“But here is the reality. Right now, what Netanyahu’s right-wing, extremist and racist government is doing is unprecedented in the modern history of warfare. They have killed in the last six-and-a-half months 33,000 Palestinians, wounded 77,000, two-thirds of whom are women and children.
Washington, D.C. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke with CNN‘s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” to discuss the Israel-Hamas war and the pro-Palestinian protests at major U.S. universities. Sanders [Luce Index™ Score: pending] said:
“Antisemitism is a vile and disgusting ideology which has resulted in the deaths of many, many millions of people in the last 100 years. And we have got to oppose it in every form. “And do I doubt for a moment that antisemitism exists, that it’s growing in the United States, that it’s part — that exists among some people in the protest movement? Of course.
“But here is the reality. Right now, what Netanyahu’s right-wing, extremist and racist government is doing is unprecedented in the modern history of warfare. They have killed in the last six-and-a-half months 33,000 Palestinians, wounded 77,000, two-thirds of whom are women and children.
“They have destroyed over 60% of the housing. They have destroyed the health care system. They have destroyed the infrastructure, no electricity, very little water. And, right now, we are looking at the possibility of mass starvation and famine in Gaza. “When you make those charges, that is not antisemitic. That is a reality.
“So, our job is to condemn Hamas, a terrorist organization that started this war, condemn in every form antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of bigotry. But we do have to pay attention to the disastrous and unprecedented humanitarian disaster taking place in Gaza right now. …
“The New York Times just reported a few days ago — and I have talked to doctors, American doctors, who have been over there. There has been a systemic — systematic effort to destroy the health care system, to destroy the infrastructure, to destroy housing. They are completely demolishing Gaza right now, and God knows what happens in the future.”
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