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Bill Clinton Wears Hebrew “Hillary” Pin as Campaign Slams Israeli Flag Burning

by TheTower.org Staff |

Former President Bill Clinton wore a pin with the name “Hillary” written in Hebrew at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday as his wife’s campaign slammed protesters who burned an Israeli flag outside the event a night earlier.

The ex-president received two of the Hebrew “Hillary” buttons from officials of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), Tablet Magazine reported.

“I was at a Clinton/Gore campaign alumni event this afternoon at the Jewish Historical Museum in Philadelphia and gave my old boss the pin,” Steve Rabinowitz of Bluelight Strategies, which represents the NJDC, told Tablet. “He said he’d wear it but I didn’t know whether or not to believe him and certainly didn’t think he’d do it tonight.”

Rabinowitz said that another NJDC official, Marc Stanley, separately gave Clinton a Hebrew “Hillary” pin. “Don’t know who gets the credit but we’re both happy. It’s NJDC’s pin,” Rabinowitz added.

Clinton’s choice to wear the pin may have been “a subtle rebuke to those former Bernie Sanders supporters who, after some walked out to protest Hillary Clinton’s nomination, burned an Israeli flag outside the convention,” Tablet wrote.

The campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is expected to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination Thursday night, blasted the protesters who burned the Israeli flag. “Hillary Clinton has always stood against efforts to marginalize Israel and incitement, and she strongly condemns this kind of hatred,” Sarah Bard, a spokeswoman for the campaign, wrote in an e-mail on Wednesday. “Burning the Israeli flag is a reckless act that undermines peace and our values.”

Earlier this month, Clinton’s campaign condemned anti-Zionist activist Max Blumenthal, the son of a close advisor, for his disparagement of the late humanitarian and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The campaign blasted Blumenthal’s tweets about Wiesel as “offensive, hateful, and patently absurd.”

In a speech before AIPAC in March, Hillary Clinton criticized the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, saying, “we have to be united in fighting back against BDS,” particularly “at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise across the world, especially in Europe.”

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