Bernie Sanders

AIPAC ads against pro-Israel New Jersey candidate open to conditions for US aid backfires

“We are going to have a focus on stopping candidates who are detractors of Israel or who want to put conditions on aid,” Patrick Dorton, a spokesperson for the United Democracy Project, said.

DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT Representative Tom Malinowski participates in a get out the vote event ahead of next month’s midterm elections on October 29, 2022 in Rahway, New Jersey.
 US SENATOR Bernie Sanders speaks at a May Day rally in Philadelphia earlier this month. In a Senate committee meeting, Sanders said: ‘We can agree that antisemitism is unacceptable in all forms, but some of us happen to believe that the response of the Netanyahu government to the Hamas attack is al

Holocaust Memorial Museum board looks to oust Bernie Sanders after years of absence - report

People attend an anti-Israeli protest after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, June 20, 2025

Drunk on Jew-hatred, Iran’s horrors go unmentioned - opinion

 ‘THE SQUAD’ – US Reps. Ayanna Pressley (from left), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib hold a news conference on Capitol Hill in 2019

The Squad’s selective feminism fails Iranian women, too - comment


Sanders's human rights proposal against Israel endangers Jewish lives - editorial

Sanders’s hostility toward Israel is well known – he couches it in an enmity to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the policies of right-wing governments, but it seems to go beyond that.

US SEN. Bernie Sanders: ‘Israel is at war with Hamas, not innocent Palestinian men, women, and children. Israel cannot bomb an entire neighborhood to take out one Hamas target,’ he argues.

US Senate tables resolution for assessing potential Israeli human rights violations

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the resolution last year on Dec. 14. 

 US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer next to House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, as supporters of Israel gather in solidarity and protest against antisemitism, amid the war with Hamas, during a rally on the National Mall in Washington, US November 14, 2023.

Two Jewish Democrats join growing calls for Israel-Hamas ceasefire

The calls signal a growing shift in how Jewish Democrats are approaching the war as it enters its sixth week, the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip intensifies.

 US Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaks during a public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 12, 2022.

In an unusual twist, AIPAC praises Bernie Sanders over his Israel-Hamas ceasefire stance

Later on Sunday, Sanders made clear that the affection wasn’t mutual.

 US Rep Rashida Tlaib and Democratic 2020 US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders exit the stage following a campaign rally for Sanders in Detroit, Michigan, US October 27, 2019

Bernie Sanders: I don't know if a ceasefire is possible with Hamas

Sanders begins the interview with a clear and direct statement "Hamas slaughtered 1,400 people in cold blood, Israel has a right to defend itself."

Bernie Sanders responds to a question from a reporter

Grapevine September 20, 2023: A changing situation

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 RABBI YITZHAK DOVID GROSSMAN and MKs Benny Gantz and Pnina Tamano-Shata with boys studying at Zoharim.

A congressional Nakba Day debacle - editorial

We applaud the lawmakers, both Democratic and Republican, who have spoken out against Wednesday’s event and hope their voices win out in the end.

 US Rep Rashida Tlaib and Democratic 2020 US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders exit the stage following a campaign rally for Sanders in Detroit, Michigan, US October 27, 2019

Who attended US Speaker McCarthy's bipartisan Israel event?

Tlaib ultimately hosted her event on the Senate side of the Capitol, securing a room with the help of a progressive Jewish ally, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

 US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy (L) is seen alongside Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana in Jerusalem, Israel, on May 1, 2023.

Is US bipartisanship going entirely out of fashion?

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: As US bipartisan relations weaken, where does that leave US-Israel relations?

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets yesterday with US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (fourth from left) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, along with a Republican delegation including Sens. Katie Britt, Ted Budd, Joni Ernst, Markwayne Mullin, Pete Ricketts and Thom Tillis.

Candidates backed by AIPAC and J Street face off for first time

AIPAC-backed Don Davis beats J Street-backed Erica Smith in NC • The tables turn in PA

 A man fills out a ballot at a voting booth in Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, May 17, 2022.