Former aide to Bernie Sanders warns of growing Jew-hatred on the left
A longtime progressive Democratic activist and former Jewish outreach director for the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) warned that his party is at “a crisis moment.”Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state, said that progressive Democrats are imposing a litmus test on Jewish Americans: “Oppose Israel, and you’re in. Support Israel, and you’re out.”“They are being told that to be a full participant as a Jewish person, you must drop your support for Israel,” Rubin told JNS. “They are being told that Israel is a foreign country, and that Jews should just drop it if they want to still participate.”“That is inherently antisemitic,” he said.Rubin told JNS that Sanders, who is Jewish, and his allies have “shaped a political environment that’s deeply hostile to any Jewish person who cares about the State of Israel.”“He’s going where the wind blows, and the progressive base wants to…
Joel Rubin, a former aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders and a longtime progressive Democratic activist, has warned of growing antisemitism within the Democratic Party, stating it is at "a crisis moment." Rubin claims that progressive Democrats are imposing a litmus test on Jewish Americans, demanding they "Oppose Israel, and you’re in. Support Israel, and you’re out." He argues that this stance, which suggests Jews must abandon support for Israel to participate fully, is "inherently antisemitic." Rubin, who also served as a deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state, believes Sanders and his allies have fostered a political environment deeply hostile to Jewish people who care about Israel. He emphasized the need for pro-Israel Jews to fight back to preserve the Democratic Party as a broad and tolerant political home, warning that a smaller party would fail to protect key rights and would ultimately lose elections.
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