Will Bernie Sanders be America's first Jewish president? That's up to Democratic primary voters and then the rest of the electorate should he receive his party's nomination. But the Vermont senator's choice of a virulent opponent of Israel and a close ally of some of the country's leading anti-Semites as an official campaign surrogate renders the possibility of his achieving that distinction more an ironic twist that ought to upset Jews more than cheer them.
Even more important, his very public embrace of Linda Sarsour speaks volumes about the battle over the future of the Democratic Party about which friends of Israel and opponents of anti-Semitism must regard with trepidation.
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