# No, the Left is not anti-Semitic (Good grief!)

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**Created:** [August 3, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-left-is-not-anti-semitic-good-grief/726847 "2015-08-03T03:16:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-left-is-not-anti-semitic-good-grief/726847/2 "2015-08-03T03:18:07Z")

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> [@Tell me again why Bernie Sanders isn't electable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-again-why-bernie-sanders-isnt-electable/722014/148):
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> Yeah, could those of you who want to turn this into the 1000th Straight Dope thread on pernicious anti-Semitism please start a separate thread?

No, of course not. How else could we remind people that Bernie Sanders is a filthy, filthy Jew (not that \*we \*hate the Jewish people, no!) whose true loyalty is to the Zionist entity (although he denies it, & it’s _racist_ to even bring it up). :rolleyes:

I’m bemused that it’s apparently anti-Semitic to suggest that someone who lived in Israel might have Israeli citizenship.

> [@Tell me again why Bernie Sanders isn't electable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-again-why-bernie-sanders-isnt-electable/722014/120):
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> She should have apologized immediately once Sanders corrected her. “Immediately” meaning the next words out of her mouth, not “But you’re on some random list somewhere that must be accurate!”.
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> And the anti-Semitism in the statement seems pretty clear to me. The implication of “You’re an Israeli citizen…” is “…and you are therefore on the side of the Evil Jews”. There’s a reason that the list-maker only included politicians they don’t like, and why they picked Israel as the nation to have the dual citizenship.

[sarcasm] So you admit that Israelis are by definition evil, and to have Israeli citizenship would make one an enemy of mankind. And–Josh Marshall backs this up–that this is not only your opinion, but that of all informed persons, and necessarily both Mrs Rehm’s intention and Mr Sanders’s interpretation. So the fact that she didn’t immediately apologize for this _horrible insult_ to Bernie Sanders makes her an enemy of all the good non-Israeli Jews [look, I don’t entirely understand this train of thought] in America.

Good, glad we are clear on that. When do we bomb Tel Aviv? [/sarcasm]

It is possible that someone just assumed that someone who lived on a kibbutz back in the day had Israeli citizenship.

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