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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Visited The Tree Of Life Synagogue – Secretly
Sen. Bernie Sanders forbade his campaign staff from publicizing a visit he paid to the site of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in April because he didn’t want the visit to be seen as a “publicity grab,” The New York Times reported Saturday. Sanders, who is Jewish, met with the rabbi of the Tree of Life…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Is Proud Of His ‘Anti-Endorsements’ From Billionaires
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders’s campaign says he is proud not to include Haim Saban as a backer of his presidential bid. The Sanders campaign put the pro-Israel entertainment mogul and major Democratic Party funder first on a list of 13 “anti-endorsements” — that is, public figures whose support Sanders either doesn’t want or isn’t…
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The Schmooze Bernie Sanders Insists That He’s Not A Grumpy Self-Hating Jew
In a quippy new social media video, Bernie Sanders cracks a joke, then talks about race, Judaism, abortion, and basketball. Not Elizabeth Warren. Not Cory Booker. Bernie Sanders. In 2016, when Sanders faced off against Hillary Clinton, he enjoyed a cache of coolness, despite the two candidates’ matching papery white skin. Now, with all the…
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Culture Gamers Rejoice: Bernie Sanders Now Has A Twitch Account
As any 2020 presidential contender might tell you, the youth vote is important. Which explains why Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, hot off announcing a plan to cancel $1.6 trillion of student debt, is planning a series of videos to be streamed on Twitch, a tremendously popular live-streaming platform that caters to gamers and is known…
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Fast Forward Does Israel Violate Human Rights? Here’s What Top Democratic Candidates Say.
Over the past few months, The New York Times has asked 22 Democratic presidential candidates to sit down with their video cameras and answer 18 short but revealing questions. Many of the questions were hard-hitting policy queries like “In an ideal world, would anyone own handguns?” and “Should tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google…
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News Sanders Breaks With AOC Over ‘Concentration Camps’ As Debate Rages On
What is a concentration camp? Is describing detention camps for immigrants together with the phrase “Never again” acceptable? Do these references trivialize the mass slaughter that took place in the Nazi-era death camps? The use of these words by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in reference to the “brutalizing” of illegal immigrants in detention centers on the…
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Fast Forward Sanders, Warren Introduce Resolution Against Israel Annexing West Bank
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Five Democratic senators, including the party’s deputy leader in the chamber and two leading presidential candidates, introduced a resolution decrying any Israeli plan to annex West Bank territory, an apparent shot across the bow at Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent election pledge. “Unilateral annexation of portions of the West Bank would jeopardize prospects for…
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Opinion 13 Democrats Recorded Messages About Israel. Only One Spoke With Courage.
The mantra of Kirsten Gillibrand’s presidential campaign is “Brave Wins.” Yet in her video message to the American Jewish Committee’s Global Forum this week, the New York Senator didn’t even mention the word “Palestinian.” That was typical. The 2020 Democratic hopefuls talk a lot about having the courage not just to challenge Donald Trump but…
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