What Red-baiting Jew-hater Calls Sanders a 'non-Jewish Jew and a
non American American'?
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During February and March of this year, the big question was Bernie's Jewishness. Was he Jewish enough? Too Jewish? Tremendous effort was put into tracking down the determinedly nameless kibbutz at the very bottom of his CV. Today, the tone of Bernie think pieces has changed (for the most part) to more measured appraisals of his candidacy: How has Bernie’s campaign changed the Democratic party? Will we see a continued movement or has the radical flame Berned out?
But in one corner of the Jewish blogosphere, it seems, ‘Bernie the Jew’ is still a hot topic. On June 7, the ultra-conservative National Review magazine published a piece called "Bernie Sanders, the Non-Jewish Jew and Non-American American" by Dennis Prager. The tone was hardly elegiac; indeed Prager’s boiling anti-Bernie rant prompted the Forward’s Helen Chernikoff to tweet a comparison of Prager to Austrian mayor Karl Lueger, inspirer of Adolf Hitler and practiser of strategic anti-Semitism. It was Lueger who famously pronounced, “I decide who is a Jew.”
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Prager goes on to link Bernie to a list of the far-right’s favorite bogeymen: Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Noam Chomsky and George Soros. Add Saul Alinsky and you’ve got the whole set. Far beyond dog whistling, this is a klaxon to Jew-haters on the Right, no code needed. “They were (or are) all radicals, were born to Jewish parents, had (or have) no Jewish identity, and do harm to both Jews and non-Jews.” Internationalist, rootless: “non-Jewish Jews are far more likely to work to weaken Christianity in American than Jewish Jews…” The only thing Prager leaves out is the part about using their blood for matza.
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I'm sorry to say that this reminds me of too many posts right here at DU.
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