Nakba refers back to the “disaster” and acknowledges when Palestinians have been displaced from their properties starting in 1948 with the institution of the State of Israel.
Shapiro responded to a tweet about Sanders by calling the senator’s Jewishness into query: “Bernie Sanders is roughly as Jewish as a ham sandwich topped with shrimp on lard bread.”
Twitter responded by including context to Shapiro’s tweet:
“Sen. Sanders grew up in Brooklyn, a son of Jewish immigrants. His father, Elias, emigrated from Poland in 1921 at 17. Sen. Sanders discovered throughout an look on the PBS present Discovering Your Roots that he had household killed through the Holocaust.”
Sanders’ father’s brother Abraham was shot and killed by Nazis in 1942 after he refused to show folks over to be executed, because the senator discovered on “Discovering Your Roots.”
Twitter customers had some ideas about Shapiro’s remark.