{"id":68482,"date":"2019-03-20T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68482"},"modified":"2019-03-12T11:34:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T09:34:54","slug":"20-00-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68482","title":{"rendered":"Report: Two Sanders\u2019s campaign advisers have anti-Israel record"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n<\/a>Report: Two Sanders\u2019s campaign advisers have anti-Israel record<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

JACKSON RICHMAN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019s campaign manager Faiz Shakir and foreign-policy adviser Matthew Duss have been accused of furthering anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during their tenure at the left-wing think-tank Center for American Progress.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matt Duss and Faiz Shakir, senior advisers on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign. Credit: Screenshot.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(March 10, 2019\u00a0\/\u00a0JNS)<\/span>\u00a0Soon after\u00a0declaring<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>his second run for president, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hired two senior advisers with anti-Israel backgrounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Campaign manager Faiz Shakir and foreign-policy adviser Matthew Duss have been accused of furthering anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during their tenure at the left-wing think-tank Center for American Progress (CAP),\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

They allegedly were part of CAP\u2019s 2012 anti-Semitic incident where several staffers at the center\u2019s\u00a0ThinkProgress<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0website, which Shakir served as editor-in-chief, were condemned for using anti-Semitic tropes of Jews dominating politics and money.<\/span><\/p>\n

The staffers alleged\u00a0\u201cpro-Israel Jews and members of Congress of being \u2018Israel firsters,\u2019 a term implying that those who support the Jewish state have dual loyalties,\u201d according to the\u00a0Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The row caused the firing and departure of several ThinkProgress writers.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, Duss was CAP\u2019s Middle East director, which has been known to be a stronghold for anti-Israel propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Duss faced backlash for\u00a0publicizing<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Nazi-era propaganda posters in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe scandal rocked CAP for several months and drew condemnation across the board, including from the Obama administration, which distanced itself from Duss, Shakir, and the rest of Think Progress\u2019s former staff,\u201d according to the\u00a0Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, Shakir, as the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s national political director, led the charge to\u00a0challenge anti-BDS legislation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,<\/strong><\/span> citing a violation of the First Amendment\u2014a notion that has been debunked by many, including the courts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCurrent law allows governments to not do business with people who boycott various groups including gays,\u201d Eugene Kontorovich, a legal expert with the\u00a0Kohelet Policy Forum and George Mason Law School, told JNS. \u201cBoycotting Israel is no different.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakir, Duss and the Sanders campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018A sad epoch in the American-Jewish experience\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnti-Semitism is becoming a major faction within the Democrat Party, as we have seen with Rep. Omar recently,\u201d Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak told JNS. \u201cThe fact that a leading presidential candidate like Bernie Sanders would employ two anti-Semites in senior roles on his presidential campaign is appalling. This is no coincidence. It\u2019s intentional.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is profoundly tragic that these two individuals with clear and definite histories of trucking in anti-Semitic rhetoric, even to the point of having been chastised for their ugly viewpoints have found a welcome home within Senator Sanders\u2019s presidential campaign,\u201d Sarah Stern, Endowment for Middle East Truth founder and president, told JNS. \u201cThis clearly demonstrates that within the progressive wing of the democratic party the taboo against anti-Semitism\u00a0has been eroded.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is deeply distressing that these two individuals, who even were censured in the past for their deeply anti-Semitic, Judeophobic and anti-Israel views, are taking\u00a0a leading role in a major presidential campaign,\u201d she continued. \u201cSenator Sanders\u2019s decision to elevate them to positions of prominence within his campaign sends a deeply troubling message.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stern added, \u201cWould he appoint anyone who had those sorts of blatant biases against blacks, Muslims, Hispanics or gays? Why has anti-Semitism become palatable, while other prejudices are not?\u00a0This signals that we have entered into a sad epoch in the American-Jewish experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican Jewish Coalition spokesperson Neil Strauss told JNS that the hires exemplifies a bigger issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe see this time and again with progressive Democrats, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are OK in their ranks,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is squarely the responsibility of the Democratic Party and Jewish Democratic groups to police this. America\u2019s Jews are watching, and so far, Democrats are failing them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe RJC believes Israel is strongest when both parties are pro-Israel, we pray that Democrats can get their house in order,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democratic Majority for Israel<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0declined to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn a climate of escalating Jew-hate, particularly coming from self-described progressives, it is especially alarming that Bernie Sanders would put in charge of his presidential campaign and foreign-policy portfolio two people so deeply at the heart of an anti-Semitism scandal and cancer that had to be cut out from the Center for American Progress for engaging in vile Jew-baiting, including attacking pro-Israel Democratic members of Congress as \u2018Likudniks\u2019 and American Jews as \u2018Israel firsters,\u2019 \u201d former Clinton aide Josh Block told JNS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether the hires mean anything to voters likely depends on their priorities, according to prominent electoral analyst Charlie Cook.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think candidates for their party\u2019s nomination run in one or more specific lanes or niches, at least in the early stages,\u201d he told JNS. \u201cThere are one or two segments of that party\u2019s electorate that they are focusing on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor the lane that Bernie Sanders is running in, having advisers who are considered anti-Israel is not the problem that it would be for many other Democrats who are running in different lanes,\u201d continued Cook. \u201cMost of the voters who would put support for Israel as an important factor in their decision-making aren\u2019t likely to be in Bernie\u2019s lane.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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