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Bernie Sanders releases new ‘proud to be Jewish’ campaign video
Clip blames Trump for rise in anti-Semitism and for empowering neo-Nazis; also says he looks forward to becoming ‘first Jewish president in the history of this country’
JTA — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has released a new campaign video in which he says he is “very proud to be Jewish” and that he looks forward to “becoming the first Jewish president in the history of this country.”
The two minute and 40 second video also blames President Trump for a rise in anti-Semitic incidents and for empowering neo-Nazis in the US It includes footage of Trump saying things that many have interpreted as anti-Semitic, including comments about Jewish money at a Republican Jewish Coalition speech and his statement that Jews who vote for Democrats are “disloyal.”
During his 2016 run for the Democratic nomination, Sanders was at first reluctant to mention his Jewish heritage, although he was the first Jewish major-party candidate to win ever nominating contests.
This election cycle, he has emphasized his Jewishness.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bernie-sanders-releases-new-proud-to-be-jewish-campaign-video/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Hungary's Orban lashes out at slow EU growth, 'sinister menaces' and George Soros
Hungary’s prime minister Prime Minister Viktor Orban lashed out at the European Union, billionaire philanthropist George Soros and “sinister menaces gathering over the European economy” on Sunday in his annual state of the nation speech.
The authoritarian declared the past decade as the most successful of Hungary’s past century, but also said the country was threatened by the climate crisis and continuing population decline.
Orban, who returned to power in 2010 when Hungary was still under the effect of an international financial bailout, said his government rejected demands for more austerity and rid itself of the IMF-led loans to have a freer hand in its economic policies.
"If we’d followed their advice, then Hungary now would be lying in a hospital ward with IMF and Brussels debt tubes hanging from its every limb and the faucet of the debt would be in the hands of George Soros," Orban said.
Orban said that while Hungary's economic growth of 4.9% broadly outpaced the European average, Hungary was still closely tied to Europe's economic performance as 85% of Hungarian exports are destined to other European countries.
"So their problem is our problem, too,” Orban said. “The only question is to what extent it will be our problem.”
Hungary’s prime minister Prime Minister Viktor Orban lashed out at the European Union, billionaire philanthropist George Soros and “sinister menaces gathering over the European economy” on Sunday in his annual state of the nation speech.
The authoritarian declared the past decade as the most successful of Hungary’s past century, but also said the country was threatened by the climate crisis and continuing population decline.
Orban, who returned to power in 2010 when Hungary was still under the effect of an international financial bailout, said his government rejected demands for more austerity and rid itself of the IMF-led loans to have a freer hand in its economic policies.
"If we’d followed their advice, then Hungary now would be lying in a hospital ward with IMF and Brussels debt tubes hanging from its every limb and the faucet of the debt would be in the hands of George Soros," Orban said.
Orban said that while Hungary's economic growth of 4.9% broadly outpaced the European average, Hungary was still closely tied to Europe's economic performance as 85% of Hungarian exports are destined to other European countries.
(Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)
Orban delivered his speech in the Varkert Bazaar conference hall in Budapest(Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)
"So their problem is our problem, too,” Orban said. “The only question is to what extent it will be our problem.”
“The European economy, especially that of the eurozone, has simply stopped,” Orban said, adding that economic growth in Europe in 2020 would be “microscopic, at most.”
Regarding demographic decline, Orban said that while the government’s economic incentives for married couples and large families had helped stem population decline, more measures were needed.
While the number of marriages was rising as divorces and abortions fell, “the bad news is that population decline did not stop,” Orban said. “The Hungarian continues to be an endangered species.”
Orban also announced policies to help the environment, including a 27% increase in forested areas, steps to ban single-use plastic packaging, and plans to offer incentives for the use of electric cars. He also said that all new buses used for urban public transportation licensed from 2022 would have to be electric.
"Most of the opposition parties are saying that Orban was too optimistic," Euronews correspondent Adam Magyar told Good Morning Europe from Budapest. "He didn't really speak about the problems that Hungary is facing today, like poverty in the eastern regions, or the declining health care system."
"He said: 'There is no such thing as a liberal.
A liberal is nothing more than a communist with a diploma'.
So he said basically that liberals are all communists," Magyar said.
https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/16/hungary-s-orban-lashes-out-at-slow-eu-growth-sinister-menaces-and-george-soros
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New documentary featuring Bill Clinton examines anti-Semitism in US and Europe
https://www.jewishpresspinellas.com/articles/new-documentary-featuring-bill-clinton-examines-anti-semitism-in-us-and-europe/
Brawl breaks out at Bernie Sanders rally over ‘Black Guns Matter’ shirt
A brawl broke out at a Bernie Sanders rally in Colorado on Sunday when a supporter of the Vermont senator confronted another man for wearing a T-shirt that read “Black Guns Matter,” a report said.
The man sporting the shirt, who is black, told CBS Denver that he was recording the presidential hopeful at the Colorado Convention Center when another rally attendee called him “racist” because of his shirt.
“He had a problem with the shirt I was wearing,” the man, who was not identified, told the news station.
“I was recording the event, he walks up and calls me a racist. But I thought, ‘What’s he know about black lives, about discrimination, or, for that matter, the representation of the shirt.'”
At some point during the confrontation, the two men began wrestling and the scuffle spilled over a metal barrier that separated the crowd from the stage, video captured by the news channel shows.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/17/brawl-breaks-out-at-bernie-sanders-rally-over-black-guns-matter-shirt/