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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders to Netanyahu: 'It Is Not Antisemitic to Hold You Accountable'
Thank you, Bernie!
"No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months, your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,00070% of whom are women and children," said Sanders (I-Vt.). "It is not antisemitic to point out that your bombing has completely destroyed more than 221,000 housing units in Gaza, leaving more than one million people homelessalmost half the population."
"Antisemitism is a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to many millions of people," continued Sanders, who lost family members to the Nazi Holocaust. "But, please, do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government. Do not use antisemitism to deflect attention from the criminal indictment you are facing in the Israeli courts."
Full article at https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-netanyahu-antisemitism?xrs=RebelMouse_fb&ts=1714168988&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1tcNzX3DM5ttYtWEEK-leRgUHU13oMrf6hpnDVG0abFibNRqyCtAkPIBk_aem_AbI6xYx027cSmAedkHhftqklPn9kumyt78YdzxxfWsLCxUOe6t_xco_8Ynu1GwT7DjCmsCfAzM5fWA4AhJMGYTx0
jalan48
(13,937 posts)elleng
(131,670 posts)from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government. Do not use antisemitism to deflect attention from the criminal indictment you are facing in the Israeli courts."
brush
(54,072 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,235 posts)of the Israeli leaders/government with antisemitism are only doing harm to efforts to combat REAL antisemitism. Being adamantly opposed to the brutal slaughter of 35,000 people and the destruction and leveling of Gaza has nothing to do with "hating Jews." This fake umbrage has a "boy who cried wolf" diluting effect, and it needs to stop.
I'm so sick of that bullshit response on many of the DU posts that have appeared since 10/7. We won't stop speaking out against the Gazan genocide because some people try to silence others by pretending what we're saying is "antisemitism." What crock!
Duppers
(28,139 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,695 posts)Warpy
(111,556 posts)Courageous enough to call himself a Democratic Socialist.
Courageous enough to tell Israel's head of state he's doing womething very wrong.
Fortunately, some Democrats seem to be learning from him.
kingvitamin
(44 posts)Bernie is the voice of moral clarity.
Hekate
(91,232 posts)democrank
(11,117 posts)I treasure his moral clarity. Thank you, Bernie.
TomDaisy
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