Bernie Sanders: Being Jewish 'Impacted Me Profoundly'

[Melech 9,900]

"Asked whether his Jewish identity would be “a help or a hindrance” as he runs for president, Bernie Sanders said that his Jewishness is one of the two main factors that shaped his outlook.

The Vermont senator, appearing on a CNN town hall for Democratic presidential candidates broadcast Thursday from New Hampshire, was asked by a local woman about his Jewish identity.

“It impacts me very profoundly,” he said. “When I try to think about the views that I came to hold there are two factors. One I grew up in a family that didn’t have a lot of money … and the second one is being Jewish.”

Sanders recalled as a child reading “big picture books of World War II” and “tears would roll down my cheeks” when he saw what happened to Jews.

“At a very early age, even before my political thoughts were developed, I was aware of the horrible things that human beings can do to other people in the name of racism or white nationalism, or in this case Nazism,” said Sanders, who also recalled seeing Holocaust survivors in his Brooklyn neighborhood with numbers tattooed on their arms, and a recent visit to his father’s hometown in Poland, where locals took him and his brother to a site where Nazis committed a mass murder of Jews.

Much of Sanders’ extended family perished in the Holocaust."

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/bernie-sanders-being-jewish-impacted-me-profoundly-1.8505045

 

 

[Meruk Holland 2,358]

I'm not surprised. I've listened to a lot of Lewis Black's stand up and (audio)books, and he talks quite a bit about the fact that being a Jew does really change the way you look at things, including American society. Lewis even says he knows that America is a Christian country, and he knows it because he's a Jew.

So it's not at all surprising that Bernie being Jewish would have a profound impact on him.

[Guest]

43 minutes ago, Melech said:

Much of Sanders’ extended family perished in the Holocaust."

That's so sad...