Ironies Abound, as Sanders Suspends His Outspoken Jewish Outreach Coordinator
On Wednesday, the Free Beacon published screenshots dating from March 2015 from the Facebook account of Simone Zimmerman, Bernie Sanders’s newly hired Jewish Outreach Coordinator, in which she calls Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “an arrogant, cynical, manipulative asshole” and “an embodiment of the ugliest national hubris,” and says “fuck you” to him for sanctioning murder and for insulting President Barack Obama by giving an address in Congress in opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran.
She later apparently edited her post and toned down her language, changing “fuck you” to “shame on you,” and “asshole” to “politician,” for example (which, for my money, are four bites from the same apple). Essentially, wrote the 25-year-old Zimmerman in both iterations of the post, “[Netanyahu] does not speak for me as a Jew, an American, and a thinking person.”