Times of Israel: Sanders’s Israel criticism has some US Jews feeling the Bern!
April 17, 2016,
Bernie Sanders "unprecedented questioning of Jerusalem’s policies will likely play into key Jewish vote in upcoming New York primary"
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is not right all of the time,” said the Vermont senator at the debate. “We cannot continue to be one-sided.”
He criticized Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton for not saying that she would do more to promote Palestinian rights when she addressed the powerful right-wing American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby in Washington in March.
“If we are ever going to bring peace to that region, which has seen so much hatred and so much war, we are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity,” Sanders said.
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In other countries the remarks would have been considered run of the mill, said Daniel Sieradski, national organizer of the group “Jews for Bernie” which has 8,000 supporters on Facebook.
“But because the discourse in American Jewish politics has been pulled so far to the right in the last couple of decades, Bernie is being made to sound like some anti-Israel extremist,” he said.
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The Bernie Sanders Miracle: American Crowd in Brooklyn Cheers Palestinian Dignity, April 15, 2016
In my opinion, to rectify this one foreign policy issue, alone, would do more to promote world peace than just about any other single undertaking.
New Yorkers, show us what you can do on this front, on Tuesday!
Democratic Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, right, and Sen. Bernie Sanders debate during the CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 14, 2016 in New York City. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)
(Via Times of Israel)