Diane Rehm Apologizes to Bernie Sanders for false statement about Dual US/Israeli Citizenship.

[sabrina 1]

174. Excuse me? Did you read the OP, follow the links, read the linked ARTICLE which

contained the link to the FB Page? Or my note at the end of the OP stating that ALL excerpts and links were from the original link at the top of the OP?

Where on EARTH did you get the idea that I found that page? THIS is how smears happen, people do NOT take the trouble to read what is right in front of them and then for some reason accuse people of things they did not do. Just like what happened to Bernie.

So let me help you out so there is NO misconception as to where that FB page came from. I do not even do FB, wouldn't know where to start.

From the link to the article in the OP is where you will find the FB page, not from me:

Here AGAIN is the link: Radio Host to Sanders: Aren't you an Israeli dual citizen like some other members of Congress

A cursory search on Google of “Bernie Sanders Israeli citizenship” shows that his name comes up in the comments section of the “We are all Vittorio Arrigoni” Facebook page. Arrigoni was an Italian pro-Palestinian activist who was kidnapped and murdered by non-Hamas Islamists in Gaza in April 2011. In the comments section of the Facebook page, on May 2 a user posted a list of senators and representatives who “have both Israel and U.S. citizenships.” Sanders is on the list. No source is given because the list is a total fabrication, not to mention created by an anti-Semite and anti-Zionist, which is given away by the fact that it says “Jewish Lobby”, “#israelwarcrime”, “AIPAC: Buying Congress one seat at a time”, “Rothschild”, and features an American flag with a Star of David replacing the 50 stars.

Yeah … seems legit. The graphic in which the list appears shows the level of credibility the list has. That brings us back to Rehm and her strange decision to ask this question in the middle of this interview. She clearly had done no research on the topic, seems to have had no context in which to ask this, and didn’t bother to source the list at all other than being “a list that we have gotten,” emphasis mine. Did NPR or WAMU provide that list to Rehm, or was this an instance of the royal we? Why not double-check the list with Sanders or his office before springing it on him in the middle of the interview, and thus avoid a potential embarrassment — like what Rehm experienced?

The link to the FB page is within the blockquote in that excerpt.

Emphasis mine.

As is the case with Ms Rehm, jumping to conclusions without doing a minimal amount of research, not even necessary here since i did it for you, would avoid this kind of false statement.