Bernie Sanders again plays the 'Holocaust' card in defense of Muslim immigration

By Carolyn Yeager

ON APRIL 2ND IN MILWAUKEE (a city settled by German immigrants), 'Democratic Socialist' presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was berating Republican candidate Donald Trump for calling for a temporary ban on non-US-citizens who are Muslim from entering the USA. Sanders likened Trump to a “lunatic,” after calling him "a nutcase" just a week before.

The Washington Post reported that on Saturday, the Senator from Vermont indicated he was against intolerance toward Muslims, explaining that some of his relatives [allegedly] died “in the Holocaust” because “a lunatic … stirred up racial hatred:”

“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” Sanders is speaking of is Adolf Hitler. I can say as well that my relatives died in the post-war assault on ethnic Germans because several lunatics, both east and west (Stalin, Benes, Tito, Churchill, Roosevelt and others) stirred up racial hatred. I could paraphrase Sanders in this way:

On a personal note, some of you know I'm German. Both my grandfathers came to this country alone at the age of 20 -24 from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, specifically what was Hungary at the time. They came over, other people in their families did not come over. Those people died. Children died. .. so that is in my heart, to see what lunatics can do by stirring up racial hatred.”

During and after the war, the area where my grandparents had lived was overrun by communist partisan fighters; hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans were murdered by Jews, Poles, Yugoslavs, Russians  … or died in Banat concentration camps or in the gulags of the Soviet Union. Certainly my relatives were among them ... but there is no worldwide campaign to bring attention, compensation and sympathy to them.

Sanders said if he is elected president, “trust me, Muslims, or anybody in this country, are not going to live in fear because of their religion, because of the color of their skin, because of the country they came from. That is not what this country is about.”

That's when he spoke once again about his family and the “Holocaust.” On Sunday's ABC News' “This Week,” Sanders denied he compared Trump to Hitler. But for weeks now he has been accusing Trump of racism and bigotry, and describing him with words that refer to the mentally ill.

My question for Bernie Sanders: If you are elected President, are you going to use the “Holocaust” to condemn and insult Americans who don't think the way you do? Will you use being a Jew as a badge of moral superiority because of “Holocaust”? Will you use the Jew card as well as the “Holocaust” card?

My message to Bernie is this:

The Holocaust” is based on witness testimony (much of it hearsay as yours seems to be), without which there would not be sufficient grounds to believe it ever happened. All the most important witnesses have been shown to be making up the more grisly parts of their testimony, and sometimes their entire testimony is proven false. You yourself seem to know nothing first-hand of your relatives whom you say “died” in Poland in concentration camps because they were in these camps. As if they would not have died otherwise. Were your father's family active communist revolutionaries (as you became) fighting against 3rd Reich Germany's policies during wartime? In that case, they were rightly incarcerated. You are not telling the whole story, and probably you don't know it. It's pure Jewish chutzpah to say ““Because I'm Jewish, my relatives, who I never knew, were murdered in a war environment we've named the “Holocaust” and Adolf Hitler is responsible.” For the vast majority who say that, it's not true.