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Israel/Palestine

oberliner

(58,724 posts) Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:06 AM Mar 2016

Bernie Sanders: Don't Count Out anti-Semitism as Factor in Israel Boycott Movement [View all]

It would be a mistake to count out anti-Semitism as a driver of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, Senator Bernie Sanders said Monday evening on MSNBC.

“I think there is some of that, absolutely,” the Vermont senator said after being asked if he would link BDS to anti-Semitism like his rival for the Democratic presidential nod, Hillary Clinton.

“Israel has done some very bad things, so has every other country on earth,” Sanders said. “I think the people who want to attack Israel for their policies, I think that is fair game. But not to appreciate that there is some level of anti-Semitism around the world involved in that I think would be a mistake.”

http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.710396

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Bernie Sanders: Don't Count Out anti-Semitism as Factor in Israel Boycott Movement [View all] oberliner Mar 2016 OP

Thanks, Senator Sanders. That is a comment with which I agree. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author 6chars Mar 2016 #2

Bernie Sanders just confirmed the obvious King_David Mar 2016 #3

Vote for the only mensch running for president..Bernie Sanders. n/t Jefferson23 Mar 2016 #4

+1 King_David Mar 2016 #5

He is such a great man, I want him to win the primary and I believe he will then win the WH. n/t Jefferson23 Mar 2016 #6

good to see you ... Israeli Mar 2016 #9

Hi Israeli..we're trying, Bernie has come a long way..so we'll see. Jefferson23 Mar 2016 #10

Bernie Sanders is against the settlements and the occupation - but at the same time against BDS? Little Tich Mar 2016 #7

Sanders realizes BDS is a hate movement against Israel, not settlements. shira Mar 2016 #8

Bernie is not going to support BDS, no US president will do that..not even as a Senator. Jefferson23 Mar 2016 #11

Obama supports labelling settlement products imported to the US - a practice that is considered BDS Little Tich Mar 2016 #13

Yes but that is very different and BDS is not a monolithic block. Those who joined to boycott Jefferson23 Mar 2016 #14

Because he sees it for what it really is leftynyc Mar 2016 #12

Yep King_David Mar 2016 #21

Haaretz quite gratuitously misquotes Bernie in the first paragraph and title azurnoir Mar 2016 #15

There are no quotation marks in the first paragraph or the title oberliner Mar 2016 #16

Misleading headline - I should have known... n/t Little Tich Mar 2016 #17

Did you not read the actual article? oberliner Mar 2016 #18

Interestingly, the transcript conveys a slightly different different impression than the OP. Little Tich Mar 2016 #19

Trying desperately to spin this your way huh? King_David Mar 2016 #20

Straight people do not get to tell Gay people what is and what is not homophobic... King_David Mar 2016 #22