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Fast Forward What are the Democratic candidates saying about Trump’s peace plan?
The candidates running in the Democratic presidential primary have very little positive to say about President Trump’s foreign policy — and his newly-unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan is no exception. The Democratic presidential race hasn’t touched on Israel that much —some candidates, mostly on the left, have proposed putting conditions on American military aid to the…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders promises he will not call you on your birthday
Sen. Bernie Sanders admitted in an interview with The New York Times editorial board that he is “not good at pleasantries” and doesn’t make a practice of wishing people happy birthday. “Look, I don’t tolerate [expletive] terribly well, and I come from a different background than a lot of other people who run the country,”…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders picks former Obama official as liaison to Jewish community
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Bernie Sanders campaign has named an insider in both the Jewish and Democratic establishments — entities that the presidential candidate has previously kept at a distance — as its liaison to the Jewish community. The appointment of Joel Rubin, a former Obama administration official with longstanding ties to an array of…
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Fast Forward Biden Says Sanders’s Plan To Withdraw Aid To Israel Is ‘Bizarre’
(JTA) — Joe Biden told voters in Iowa that support for withdrawing military aid from Israel over its interactions with the Palestinians is “bizarre.” Biden was attacking Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fellow Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential nomination in 2020, and others. “In terms of Bernie and others who talk about dealing with Zionism,…
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Fast Forward Sanders Staffer Leaves Campaign Over Anti-Semitic, Homophobic Tweets
(JTA) — A newly hired staff member on Bernie Sander’s 2020 presidential campaign left his job after reports surfaced about past anti-Semitic and homophobic tweets. Darius Khalil Gordon announced on Wednesday that he had joined the Sanders campaign team as deputy director of constituency organizing. The following day, the conservative news website the Washington Free…
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News Sarsour Saga Shows Sanders’s Continued Struggles With Jewish Voters
A controversy involving a top campaign surrogate is proving to be a setback for Sen. Bernie Sanders as he works to earn more Jewish support ahead of the Iowa Democratic caucus, less than two months away. It’s the latest example of Sanders, the most successful Jewish presidential candidate in American history, drawing anger from Jewish…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders: ‘It’s No Longer Good Enough For Us To Be Simply Pro-Israel’
The United States should rethink its policies toward Israel and the Palestinians, Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a Democratic primary debate on Wednesday. “It is no longer good enough for us to be simply pro-Israel,” Sanders said. “I am pro-Israel. But we must treat the Palestinian people as well with the respect and dignity they…
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Opinion I’m An Orthodox Jew. Why Is Bernie Sanders Whitewashing Violence Against Us?
If any of my fellow Orthodox Jews were naïve enough to expect presidential candidate and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ recent essay entitled “How to Fight anti-Semitism” to have a single word about how to combat the daily violent attacks we are facing, they would be sorely mistaken. Indeed, while purporting to hold the key to…
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