Well into her second term, the progressive congresswoman says she’s happy to be engaging with mainstream Jewish groups in New York.
Unfortunately, the gaping divide in our country’s politics is reflected, in miniature, within the Jewish community.
Other politicians expected to attend include Bill de Blasio, Max Rose and Jerry Nadler.
A Jewish activist spoke to her for 45 minutes earlier this year regarding the Jewish community’s concerns about the Labour leader.
“Those are life and death issues, and if you misuse the Shoah, you can cloud those issues.”
Sanders gets the nod from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.
“Understand that Trump is engaged in deliberate, atrocious, targeted antisemitism towards Chairman Schiff,” the congresswoman tweeted.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likened Netanyahu to President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked her.
Ocasio-Cortez said it was “critically important” to see the conflict first-hand but won’t go until Tlaib and Omar are allowed too.
Ocasio-Cortez told the Forward in December that she had “no plans” to visit Israel or anywhere else in the region.