# Too bad Sanders is jewish

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-sanders-is-jewish/734507>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 13, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-sanders-is-jewish/734507 "2015-10-13T02:08:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-sanders-is-jewish/734507/61 "2015-10-21T03:30:02Z")

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> [@Monty](#):
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> How many of those selves are Jewish?

Legion.

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**Author:** ![tooldtocare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@tooldtocare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tooldtocare)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-sanders-is-jewish/734507/62 "2015-10-24T02:29:40Z")

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> [@Scandic](#):
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> Bernie Sanders have a Jewish background and consider him selves to be jewish. ,.,.,…,.,.,.,.,…,…

As a bystander what is the difference between an Israelite and being a Jew? Are they no one and the same-?

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**Author:** ![tooldtocare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@tooldtocare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tooldtocare)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-sanders-is-jewish/734507/63 "2015-10-24T02:50:52Z")

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**There is a third, “Israel” in the here and now**

{1}.,.,.,.,.,.,[_Jew_]  
{2}.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,…,[_Israelite_]  
{3}.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,[_Israeli_]

Then we have “Americans”;Citizens of this great Nation

And the question of whether a fellow American is Jewish or not. Frankly it is none of my business whether this stranger is Jewish or not.

weather Who are Jewish toooo?

And God said unto him, _Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name **Israel**._

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**Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-sanders-is-jewish/734507/64 "2015-10-24T11:21:27Z")

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> [@tooldtocare](#):
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> **There is a third, “Israel” in the here and now**
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> {1}.,.,.,.,.,.,[_Jew_]  
> {2}.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,…,[_Israelite_]  
> {3}.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,[_Israeli_]
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> Then we have “Americans”;Citizens of this great Nation
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> And the question of whether a fellow American is Jewish or not. Frankly it is none of my business whether this stranger is Jewish or not.
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> weather Who are Jewish toooo?
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> And God said unto him, _Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name **Israel**._

Say what now?

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-sanders-is-jewish/734507/65 "2015-10-24T17:14:43Z")

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I think he’s using an idiosyncratic form of logic (which differs from our Earth logic) to try to prove that all Jews are actually Israelis.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-sanders-is-jewish/734507/66 "2015-10-25T15:44:49Z")

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Wait till he finds out that Bernie Sanders intends to choose Jerry Springer as his running mate.

\*actually this might be the perfect way to counteract Trump’s pull with the reality TV crowd (and unlike Trump, Springer has actually held office).

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**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-sanders-is-jewish/734507/67 "2015-10-25T16:19:18Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> ‘They tell me Bernie Sanders can’t win because America won’t vote for a socialist Jew. I tell them America celebrates a socialist Jew every December 25th.’

Santa is Jewish?

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