Sanders, who rarely spoke about his Jewish identity prior to the 2020 campaign, said his faith was one of two major factors that had shaped his views and politics.
said at a CNN town hall Thursday that his Jewish identity had “profoundly” affected his worldview and his politics.
“When I try to think about how I came to the views that I hold, there are two major factors,” the senator from Vermont said. “No. 1, I grew up in a family that didn’t have a whole lot of money .… The second one is being Jewish.” Sanders was responding to a question from an audience member who’d asked whether his Jewish heritage was a “help or hindrance” to his campaign for president.
In his response, Sanders recalled seeing Holocaust survivors in his Brooklyn neighborhood as a child and, later, visiting the town in Poland where most of his father’s family was massacred by the Nazis. “I remember, as a kid, looking at these big picture books of World War II, and tears would roll down my cheeks when I saw what happened to the Jewish people. Six million people were killed by Hitler,” Sanders said. “I think at a very early age, before my political thoughts were developed, I was aware of the horrible things that human beings can do to other people in the name of racism or white nationalism, in this case Nazism.
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