2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat Red-baiting Jew-hater Calls Sanders a 'non-Jewish Jew and a
non American American'?
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During February and March of this year, the big question was Bernie's Jewishness. Was he Jewish enough? Too Jewish? Tremendous effort was put into tracking down the determinedly nameless kibbutz at the very bottom of his CV. Today, the tone of Bernie think pieces has changed (for the most part) to more measured appraisals of his candidacy: How has Bernies campaign changed the Democratic party? Will we see a continued movement or has the radical flame Berned out?
But in one corner of the Jewish blogosphere, it seems, Bernie the Jew is still a hot topic. On June 7, the ultra-conservative National Review magazine published a piece called "Bernie Sanders, the Non-Jewish Jew and Non-American American" by Dennis Prager. The tone was hardly elegiac; indeed Pragers boiling anti-Bernie rant prompted the Forwards Helen Chernikoff to tweet a comparison of Prager to Austrian mayor Karl Lueger, inspirer of Adolf Hitler and practiser of strategic anti-Semitism. It was Lueger who famously pronounced, I decide who is a Jew.
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Prager goes on to link Bernie to a list of the far-rights favorite bogeymen: Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Noam Chomsky and George Soros. Add Saul Alinsky and youve got the whole set. Far beyond dog whistling, this is a klaxon to Jew-haters on the Right, no code needed. They were (or are) all radicals, were born to Jewish parents, had (or have) no Jewish identity, and do harm to both Jews and non-Jews. Internationalist, rootless: non-Jewish Jews are far more likely to work to weaken Christianity in American than Jewish Jews
The only thing Prager leaves out is the part about using their blood for matza.
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I'm sorry to say that this reminds me of too many posts right here at DU.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)He never fails to be the biggest putz in the room.
--imm
randome
(34,845 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
QC
(26,371 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)By embracing Trump he embraces everything we are taught to eschew from the crib.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Gothmog
(145,264 posts)The man is a nut case
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Gothmog
(145,264 posts)I have seen some a number of really crazy post from Prager and Michael Savage over the years. While both Jewish, both Prager and Savage are idiots
JI7
(89,250 posts)Gothmog
(145,264 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)It was astonishing to see actual red-baiting make such a comeback.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)and that, my friend, is saying something.
Now it's over, and we can all unify. Hooray.
But the stink of the crap some people here have been gladly wallowing in isn't gonna wash off any time soon, if ever.
Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)Perhaps, but one thing is for sure, my memory isn't short. And you are right about the stench, no amount of water is going to wash it away.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Sexist, pompous, bigoted and retrograde. The worst of the bad shelf that is right wing radio.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I'm unsure whether Prager gets his material from du or vice versa.
TheSarcastinator
(854 posts)Demsrule86
(68,576 posts)Bernie who?