{"id":7384,"date":"2020-02-18T12:11:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:14:15","slug":"why-is-bernie-sanders-touting-his-jewishness-when-he-doesnt-even-practice-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=7384","title":{"rendered":"Why is Bernie Sanders all of a sudden touting his Jewishness when he doesn’t even practice Judaism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Sanders Ad Touts Him As \u2018First Jewish President\u2019<\/h1>\n

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Scott Eisen \/ Getty<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

JOEL B. POLLAK
\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n

LAS VEGAS, Nevada \u2014 A new video ad released Sunday by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) touts him as the potential \u201cfirst Jewish American president.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 2016 campaign, Sanders downplayed his Jewish origins, with an ad that\u00a0referred<\/a>\u00a0to him as the \u201cson of a Polish immigrant who grew up in a Brooklyn tenement.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in 2020, amidst claims that has has aligned himself with left-wing antisemites and has an anti-Israel foreign policy, is he is trying a different tack.<\/p>\n

The new Internet ad, \u201cBernie Would Be the First Jewish President,\u201d runs for over two minutes.<\/p>\n

It begins with teen climate activist Jamie Margolin\u00a0declaring<\/a>: \u201cIf Bernie Sanders was elected, he would be our first Jewish American president. As a Jewish American, that would be a huge step forward in this country and blowback against the rise of antisemitism in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video then shows Sanders lighting a Chanukah menorah, and later shows footage of neo-Nazis chanting in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.<\/p>\n

Margolin says it would be \u201cso satisfying\u201d to have \u201ca Jew literally replace them,\u201d implying that President Donald Trump is among the neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n