Everybody in denial about what they'll do to Bernie needs to understand: For years, 100% of the American media has characterized Jews who have embraced or helped normalize NAZISM as authentic representatives of American Jewry. They will without pause portray Bernie as a Jew-hater
What we should have been doing for years: Scorched-earth pushback against those who have allied w/ethnic cleansing authoritarians in America, led by a revivified Jewish left that refuses to allow these smears to pass w/o massive blowback (1/)
— This includes civil disobedience towards orgs that have methodically polluted Jewish memory and values in the service of fascism. It's challenging because the fascists have the funding—but progressive Jews have the numbers. (2/)
For non Jews, better understanding of the language and trigger points for Jews when discussing these issues, so that Nazi allies and their cheerleaders on the NYT op-Ed page can’t distort the narrative into “the left hates Jews.” (3/)
That also includes zero tolerance towards edgelord shitheads who have nothing to lose in our nightmare, throwing around casual antisemitism for online Likes. (4/gut shabbos)
