US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has almost single-handedly changed the discourse on Israel in the Democratic Party and in the United States more generally.
But his appearance at the J-Street conference was a further tour de force, and the positions he has staked out clearly have put pressure on the other Democratic candidates to take a position on Israeli land-grabs in the Palestinian West Bank and economic strangulation of the Palestinians in Gaza.
Sanders said in his address that Palestinians also want peace. He said, “let me underline this… It is not anti-Semitism to say that the Netanyahu government has been racist.”
The Israeli government has egregiously violated the Oslo Peace accords by flooding hundreds of thousands of Israeli squatters into the Palestinian West Bank.
This is actually a war crime according to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which was designed to forestall any repeat of the
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