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My job is to keep Zohran Mamdani pro Israel - Bernie Sanders
My job is to keep Zohran Mamdani pro Israel - Bernie Sanders
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That's not what the text says... It says Bernie is telling him to better communicate his reasoning.
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His reasoning has been perfectly well communicated, the people calling him anti-semitic are acting in bad faith and their is no critism of Israel they wouldn't call anti-semitic. And Sanders knows this but is playing along anyway
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Bernie is telling him to not criticize Israel because that is antisemitic.
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this interchange is bonkers because this is the definition of antisemitic now according to the american government which is using it to justify all sorts of horrible actions.
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Nice try. Bernie is very critical of Israels actions himself but don't take my word for it, since you can't be bothered looking it up yourself befor posting misinformation, here is his own statement about the matter: www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-israel-palestine-and-growing-humanitarian-disaster/
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It's a complex issue Bernie is alluding to. There are a lot of Jewish people who think of Israel of sort of "Their place" in the world where they are centered and the controlling stake of culture. People who are raised to think this way feel critism towards the place as an attack on their Jewishness. Those feelings can override and get in the way of treating Isreal as a country, with a political agenda and make it feel as though it were a criticism of Jewish people.
You know that whole "facts don't care about your feelings" thing the right gets on about? It's actually backwards. Feelings do not care about facts and if you don't adequately explain your purpose you can make people feel victimized even when they aren't. Jewish people who feel victimized by critism of Israel are responding to a mix of cultural programming because the idea of Israel is their security blanket. Problem is the security blanket isn't actually securing them from anything, it was just a tool to soothe anxieties about having a place to retreat to free of persecution... and now that the security blanket has been proven to be woven out of asbestos and warcrimes the trauma of prying peoples attachment from it is causing damage amongst a historically persecuted group. This is Bernie's reminder - to be sensitive to the process of individual trauma while detangling them from the genocidal regime it's emotionally fuzed to.
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Go away, old man
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you don’t mess with the Zohran
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Leading every statement on Israel with "now, keep in mind, in not being antisemitic... but..." Is a good way to sound antisemitic.
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not let himself seem like he's minimizing the fear of Jews in New York and elsewhere feel from the threat of hate against them.
Yes, Mamdani should absolutely not minimize the fears of Jews, for many Jews fear being lumped in and associated with the hate-group movement known as Zionism. It is important that he make a clear statement on the distinction that Jews are not Zionists (not by default, though sadly some Jews have bought into the Nazi-like cult of Zionism) and Zionists are not necessarily Jews. It must be reiterated that Judaism is completely distinct from Zionism, the Nazi-like fascist cult, and to conflate the two is deeply antisemitic. Mamdani would do well to make it known that he will not stand for this kind of slander of the Jewish people and that he will do whatever he can with his powers as Mayor to prevent any such attempts to further smear Jewish people with the Zionist label. Mamdani should remind all of New York City that Jews are lovingly welcomed, but the antisemitic Zionists shall not be tolerated.
I wonder what old Bernard's reaction would have been if Mamdani had responded to him with something like that.
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