{"id":538813,"date":"2021-05-24T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538813"},"modified":"2021-05-24T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:50:32","slug":"bernie-says-dems-should-tone-down-rhetoric-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-says-dems-should-tone-down-rhetoric-against-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Says Dems Should \u2018Tone Down\u2019 Rhetoric Against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbernie-says-dems-should-tone-down-rhetoric-against-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538813&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.878048780488\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Vermont senator has accused country of promoting an &#8216;authoritarian type of racist nationalism&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1231375824_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1231375824_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1231375824_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1231375824_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 May 24, 2021 4:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"77.163120567376\">\n<p><span>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), a longtime critic of Israel, called on Democrats to dial back their rhetoric against the country a<\/span>s anti-Semitic attacks flare up across the United States.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think we should tone down the rhetoric,&#8221; said Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, on CBS&#8217;s <em>Face the Nation<\/em> on Sunday. &#8220;The job of the United States is to bring people together. And that is what we have got to try to do.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Vermont senator, however, has for years singled out the Jewish state for criticism. In a <em>New York Times<\/em> op-ed earlier this month<\/span>, Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/14\/opinion\/bernie-sanders-israel-palestine-gaza.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&amp;smtyp=cur\">accused<\/a>&nbsp;Israel<span> of &#8220;entrenching its unequal and undemocratic control&#8221; over Palestinians and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is promoting an &#8220;increasingly intolerant and authoritarian type of racist nationalism.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, a Sanders presidential campaign video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/bernie-sanders-posts-video-citing-apartheid-like-conditions-for-palestinians\/\">compared<\/a> the conditions for Palestinians in the region to South African apartheid. The video included comments from Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopantisemitism.org\/antisemite-of-the-week5-1\/shaun-king-the-antisemitic-social-justice-warrior\">defended<\/a> anti-Semitic public figures such as Louis Farrakhan and Linda Sarsour. Sanders also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2020\/03\/11\/jewish-anti-israeli-occupation-group-endorses-sanders\/\">touted<\/a> an endorsement from the anti-Israel group IfNotNow on the campaign trail. In May, IfNotNow published and later deleted a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/report-anti-israel-activist-heading-to-biden-state-dept\/\">tweet<\/a> supporting violent Palestinian rioters who called for the bombing of Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders&#8217;s senior foreign policy adviser, Matt Duss, also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/top-sanders-aide-accuses-israel-of-terrorism\/\">accused<\/a> Israel of &#8220;terrorism&#8221; last year following reports that Israeli operatives assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Republicans in Congress have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/report-anti-israel-activist-heading-to-biden-state-dept\/\">accused<\/a> Duss of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders&#8217;s comments come amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/21\/us\/anti-semitic-attacks-new-york-los-angeles\/index.html\">wave<\/a> of anti-Semitic attacks across the United States. Pro-Palestinian activists have attacked Jews on the streets of New York City and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/pro-palestinian-mob-beats-up-jewish-men-in-los-angeles\/\">Los Angeles<\/a>, and anti-Semitic content on social media has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/22\/antisemitism-fueled-by-social-media-experts\/\">surged<\/a> since the start of the latest Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing Democrats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/dem-leaders-thwart-leftist-attempt-to-delay-military-assistance-to-israel\/\">moved<\/a> to cut military aid to the Jewish state last week as it fended off thousands of rocket attacks from Hamas. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.)\u2014all of whom endorsed Sanders in his 2020 presidential bid\u2014have accused Israel of &#8220;apartheid&#8221; and &#8220;war crimes&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1395060604289929219\">called<\/a> on the United States to hold the Jewish state &#8220;fully accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Vermont senator has accused country of promoting an &#8216;authoritarian type of racist nationalism&#8217;  Jack Beyrer \u2022 May 24, 2021 4:45 pm Sen. 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