A Guardian op-ed defending Bernie Sanders from charges that he’s abettedantisemitism, “Accusing Bernie Sanders of antisemitism? That’s a new low”, Dec. 18, by Kate Aronoff, contributing writer to The Intercept, includes the following claim:
For [those] on the right that have jumped on the [Sanders is antisemitic] bandwagon, though, details don’t really matter. Sanders, an avowed democratic socialist, simply belongs to an opposing political camp with opposing values. Like the attacks against Corbyn abroad and Ilhan Omar at home, those now being lobbed at Sanders aren’t about defeating antisemitism so much as using it as a narrative device to undermine a worldview that offends them. Sanders’s solidarity with Palestinians suffering under occupation is not an affront to Jews but to the right’s propaganda that looking out for their best interest means a blanket, unquestioning support for whatever the Israeli government happens to be doing, which at the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Dec 20, 2019 @ 13:33:47
Simon Wren-Lewis demolished the claims of Corbyn being antisemitic.
Criticizing Israel is not anti-semitic
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Dec 20, 2019 @ 14:29:00
The company he keeps? Zionists don’t understand irony? Walk, talk and look like a crow, expect to be shot at as a crow.
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Dec 20, 2019 @ 14:34:19
That is even close to a defence.
He was a woeful politician but not anti-Semitic as Lewis showed. Those who tried to portray him as such resorted to utterly false information as Lewis demonstrated.
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Dec 20, 2019 @ 15:37:52
How many right wing politicians can stay friends with anti semites like he did and not be denounced as a racist?
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Dec 20, 2019 @ 15:40:53
what kind of logic is that. simply because you are a friend does not mean you agree with their views.
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Dec 20, 2019 @ 16:31:48
You say the same of his IRA connections?
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Dec 20, 2019 @ 16:39:29
I have friends who are stupid enough to believe in classical economics despite the complete lack of any empirical evidence. That doesn’t mean I believe in it.
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Dec 20, 2019 @ 18:10:53
You mean marxists?
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Dec 20, 2019 @ 18:31:16
well Marx was a believer in classical economics
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