By Peter Fernandez
It’s easy to understand why Bernie Sanders hates America. The Vermont senator believes the American Constitution is a superstitious, outdated relic, a repressive and racist political manifesto penned by the Bourgeoisie (white Christian slave owners wearing powdered wigs) who ruled over the enslaved masses, the Proletariat.
But configuring the reasons why the surly Sanders hates the tiny Jewish nation, roughly the size of New Jersey, is not an academic exercise in regional politics but in the study of human psychopathology. In May of 1985, the then Mayor of Burlington called upon his far-left comrade, Noam Chomsky, the MIT linguistics professor who has masqueraded for over fifty years as an “expert” in Israel/ Palestine matters. Chomsky, also Jewish, has amassed a huge following, and his ethnic/religious background is highlighted as some ironic professional licensure.
At that Burlington Town Hall meeting, Chomsky accused Israel of being the “surrogate” assassin for the US and carrying out mass killings in “Africa, Asia, and primarily Latin America.” He also accused the Jewish state of killing “thousands, if not tens of thousands of people” in Nicaragua. Bernie Sanders, Self-Hating Jew, Blasts Israeli ‘Occupation’ | The Daily Wire Both men, according to Michael Laitman, are uncomfortable with their Jewishness. For the myriad reasons laid out by the writer, they need to criticize Israel with extreme prejudice. “Why Bernie Sanders hates Israel” (Michael Laitman, Trump and the Diaspora’s coming Holocaust) – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
“Even in the days when we were called ‘Hebrews,’” writes Laitman, “we lived by different moral and social codes. While the rest of the nations lived by the sword, the ancient Hebrews exercised brotherly love and attempted to love their neighbors as themselves. And while the world nurtured individualism, the Hebrews fostered selflessness.” The Torah, or the Pentateuch, was entrusted to the ancient Hebrews as they alone were chosen for the arduous and awesome responsibility of being the Oracles of G-d.
Laitman also writes, “Soon after the ruin of the Temple, anti-Semitism in its more contemporary form of blood-libels, conspiracy theories, and accusations of disloyalty, began to dominate the nations’ attitude toward the Jews. At best, the aristocracy tolerated them for their economic and financial acuity. At worst, they were murdered and driven away.”
According to Laitman, the Jews were unable “to live up to the tenet they themselves had engendered… became as selfish as their host nations, and a great many of them could not understand why they should maintain loyalty to their religion.” And, so, the assimilated became Israel’s fiercest enemies, “holding profound rancor toward their kindred…but this profound self-loathing is not unique; it is also very dangerous.”
In a November 20th article for Media Matters For America, Mark Levin, the popular Fox News commentator, stated, “If you’re a Marxist, you cannot be a practicing Jew or a practicing Christian or a practicing anything. Because…Marxism, by definition, rejects faith, rejects God, rejects different points of view.” Marxism embraces chaos, revolution, and mass murder. Evaluating further the self-loathing of Chomsky and Sanders, Levin states, “And they’re Jewish by birth, but they’re not Jewish in any other way.”
On June 6, 2017, Sanders sent a video message to the Israeli Meretz party, a puny, far-left group holding five seats in the 120-seat Knesset, acknowledging the end of the Six-Day War in 1967 and “50 years of occupation. We are now in the 50th year of Israel’s occupation, an occupation which denies basic Palestinian rights while failing to deliver Israel real security…this occupation must end. Peace, real peace, means supporting self-determination, civil rights and economic well-being for both parties.” zzzzzz. How this wolf doth huff and puff lofty but listless leftist platitudes.
Jackie Mason, the late, great Tony and Emmy Award-winning comic, said this about Sanders, “If a non-Jew was saying it, people would call him an anti-Semite because he is an anti-Semite. Just because he is a Jew doesn’t mean he can’t hate being Jewish because he obviously is a self-hating Jew.”
Jon Lovitz, the comedian, and Alan Dershowitz, the high-profile lawyer, also consider Sanders a conflicted public figure: “Inadvertently you get the social media (from Bernie) supporting Hamas, the New York Times supporting Hamas,” writes Dershowitz, “and it sends a very powerful message: ‘Do it again,” he said. “You’ll prevail on this because of the antisemitism that stimulates so much of this. And you can be a Jew and an anti-Semite.” Lovitz wonders how a socialist like Bernie can own three homes on his $175,000 congressional salary. Jon Lovitz goes after Bernie Sanders, Dem Squad over opposition to Israel | Fox News
Placing ethnic self-hate into context, one can see that it wasn’t just Communist-American politicians who suffered from this issue. During the early 20th Century, it was common for immigrants of Italian, Polish, Czech, Greek, Jewish, Spanish, Arabic, etc., to sometimes change their names to Anglo-Saxon/American-sounding surnames, but this was not usually done out of “self-hate.” It was about assimilation, economics, employment, and survival. However, Bernie is in a position of immense power, and he has been unduly antagonistic to the Judeo-Christian traditions and values of the United States and Israel. With that in mind, Sanders seems to have something in common with Adolph Schiklegrubber, who changed his last name to Hitler. Bernie Sanders is a dangerously influential man in a dark and deranged administration.