This is the 21st century Democrat party, viciously antisemitic and anti-American. What proud American, let alone a Jew, would want to be affiliated with such venomous hate? This is particularly egregious, because Sanders is Jewish and yet he is aiding and abetting the vicious Jew-haters of the Hamas-tied Islamic establishment in the U.S. and their anti-Semitic ideology. But this is what we have come to expect from the left. After her antisemitic tweets, Ilhan Omar, whom Sanders has defended, didn’t lose her plum position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. So this choice for campaign manager will only help Bernie. For the Democrats, Jew-hatred is what makes Bernie Sanders appealing. They’ve been moving in that direction for a long time.

Bernie Sanders hires campaign manager – civil rights advocate and FIRST EVER Muslim American to run a presidential campaign – none other than Faiz Shakir. I am crying. #FeelTheBern https://t.co/7KSvNzASlr

“Bernie Sanders Hires Campaign Manager Who Co-Chaired Event That Included Hamas Fundraiser,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage, February 19, 2019 (thanks to Mark):

Bernie Sanders continues to provide shelter and cover for Islamic figures with anti-Semitism issues. Fresh off his backing for Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitism, here he is bringing on board another controversial figure as his campaign manager.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has tapped Faiz Shakir to serve as his campaign manager for his second run at the White House, the Daily Beast has learned. Shakir joins the Sanders operation from the American Civil Liberties Union where he served as national political director since early 2017. Before joining the ACLU, he was a senior adviser to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and before that he worked with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). He first made a name for himself as an editor at the site ThinkProgress, the news arm associated with, though editorially independent of, the powerhouse Democratic think-tank Center for American Progress.

As I previously noted, ThinkProgress had some anti-Semitism issues on Shakir’s watch.

After the use of bigoted language by ThinkProgress contributors turned into a growing scandal, the White House publicly distanced itself from ThinkProgress, an outlet of the Center for American Progress, which Time Magazine called the think tank with the largest influence on the Obama administration. Jarrod Bernstein, the White House’s liaison to the Jewish community, described the events there as troubling and stated that the Center for American Progress’s attitude was not that of the Obama administration.

But, more importantly, there’s the Hamas issue. I broke this story quite a few years ago. And there was no interest in it.

During his time at ThinkProgress, Faiz Shakir had repeatedly attacked the Jewish State, endorsing the Hamas aid flotilla to Gaza and attacking Israel’s attempts to defend itself against terrorists But Shakir’s sympathy for Islamists and antipathy for the Jewish State are no surprise at all considering his activities during his college days when he was a member of the Harvard Islamic Society. While the Harvard Islamic Society’s affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood’s MSA is somewhat vague, its Constitution states that its independence does not preclude “affiliation with the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada.” HIS was co-founded by Yusuf Ibish, the father of Hussein Ibish, who is a veteran pro-terrorist and anti-Israel activist, and Syed Hossein Nasr, an Islamic philosopher and opponent of the United States and Israel, who claims to be able to trace his ancestry back to Mohammed. During Faiz Shakir’s time there, HIS was presided over by Zayed Yasin, who became infamous for his “My American Jihad” speech. In 2000, The Harvard Islamic Society held an Islamic Awareness Week and Faiz Shakir served as the co-chair for the week’s events. One of those events included a fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation, a group which acted as the fundraising arm for Hamas in the United States. As co-chair of the week’s events, Shakir would have unquestionably been involved in the selection of organizations to donate to. That he chose a fundraising for a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization can only be regarded as highly significant. Though the Holy Land Foundation was only raided in the year after that, it was well known at the time that the group was a front for terrorists, and the Harvard Islamic Society faced complaints and scrutiny for its terrorist fundraising. Zayed Yasin’s defense of the Holy Land Foundation made it quite clear that he was familiar with its true mission.

Ever since I broke the story, Shakir has continued rising through the ranks with little media interest in the revelation.

In 2017, Tablet finally asked Shakir about HIS.

LL: Do you feel the same was true for the controversy caused over the Islamic Awareness Week at Harvard that raised funds for the Holy Land Foundation? FS: That one was very frustrating to me, Liel, because I don’t really know anything about that. I wasn’t involved—let me be clear on this. The Harvard Islamic Society asked me to be the co-chair of Islam Awareness Week, which entailed me going to events around campus and talking about Muslims and Islam. I remember one event was standing in front of the Widener Library at Harvard doing an “Ask The Muslim” booth. And that’s what I did. Like that was one event. I remember one person—I had to corral someone to do the call, the adhan, before prayer so I asked one of our colleagues to do the adhan in public and that was one of the things I did, too. Those are the things that come to mind of what I did. But apparently what happened at the end of that week is that there was a dinner that was, I believe, a bunch of universities in the area in Boston came together and held a fundraising dinner. I want to be clear, I had no role in the fundraising dinner, nor did I attend the fundraising dinner. And so again it feels to me like guilt by association that’s dogged me because I feel like the headline there was “Faiz Was a Muslim at Harvard—Breaking News.” And I was, but I didn’t partake or do any of those activities, and yet because somebody else did them, it’s like the three degrees of separation and now somehow I’m like equally at fault and sinned for all of those acts of others. So that’s how I honestly feel about that.

Shakir was the co-chair of Islam Awareness Week, yet he claims to have had no idea what was going on at them. This is the Hillary Clinton defense. And it comes down to, “I’m not a terrorist supporter, I’m just completely incompetent. Now watch me run major initiatives.”

Much of Shakir’s ThinkProgress blogging involved touting Sharia’s system of Islamic apartheid and assorted Islamic initiatives.

That held true when writing about the Islamist takeover in Tunisia.

Having been run for decades by French-inspired secularism, Tunisia is expected to usher in a government that embraces a Turkish-inspired Islamic-led democracy. Rached Ghannouchi, the head of the favored Islamic Ennahda party, is pictured below (top left) waving a blue-dyed finger after casting his vote

Shakir’s post was decorated with a grinning photo of the Islamist monster who had called for the mass murder of Jews.

Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, has engaged in blatant anti-Semitism, and has said, “There are no civilians in Israel. The population—males, females and children—are the army reserve soldiers, and thus can be killed.”

Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager had written positively of a monster who had called for another Holocaust.