Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders escalated his attacks on Israel’s prime minister Thursday evening, calling embattled leader Benjamin Netanyahu “a racist.”
When asked at a Democratic debate in Los Angeles to respond to President Donald Trump’s massive shift in U.S. foreign policy in November of recognizing Israeli settlements, the senator from Vermont said U.S. foreign policy “is not just about being pro-Israel, we must be pro-Palestinian as well.”
“Right now in Israel we have leadership under Netanyahu, who has recently, as you know, been indicted for bribery, who in my view is a racist,” said Sanders, whose calls for withdrawing from foreign interventions in the Middle East serves as a central tenet of his campaign platform. “What we need is a level playing field in terms of the Middle East which addresses the terrible crisis in Gaza, where 60 or 70 percent of the young people are unemployed.”
“My foreign policy will be about is human rights, is democracy, is bringing people together … trying to negotiate agreements, not endless wars with trillions in expenses.”
Sanders, who is Jewish and lived in Israel as a youth, has previously described Netanyahu’s right-wing government as “racist” but has avoided criticizing the embattled leader himself.
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I’ll pick the anti-arab racist over the anti-Semite any day, Bernie.
Many Israelis use variations of the “racist” label for Bibi with respect for his policies that marginalize the rights of its Arab citizens just as they applied the same label to Kahane and others who have taken similar policy positions. Sanders’ positions have not changed in 25 years and he has carefully stated his positions in political terms as contrasted to the virulently anti-Semitic statements from Talib and the “squad”.
May Hashem Destroy the enemies of israel!
Sanders did not “live in Israel as a youth”. He spent some time volunteering on a communist kibbutz, where they mourned Stalin’s death. That’s not “living there”.
Bernie thinks that being a Jew is being a racist; he believes that all the people of the world will unite under socialism. But if you are Muslim you are not a racist; if you are a Christian you are not a racist, but if you are a Jew, sorry, you are a racist!
Bernie is a self hating Jew left over from the previous generation of Jewish Socialists who believed that socialism will unite and save the world from all of its problems.