While Ted Cruz, Kasich and Trump met with Jews in New York City, Bernie Sanders instead decided to fly a luxurious chartered jet for some face time with Pope Francis. There Bernie Sanders decided to pal around with notorious leftist thug Evo Morales.
Bolivian President Evo Morales opened a new Twitter account today, and celebrated his meeting with U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
"The anti-capitalist stance of U.S. Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders impressed me," Morales' tweet begins. "I recommended that he take of himself," the tweet concluded, presumably alluding to the threatening forces of capitalist imperialism headquartered on Wall Street, Sanders' frequent target in speeches.
Evo Morales is the next best thing to Hugo Chavez, now that the latter is dead. But there's a more specifically Jewish angle to the story.
After a dynamite attack against the Jewish cemetery in La Paz the American Jewish Committee (AJC) on Thursday called on Bolivian President Evo Morales “to urgently take concrete measures to counter the rise in anti-Semitism, some of it violent,” against the country’s roughly 350-member Jewish community.
Morales, a staunch leftist, came into power in the country of nine million in 2005, and has, since then, developed close ties with Iran, cutting diplomatic ties with Israel in January 2009.
In the capital, La Paz, “President Morales’ hostility towards Israel has encouraged regular attacks against the country’s Jewish population in the media and violent attacks on Jewish institutions,” said Dina Siegel Vann, AJC Director of Latino and Latin American Affairs.
Less than 200 Jews remain in the capital, down from 12,000 to 15,000 Jews in the 1950s, according to community officials.
In April and July, the synagogue in Cochabamba in Central Bolivia was attacked by firebomb and rock-wielding assailants.
“Since Evo was elected there’s been a radical change,” Udler told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency earlier this year, warning that “Things could get worse for Jews in Bolivia.”
This doesn't bother Bernie in the least. Because despite the accent, Bernie Sanders has zero empathy for Jews. Instead, like many leftists of Jewish ethnic origin, he has an antipathy for Jews.
Bernie Sanders constantly accuses Republicans of stirring up Islamophobia. Yet he has no problem palling around with leftist leaders who encourage anti-Semitism.
Evo Morales called Israel a "terrorist state" while describing Iran as a "strategic ally". Here's Morales palling around with Ahmadinejad.
That puts Bernie Sanders one degree of separation from Ahmadinejad. And instead of meeting with Jewish leaders, this is what Bernie Sanders chose to do with his time.