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Related: About this forumDissent on Israel Not Permitted at Bernie Sanders Event
In 2004, while President George W. Bush was running for re-election, he developed a sinister reputation for aggressively banishing political dissent from his events. Bush rewrote the playbook for organizing campaign rallies, USA Today declared, ejecting from them people who scrawled anti-war messages on signs and shirts. The ACLU sued and successfully settled with the federal government over one couples thwarted attempts to wear anti-Bush t-shirts to a 2004 rally. One political science professor even compared Bush to Richard Nixon over the suppressive behavior at these events.
Fast forward to 2015, this past Saturday, when Bernie Sanders, an increasingly viable contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, held one of his biggest campaign rallies to date, drawing more than 20,000 people to an event at the Boston convention center. Among those visitors were a number of young activists from Boston Students for Justice in Palestine, who were curious about Sanders position on the occupied territories. They had a sign with them; in a playful nod to one of Sanders campaign slogans, it simply asked, Will Ya Feel The Bern For Palestine? The activists say they were well-received by other Sanders supporters in the crowd.
But staffers working for a candidate widely viewed as one of the most progressive members of the Senate were apparently not happy. Security was made aware of a threat: Some students who support Sanders were holding a sign with a question on it. A tactic right out of the Bush campaign playbook went into action.
They told us to either put the sign away or leave, said Sana Hashmani, one of the student activists. We asked why, and they said that Bernies campaign staff had said the sign had to go.
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/dissent-on-israel-not-permitted-at-bernie-sanders-event
Fast forward to 2015, this past Saturday, when Bernie Sanders, an increasingly viable contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, held one of his biggest campaign rallies to date, drawing more than 20,000 people to an event at the Boston convention center. Among those visitors were a number of young activists from Boston Students for Justice in Palestine, who were curious about Sanders position on the occupied territories. They had a sign with them; in a playful nod to one of Sanders campaign slogans, it simply asked, Will Ya Feel The Bern For Palestine? The activists say they were well-received by other Sanders supporters in the crowd.
But staffers working for a candidate widely viewed as one of the most progressive members of the Senate were apparently not happy. Security was made aware of a threat: Some students who support Sanders were holding a sign with a question on it. A tactic right out of the Bush campaign playbook went into action.
They told us to either put the sign away or leave, said Sana Hashmani, one of the student activists. We asked why, and they said that Bernies campaign staff had said the sign had to go.
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/dissent-on-israel-not-permitted-at-bernie-sanders-event
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Dissent on Israel Not Permitted at Bernie Sanders Event (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Oct 2015
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Why isn't it "acceptable to care about Palestinians at a bernie rally"?
beam me up scottie
Oct 2015
#10
Except bernie admitted that is was a campaign staffer and and error had been made.
leftofcool
Oct 2015
#6
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)1. Why should they have to go if they were not threatening anyone?
I guess it is not acceptable to care about Palestinians at a bernie rally.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)10. Why isn't it "acceptable to care about Palestinians at a bernie rally"?
deadlinetony
(48 posts)2. Except it was convention center staff that escorted them out,
not any of Bernie's staff. He does support the two state solution.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)6. Except bernie admitted that is was a campaign staffer and and error had been made.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)3. Does nobody fucking pay attention anymore?
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)4. seriously. this article has been posted a bazillion times since early am.
a few even self deleted.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)7. Ive been on for 15 minutes today and already knew it was bullshit.
Talk about disingenuous!
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)8. They don't care about truth or lies.
Just gotta' get that meme out there.
artislife
(9,497 posts)9. Very Rovian.
spirald
(63 posts)5. Bernie's campaign responds
"Update: Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver has indicated the staffer responsible for the ejections has been removed from their position, and reiterated the decision to remove the students does not reflect campaign policy."
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)11. Anti-Semitic slant, this is bullshit and has already been debunked.