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Sen. Bernie Sanders Targeted by Protesters in Ireland and Britain
(Newsweek) Brendan O'Neill - Sen. Bernie Sanders was met by angry protesters in Ireland and Britain, who heckled and damned him as a sellout because he refuses to describe Israel's war on Hamas as a "genocide" and he doesn't approve of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel. He now says there should be a ceasefire, but that is not good enough for these people, who seem to measure an individual's moral worth by how much he hates the Jewish state. They want Bernie to damn Israel as uniquely barbarous. They want him to agree with them that it is right and proper to single Israel out for boycotts and sanctions. In short, they want him to bend the knee to their Israelophobic ideology. In a media interview, he was asked three times if he would call Israel's war on Hamas a "genocide." He refused and it went viral. Armies of erstwhile Bernie fans damned him as a "genocide denier." There is something quite nauseating in this spectacle of an elderly Jewish man being pressured to denounce the world's only Jewish state as genocidal. Sen. Sanders, who lost family in the Holocaust, clearly has a deeper moral and historical understanding of what genocide is. And he is not willing to sacrifice that understanding for an easy ride. Good for him.