September 17, 2020

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Trump ad featuring Bernie Sanders as puppet master for Biden is anti-Semitic, 2 left-wing Jewish groups say (JTA, SEPTEMBER 16, 2020)

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."

Posted by at September 17, 2020 5:54 AM

  

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