Another Bernie Sanders Antisemitic Surrogate

Bernie never misses an opportunity to reinforce his worst failings.

Another Bernie Sanders Anti-Israel Surrogate

By: Petra Marquardt-Bigman, Algemeiner, February 25, 2020:

A recent article by controversial Bernie Sanders surrogate Amer Zahr has a somewhat misleading headline, which claims that Arab and Muslim Americans are voting for Sanders because he is Jewish. But as Zahr eventually explains, there is a very different reason: “In 2016, Palestinian and Arab American activists made a bet on Bernie. We urged his campaign to speak about justice for the Palestinians. We promised our support in return. He did it, and we delivered. And we are delivering again.”

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Of course, there is nothing wrong with all sorts of interest groups trying to persuade presidential candidates to promote their agenda in return for political support. But Sanders — or at least his staff — surely know full well what these kinds of “activists” mean when they demand “justice for the Palestinians,” because this is always a polite way to insist on the elimination of the world’s only Jewish state.

Amer Zahr himself is the best example. Less than four weeks ago, he tweeted: “One State in #Palestine. Democratic. Secular. Open. It’s the only way for #Justice and #Equality.”

That may not sound so bad, but all the sweet talk about “justice” and “equality” conceals a vicious hatred.

Zahr’s relentless demonization of the Jewish state and his antisemitic outbursts have already been documented — including tweets that echo the medieval blood-libel. But given that Zahr now says that activists like him first approached Sanders in 2016, one tweet from 2015 seems particularly interesting — because it suggests that Zahr and his ilk have always regarded Sanders as a staunch anti-Zionist.

As Zahr opined in October 2015:

So as far as Sanders surrogate Amer Zahr is concerned, the majority of Jews in the world, as well as many non-Jews who also support the existence of the Jewish state, are “scumbags,” “pigs,” and “bastards.” How is it possible that a supposedly progressive presidential candidate, who is doing very well in the polls, can ally himself with someone who promotes such dehumanizing language?

But Zahr’s bigotry almost pales beside his breathtaking hypocrisy. Zahr is, of course, an ardent advocate for the BDS movement that campaigns tirelessly to demonize Israel as a rogue state that must be shunned and boycotted.

However, you would be wrong to think that he practices what he preaches. When the popular US comedian Louis CK scheduled a show in Israel, Zahr took to Twitter to urge him to cancel — but Zahr himself is only too happy to perform his “comedic routines” in Israel. As he told The Jerusalem Post in an interview four years ago, he “comes to the Palestinian territories and Israel between one and three times annually” — though when he isn’t posing as a semi-reasonable and semi-funny comedian for the media, he tells his social media followers that he’s performing in Haifa in Palestine, and in the Palestinian capital Jerusalem.

To ratchet up the hypocrisy even more, Zahr — who likes to claim that his parents were Palestinian “refugees” who were “driven from their birthplaces of Yafa and Akka by Israel” — once stated in a publicly available exchange on Facebook that he has an Israeli passport because his mother “was born as an Israeli citizen in akka [presumably Akko/Acre] after 1948.” This allowed Zahr, who was born in Jordan, to apply for Israeli citizenship — which he obviously did successfully. Of course, this also means that his Israeli mother is not a “refugee” who was “driven” out by Israel.

As bizarre as it may seem, Bernie Sanders thus has an Israeli surrogate who despises “defenders of Israel” as “scumbags,” “pigs,” and “bastards.” And while the mainstream media apparently prefer to ignore this story, those of us who care about antisemitism have every reason to conclude that Amer Zahr’s shocking record of amply documented bigotry is yet another alarming indication that progressives have a high tolerance for contemporary versions of the oldest hatred.

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VMS

4 years ago

It’s a good thing that Bernie has a ZERO chance of being elected, and he probably won’t be around for the 2024 presidential election. In any event, Israel will be there No matter who is elected as US president, but I’ll admit that a Trump or a GW Bush in the White House will be better for Israel and the world, including the Palestinians.

The Israeli Arabs know which side butters thei bread. Recently, Israeli Arabs living on land that the Palestinians claim, rejected the opportunity to live under Abbas’s rule in favor of the status quo. Now they prosper. Under Palestinian rule they will be relegated to a decrease in their economic positions and their present autonomy.

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TomSJr

4 years ago

Reply to  VMS

NO BUSH ever again. HE GAVE US THE PATRIOT ACT, which is in direct violation of our Constitutional rights and liberties and for what? WE ARE NO SAFER NOW THAN WE WERE IN 2001. Yet, he thought that it would be okay if all Americans traded in their rights for a little bit of security. WHAT A BIG LIE OF SATAN.

GEORGE W BUSH is and was a hypocrite. GOD WAS NOT VERY HAPPY WITH HIM AND STILL ISN’T.

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Halal Bacon

4 years ago

why didn’t he have his heart surgery in mother russia?

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ed

4 years ago

Reply to  Halal Bacon

The Cubans rejected his health care plan.

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MAS

4 years ago

Hypocrite,
thy name is leftist…

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TomSJr

4 years ago

Well, GOD BEGS TO DIFFER WITH YOU PALESTINIAN MUSLIMS, Democrats, and liberals, and atheists. And since GOD created you as NOT THE INHERITORS OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL, I guess you will just have to keep siding with SATAN.

GOD GAVE ISRAEL TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
GOD WILL SAVE ISRAEL. THAT IS THE COVENANT GOD MADE WITH THEM.
So, start all these little fires you want, Muslims. YOU ARE AND WILL LOSE ANYWAY.

ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEWS AND THE JEWS ARE GOD’S PEOPLE and he could be yours if you would relinquish your devotion to Satan and follow the real God of the Universe. HIS NAME IS WONDERFUL, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God who will throw Satan/Allah in Hell, very soon.

MARANATHA!

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Rusty

4 years ago

Reply to  TomSJr

Read Robert Spencer’s book “The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process.” I few years ago I happened to hear an interview with an international attorney. He added to the facts of Israel’s existence. God gave the land to the Jewish people and they do not YET occupy all that was given to them, Aside from the Bible fact, the attorney I mentioned said that at the founding of modern Israel it was done by international agreement. It wasn’t just a couple of nations. Though there was a diaspora there has been a continuous Jewish presence right up to today. Those that would deny the Jewish people their homeland do it at their peril. They should commit to memory Genesis12:2-3. Am I saying all Jewish people are good? NO, but like any people there are some bad one, but it was John Adams, who said, “The Hebrews have done more to civilize the world than any other people.” Where the Judeo/Christian principles are embraced look at the results. Where they are not look at the results. One nation that will suffer for not paying attention is Germany. It will cease to exist

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patd

4 years ago

Tell me now who gives a crap what the moronic parasitic feral animal yard ape muslim has to say???? Nobody with a functioning brain cell as the muslims are all criminal parasites!!! Send them all to their 72 virgin goats.

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patd

4 years ago

Tell me now who gives a crap what the moronic parasitic feral animal yard ape muslim has to say???? Nobody with a functioning brain cell as the muslims are all criminal parasites!!! Send them all to their 72 virgin goats.

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VTS

4 years ago

Isn’t it ironic that Sander’s initials are B.S.?

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