Bernie Sanders's Simone Zimmerman...Nudnik anti Zionist delux .... thank Ms. God ( why shouldn't she be a Woman) for Hillary

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A chronology of the systematic subversion of America’s next generation of Jewish leaders.
Simone Zimmerman, Bernie Sander’s national Jewish outreach coordinator, created quite a stir after her year-old profane rant against PM Netanyahu recently became public. This led to her suspension from the campaign two days later.

Her family and friends are baffled how Zimmerman, who grew up in a Zionist home, attended a Jewish day school (about 10 percent of her class serve in the IDF), spent summers in Israel with her youth movement, and seemed destined to become a stalwart of the pro-Israel community, became so virulently anti-Israel.

Zimmerman arrived at UC Berkeley in fall 2009 as a pro-Israel enthusiast, active with AIPAC, who felt her “duty going out into the world is to defend Israel.” However, during her first year Zimmerman changed dramatically.

She became a J Street campus leader, and eventually national president of J Street U.

After graduating, she helped found, and became a leader of, If NotNow, a J Street offshoot that focuses on disrupting Jewish organizations and aiming to “transform the Jewish community.”

At Berkeley, Zimmerman frequented Hillel, which presents itself as “home away from home.” There, she encountered Kesher Enoshi, a Hillel group presenting programs demonizing Israel and the IDF. Kesher Enoshi had been collaborating with Students for Justice in Palestine, a leading BDS campus group – on the Anti-Defamation League’s top 10 list of anti-Israel groups in America. The Hillel director, Rabbi Naftalin-Kelman, supported and promoted Kesher Enoshi.

Reviewing a sampling of the toxic IDF/Israel- bashing programs presented by Hillel and Kesher Enoshi illuminates the transformation Zimmerman, and numerous other students, underwent.

On September 16, 2009, Kesher Enoshi, in conjunction with Students for Justice in Palestine, organized a presentation by Shministim, Israeli draft-dodgers who defame the IDF and Israel. The Shministim US tour was organized by the BDS group Jewish Voice for Peace, also on the ADL top 10 list of anti-Israel groups in America. The Shmimistim urged divesting from Israel.

On October 7, 2009, Kesher Enoshi, along with Students for Justice in Palestine, the Muslim Student Association, Jewish Voice for Peace and other Israel BDS groups, sponsored a concert by a Palestinian hip-hop artist.

Some of the lyrics asserted that Israelis are terrorists and equated Israel with Nazi Germany.

On November 16, 2009, Hillel’s Kesher Enoshi hosted the New Israel Fund-funded Breaking the Silence, a fringe group that demonizes the IDF across the world, accusing it of human rights abuses. Hillel’s publicity, sent to all the Jewish students, said: “Through discussion we will expound about the idea of silence about human rights abuses and connect the war in Iraq to events in Israel and Palestine.”

The event was also publicized and promoted by Students for Justice in Palestine. Tom Pessah, Students for Justice in Palestine’s leader, who headed the divestment campaign at Berkeley, and Rabbi Naftalin-Kelman, the Hillel director, sat together at the event where students were divided into small groups, each with a facilitator from Students for Justice in Palestine or Hillel Kesher Enoshi leading the “discussion.”

The fact that Jewish students on campus are invited to Israel-bashing events by their Hillel (which controls the list of the Jewish students on campus including the Taglit- Birthright alumni) is highly significant. Hillel and its groups provide legitimacy and credibility to the Israel-bashing events.

Hillel’s Kesher Enoshi’s slanderous events, organized with BDS groups, laid the groundwork for the Berkeley Divestment Bill of 2010. The formerly pro-Israel Jewish students played a key role in it. Hillel’s Kesher Enoshi students actively advocated for the adoption of the anti-Israel divestment resolution before the Berkeley Student Senate. This influenced several independent senators to support the anti-Israel measure.

The divestment bill, passed 16 to 4, was subsequently vetoed by the Student Senate president. Although the veto was sustained by a single vote, the divestiture coalition succeeded in defining the terms of the debate while simultaneously advancing its narrative.

This snowballed into a BDS movement on campuses across North America delegitimizing Israel.

Even after the 2010 Divestment Bill at UC Berkeley, Hillel continued collaborating with BDS groups. On February 11, 2011, Hillel hosted the leaders of the Muslim Student Association – founded by the Muslim Brotherhood – for Shabbat dinner. In its rally in Berkeley, MSA shouted: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.”

On February 22, 2011, Hillel’s Kesher Enoshi and J Street U brought the founder of the New Israel Fund-funded Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement to speak at Hillel. The Jewish Agency describes the movement as “opposing the idea of Israel as a Jewish homeland and promoting an anti-Zionist agenda.”

The speaker, Assaf Sharon, demonized Israel, describing Jerusalem as the symbol of evil.

Pro-Israel students who protested the Israel- demonizing event were told by the Hillel head that it was within Hillel guidelines. It was not. Hillel guidelines forbid Israel-demonizing events.

Impressionable and susceptible Jewish students, such as Zimmerman, have been systematically indoctrinated at Hillel with messages dehumanizing Israel’s soldiers, portraying them as war criminals, and describing Israel as an “occupying, apartheid state” committing “crimes against humanity.”

Many students from pro-Israel homes, even those with Israeli parents, were coopted and alienated from Israel at Hillel. Many, like Eyal Mazor, became BDS leaders. After graduating, Mazor joined two BDS groups: Code Pink, which disrupted Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, and Jewish Voice for Peace, with Mazor as a key organizer, which disrupted Netanyahu’s speech before the General Assembly of Jewish Federations in New Orleans.

Gila Hashkes, the Israel Fellow (Jewish Agency emissary) at the Berkeley Hillel, who came from a national-religious home and was in the Bnei Akiva youth movement, provides a tragic example. She was also influenced when serving under the Berkeley Hillel director. After returning to Israel she went to Ramallah to console mothers of Palestinian terrorists killed by the IDF. Later she converted to Islam and married a Palestinian Muslim.

Pro-Israel students, concerned parents and community members protested to International Hillel leaders and the Berkeley Hillel director regarding the dire situation. They never received a reply.

Rather than condone such madness and clean house, the Hillel leadership and “leaders” such as Daniel Sokatch [now the president of the New Israel Fund, former CEO of the SF Jewish Federation (which funded the Rachel Corrie debacle, co-sponsored by BDS groups], covered up the situation at Hillel, and enabled it to continue.

After its exposure, Hillel’s Kesher Enoshi at Berkeley morphed into J Street U. Simone Zimmerman became its leader and later the J Street U national president. After graduating she helped found J Street’s IfNotNow.

The Berkeley Hillel director has been using his position and resources to promote and advance J Street’s agenda. Despite the Jewish Student Union at UC Berkeley’s democratic decision not to include J Street U, due to its Israel-demonizing events, the Hillel leader blatantly disregarded the students’ will and vote, and brought J Street into Hillel.

He has been funding it and its activities and subsidized sending Hillel students to attend the National J Street Conference in Washington.

Simone Zimmerman and many other students have been brainwashed and coopted.

They are victims subjected to a systematic and very effective indoctrination at the Campus Jewish Center presenting itself as “Home away from home.”

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The dire situation is metastasizing across America. And the consequences are grave.

For the sake iof Zion: 10,000 reasons why never to vote for Bernie Sanders

He is a long-serving US senator, who seeks the Democratic nomination for president and whose words influence the public and certainly his own supporters.

Democratic US presidential candidate and US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at the NBC News - YouTube Democratic presidential candidates debate. (photo credit:REUTERS)

As his white hair and demeanor let on, Bernie Sanders is no youngster or political novice.

He is a long-serving US senator, who seeks the Democratic nomination for president and whose words influence the public and certainly his own supporters.

But there are some who would write off his dangerous and shocking statements in that interview with the New York Daily News – in which he claimed among other things that Israel killed 10,000 innocent Palestinians in the summer of 2014. Sanders later said he’d merely made a mistake about the figure, that should be forgiven, as a mistake made by a child or an amateur would be.

The Anti-Defamation League, the primary Jewish organization which publicly demanded that Sanders issue a correction, appears to have taken this approach. It “welcomed” Sanders’ statement that he accepted the much lower number of deaths in Gaza mentioned by one of the Daily News interviewers later on in the interview.

The ADL’s attitude is essentially this: Sanders confused some numbers and then accepted he was wrong. It could happen to anyone.

It is true that much of the outrage focused on the grossly inaccurate “10,000” number Sanders gave for civilian deaths in Gaza. The ADL’s initial statement, for example, mentioned that Sander’s said Israel’s use of force was “disproportionate,” but was primarily dedicated to the highly exaggerated number of civilian deaths. David Horovitz’s attention-grabbing headline was, “Seven Times Worse than Hamas: Bernie Sanders by the Numbers,” and his article focused mostly on the claim of 10,000 killed.

Indeed, if it were just a question of getting a number right, then the indignation of Jewish organizations and Israeli politicians would be partially misplaced, as Jerusalem Post op-ed editor Seth Frantzman suggested in his recent column. It would also follow that having publicly accepted that 10,000 Palestinian civilians were not killed, those dedicated to countering the defamation of Israel should drop the matter, as the ADL has.

But Sanders’ did not just confuse numbers.

His accusation against Israel was more damning than any number could be. Sanders claimed that Israel indiscriminately killed 10,000 civilians.

“I think most international observers would say that the attacks against Gaza were indiscriminate,” Sanders said. With the technology available, “they could have been more discriminate in terms of taking out weapons that were threatening them,” he argued.

Then he gave the 10,000 number. Then he again said, “I do believe and I don’t think I’m alone in believing that Israel’s force was more indiscriminate than it should have been.”

So more than merely inflating the number of those killed by a factor of seven, Sanders essentially accused Israel of mass murder.

As to his numerical error, this too cannot be so easily written off.

Even considering how many have been slaughtered in Syria just next door, killing 10,000 people is no less of a slaughter, especially if done in the span of a few weeks, as Sanders believed.

What seems to have confused some people about whether Sanders is responsible for his statements were the myriad disclaimers Sanders tacked on to his many accusations to give himself cover, just like the politician he pretends not to be.

“My recollection is”; “Does that sound right?”; “I don’t have... [an exact] number but I think it’s over 10,000”; “My understanding is that a whole lot of apartment houses were leveled”; “Hospitals, I think, were bombed”; “So yeah, I do believe and I don’t think I’m alone in believing....”

But by going on record and repeating, exaggerating, and basing a political position on an accusation of wrongdoing, Sanders essentially endorsed that accusation, regardless of the disclaimers. If Sanders was as unsure as he made himself out to be, he ought not to have repeated such outrageous accusations at all.

At best Sanders readily accepted a claim that Israel committed mass murder. Had he any sympathy for Israel, the 10,000 number would not have left his mouth.

He might also have been aware that accusations like the one he repeated and embellished are constantly hurled at Israel to demonize it and would not have added to the anti-Semitic mob’s cry.

This was not just a misfired synapse or a lack of precise information. It was a presumption about who is terrorizing who in the conflict between democratic Israel and Palestinian terrorists.

This is not something that a little education can fix, as Sanders’ appointment of new Jewish outreach director, Simone Zimmerman, has confirmed. (In a recent op-ed in Haaretz, she wrote, “No public relations trick can save Israel’s image. The problem isn’t with the hasbara [public diplomacy]”). Sanders himself is no ignoramus. He’s a political veteran and like Zimmerman, an idealist with a definite world view. Israel just does not figure too highly in that world view.

In the Daily News interview, Sanders said he thought Israel should be recognized as a Jewish state.

But when asked why, he didn’t say, as even President Barack Obama has said, that the Jewish people need a state of their own or that Israel is their ancestral homeland.

Instead, Sanders replied, “that’s the status quo.”

The flip side of such reasoning being that if it were not the status quo, Sanders would not necessarily support the existence of a Jewish state.

Sanders’ answer to a bigoted question about “Zionist Jews” a few days later at the Apollo in Harlem, New York, seems to confirm this. Sanders responded that he was “proud to be Jewish,” but he added the proviso that “you’re not going to find any candidate running for president, for example, to talk about Zionism” – which is the rationale for the existence of a Jewish state in the land of Zion.

Sanders has also made clear how, as president, he would relate to Israel.

“[T]o the degree that they want us to have a positive relationship,” Sanders said of Israel in his discussion with the Daily News, “I think they’re going to have to improve their relationship with the Palestinians.”

According to Sanders, support for Israel should depend on how it gets along with the people who refuse to recognize its right to exist and constantly wage terrorism campaigns against it.

Under president Bernie Sanders all Palestinian terrorist groups will have to do to destroy Israel’s relationship with the United States is wage war on Israel, hide among their own civilian population to create a high level of civilian casualties and claim Israel is firing indiscriminately.

President Sanders will not doubt such claims and may even parrot them in a press conference. Palestinian spokesmen like Saeb Erekat won’t even have to falsify the casualty numbers. President Sanders might make up a number for them.

Believing, publicly repeating, exaggerating and essentially endorsing blood libels against Israel, as Bernie Sanders did and as he may do as president, is no mere error of arithmetic or memory to be quickly forgiven and forgotten.