Leading US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders has announced that he will not attend the 2020 AIPAC policy conference, saying, “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.”
In doing so he followed another Democratic candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was goaded into agreeing not attend by a BDS activist who stated, “I’m an American Jew and I’m terrified by the unholy alliance that AIPAC is forming with Islamophobes and antisemites and white nationalists and no Democrat should legitimize that kind of bigotry by attending their annual policy conference.”
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