| From Tuesday, but interesting to see the company the honourable senator keeps. |
[IsraelTimes] Sen. Bernie Sanders
 ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
got a standing ovation at the Islamic Society of North America annual convention in Houston.
Sanders spoke on Saturday to the conventions some 6,000 attendees, the first presidential candidate, along with Julian Castro, to address the gathering, the largest meeting of American Moslems.
"I am here today because I believe in the concept of solidarity, and the need for all of us, no matter where we come from or what our background is, to stand together in the struggle for justice and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty ...
," Sanders said.
"We must speak out at hate crimes and violence targeted at the Moslem community and call it what it is: Domestic Terrorism," he also said.
He brought up his personal history, as the "proud son of Jewish immigrants colonists."
"As some of you may know, the issue of hatred and prejudice is very personal for me," he said. He noted that those in his family who remained in Poland after Hitler came to power were murdered by the Nazis.
"And the lesson I learned from that experience is how important it is for all of us to speak out forcefully whenever we see prejudice and discrimination," he said.
He reminded his audience that "in the wake of Trump’s Moslem ban, thousands of non-Moslems from all walks of life rushed to airports all across this country to stand in solidarity with Moslems."
Sanders was introduced by his campaign manager Faiz Shakir, the first Moslem to manage a major presidential campaign. 
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