Tag: Bernie Sanders
Sanders pledges to ‘leverage’ US funding to ‘end some of that racism’ in Israel
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said on Tuesday that, if elected, he would be even-handed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and even leverage U.S. funding “to end some...
Sanders says he would ‘absolutely’ consider cutting US military aid to Israel
Vermont senator and leading 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would “absolutely” weigh withholding U.S. military aid to Israel to pressure the Jewish state into making policy changes.
Speaking with Jon Favreau on his...
Democratic senators introduce resolution denouncing Netanyahu’s West Bank annexation plan
Five Democratic senators introduced a non-binding resolution on Thursday denouncing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign promise to annex parts of Judea and Samaria.
Two of them, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), are running for the Democratic nomination...
Foreign-policy adviser for Bernie Sanders meets with PLO official Hanan Ashwari
Hanan Ashrawi, longtime aide to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, met on Monday with Matthew Duss, the foreign-policy adviser for the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), according to a statement released...
Can you be ‘100 percent pro-Israel’ and call its government ‘racist?’
The man with the best chance right now to be the first Jewish president of the United States is someone who thinks the prime minister of Israel is a racist. To say that is...
Sanders: Netanyahu’s governing coalition is ‘right-wing, dare I say racist’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, labeled the government under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “racist” on Monday.
The self-described Socialist, who lived on a kibbutz back in the...
Sanders’s campaign aide apologizes for dual-loyalty remark referring to Jews
An aide working for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign has apologized for asking whether the “American-Jewish community has a dual allegiance to the State of Israel,” a remark that reflects a longtime...
![Marc Nozell from Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Bernie-sanders-franklin-nh-20150802-DSC02574_Modified_20054491688-324x235.jpg "Sanders contrasts his life with Trump’s")
Sanders contrasts his life with Trump’s
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As we launch this campaign for president, you deserve to know where I come from – because family history heavily influences the values that we adopt as adults.
I was born and...
Record at a glance: Controversial stances by Sen. Bernie Sanders on US-Israel relationship
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced on Tuesday his second run for the White House.
While Sanders, 79, became the most successful Jewish candidate to run for president—what the late conservative intellectual and pundit Charles Krauthammer called “a...
Are far-left candidates pushing the Democrats further away from Israel?
Much like the 2016 presidential election, the 2018 midterm congressional elections are shaping up to be one of the most contentious in recent memory. Democrats are attempting to retake both houses of Congress in...