Ex-Sanders Aide Accuses Bernie Sanders of Backing 3 Antisemitic Candidates
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 22
Ex-Sanders Aide Accuses Bernie Sanders of Backing 3 Antisemitic Candidates
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 22
Summary
Joel Rubin, who led Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, said the senator is deliberately elevating the “most categorically anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates” he has seen in years.
Rubin said he reached that conclusion after Sanders backed Maine candidate Graham Platner, who wore a tattoo resembling a Nazi totenkopf, and also endorsed Melat Kiros in Colorado and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.
Calling Sanders an “outright hostile actor,” Rubin argued the endorsements push a hate-based narrative on Israel, deepen distress in the American Jewish community and fracture Democratic unity.
Rubin warned the stance could hurt Democrats electorally as Sanders and other lawmakers also support cutting $3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel; Sanders’ office did not immediately respond.