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March 5, 2020

How Bernie Sanders’s Impoverished View of Judaism Has Desensitized Him to Anti-Semitism

No Jewish life, only Jewish death.

Asked in a recent interview about his personal connection to Judaism, Senator Bernie Sanders spoke movingly about the deaths of family members in the Shoah, his contact with Holocaust survivors as a child, and a visit with his family to the shtetl where his ancestors had lived. He concluded, “I learned at a very early age what, if you like, white nationalism—which is what Nazism is in the extreme—is about, [and] that it is absolutely imperative . . . that all of us do everything we can to stop racism and white nationalism.”

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