{"id":197863,"date":"2019-11-14T13:51:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197863"},"modified":"2019-11-18T08:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:13:06","slug":"the-jewish-progressive-agenda-according-to-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197863","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish Progressive Agenda according to Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk Nov 14 , 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bernie-Saunders-gilad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-197864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bernie-Saunders-gilad-768x592.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bernie-Saunders-gilad-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bernie-Saunders-gilad-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bernie-Saunders-gilad.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>In the 2016 Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders presented himself as an American who happened to be Jewish.\u00a0 Now, in a radical shift, Sanders identifies as \u201ca proud Jewish American.\u201d The progressive politician went from speaking in a universalist voice to defining himself as a <a href=\"https:\/\/gilad.online\/writings\/the-3rd-categorythe-3rd-category-and-the-palestinian-solidar.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">3rd category Jew<\/span>,<\/a> i.e., a person who identifies politically as a Jew (as opposed to identifying religiously:1st category, or ancestrally: 2nd category). In his new capacity as a proud Jew,\u00a0Sanders has declared all out war on Anti Semitism on behalf of his people and in the name of what he describes as \u2018multicultural progressive values\u2019.<\/h5>\n<h5>In his recent extended article titled <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishcurrents.org\/how-to-fight-antisemitism\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">How to Fight Antisemitism<\/span><\/a>, published by the purportedly \u2018Left\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishcurrents.org\/jewish-currents\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Jewish Currents<\/span><\/a>, Sanders takes up the same line you\u2019d expect from an ADL spokesman, ticking every Hasbara box from the Jewish right of \u2018self determination \u2018to the primacy of Jewish suffering.<\/h5>\n<h5>It is hard to miss the echo of Zionist propaganda in Sanders\u2019 drivel. Understandably, Sanders doesn\u2019t like Anti-Semitism. In that he isn\u2019t alone. I would venture that no one, including antisemites, likes anti-Semitism. However, fighting anti Semitism is pretty simple. All it takes is self-reflection. This is exactly what early Zionists did and it was pretty effective. Early Zionism promised\u00a0 to introduce a new Hebrew: civilized, proletarian, universalist and ethical. Some of the worst anti-Semites were impressed with the idea, for a while <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/haavara\">even Hitler<\/a> <\/span>supported that Jewish nationalist project. At the time, Zionists were so popular that they were largely forgiven their 1948 racist ethnic cleansing crimes. Their introspective project was perceived as genuine.<\/h5>\n<h5>Now, Sanders informs us, \u201cantisemitism is rising in this country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/11\/13\/united-states\/hate-crimes-jews-rise-37-fbi-reports\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">According to the FBI<\/span><\/a>, hate crimes against Jews rose by more than a third in 2017 and accounted for 58% of all religion-based hate crimes in America.\u201d\u00a0 Does the \u2018progressive\u2019 presidential wannabe bother to ask himself why an ethnic group that comprises only 2% of the American population is subject to the vast majority of religion based hate crimes?<\/h5>\n<h5>Sanders doesn\u2019t advocate that Jews reflect on whether there is something they do that provokes such crimes, \u00a0he prefers to blame everyone else and White identitarians in particular. He argues that antisemites such as the Pittsburgh Synagogue murderer \u201cacted on a twisted belief that Jews were part of a nefarious plot to undermine white America. This wave of violence is the result of a dangerous political ideology that targets Jews and anyone who does not fit a narrow vision of a whites-only America.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Although I am a harsh critic all forms of identitarianism, \u00a0Sanders seems to want it both ways, he identifies himself as a \u201cproud Jewish American\u201d and yet he is hostile to those who identify as White and to their political and identitarian agenda. In reading Sanders\u2019 piece, one can\u2019t miss the fact that the so-called \u2018progressive\u2019 seems to support all forms of identitarianism except the White one. \u201cThis wave of violence\u201d he writes, \u201cis the result of a dangerous political ideology that targets Jews and anyone who does not fit a narrow vision of a whites-only America.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Politicians who explore ideas in a manner that is ignorant, uneducated and clumsy are now a universal Western symptom. However, Sanders manages to form a category of his own. \u201cThe antisemites who marched in Charlottesville don\u2019t just hate Jews. They hate the idea of multiracial democracy.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>What is multiracial democracy? Are we supposed to know or should we guess? Are there any voices that should be excluded from this type of diverse democracy?<\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cThey [presumably, the White Identitarians] hate the idea of political equality.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Is this true? Perhaps \u2018they,\u2019 rightly or wrongly, just see themselves as among the oppressed and want their plight addressed?<\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cThey hate immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, women, and anyone else who stands in the way of a whites-only America.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Does Sanders understand that \u2018hating people\u2019 (women, migrants, people of color, LGBTQ etc,) is not the same as\u00a0opposing the identity politics that divides nations into a manifold of discrete identities?<\/h5>\n<h5>Sanders accuses the anti-Semites of being conspiratorial. \u201cthis is the conspiracy theory that drove the Pittsburgh murderer\u2014that Jews are conspiring to bring immigrants into the country to \u201creplace\u201d Americans.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>I feel obliged to remind Mr. Sanders it is hardly conspiratorial to acknowledge the fact that Jewish politics in the West and in America in particular, is pro-immigration. It is well documented and is actually rational. As opposed to the Jewish State that performs some of the most brutal anti immigration policies, Diaspora Jews tend to prefer to live in a society that is made of an amalgam of many groups and ethnicities. Sanders who identifies himself as a \u2018proud Jew\u2019 should ask himself why he supports \u2018multicultural democracy\u2019 and what he means by that. Sanders ought to look into the work of <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hias.org\/who\/history\">HIAS<\/a> <\/span>and decide for himself how well it reflects his own political sentiments.<\/h5>\n<h5>Bernie Sanders sees anti-Semitism as \u201ca conspiracy theory that a secretly powerful\u00a0 (Jewish) minority exercises control over society.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Someone should ask Sanders to explain the peculiar phenomenon at work when Israeli PM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/05\/24\/netanyahu_standing_ovations\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Netanyahu received\u00a0 29 standing ovations<\/span><\/a> during his hard line speech in Congress. Mr. Sanders, who believes that pointing at Jewish power arises from \u2018conspiratorial\u2019 inclinations may want to ask himself what drove him to declare war against anti Semitism instead of joining battle against all racism. Does Sanders plan to speak at AIPAC or J-Street as part of his presidential campaign or does he intend to deny himself the support of the most influential political lobbies in Washington?<\/h5>\n<h5>Sanders writes that \u201clike other forms of bigotry\u2014racism, sexism, homophobia\u2014antisemitism is used by the right to divide people from one another and prevent us from fighting together for a shared future of equality, peace, prosperity, and environmental justice.\u201d But if Sanders is genuine here and his objective is \u2018unity,\u2019 why does he single out\u00a0 White identitarians? Shouldn\u2019t he invite the Whites to join his phantasmic identitarian \u2018unity\u2019 as equal partners? And more to the point, if \u201clike other forms of bigotry\u2014racism, sexism, homophobia\u2014antisemitism is used by the right to divide people\u201d why not simply oppose all racism and bigotry in a universal manner?<\/h5>\n<h5>According to the \u201cproud Jewish American\u201d who wants to be the next\u00a0 president, \u201copposing antisemitism is a core value of progressivism.\u201d Is it?\u00a0 I would have thought that progressivism is about opposing all forms of racism in the largest and least discriminatory manner.<\/h5>\n<h5>To illustrate his alliance with what is currently the most racist state on the planet, Sanders delves into nostalgic memories of his Zionist youth. \u201cI have a connection to Israel going back many years. In 1963, I lived on a kibbutz near Haifa. It was there that I saw and experienced for myself many of the progressive values upon which Israel was founded.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Mr Sanders forgets to mention that Sha\u2019ar Haamakim, the Kibbutz he briefly dwelled in, was founded on the land of a Palestinian village; <em>Al Zubaidat<\/em> that had been the home of 60 Palestinian families. In 1925 a Zionist organisation purchased the village land from a rich Beiruty family and beginning in 1931, the Jewish Agency struggled to evict the <em>Palestinians of\u00a0 El Zubeidat<\/em>. A few years later, in 1935,\u00a0 Kibbutz Sha&#8217;ar HaAmakim was founded by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. In short, the place Sanders describes as embodying\u00a0 \u2018progressive values\u2019 was in fact, part of the vile racially driven, Zionist ethnic cleansing project.<\/h5>\n<h5>The intellectually compromised Sanders goes on to describe a criminal state with a very odd use of the term \u2018progressive.\u2019\u00a0 \u201cI think it is very important for everyone, but particularly for progressives, to acknowledge the enormous achievement of establishing a democratic homeland for the Jewish people after centuries of displacement and persecution.\u201d I find this confusing.\u00a0 Unless the words \u2018progressive\u2019 and \u2018Jewish\u2019 have morphed into synonyms, I do not understand what is \u2018progressive\u2019 about the process of violent racist ethnic cleansing.<\/h5>\n<h5>I guess even Sanders must realise that his pro Israeli screed is easily ridiculed.\u00a0 \u201cWe must also be honest about this: The founding of Israel is understood by another people in the land of Palestine as the cause of their painful displacement.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>According to Sanders the Palestinian plight is simply a matter of a subjective perception, that\u00a0 it was merely \u2018understood\u2019 by the Palestinians that the founding of Israel resulted in their own painful displacement.\u00a0 Sanders dismisses reality, ignoring the chain of massacres of Palestinians in 1948, and the clear agenda of the Israeli military to cleanse the indigenous people of Palestine from their land. I can\u2019t think of anything more disgusting and duplicitous than Sanders\u2019 fake humanism.<\/h5>\n<h5>Sanders finds that \u201csome criticism of Israel can cross the line into antisemitism, especially when it denies the right of self-determination to Jews&#8230;\u201d I allow myself to assert that no one out there denies Jews or anyone else\u2019s right of self-determination but self determination becomes a serious problem when executed at the expense of others, whether this takes place in Palestine, in North America or anywhere else.<\/h5>\n<h5>Bernie Sanders, a declared non universalist \u2018progressive,\u2019 uses a Jewish outlet to vow to his people \u201cI will direct the Justice Department to prioritize the fight against white nationalist violence. I will not wait two years to appoint a Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, as Trump did; I will appoint one immediately.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>If America intends, as it should, to fight racism and to heal its wounds it could be that Bernie Sanders is the worst possible candidate as he clearly expresses that what he cares about is the hatred of the one group that happens to be his own. Maybe president of\u00a0 the ADL is the more fitting post for the pretentious self confessed \u201cproud Jewish American.\u201d Leading the American people and the world should be left to a proper universalist and a genuine ethical character assuming that such a person is available and willing to commit.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>My battle for truth and freedom involves some expensive legal and security services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me and others.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>To assist Gilad in his work with a donation, scroll to the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/gilad.online\/writings\/2019\/11\/14\/the-jewish-progressive-agenda-according-to-bernie-sanders\">foot of the source page<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gilad.online\/writings\/2019\/11\/14\/the-jewish-progressive-agenda-according-to-bernie-sanders\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders seems to want it both ways, he identifies himself as a \u201cproud Jewish American\u201d and yet he is hostile to those who identify as White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197866,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197863\/revisions\/197866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}