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US Sen. Bernie Sanders’s former Jewish liaison says Sanders and his movement are harming the American Jewish community by boosting “anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates.”
Joel Rubin, a former US State Department official and repeated candidate for public office, managed Jewish outreach for Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign.
He tells Jewish Insider that the far-left wing of the Democratic Party is fomenting hostility to Israel, to the detriment of the party and American Jews.
“I think what Sanders and the Sanders operation have done is shove into our system the most categorically anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates that we’ve seen in a generation — if ever, certainly within the Democratic Party — and it’s by design,” Rubin tells Jewish Insider. “The goal is to undermine Democratic unity and even rationality on Israel at this stage.”
Rubin describes Sanders as an “outright hostile actor” who is fomenting a “highly unproductive debate about whether or not Israel should exist.”
Rubin adds, “It violates the goals of promoting peace in the Middle East and the two-state solution, and I believe that it exacerbates the pain and distress that the American Jewish community is experiencing right now in Israel policy.”
He claims the Democratic Party is no longer progressive but has become “something much darker” and is promoting a “hate-based narrative.”
“What it’s doing now is gutting American Jewish confidence in the Democratic Party, which is not a way to win elections, and it’s unethical as well, considering American Jews have been a bedrock community supporting the Democratic Party,” Rubin says.
“The American Jewish community doesn’t deserve this,” he says, adding that the community is “getting beaten up as if we were the opponent. It’s totally offensive and it’s politically dangerous for the Democratic Party to do that as well.”
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