Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) labeled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "racist" in statements he made at the Democratic debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on Thursday night.
"We must understand that right now in Israel we have leadership who has been indicted for bribery, who, in my view, is a racist," Sanders said of Netanyahu.
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Sanders said that while Israel had a right to exist in peace and security, the US must formulate "pro-Palestinian" policy that would create a "level playing field in terms of the Middle East."
The Vermont senator noted that he was speaking as someone who had "lived in Israel" and was "proudly Jewish."
