SIMONE ZIMMERMAN, BERNIE SANDERS' PRO-BDS "JEWISH OUTREACH DIRECTOR", WON'T TALK
TO JEWS
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262496/simone-zimmerman-bernie-sanders-pro-bds-jewish-daniel-greenfield
April 13, 2016
The Bernie Sanders campaign is doing really well with hipsters who hate Israel. But there are two groups it just can't seem to crack. Black people and Jews.
The train didn't start going all the way off the rails until the campaign arrived in New York where it was embraced by the Hate Israel crowd and rejected by actual Jewish communities. After Bernie Sanders lied and accused Israel of killing 10,000 "innocent people", even his Jewish supporters headed for the exits.
It certainly didn't help that Jews for Bernie was run by Daniel Sieradski, an anti-Israel activist who distributed a meme during the last war with Hamas which claimed that "That's why Palestinians are fighting back." Or who claimed that, "Great insight is to be gained from the remarks of Hamas’ founder, Sheikh Ahemd Yassin, himself, which are much more down-to-earth and pragmatic than any portrayal of Hamas in the right-wing oriented media."
Instead of distancing himself from Daniel Sieradski. Bernie Sanders met with him.
And then the Bernie Sanders campaign decided to bring on board Simone Zimmerman, a BDS supporter and anti-Israel activist in If Not Now, a J Street front group harassing Jewish charities who help people in Israel, as its Jewish Outreach Director.
Simone Zimmerman appears to have gotten in bed with JVP, a militantly anti-Semitic organization which views the Jewish community as "the enemy" and has defended terrorism against Jews. Simone Zimmerman has joined the JVP hate group in condemning attempts to fight campus anti-Semitism. In response to Hamas attacks on Israel, Simone Zimmerman said, “We think it’s important to understand the context of occupation". And declared that she opposed the campaign against Hamas that began after the brutal murder of three Jewish teens by Hamas terrorists.
The results of putting Simone Zimmerman in charge of Jewish outreach were predictably disastrous.Anti-Israel bigots like Zimmerman exist outside the Jewish community. And are hostile to it.
Meanwhile, across the room, an activist exchanged vitriol with the campaign’s newly hired national Jewish outreach coordinator, Simone Zimmerman, after demanding accountability for the campaign’s failures on the Jewish front.
And the outrage is mounting.
In another article Sanders stated this
Sanders Doubles Down on Israel
Hires anti-Israel campaigner as new Jewish liaison
Bernie Sanders is telling us something about himself: listen closely.
Just a week after he told the Daily News that Israel had killed 10,000 Palestinians in the last Gaza War (the real number is 764 civilians, according to the IDF) and then refused to apologize or back down from his statement, Sanders has hired a new "Jewish outreach coordinator" with decidedly anti-Israel views.
Simone Zimmerman supports BDS and Jewish Voice for Peace, a group even the ADL thinks is anti-Israel. She was one of a group or protesters who daily protested outside the offices of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations during the last Gaza War.
In February,according to JTA, she wrote in Haaretz:
“We’re paying attention to what’s happening in Israel — and we are angry,” Zimmerman said in a column on her fellow millennials in Israel’s daily Haaretz in February.
“The hypocrisy of expecting feel-good social justice projects to offset millennials’ deep outrage at the grave injustices committed by the Jewish state is almost too much to bear,” wrote Zimmerman, who is in her mid-20s. “No public relations trick can save Israel’s image. The problem isn’t with the hasbara [public relations]. The problem is nearly 50 years of occupation. The problem is rampant racism in Israeli society. The problem is attacks on human rights defenders by extremists and by the state. The problem is a Jewish establishment that ignores or justifies all of this.”
Right...Other than being adolescent pabulum, these ideas are deeply dangerous, if only because so many Jews believe this nonsense. By hiring Zimmerman, Sanders is indicating that he's one of the believers.
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Zimmerman’s appointment was defended on Twitter by the unofficial “Jews for Bernie” group, which maintained that only “right-wing extremists” were opposed to her new role.
Sanders’ Jewish outreach director: Netanyahu a ‘manipulative asshole’
In 2015 post, Simone Zimmerman wrote, ‘Fuck you, Bibi… you sanctioned the murder of over 2,000 people this summer’
April 14, 2016, 11:18 am
Simone Zimmerman, the Bernie Sanders campaign’s newly hired national Jewish outreach coordinator, last year called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “manipulative asshole” who sanctioned mass murder.
"Bibi Netanyahu is an arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative asshole,” Zimmerman, a former J Street student activist, wrote on Facebook in March 2015, according to the Free Beacon.
“Fuck you, Bibi… you sanctioned the murder of over 2,000 people this summer.”
Zimmerman later revised the post, excising the profanity, according to the report, which featured screenshots of the original and edited posts.
.@BernieSanders' Jewish outreach dir @simonerzimaccused Israel of "the murder of over 2000 people" in '14 Gaza war
You can read more about this on http://www.timesofisrael.com/sanders-jewish-outreach-director-netanyahu-a-manipulative-asshole/
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