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Bernie Sanders’ Holocaust scam becomes new scandal

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

The Holocaust stands as one of the worst atrocities in modern history, a genocidal crime so shocking that an outraged world has promised, “Never Again.”

Americans determined not to forget the lessons of the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish people on an industrial scale. To keep the memory alive, the U.S. government formed the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. — but one Democratic senator can’t be bothered to attend its meetings.

Now, his fellow members want him bounced from the council.

Senator Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., has not shown up to a single meeting of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council since he was appointed in 2007.

Bernie Sanders “has rarely, if ever, attended Council meetings or participated meaningfully in the work of the Council since his appointment.,” said a January 12 letter from a dozen fellow council appointees, led by Robert Garson.

The Vermont socialist and two-time presidential candidate decided that 18 years, or 36 semi-annual meetings, weren’t worth his attention, according to records uncovered by the New York Post.

“I respectfully request that you consider initiating the process for removal and/or replacement of Senator Sanders as one of the Senate’s appointees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,” wrote Sanders’ fellow council members in the letter, addressed to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Sanders is one of five U.S. senators to serve on the Holocaust Museum board, which has a total of 55 members.

Council members also don’t like Bernie Sanders’ denunciation of Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians, calling the IDF’s response “genocide” in a press release.

“Some of Senator Sanders’ public statements regarding contemporary genocidal conflicts, including characterizations widely viewed as inconsistent with the principles of Holocaust remembrance and genocide prevention that the Museum exists to uphold, have raised concerns among Council members about his alignment with the mission of the Museum and its governing body,” they wrote.

The Holocaust Museum opened in April 1993 and was created by a law signed in 1980—on October 7, as it happens, the same date as the radical Islamic terrorist attack that sparked the latest round of warfare in 2023.

It won’t take much convincing for President Donald Trump, an ardent supporter of Israel, to replace the senator, whom he calls “Crazy Bernie.”

The president has already removed numerous Biden appointees from the Holocaust memorial council, including Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff, top Obama-Biden adviser Susan Rice, Biden crony and Chief of Staff Ron Klain, former Democratic Party chairman and Biden Labor Secretary Tom Perez, and former senior adviser to first lady Jill Biden, Anthony Bernal.

But council members say this is far more than an issue of Republicans vs. Democrats.

“This is not a partisan issue, just common sense,” said Alex Heckler, a Democratic fundraiser appointed to the council by Joe Biden (or maybe his autopen).

Bernie Sanders’ refusal to do any work at the Holocaust Museum outraged conservatives.

“Shameful, lazy socialist,” said Marina Medvin.

But while he refuses to lift a finger at the Holocaust Museum, he has repeatedly cited his family’s connection to the Holocaust in order to smear President Trump.

“Look, my father’s family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical, and extremist politics mean,” he told a crowd in Flint, Michigan, in 2016.

In his next unsuccessful run for president, Sanders ramped things up during a town hall meeting with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

“How horrible people can be to other people in the name of racial superiority, or etc., certainly has been with me my entire life, and that is  why I will do everything I can to end the kind of divisiveness Donald Trump is fomenting in this country,” said Sanders.

“He clearly just either doesn’t care or doesn’t want to care,” Garson told one media outlet.

While their anger is understandable, key details from his past—uncovered by The Horn­—reveal why Sanders’ (in)actions should be no surprise.

Bernie Sanders has spent his entire life as a deadbeat.

Sanders didn’t bother to support his first wife, Deborah Shilling, after their marriage in 1964, expecting her to live in a house with a dirt floor.

In 1969, Sanders got a woman pregnant out-of-wedlock, then refused to work to support the mother or his child.

Sanders even got kicked out of a hippie commune in 1971 for refusing to work. When the future failed presidential candidate visited the Myrtle Hill Farm commune as a journalist and fellow believer, not only did he refuse to do any physical labor, but he chattered so much that he kept everyone else from working, too.

A fellow hippie named Craig “resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernie’s orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day,” reported Kate Daloz in her book We Are As Gods.

Skipping meetings fits with everything we know about Bernie Sanders.

Maybe the most shocking thing about Sanders’ Holocaust hooky story is, he’s not alone.

“Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) has attended just two of the council’s past 10 meetings. The only other long-serving senator, Tim Scott (R-SC), has missed the last 13 meetings — though his record is better than Sanders’, with appearances in 2019 and 2017,” reported the Post.

Being a deadbeat in Washington may be a bipartisan undertaking. But there are fewer less active, more entitled, or more unhinged lay-abouts than Bernie Sanders.

The American people, and the victims of the Holocaust deserve better.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”