Bernie Sanders Kibbutz Revealed at Last!

[azurnoir]

The mystery of Bernie Sanders’ missing months on a socialist commune in Israel has now been solved.
The Democratic Party’s socialist presidential candidate, it turns out, volunteered at Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim, near Haifa, in 1963.

While Sanders himself has long touted his several months on an Israeli kibbutz in the 1960s as part of his biography, Sanders’ campaign, along with his brother and some of his best friends have all professed lack of knowledge or memory about just what kibbutz it was. The mystery has been the topic of hot pursuit for reporters and editors in America and Israel for the past several months.

The answer came Thursday afternoon from Yossi Melman, a veteran national security correspondent in Israel. Melman tweeted that Sanders told him the answer in a 1990 interview. The original article, titled “The First Socialist” was reproduced on the Haaretz Hebrew web site.

https://twitter.com/yossi_melman/status/695359073840033792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


Read more: http://forward.com/news/israel/332946/bernie-sanders-kibbutz-revealed-at-last/#ixzz3zI0KC7JC

[mucifer]

1. Here's the reason Bernie isn't talking about it:

From the article:

The kibbutz founders had a strong admiration for the Communist system in the Soviet Union.
“Today we know how many were killed there in the gulags, but when the kibbutz was founded, they believed that from Russia will come the truth,” she said. “They called Stalin the ‘Sun of the Nations.’”

Read more: http://forward.com/news/332946/revealed-at-last-inside-the-kibbutz-where-bernie-sanders-lived-and-learned/#ixzz3zIQCvXkq

Oy Vey. Just a heads up guys.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Pffft! The Red Baiting won't work! The man was elected Mayor of Burlington,VT

and re-elected THREE times and each time he was re-elected, he got even more votes!
U.S. News and World Reports named him one of 20 BEST MAYORS in 1987!

He served in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the United States Congress from 1991-2007.

He was then elected to the SENATE in 2006 and re-elected with 71% of the vote! How many politicians have had that many votes?

Vermont is now a Hammer and Sickle state? Would Vermonters elect a Stalin Socialist to the United States Congress for 25 years? I don't think so!

Bernie's political record is waaaay too long for any Red Baiting to stick in the Primary OR the GE!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[mucifer]

3. I hope you are right

But, I can see why he is not talking about the kibbutz anymore.

[winter is coming]

5. Less than a year of his life, five decades ago?

No doubt Republicans will screech about it, but I don't see anyone who'd even consider voting for a Democrat caring about it.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. Eh...what young adult hasn't done something stupid? I know I did!

He'll be fine. I don't think a Stalin socialist would be allowed in the U.S. Congress and certainly wouldn't be voted to serve on these:

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[winter is coming]

4. Say hi to Segami for me.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Ok

You lost me on that one. Segami was banned? What?

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[winter is coming]

8. On time-out.

All the bolded words in your post made me think of Segami's PENCHANT for using caps, and one DUer's already offered to post things for him while he's on vacation.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Gotcha -Well

crap. I didn't know he was on time-out. Figures.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[TBF]

10. This only makes me like him more. nt