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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Hires Outspoken Critic of Occupation as Jewish Outreach Director
Simone Zimmerman, the Bernie Sanders campaigns newly hired national Jewish outreach coordinator , is quite familiar with the American Jewish establishment.
She is used to fighting against it.
During the 2014 Gaza war, Zimmerman was one of the leaders of a group of young Jews that held regular protest vigils outside the offices of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, reading the names of Palestinians and Israelis killed in the conflict.
She opposes Israels occupation, wants Hillel to allow participation by groups that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, is against Jewish federation funding for Israeli projects in the West Bank and wrote favorably of the efforts of Jewish Voice for Peace, a pro-BDS group, to get international corporations to stop profiting off human rights abuses. (The Anti-Defamation League has called JVP one of Americas top 10 anti-Israel groups.)
Were paying attention to whats happening in Israel and we are angry, Zimmerman said in a column on her fellow millennials in Israels daily Haaretz in February.
http://forward.com/news/338492/bernie-sanders-hires-outspoken-critic-of-occupation-as-jewish-outreach-dire/#ixzz45nVVauV4
She is used to fighting against it.
During the 2014 Gaza war, Zimmerman was one of the leaders of a group of young Jews that held regular protest vigils outside the offices of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, reading the names of Palestinians and Israelis killed in the conflict.
She opposes Israels occupation, wants Hillel to allow participation by groups that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, is against Jewish federation funding for Israeli projects in the West Bank and wrote favorably of the efforts of Jewish Voice for Peace, a pro-BDS group, to get international corporations to stop profiting off human rights abuses. (The Anti-Defamation League has called JVP one of Americas top 10 anti-Israel groups.)
Were paying attention to whats happening in Israel and we are angry, Zimmerman said in a column on her fellow millennials in Israels daily Haaretz in February.
http://forward.com/news/338492/bernie-sanders-hires-outspoken-critic-of-occupation-as-jewish-outreach-dire/#ixzz45nVVauV4
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Bernie Sanders Hires Outspoken Critic of Occupation as Jewish Outreach Director (Original Post)
oberliner
Apr 2016
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Bernie Could Not Have Made A Better Choice! The Continued Occupation/Settlement Bldg Is The Major
CorporatistNation
Apr 2016
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CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)1. Bernie Could Not Have Made A Better Choice! The Continued Occupation/Settlement Bldg Is The Major
issue for the ongoing violence. In contrast Hillary declares that meeting w/ Netanyahu in the WH ASAP is her plan.
MORE OF THE SAME... WHICH IN A WORD IS INTOLERABLE!
Bernie once again takes the objective and proper course.
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. Well....he's not leading from behind, I'll give him that!
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. Manny Goldstein of JackpineRadicals.org, the artist formerly known as MannyGoldstein of DU,
happened to do an OP at JPR very recently that seems to me like a perfect response to oberliner's OP. (He being the poster you remember, taking the title of his OP seriously would not be intelligent.)
http://jackpineradicals.org/showthread.php?8804-quot-Uh-I-think-Bernie-s-screwed-it-up-this-time-quot&p=51327#post51327
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)5. Why are we linking to a banned troll? nt
DanTex
(20,709 posts)6. Same reason as all the links to the Weekly Standard and Washington Times...
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)7. Any port in a storm, I guess. nt
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)8. SpamDan the ratfucker's spewage is posted here daily.
(Not Dantex in case this gets alerted on again, SpamDan is a banned troll who literally lives in his mom's basement. Thank you for serving)
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)9. Can you translate that? nt
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)4. Bernie sure has a lot of nerve...I'm impressed! n/t
oberliner
(58,724 posts)10. She has since been suspended
Ostensibly for posting "F-ck you, Bibi" on her FB page.