The Vermont senator’s embrace of Linda Sarsour shows that the Left’s problem with Jew-haters isn’t going away.
Earlier this year, many liberals faced up to the problem of left-wing anti-Semitism. Despite the widespread sympathy generated by the Women’s March, the group that had organized the first and largest “resistance†protests against Donald Trump, the Democratic National Committee and other leading liberal groups and individuals disavowed the organization prior to planned January marches, because its leadership had become compromised by accusations of anti-Semitism. The March splintered in two, because its problem with Jews was too important to ignore even for those who shared its goal of creating one big tent of leftist and liberal Trump critics.
Nine months later, many on the left seem to have forgotten the lessons of that moment. Senator Bernie Sanders’s announced last week that Palestinian-American activist and Women’s March co-chair Linda Sarsour would be joining his presidential campaign as an official surrogate. Sanders is in a fierce competition with Senator Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats for the votes of the party’s left-wing base, which united behind him in opposition to Hillary Clinton four years ago. So it says something important about the tone of the nomination battle that Sanders and his team think Sarsour will help them more than her baggage will hurt them.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/linda-sarsour-bernie-sanders-lefts-anti-semitism-problem/
