WASHINGTON (JTA) – Two left-wing Jewish groups are accusing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign of anti-Semitism over an ad showing Bernie Sanders holding Joe Biden as a puppet.
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The ad, according to screenshots posted on Twitter, has Biden dangling like a marionette from strings that are wrapped around Sanders’ fingers with text reading “Joe Biden: The radical left’s puppet.” Sanders, who challenged Biden from the left in the Democratic presidential primary, is Jewish.
IfNotNow and Bend the Arc said the ad perpetuates the anti-Semitic stereotype of Jews nefariously pulling the world’s strings. The accusation that Biden is a puppet of the far left is a frequent one among Trump supporters, who often use images of Sanders to illustrate the argument.
“There’s a long, dangerous history of Jews being scapegoated as all-powerful puppet masters,” Bend the Arc tweeted Tuesday. “Trump is using this antisemitic lie to spread fear & division.”
Anti-Semitic cartoons throughout history have included images of Jews as puppet masters. In a tweet from 2018 regarding a different cartoon, the Anti-Defamation League wrote, “Even if no anti-Semitic insinuation is intended, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events perpetuates #antiSemitic tropes.”
Trump has also accused Biden of being the puppet of non-Jews. A Trump ad with a similar theme from May reads “Joe Biden: China’s puppet” and features a video of Chinese Premier Xi Jinping standing behind Biden and moving his mouth like that of a ventriloquist’s dummy.
There is nothing anti-semitic about it. Biden has always been a pandering politician, and given his age and reduced faculties, he is weak. The radical left wing of his party has grown stronger, and he is a front for their agenda.
Since when did these these left wing (no they’re not Jewish) fringe groups become the arbiters of anti-semitism? Judaism is at the bottom of their concerns anyway.
95% of Jews never heard their name.
Right so these 2 self hating jewish groups decide that if you call out a self hating jew you are anti semetic. This literally came right after Trump hosted the signing ceremony of a peace treaty he brokered between Israel and 2 arab states. The left and especially the Jewish left and the so called Frum left just can’t get crazier.No one falls for their garbage , we can all see right through it.
Bernie Sanders already said that Dementia Joe is going to impose his radical agenda.
The pic above is incomplete, sanders should have been shown as a hand puppet of soros – the evil evsektsya jews are complaining that they are being slandered as evil.
Then their refusal to discuss the peace talks is definitely anti Semitic.
> “the anti-Semitic stereotype of Jews nefariously pulling the world’s strings”
Biden is not “the world”.
Bernie isn’t the puppet master, George Soros is. Poor Biden has lost his mind.