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In which DNC executives discuss smearing Bernie Sanders as Jewish: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/7643 https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/11508

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It's smearing him as an atheist. He's saying that southern baptists would be okay with electing a Jewish person but not an atheist.

Whatever the case, it sure does look as if the DNC has been playing favorites. There's more where that came from, e.g. -

  > From: Daniel Strauss [dstrauss1987@me.com<mailto:dstrauss1987@me.com>] 
  > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:25 PM 
  > To: Miranda, Luis > Subject: Deep background question 
  > > Hey 
  > > So we want to see the list of committee appointments the Sanders Folks submitted just to verify it was mostly staffers and ineligible figures. That possible with no fingerprints attached?

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/7065

It's an odd difference, but that's actually alleging he's atheist. Being Jewish is considered preferable to evangelical voters.

I would argue that the distinction is between smearing him because he's a secular Jew or being an atheist. They're arguing he's an insufficiently religious Jew, which is a common smear in itself against some Jews.

I'm not from kentucky or west virginia, but my understanding of those places is that it would be much worse to run as an atheist than as a jew

I think you're likely right. It is fascinating how my post has been downvoted to 0 (from 5), though.

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