Bernie's anti-Zionist appointees

Sanders vs the America-Israel alliance

Professor Cornel West not only has called the Israeli prime minister a war criminal but openly supports the BDS movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions), the most important attempt in the world to ostracize and delegitimize Israel.

West is joined on the committee by the longtime pro-Palestinian activist James Zogby. 

Together, reported The New York Times, they “vowed to upend what they see as the party’s lopsided support of Israel.”

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West doesn’t even pretend, as do some left-wing “peace” groups, to be opposing Israeli policy in order to save it from itself. 

He makes the simpler case that occupation is unconscionable oppression and that until Israel abandons it, Israel deserves to be treated like apartheid South Africa — anathematized, cut off, made to bleed morally and economically. 

The Sanders appointees wish to bend the Democratic platform to encourage such diminishment unless Israel redeems itself by liberating Palestine.

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Israel is now being asked — pressured — to repeat that same disaster on the West Bank. 

That would bring the terror war, quite fatally, to the very heart of Israel — Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ben Gurion Airport. 

Israel is now excoriated for declining that invitation to national suicide.

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It is ironic that the most successful Jewish presidential candidate ever should be pushing the anti-Israel case. 

But perhaps not surprising considering Sanders’ ideological roots. 

He is old left — not the post-1960s, countercultural New Left. 

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For the old left, Israel was simply an outpost of Western imperialism, Middle East division. 

To this day, the leftist consensus, most powerful in Europe (which remains Sanders’ ideological lodestar), holds that Israeli perfidy demands purification by Western chastisement.