Sanders avoids radical-left use of 'apartheid slur' contributing to racist bloody attacks

Submitted by Gina (United States), May 23, 2021 at 21:37

5/23: Sanders, Gates, Honoré

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J. Dickerson
Let me ask you how this is played out at here at home, the ADL says, there were a 193 reports of anti-Semitic incidents this week, up from a 131 previous week, so that's during the period while the crisis began...

B. Sanders:

Anti-Semitism is rising in America, it is rising all over the world. We have to combat anti-Semitism. We have to combat the increase in hate crimes in this country, against Asians, against African-Americans, and against Latinos, so we have a serious problem of a nation which is being increasingly divided, being led by right wing extremists..

J. Dickerson:

There are a number of liberals who use the the word "apartheid".. a number of liberals in the house used that language.

The executive director of the American Jewish Congress, who handled Jewish outreach for your campaign, Joel Rubin has said that the use of that language has increased the level of vitriol that has contributed to this Anti Semitism...

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