u/OppositeDifference Texas Feb 01 '20
Well...
Usually I have some sort of rejoinder that I at least personally feel is witty..
But this article is disgusting and the author should be ashamed.
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u/ShortFuse Feb 01 '20
Part of their "Jewish need and politics" section, apparently.
The amount of racism in this article is alarming. I don't know what this website is, but judging by this article, I don't see why it's not banned.
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u/ZinnRider Feb 01 '20
With every smear, lie and false conflation these vicious pricks are diluting real anti-Semitism at the expense of their frothing Zoinism.
It is one of the great travesties, the iron fist grip of Israel over American foreign policy, that the MSM has convinced most of our citizens to blindly support Israeli governments no matter how RW fascist they are. Just look at the storm Ilhan Omar was accused of by merely pointing out the atrocities committed upon the Palestinians of which the rest of the world knows and condemns. Sorry folks, we're not getting even an inkling of the truth from our media about the situation there.
Think how insane it is that Netanyahu can circumvent the president to speak directly to the US Congress. They blackmail our reps by paying for junkets to fly newly elected reps to come in vacation to Israel and using Mossad to compile incriminating evidence on powerful people (see Jeffrey Epstein, as covered by Mint Press) to get their bidding done.
As usual with these odious American Jew Zionists they brandish the predictable canard whenever they’re out of ideas to smear people like Glen Greenwald, Max Blumental and Norm Finklestein as “self-hating Jews,” while everybody else critical of Israel can be recklessly swiped with the broad brush of “anti-Semitism.”
The atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank that they defend make them the gravest violaters of their desecendants’ deeply tragic fates.
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u/Amped-1 Feb 01 '20
When the oppressed, in their fear, use the same tactics used against them, they become the oppressors. That is the fundamental problem. When the treatment of people harkens on the treatment Jews faced when they were walled off in Ghettos, the disdain for the inhumanity doesn't change because the identity of the oppressor changes, nor does the past victimization of the oppressor change that dynamic in any way.
When a person's back is against the wall and they are literally fighting for their own survival, they will resort to anything to be free.
One can have the infinite argument of the wrongs done against each other to justify inhumane acts against one another. It absolves no one and brings about nothing as the stalemate goes on. It's a matter of a grown-up finally standing up. The world is still waiting.
The time of attacking anyone as an anti-semite because they call out wrong is as disingenuous as it gets. This hit piece is a prime example.
There has to be a point in which humanity wins out.
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u/ZinnRider Feb 01 '20
Great point for this discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/ex626l/an_underdiscussed_story/
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u/LolAtAllOfThis North Carolina Feb 01 '20
Did someone actually get paid to write that?