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IfNotNow members posing with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on the campaign trail. Credit: IfNotNow via Facebook.

Sanders says he would ‘absolutely’ consider cutting US military aid to Israel

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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...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at a rally on April 26, 2017.Credit: Office of Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Democratic senators introduce resolution denouncing Netanyahu’s West Bank annexation plan

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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...
Matthew Duss. Credit: Center for American Progress/Flickr.

Foreign-policy adviser for Bernie Sanders meets with PLO official Hanan Ashwari

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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...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, answers a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a CNN town hall on April 22, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

Can you be ‘100 percent pro-Israel’ and call its government ‘racist?’

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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...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, answers a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a CNN town hall on April 22, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

Sanders: Netanyahu’s governing coalition is ‘right-wing, dare I say racist’

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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...
Belén Sisa, a campaign aide for Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign. Credit: Screenshot.

Sanders’s campaign aide apologizes for dual-loyalty remark referring to Jews

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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...
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Sanders contrasts his life with Trump’s

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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...
Days after U.S. President Donald Trump released a budget that would slash support for working families, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), joined by 28 of their colleagues in the Senate, introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, April 26, 2017.Credit: Office of Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Record at a glance: Controversial stances by Sen. Bernie Sanders on US-Israel relationship

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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...
Democratic candidate for Congress from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on CBS's “Face the Nation.” Credit: Screenshot.

Are far-left candidates pushing the Democrats further away from Israel?

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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...

Another step to the left for Democrats

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t on her way to Congress because of her hostility to the State of Israel. The upset victory of a Democratic Socialist over one of the highest ranking Democrats in Congress, as...