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‘Just two days into her new job as national Jewish outreach coordinator for the Bernie Sanders campaign, Simone Zimmerman has been suspended for writing profane Facebook posts about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Zimmerman, an outspoken critic of the Israeli government, was a somewhat controversial choice from the start. The New York Times reported late Thursday that “a chorus of Jewish figures” had called on the Sanders campaign to dismiss the 25-year-old, but that “the final straw was a report on Wednesday in the Washington Free Beacon,” highlighting a March 3, 2015, Facebook post in which Zimmerman called Netanyahu “an arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative a**hole.”
“Fuck you, Bibi,” read the original post, which Zimmerman later edited with less crude language. “You sanctioned the murder of over 2,000 people this summer.”
“She has been suspended while we investigate the matter,” Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs told the Times via email.’