"It is outrageous that a mainstream US political party candidate for president would call the Israeli government racist," Republican Jewish Coalition attacks. "It's especially ironic to hear that from Sanders, who has chosen virulently anti-Israel and anti-Semitic individuals to represent him."
Sanders attacks the current White House occupant, President Donald Trump, for not being tough on anti-Semites and for making controversial statements on Jewish success.
"If Israel’s government continues with steps to annex the West Bank, the US should make clear that none of our aid should be used to support annexation," Sen. Elizabeth Warren tells the New York Times in a recent survey of candidates' policy positions.
The Iowa primaries have thrown the Democrats into a loop, as it indicated that sticking to the party's anachronistic platform was completely at odds with the vibrant and rousing mood in the Democratic camp, where tectonic shifts are underway.
A fast-paced 9.5-minute video spotlighting the abjectly anti-Semitic views publicly espoused by several of Sanders' top campaign advisers sheds new light on the candidate who may very well become the nominee.
Strategists in Sanders’ camp are attempting to exert damage control as the fateful Iowa primary is only a week away.
And then there were six. While Michael Bloomberg Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang are still very much in the race, only six candidates qualified for Tuesday night’s debate in Iowa.
Ocasio-Cortez joins her fellow first-year congresswoman Ilhan Omar, another member of the new Democratic guard, in endorsing the 78-year-old Democratic candidate.
