A former Bernie Sanders campaign official feels the progressive icon has helped promote some of the most "antisemitic candidates that we've seen in a generation" as democratic socialists continue to upend the party establishment.
“I think what Sanders and the Sanders operation have done is shove into our system the most categorically anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates that we’ve seen in a generation — if ever, certainly within the Democratic Party — and it’s by design,” Joel Rubin told Jewish Insider last week. “It’s not by accident, and it’s very disruptive intentionally. The goal is to undermine Democratic unity and even rationality on Israel at this stage.”
Rubin is an ex-State Department official who led Jewish outreach for Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign, when he finished runner-up to eventual nominee Joe Biden.
Rubin said Sanders had become a "hostile actor" and he was disappointed in him.
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