Bernie Sanders keeps attacking Israel. So apparently his last resort is to make a play for the Neturei Karta vote.
This flyer put out either by his campaign or some group supporting it is very ugly. It's a deliberately divisive attempt to microtarget groups within the Jewish Chassidic community. It seeks to rile up Chassidim against "Haredim" and "Zionists" while urging them to vote for Bernie Sanders.
It's ridiculously hypocritical coming from a campaign that claims to hate "divisive politics". This is about as divisive as anything gets. It's also nasty and vile.
The leaflet attacks Israel. It concludes with this. "A vote for Sanders is a vote to defeat the Zionists".
Some of the flyers even employ the Hebrew curse “may the name of the wicked rot” in regards to Israel’s Prime Minister.
That's probably the only true statement to come out of this campaign.
Bernie Sanders should disavow this is he has a microgram of decency. But he won't. It took days of outrage to get him to suspend Simone Zimmerman, his pet BDS activist. This was supposedly created by Hasidim for Bernie, but the Yiddish seems rather poor and the repeated use of "extreme right wing" in English strongly suggests this was put together by some leftist with basic Yiddish skills.
These flyers are blatantly anti-Israel. @BernieSanders needs to immediately denounce them cc: @jacobkornbluhhttps://t.co/x4wtR3NtC0
— David G. Greenfield (@NYCGreenfield) April 18, 2016
I read Yiddish. Yes it's anti Bibi but it's also a very clearly anti-Israel piece. Why do many Israel haters support Bernie? @jewsforbernie
— David G. Greenfield (@NYCGreenfield) April 18, 2016
Here's a fact that I challenge any @BernieSanders supporter to refute: the most rabid anti-Israel supporters support @BernieSanders for Pres
— David G. Greenfield (@NYCGreenfield) April 18, 2016
Simple question for pro-Israel voters considering Sanders: do u want his rabid anti-Israel supporters in policy making roles in White House?
— David G. Greenfield (@NYCGreenfield) April 18, 2016