Anti-Israel activists hating on Bernie Sanders

Sanders is also getting points for opposing the Iraq War, which Hillary Clinton supported, and he supports the Iran deal. But I’ve seen no one apart from Juan Cole, in this excellent summary of Sanders’s Middle East views, point out his yeoman defense of Israel during its assault on Gaza last summer. In July Sandersformed part of the “unanimous consent” to a resolution to support Israel in its attack, a resolution Salon’s David Palumbo-Liu said at the time “does more than confirm U.S. Senate support for Israel. It pushes that statement beyond any rational or ethical or moral framework imaginable.” In a famous encounter at a town hall meeting in Vermont near the end of the onslaught– video below–, Sanders got so angry at pro-Palestinian constituents who were obviously deeply upset by an assault that had killed 500 Palestinian children that he told them to “shut up.”

Protest leaders said they will continue to try to disrupt the Zim Chicago unloading while it is in Tacoma.
“This is a deliberate protest, not a symbolic protest,” said Mara Willaford of Seattle. “We will be here until the boat leaves. We don’t know how long that will be, but we’ll be here as long as it takes.”
Willaford said she and other protestors are trying to pressure Israel to end its military action in Gaza. “We want them to end the siege in Gaza and, in particular, allow them to open up and let Gaza use its port.”
Protestors chanted “Occupation is a crime,” and “We are the people. We want justice for all Palestine.”

Bernie Sanders has run a smart and spirited campaign. Even if he eventually loses the Democratic primary, his rise from virtually nowhere to threaten Hillary Clinton from the left offers much-needed optimism in a time of dismal inequality. His invective against Wall Street is accurate and often courageous. He is the rare candidate who doesn’t traffic in patriotic or religious platitudes.
But I won’t be voting for him. Sanders has long supported Israeli colonization, including the worst elements of its military occupation. I’ve had numerous arguments with friends about the extent and character of that support. Is it fair to call Sanders an adamant Zionist? Is he a Zionist at all? Does it even matter? How bad is he, really, in the spectrum of U.S. politics, where kowtowing to Israel has long been a prerequisite for the presidency?

ME Monitor wrote:Is Bernie Sanders a civil rights campaigner or a loyal supporter of Israel?

Original Quill wrote:

ME Monitor wrote:Is Bernie Sanders a civil rights campaigner or a loyal supporter of Israel?

That is the question you hear all over liberal circles in the US.  Israel has double-crossed the American Left, and that is where the problem lies.  Israel wants to act like a Cold War despot, while cloaking themselves in their victimhood of 75-years ago.  That is the duplicity that Israel has created to support their Czechoslovakian land grab in the Middle East.

Now politicians like Bernie Sanders have to "dance around" issues like do you support Israel (?), because many people still live on the other side of that duplicity.  The more incurious among the voters do not recognize that they are being played by Israel, even though Netanyahu openly admitted it to them.  Sanders would probably love to shout his Jewishness, but right now it's chancy.

Didge wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

That is the question you hear all over liberal circles in the US.  Israel has double-crossed the American Left, and that is where the problem lies.  Israel wants to act like a Cold War despot, while cloaking themselves in their victimhood of 75-years ago.  That is the duplicity that Israel has created to support their Czechoslovakian land grab in the Middle East.

Now politicians like Bernie Sanders have to "dance around" issues like do you support Israel (?), because many people still live on the other side of that duplicity.  The more incurious among the voters do not recognize that they are being played by Israel, even though Netanyahu openly admitted it to them.  Sanders would probably love to shout his Jewishness, but right now it's chancy.

Cold war despot

Yeah go back to sleep, as that is as about as stupid as it gets

I se you missed the whole point of the article

Never mind

Original Quill wrote:

Didge wrote:


Cold war despot

Yeah go back to sleep, as that is as about as stupid as it gets

I se you missed the whole point of the article

Never mind

That's all ya got?  I expected a robust debate.

Salon wrote:Now controversial hate-tweeting Professor Steven Salaita has joined the anti-Bernie campaign with a column in Salon.com stating that he could not vote for Bernie because of Bernie’s support for Israel. (As an aside, Salon has become a home to anti-Israel columnists such as Salaita, Stanford Prof. David Palumbo-Liu, and new Salon staff reporter Benjamin Norton.)

Salaita writes, I won’t vote for Bernie Sanders: His feeble position on Israel is a serious progressive problem:

Tacoma News Tribune wrote:Willaford said she and other protestors are trying to pressure Israel to end its military action in Gaza. “We want them to end the siege in Gaza and, in particular, allow them to open up and let Gaza use its port.”

Didge wrote:Again what is the article saying?

Its clearly something you cannot grasp Quill

Didge wrote:No you just still have failed to grasp what the article is saying

Original Quill wrote:

Didge wrote:No you just still have failed to grasp what the article is saying

I detect another Didge infinite regress coming on.  Bye.