Bernie Sanders announced Sunday that he will not attend AIPAC’s annual policy conference next week. “The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the Palestinian people. I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights. For that reason I will not attend their conference,” Sanders wrote, promising that as president, he will “support the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians and do everything possible to bring peace and security to the region.”
He’s not the first to boycott the conference; Elizabeth Warren did so much more bluntly last month when she seemed to agree that AIPAC is in alliance with “Islamophobes” and “anti-Semites and white nationalists.”
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