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Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 12:10 AM Apr 2016

Sanders Campaign Suspends Jewish Outreach Head for Colorful Anti-Netanyahu Facebook Rant

I just saw that this lady was hired and now she is gone http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/14/sanders_campaign_suspends_jewish_outreach_coordinator_for_facebook_rant.html

On Tuesday, Bernie Sanders announced the hiring of Simone Zimmerman, an outspoken critic of Israeli policy and its prime minister, as his campaign’s national Jewish outreach coordinator. The appointment was met with near instantaneous condemnation by the American Jewish establishment. By Thursday, the Sanders campaign announced it was suspending Zimmerman to investigate an exceptionally critical Facebook post from March 2015 attributed to her that characterized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as sanctioning mass murder. "F___k you, Bibi..." the post read.

Here’s more from the New York Times on the ideological divide that Zimmerman represents:

Ms. Zimmerman, who declined to comment, has been active in left-wing Jewish politics for years and came up in organizations such as J Street, but has also worked closely with Jewish synagogues in Los Angeles, and with young Jews on myriad trips to Israel. While the American Jewish establishment considers her and her allies radical, she and young Jewish activists argue that their disgust with the Netanyahu government’s policies is inching toward the mainstream.
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Sanders Campaign Suspends Jewish Outreach Head for Colorful Anti-Netanyahu Facebook Rant (Original Post) Gothmog Apr 2016 OP
Someone didn't do their homework. madaboutharry Apr 2016 #1
Economic inequality? No, just talk Iliyah Apr 2016 #3
With this debate tonight, Sanders definitely suspended Jewish outreach! yallerdawg Apr 2016 #2
And this is the man ... NanceGreggs Apr 2016 #4
sanders surrogates Susan Sarandon harasses Workers' Rights Activist, Delores Huerta, and calls her Cha Apr 2016 #6
Oh, there's PLENTY more ... NanceGreggs Apr 2016 #8
Well fortunately for our Country and the Planet... sanders and fans will never have to concern Cha Apr 2016 #9
oh my. Should we question his JUDGEMENT? Maru Kitteh Apr 2016 #5
I just did, Maru.. two posts up.. Cha Apr 2016 #7
Sanders knows he's kissing the Jewish vote badly Congruente Apr 2016 #10

madaboutharry

(40,153 posts)
1. Someone didn't do their homework.
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 12:15 AM
Apr 2016

Appointing her is a sign that issues outside of economic inequality are not given serious attention by the campaign.

NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
4. And this is the man ...
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 12:56 AM
Apr 2016

... who questions Hillary's "judgment".

Just to rattle off a few Bernie examples of Bernie's "judgment": he hired three staffers who later had to be fired for accessing HRC's computer data, he thought Cornell ("Obama is a Niggerized President&quot West would endear him to AAs, he didn't bother getting his previous tax returns in order despite knowing for a fact they would be asked for - and now this.

Cha

(295,926 posts)
6. sanders surrogates Susan Sarandon harasses Workers' Rights Activist, Delores Huerta, and calls her
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 03:11 AM
Apr 2016

a "liar".. Tim Robbins calls non BS fans Sheep and dismisses South Carolina as no more important than Guam.. they are both equally vital to our Country.'' Used poor judgment hooking up with these self-centered elitists.

Displayss poor "judgment" showing up to the NYDN interview unprepared.. "he didn't do his homework".. Shows further poor judgment believing a WaPo headline and that says Hillary says he's "unqualified to be POTUS".. Then calls her "Unqualified" .. gets so much fucking heat for it from President Obama to Twitterverse that he has to walk it back double time.

Tells The View when they ask him if he's going to see the Pope... "Yup".. wonder if they ever got to the bottom of that or are they just going to let his lie and poor judgment slide?

Says he's used the subway with a "token"... used poor judgment lying again. He got more Pinocchios than delegates last week.. for you guessed it .. Lying.

Whew.. we know there's more where that came from ...

Thank you, Nance~

NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
8. Oh, there's PLENTY more ...
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 03:15 AM
Apr 2016

... where that came from.

And yet his supporters are convinced that if the GOP actually went after BS, they wouldn't find a single negative thing to talk about.

Cha

(295,926 posts)
9. Well fortunately for our Country and the Planet... sanders and fans will never have to concern
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 03:27 AM
Apr 2016

themselves with that.

Oh right.. uber poor judgment in having Dr Paul Song introduce him @ the big rally in Washington Square .. where he insulted Women and Democrats equally by calling Hillary and those in Congress.. "Democratic "******s".. igniting a huge dustup, so much so that Song had to tweet a weak ass "apology".. And actually requiring BS, for the first time, to denounce one of his nasty, insulting surrogates.

 

Congruente

(41 posts)
10. Sanders knows he's kissing the Jewish vote badly
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 04:21 AM
Apr 2016

And he acts accordingly, throwing his people under the bus.

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