Over the weekend, the essential site of the Gatestone Institute published a piece by famed attorney Alan Dershowitz titled, "Bernie Sanders: Knave or Fool?" in which Dershowitz makes the points that: if British politician Jeremy Corbyn were anti-black, anti-women, anti-Muslim or anti-gay, American presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would not have campaigned for him -- yet he has no problem campaigning for the anti-Semite Corbyn; progressives tolerate anti-Semitism as long as it comes from those who espouse views they approve of; and Sanders condemned right-leaning political groups for being "intolerant" and "authoritarian," without condemning the equally intolerant, authoritarian and often anti-Semitic hard Left.
Below is an excerpt:
Shame on Bernie Sanders. He campaigned for the British anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn, who received millions of votes from British citizens who care more about their pocketbooks than about combatting anti-Semitism. As exit polls trickled in, Sanders tweeted: "I am delighted to see Labour do so well. I congratulate @jeremycorbyn for running a very effective campaign." There is no doubt that Corbyn and his Labour Party are at the very least tolerant of anti-Semitic rhetoric, if not peddlers of it. (See my recent op-ed on the British Labour Party and Corbyn's association with some of the most rancid anti-Semites.)
Sanders's support for this anti-Jewish bigot reminds me of the Jews who supported Stalin despite his overt anti-Semitism because they supported his communist agenda. Those who tolerate anti-Semitism argue that it is a question of priorities but even so, history proves that Sanders has his priorities wrong. No decent person should ever, under any circumstances, campaign for an anti-Semite.
There are two reasons why Sanders would campaign for an anti-Semite: 1) he has allowed Corbyn's socialism to blind him to his anti-Semitism; 2) he doesn't care about Corbyn's anti-Semitism because it is not important enough to him. This means that he is either a fool or a knave.
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Why can't it be both?
Over the weekend, the essential site of the Gatestone Institute published a piece by famed attorney Alan Dershowitz titled, "Bernie Sanders: Knave or Fool?" in which Dershowitz makes the points that: if British politician Jeremy Corbyn were anti-black, anti-women, anti-Muslim or anti-gay, American presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would not have campaigned for him -- yet he has no problem campaigning for the anti-Semite Corbyn; progressives tolerate anti-Semitism as long as it comes from those who espouse views they approve of; and Sanders condemned right-leaning political groups for being "intolerant" and "authoritarian," without condemning the equally intolerant, authoritarian and often anti-Semitic hard Left.
Below is an excerpt:
Shame on Bernie Sanders. He campaigned for the British anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn, who received millions of votes from British citizens who care more about their pocketbooks than about combatting anti-Semitism. As exit polls trickled in, Sanders tweeted: "I am delighted to see Labour do so well. I congratulate @jeremycorbyn for running a very effective campaign." There is no doubt that Corbyn and his Labour Party are at the very least tolerant of anti-Semitic rhetoric, if not peddlers of it. (See my recent op-ed on the British Labour Party and Corbyn's association with some of the most rancid anti-Semites.)
Sanders's support for this anti-Jewish bigot reminds me of the Jews who supported Stalin despite his overt anti-Semitism because they supported his communist agenda. Those who tolerate anti-Semitism argue that it is a question of priorities but even so, history proves that Sanders has his priorities wrong. No decent person should ever, under any circumstances, campaign for an anti-Semite.
There are two reasons why Sanders would campaign for an anti-Semite: 1) he has allowed Corbyn's socialism to blind him to his anti-Semitism; 2) he doesn't care about Corbyn's anti-Semitism because it is not important enough to him. This means that he is either a fool or a knave.
Check out the rest of the piece here.
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