Perhaps the most remarkable and disquieting aspect of the revelation that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is employing three senior advisers with records of involvement in antisemitic incidents, is the disinterest it has engendered in Democratic circles across the board.
First, it emerged that Sanders' campaign manager Faiz Shakir and his senior foreign policy adviser Matthew Duss, while both serving previously at the left-wing think tank, the Center for American Progress, had in 2012 been involved on the center's blog and website in the use of antisemitic tropes about Jewish dual loyalty and domination of money and politics.
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