{"id":225886,"date":"2024-04-28T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=225886"},"modified":"2024-04-28T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T18:30:39","slug":"bernie-sanders-demolishes-netanyahu-for-deceitfully-mislabeling-us-protesters-as-anti-semitic-also-exposes-horrendous-ongoing-gaza-genocide-with-idfs-mass-murder-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=225886","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bernie Sanders demolishes Netanyahu for deceitfully mislabeling US protesters as &#8216;anti-semitic&#8217;, also exposes horrendous ongoing Gaza genocide with IDF&#8217;s mass murder stats<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>It is \u201cnot anti-Semitic\u201d to criticize the Israeli government\u2019s policies, the US senator has insisted<\/h3>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__cover article__cover-left\">\n<div class=\"media  \"><picture><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item  lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2024.04\/xxs\/662d53f685f5407d33647cd8.jpg\" sizes=\"555px\" alt=\"Bernie Sanders hits back at Netanyahu over anti-Semitism claims\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2024.04\/xxs\/662d53f685f5407d33647cd8.jpg\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<h5 class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\"><span data-role=\"title\">US Senator Bernie Sanders\u00a0<\/span><span data-role=\"copyright-symbol\">\u00a9\u00a0<\/span><span data-role=\"source\">Getty Images \/\u00a0<\/span><span data-role=\"copyright\">Andrew Harnik \/ Staff<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>US Senator Bernie Sanders has hit back at remarks made by the prime minister of Israel that pro-Palestinian protests at US universities are being overrun by anti-Semitism on a scale comparable to the rise of Nazism in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>US police arrested more than 80 protesters on Wednesday in a crackdown on the pro-Palestine demonstrations taking place at dozens of universities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Students have been demanding that Washington cease all funding for the Israeli military and\u00a0<em>\u201cstop giving them any more money to continue this genocide,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0referring to the ongoing Israeli offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, Sanders, the progressive senator from Vermont \u2013 who is Jewish \u2013 accused Netanyahu of insulting\u00a0<em>\u201cthe intelligence of the American people\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by using anti-Semitism to distract attention from the policies of his\u00a0<em>\u201cextremist and racist government\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the military offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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antisemitism is a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to many millions of people,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sanders said in the conclusion of his two-and-a-half-minute speech.\u00a0<em>\u201cBut please, do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal policies of your extremist and racist government\u2026 It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sanders\u2019 comments came one day after a video statement released by Netanyahu in which\u00a0he waded into the issue of protests sweeping American university campuses, claiming not enough was being done to combat\u00a0the\u00a0<em>\u201chorrific\u201d<\/em>\u00a0rise in anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnti-Semitic mobs have taken over leading universities,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Netanyahu claimed.\u00a0<em>\u201cThey call for the annihilation of Israel. They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0prime minister stated, urging that\u00a0<em>\u201cit has to be stopped.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A surge of demonstrations came in the wake of Israel\u2019s relentless retaliatory bombardment of Gaza, following the October 7 attack by Hamas. The Israeli offensive has caused unprecedented destruction in the enclave and has left more than 34,000 dead, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/596698-sanders-slams-netanyahu-antisemitism\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/596698-sanders-slams-netanyahu-antisemitism\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}