In my latest at PJ Media, I discuss Bernie Sanders’ latest statement on behalf of the Muslim victimhood scam:
Are Muslims in the U.S. really a victimized class whose very lives are in danger? Bernie Sanders thinks so. Castigating Donald Trump last Saturday for his proposal for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration, Sanders said:
On a personal note, some of you know I’m Jewish. My father came to this country at the age of 17 from Poland. He came over, other people in his family did not come over. Those people died. Children died. … So that is in my heart, to see what a lunatic can do by stirring up racial hatred.
The “lunatic stirring up racial hatred” in this case was speaking about people of a certain religion, not of a certain race. But of course, Sanders’ words were an example of the Left’s tendency to dismiss all concern about the jihad terror threat as “racism” and “bigotry.”
They were also a new example of the increasingly common Leftist claim that criticism of Islam and Muslims over the jihad terror threat will lead to a new Holocaust of Muslims – or, as it has been expressed epigrammatically, “Muslims are the new Jews.”
Many, many others have made this claim before Sanders, including: notorious non-Muslim Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong; Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist at The Atlantic who recently interviewed Barack Obama about why he won’t call Islamic terrorism Islamic; liberal media pundit Reza Aslan; Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison; Nicholas Kristof, one of the New York Times’ Mideast pontificators; Canadian Muslim leader Syed Sohawardy; and Philadelphia chapter leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Jacob Bender. Many others have repeated it.
The blazingly brilliant Daniel Greenfield takes it apart in this video.
The idea that Muslims are the new Jews is put forward by the Left, but it also has opponents on the Left. In 2014, as part of his ongoing awakening to the nature and reality of the jihad threat, Bill Maher noted:
Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being gay.
Indeed. Further, no one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims. No individual or group opposed to Islam is remotely comparable to the National Socialists. Not that facts have ever gotten in the way of a good meme.
Maher isn’t alone on the Left in having pointed out the absurdity of likening opposition to jihad to the lead-up to the Holocaust. The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the notorious Ground Zero Mosque proposal:
“Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,” Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.
The purpose of statements like the one Sanders made is to intimidate people into thinking that criticism of Islam in connection with jihad terror leads to concentration camps. Therefore, there must be no criticism of Islam in connection with jihad terror….
Read the rest here.

marc says
http://www.timesofisrael.com/massively-inflating-death-toll-sanders-says-israel-killed-over-10000-innocents-in-gaza/
“Massively amplifying even Hamas’s own figures, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders suggested Israel had killed “over 10,000 innocent” Palestinian civilians”
Saunders tries that bit harder with his ant-Semitic blood libels, who’s he trying to impress exactly?
mortimer says
With self-hating Jews like Sanders, Israel doesn’t need enemies.
God save Israel.
Wellington says
You could be right, mortimer, about Sanders being a self-hating Jew, but based on what I have observed about him over the years (and I have been to Vermont several times and know people there who know the politics of Vermont), I think it may be more accurate to characterize him as a Jew who is simply indifferent to being Jewish, as opposed to someone who is a self-hating Jew. And thus Israel to Sanders is just one more nation in the world and nothing more. Not sure of course, but if you have any direct evidence of his self-hate, I would appreciate your passing it on. One thing’s for certain and that is that Sanders is an old fool and there’s no sadder fool than an old one.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
So incisive Well. I defer to you since you have, as we say, ‘firsthand, personal knowledge’ of the guy and the state.
mortimer says
Wellington wrote: Sanders may be “a Jew who is simply indifferent to being Jewish”
If it were illegal to be Jewish, apart from an accident of birth, would there be enough evidence to convict him? Probably not. (Much of the following comments are cribbed from Daniel Greenfield’s insightful analyses…but I do not put them in parentheses.)
Sanders appeals to the BDS crowd and criticizes Israel’s use of force. He has agreed with Israel’s right to exist, which seems rather feeble in the context of those he has endorsed and who have endorsed him. This damns him with faint praise, in my view.
Read on.
Sanders has called for denying arms to Israel before the Yom Kippur War, when Israel was close to destruction. In 1971, he told an audience, “no guns for Israel.” Two years later, the Yom Kippur War brought Israel to the brink of destruction and shipments of American arms made the difference. But Bernie Sanders did not care and in 1988 still insisted that, “It is wrong that the United States provides arms to Israel.”
In 1990, he called for America to “put more pressure on Israel”.
Sanders sneeringly condemned what he called Republican bigotry, but he endorsed Jesse Jackson despite his racist “Hymietown” slur.
Bernie Sanders bragged about his endorsement from Congressman Keith Ellison despite his past support for the Nation of Islam and his appearance with Khalid Abdul Muhammad who had called Jews “bloodsuckers” and had said, “If you’re a Jew, I’m against you.” Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan, who calls Jews “false Jews”, praised Bernie Sanders as a “real Jew, not a so-called Jew”. The very things that make Bernie Sanders seem suspect to Jews, makes him more appealing to anti-Semitic hate groups.
He promotes an image of being opposed to Jewish interests. Moreover, while Bernie Sanders is quick to call Republicans bigots, he not only fails to stand up against anti-Semitism from the left, but he has supported and collaborated with anti-Semites.
Bernie Sanders invokes the Holocaust when asked about his Jewish identity, not because he has empathy for Jews, but in a classic leftist maneuver to distract attention from that lack of empathy. His conception of the Holocaust is detached from Jewish suffering. It is purely about his leftist politics.
Sanders hasn’t called out any on the Left for anti-Semitism to my knowledge. Is that enough evidence of his ‘self-hating’? Truly, at what point does one cross the line from ‘indifferent’ to ‘self-hating’? Sanders makes common cause with anti-Semites on the Left, because Jews don’t matter to him, only the agenda of the left does.
Wellington says
Thanks for that info, mortimer. Ah, leftism distorts the mind most terribly.
Angemon says
He’s Jewish so he needs to go above and beyond the line of duty lest his supporters turn on him – here can be no doubt whatsoever he’s pro-“Palestinian” and anti-Israeli – sorry, “anti-Zionist”,
marc says
“he needs to go above and beyond” exactly, much like the palestinian leadership on both sides are competing in their “ant-Zionist” credentials, Hamas being the more open, PA with a thin veneer covering the underlying hatred. All to get votes. So my question stands, who’s he trying to impress? There just aren’t enough votes from the muslims. Would such a large proportion of US voters go along with the blatant “ant-Zionism”.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Alas! He doesn’t have to rely on ‘enough votes from the muslims’. Because as you reference-there are more than enough lobotomized Jews willing-nay, eager-to vote for anyone or anything hostile to Israel.
I used to have to be a psych nurse working in a locked ward to encounter such ‘reasoning’. Now it’s available 24/7, courtesy of the far left.
Custos Custodum says
Sanders is a victim of the “mirror-image fallacy.”
In other words, Sanders believes that others (Muslims) are as dismissive and cynical about religion as he is himself.
Like most people, Sanders also believes that the REACH of Islam in a person’s is similar to that of Christianity or Judaism, i.e. the same kind of things are or are not subject to religious rules, e.g. halal = Muslim kosher.
In fact, of course, Islam is a totalitarian life system and system of political conquest. NOTHING IN LIFE IS OUTSIDE ISLAM, and of course there is no “separation of church and state.”
mortimer says
Bravo, Custos!
Sanders is another INSTANT EXPERT on Islam, one of the preposterous Leftards who have not read even ONE of the Sira, Koran, hadiths, manuals of Sharia law, Islamic history or canonical Islamic commentaries, and yet, he presents himself as an authority on Islam! Absurd.
Sanders knows as much about Islam as he knows about advanced nuclear fuel cycles.
Sanders is as much an impostor in the matter of Islamic knowledge as is Pope Francis or Angela Merkel or David Cameron.
Their positions of authority do not automatically confer their having read the basic reading list of Islam 101.
Custos Custodum says
Sanders also believes that the REACH of Islam in a person’s *LIFE* is similar to that of Christianity or Judaism
jimmi says
He is right. Muslims in America are oppressed and persecuted and many non-Muslim Americans are exactly like nazis or worse: Being Muslim in America is like being Jewish in a Nazi gas chamber. Therefore, like the Jews, they need a place or country where they can be free and ruled by themselves, They need a Muslim country where they can be free of brutality and hatred.
Unfortunately, there are no Muslim countries in the world.
Muslims are less than one million worldwide so… they suffer the ignorance and oppresion of the unbelievers wherever they are… they have no place to flee… So sad… (sarcasm)
Shmooviyet says
@jimmi: great comment!
Remove the sarc and parts of it could be used in a CAIR rant.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Hahahahaha! Absolutely true Shmoo.
In fact if I were Jimmi I’d fear a libel suit from Ibby Hooper. God help me: On occasion we correspond. He’s quite the…specimen. A cross between a slavering ISIS savage and Hillary Clinton.
Bad. Really, really bad.
Shmooviyet says
@Kathy Brown: …”Ibby…” Thanks for the out-loud laugh.
God help you indeed with that one. Yikes.
Bamaguje says
Indeed Muslims are the new Nazis… And since they collaborated with Hitler’s Reich, Muslims are also part of the old Nazis.
Jo says
Please tell me where exactaly this is that Muslims in America are being killed by the hundreds or thousands? Where are these gas chambers and concentration camps that you speak of? Where in America are Muslims being killed for their faith? Specifics please.
Jo says
Haha got distracted and missed the sarcasm bit. ?
Timouhius says
Somebody please tell Bernie that the muslims want his head badly.
miriamrove says
Sanders is a joke to say the least. M
JawsV says
Gramps is suffering from ignorance and Dementia.
Champ says
Whenever I see Sander’s on the tube I think ..’jeez will he even live through 4 years as presiden?’ Sorry if that sounds cruel, to some, but he looks so old and somewhat frail, to me, for a 74 year old. Just sayin’ …
mortimer says
Genocidal doctrines within Islam justifies outright genocide of non-Muslims in category A (pagans, polytheists, atheists, agnostics, animists) and justifies the institutionalized persecution of category B (Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians).
In both categories, A and B, the result is the eventual disappearance of those communities from a Muslim-ruled country. The pressure to conform to Islamic monoculture becomes irresistible.
Shmooviyet says
If his story is true, Sanders is USING the murder of his ancestors to advance his political success, and to mislead his more ignorant followers –i.e., the ill-educated students– with these absurd comparisons.
What an unconscionable act by a sick, selfish old man: he does not give a rat’s behind for those dead family members.
I don’t know anything about his father, but can’t imagine there would be much pride in his son’s wickedness.
Panmelia says
Sanders should hang his head in shame. He should never become president, he’s already showing signs of mental decay.
Jews have been targeted by muslims ever since momad got the nod from allaaaah and it was writ in the satanic book thus: ” Jews – people to rob and kill because they have much wealth I want and also they won’t become my followers”.
Still, he’s not the only mentally challenged Jewish politician; here in the UK we had a fool called Ed Miliband who lost the 2015 election to David Cameron. Did it have anything to do with the fact that he was going around promising prominent muslims that when he got to be PM he would bring in a law against “islamophobia”? Maybe this will be Sanders’ next move.
Mockingjay says
Yes, Shmooviyet, it is deeply shameful to abuse the holocaust like that. I think it is so deeply despicable that there should in fact be a law against it.
It really is quite simple:
The Jews were innocent.
Islam, and a great number of its adherents are anything but.
wallace says
Meanwhile in the rapidly sinking UK , the Muslim accused of murdering Glaswegian shopkeeper appeared in court today.Tanveer Ahmed admitted the murder, and said he did it because Asad Shah had “disrespected” Islam, by claiming to be a prophet, and it was nothing to do with Christianity.
Richard Paulsen says
He seems to know nothing about The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and muslim troops fighting on the nazi side under Himmler and Hitler. They even fought in his home country. Hated Jews and Christians as the nazis hated. See for example the historian Norman Davies.
He also mentions different countries in Europe as good examples concerning education and jobs. He doesn´t mention 50 million muslims and lots of big mosques, increasingly arriving and being built seemingly without an end and roof. That´s what he imagines as good for U.S.A. too?
There are some 1,6 billion muslims in the world now. Some 2,2 circa 2030. How many will he allow into the U.S.A. and Europe? Doesn´t matter how many? 800 millions?
U.S.A. is some 5% of world population and muslims some 25%. Why can´t these 25% manage on their own? Instead 5% should be responsible for such a majority ? That´s fair and good politics?
Of course acnnot be.
The population of Africa will grow to some 4 billion in 2100. 2,6 some 2030. Some 800 million now. Some 400 million 1980. (PRB.org, UN population statistics). How many will he allow into U.S.A.? Like into Europe?
Is he aware of how many Jews and Christians there are in islamic states and how come and what happened to them? Some 0-10%.
Is he aware of the fact islam doesn´t respect any other political systems and rules if not needed to? Instead that it will destroy and replace any other system and way of living if given possibility?
No, doesn´t seem so.
Is he aware of what might happen to the parlamentary systems like in Europe and the U.S.A. with his politics? Doesn´t seem so.
Will he raise taxes for the billionairies in the arabstates as he intends to in U.S.A.? Doesn´t seem as if he is contemplating.
No his politics doesn´t result in nything good neither for the U.S.A. nor Europe and not for the whole world.
Larry says
I think that Bernie Sander’s vote against the Iraq war and having more isolationist policy positions, make him much more likely to be a friend to Israel and not an ally to countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan etc. he wants to focus on domestic issues which would preclude our spending billions in areas where we cannot win or solve problems; area where Arab and Muslim leaders, I’m sure, laugh at our naïveté.
I hope, and don’t that Bernie is as naive as he appears regarding the ME. To be against prejudice of all sorts is not a bad thing to support, even if he wonders privately at the legitimacy of the concept of Islamophobia. He knows that most Muslims cherry pick the good things from their religion and culture, and it does no good to marginalized them. This does not mean that he believe Israel presently has a partner in peace with the Palis, or that he will want an immigration system which does not use the best intelligence possible, in effect, blocking out possible Muslim extremists. You must appreciate the fact that he is in a very sensitive position being a Jew and running door office.
Westman says
There must be some similarities for Sanders to make such an outlandish claim.
Let’s see:
The Third Reich German Government created the Polish Warsaw Ghetto and herded the Jews into it. The modern day European Muslims created their own ghettos without government interference.
The Jews in Warsaw had a wall built around them topped with barbed wire and were shot if they attemped to leave. The ghetto-living Muslims of Europe live mainly from government assistance and keep unbelievers out of their controlled no-go areas. Kufars my find themselves forcibly ejected or worse.
The Jews of Warsaw were put on trains to the death camps and systematically slaughtered. The Muslims of ISIS systematically slaughter unbelievers and any of their own who don’t support the cause.
There was a statesman, Neville Chamberlain that said, I have talked with Hitler and he has no plans to invade England. Peace in our time. Now there are politicians that have met with CAIR and are telling us that Islam is peaceful, without conquest intentions; the “New Jews”.
With all these parallels it’s becoming clear. “Islam is the New Third Reich”.
Richard Paulsen says
Sanders said he met with muslim leaders in a mosque in New York ( Close to ground Zero, I think he said it was.)
Parallell becoming clear like daylight.
Westman says
The clincher is that both the Ideology of Islam and the Third Reich call for the annihilation of the Jews. It looks as if the Reich borrowed from Islam, making Islam the oldest anti-semitic ideology in existence.
Richard Paulsen says
Think so too.
Shmooviyet says
Excellent riposte to the ‘new Jews’ garbage flung by Sanders.
Infidel Task Force says
Sanders is the new idiot and muslims are the new Nazi’s
Ren says
Sanders is lunatic.
Michael Johnson says
O sure Muslims are the victims what about us westerners what about the terrorist attacks we endure
JawsV says
Shhh! Nothing to do with Islam! (that’s sarcasm)
D says
Once again the democrats show that they “care” by favoring one group and leaving the others in the cold. Not only is it wrong it’s unconstitutional!
jewdog says
Bernie’s anti-power mentality is very common among Jews. After 2000 years of powerlessness, many Jews find having a state uncomfortable because of the inevitable abuses that power brings. These people will always complain that Israel is too abusive, and will cite real or imagined abuses as proof of moral perfidy. For example, Bernie has greatly exagerated number of civilian casualties from the last Gaza war – much better to be passively rocketed and preserve one’s moral purity!
One of the reasons for Zionism was to lift Jews out of political helplessness, make them more assertive and able to defend themselves as proud citizens of their own homeland, but, unfortunately, some Jews are still back in the ghetto.
abad says
Sanders is incapable of doing any of his own original thinking.
He has proven time and again that he is nothing but a parrot for the Looney Left.
jewdog says
Mostly true, except he’s is pro-gun, but that’s a Vermont requirement.
Barry says
Perhaps Mr. Burns should watch videos of what the Jewish refugees looked like during the war- and if he’s too stupid to realize there’s a huge difference between the Jews of then and the muslims of today then there’s not much hope. Even if he were to watch the movie Schindler’s List he may notice the Jews weren’t dressed in fashionable clothes of the day and weren’t all 50 lbs. overweight. My question is not why he would say something that ignorant and stupid but how could a man with those thoughts bouncing around in his empty head get to a position of authority? A sad refection of the times we’re living in I guess.
Jack Holan says
A book could be written on how so wrong Sander analogy in comparing the Holocaust to the Self-Proclaimed bigotry experienced by Muslim Americans. First and foremost before I proceed further Muslim Americans either know and are using occasional non-organized bigotry as cover OR they are totally clueless to the social,cultural history of American Immigrants. Tell me that Catholics did not fight discrimination and find their path blocked at first by a public that felt they took orders from the Pope in Rome and would never be loyal first to the US. Tell me the Irish, Germans, Jews, Russians at the turn of the 19th Century, Italians Poles, Japanese and Chinese didn’t fight hate and bigotry yet overcame it. They still experience be called names and growing up I’ve heard all the slurs applicable to my background. I didn’t die and I had some physical altercations over it but no one was crazy enough to pull a gun or sword over it. So, Sanders this country as a Nation is not organizing the exclusion, then total separation of a people based on religion. Afterwards finding the cheapest quickest and most stealth way to transport them to camps where we plan to execute them in the most efficient manner possible using all possible profitable parts of their bodes gold teeth, hair, pace makers, etc. If Sanders believes that theres a number beyond .00025% in this country that wound entertain such thoughts, then he’s delusional . However by throwing this idea out there in the public domain he has fed into the taste buds of every Anti-Semite and Anti-Israel protester the concept that Israel was created from the ashes of the Holocaust. thank you Bernie for creating falsehoods where they don’t exists over your legitimate fears burned into your soul as a Jew but non-existent if you use your mind.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Jack, you are so right. Every single ‘new’ demographic which immigrated here encountered terrible prejudice-Italians (my people), Irish, all of them.
And your other point is key too. They don’t ‘use [their] mind.’ Indeed the left is remarkable for just that, their utter irrationality. As you know: When we point that out, their response is: insults, shouting, threats, etc. Same-old-same-old.
Ben Winter says
How absolutely ignorant — but what could you expect?
Ben
Truth says
Bernie the ding dong
Ben Winter says
Yes,(Truth comment) Bernie is a ding dong — Democrats should be mortified!
Ben
Ordinary Joe says
I can’t believe America will actually vote for this nincompoop so hopefully nothing to worry about.
Face_The_Truth says
In America, an individual’s professional life will be over in a moment’s notice, if s/he says anything criticizing Judaism and the Jewish State of Israel.
Shmooviyet says
???
Is this a quote from a BDS pamphlet?
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Shmoo, you’re welcome. We HAVE to laugh occasionally on this site; it’s so unrelentingly horrific that we couldn’t endure w/o that. And you’ve given me many a laugh, and of course lots of edification, with your posts.
Glad to return the favor.
But I just saw the ‘Can’t criticize Israel’ post, and your reply is the best. ‘BDS’, forsooth! This nutjob lives in some alternate universe apparently. Probably a CAIR rep masquerading as a normal person. Eeuuyyeeww.
Shmooviyet says
Thank You, Kathy, for another bit of relieving LOL with that ‘eeeuuyeeww’!
I enjoy your posts as well, and can only admire the depth of knowledge of all the JW regulars.
( sounds Heep-ish, but is genuinely felt. )