Bernie Sanders at CNN town hall: ‘Israel is run by a racist government’
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Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at a CNN town hall in New Hampshire on Monday, April, 22, 2019.
Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told a room full of students last night during CNN’s marathon town hall in New Hampshire that Israel is headed by a “racist government,” and vowed to “level the playing field” between disparate American support for Israel and the Palestinians.
When asked how he will maintain a strong alliance with Israel despite his past criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who was reelected to a fifth term earlier this month, Sanders said his longstanding support of Israel, which included a stint living on a Kibbutz in the 1960s, is separate from his view of the current administration.
“I am not anti-Israel, but the fact of the mat...