Former Bernie Sanders official accuses senator of pushing most antisemitic candidates 'in a generation'
Former campaign official for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Joel Rubin called out the Vermont senator last week for pushing the "most categorically anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates" he's seen in recent years."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 said in an interview with Jewish Insider.
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Former campaign official for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Joel Rubin called out the Vermont senator last week for pushing the "most categorically anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates" he's seen in recent years."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 said in an interview with Jewish Insider. "The goal is to undermine Democratic unity and even rationality on Israel at this stage," Rubin said.SANDERS UNDER FIRE FOR PROPPING UP PLATNER AS DEMS TORCH HIS TOXIC ENDORSEMENT 'PATTERN'Rubin, who was also a former State Department official under former President Barack Obama, previously led Jewish outreach for Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign. However, following Sanders' past support for former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who sported a tattoo resembling a Nazi "totenkopf," a skull-and-crossbones design, Rubin has since concluded that his former boss is now intentionally pushing antisemitism.Rubin went as far as to refer to Sanders as an "outright hostile actor" pushing a "hate-based narrative" surrounding Israel along with several rising Democratic politicians."I’m extremely disappointed.
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- Former campaign official for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Joel Rubin called out the Vermont senator last week for pushing the "most categorically anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates" he's seen in recent years."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 said in an interview with Jewish Insider.
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