Bernie Sanders: Protests against massacres committed by Netanyahu’s government in Gaza are not anti-Semitic
WORLD, April 26 (YPA) -US senator Bernie Sanders sharply criticized the Zionist Prime Benjamin Netanyahu’s allegations in which he said that solidarity protests with Gaza in US universities are “anti-Semitic.”
“No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas to point out that, in a little over six months, your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – 70 per cent of whom are women and children,” Sanders said in a statement.
Mr. Netanyahu, antisemitism is a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to millions.
Do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government. pic.twitter.com/CnM6oOrHKd
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 25, 2024
He added, ” Do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government.”
Sanders said it is “not anti-Semitic” to point out that Israeli bombing has completely destroyed more than 221,000 housing units in Gaza, leaving more than 1 million people homeless, and that the Israeli government has obliterated Gaza’s civilian infrastructure.
He said it is “not anti-Semitic” to realise that Israel has annihilated Gaza’s health care system and also “not anti-Semitic” to condemn the Netanyahu government’s destruction of all of Gaza’s 12 universities and 56 of their schools, leaving 625,000 students with no education.
It is “not anti-Semitic” to agree with virtually every humanitarian organisation in saying that the Israeli government has “unreasonably” blocked humanitarian aid coming into Gaza, he added.
It is not anti-Semitic to hold Mr. Netanyahu accountable for his actions in his horrific war against the Palestinian people, he further added.
Sanders is one of the most prominent Jewish senators in the US Senate, criticizing Netanyahu’s extremist government.
E.M