Bernie Sanders' attacks on the Jewish State helped lose him New York. And now even liberal Jewish groups are getting tired of his constant nasty attacks, particularly his seeming attempts to associate problems in Israel with problems in the black community in the US, a particularly ugly debate tactic being promoted by Islamic groups and the far left. They have had it with Bernie Sanders.
A major Jewish advocacy organization on Monday blasted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for saying parts of Baltimore and the West Bank have comparable suffering.
“What do the serious issues Baltimore’s leadership and population are confronting have to do with Palestinian life in the West Bank?” American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris asked in a statement.
“Inserting the Israel-Palestinian conflict into unrelated American political discourse serves only one purpose — to encourage those who are narrowly focused on assailing Israel for any shortcomings, failings by the Palestinian Authority.”
Harris on Monday said that Sanders inaccurately described the West Bank’s standard of living last weekend.
“According to CIA statistics, infant mortality in the West Bank, at 13.08 deaths per 1,000 live births, actually compares favorably to most of the developing world,” he said.
“Turkey’s rate is 18.87, Brazil’s is 18.60 and Iran’s is 38.04,” Harris added. "The U.S. infant mortality rate, at 5.87, is far from where it should be, behind the United Kingdom, at 4.38, Australia at 4.37, France at 3.28 and Israel at 3.55.
The AJC and David Harris are hardly right-wing. You expect combative criticism like this from the ZOA, not the AJC. It really says something that the AJC felt it had to say it. And the hateful harassment of Jewish charities and organizations by If Not Now, the anti-Israel hate group associated with Simone Zimmerman, formerly Bernie's head of Jewish outreach certainly plays into it. The radical left is letting its anti-Semitism out to play. It's engaging in a campaign against the Jewish community. And even its more liberal elements are beginning to push back against the smears and the hate from Team Sanders.