RJC Takes Aim at Democratic Candidates' Anti-Israel Statements

RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks was on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning to talk about Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders. You can watch the interview here.

Brooks was asked about Sen. Sanders’ announcement that he would boycott the AIPAC conference in Washington, DC next week. Brooks responded: 

He’s willing to speak to radical progressive left-wing organizations like J Street and others and condemns Benjamin Netanyahu as being a racist.

We really run the risk – and the Jewish community understands this – we really run the risk in this election of transitioning from the most pro-Israel president ever in history – and make no mistake about it, Donald Trump is the most pro-Israel president ever in history – transitioning from that to the first enemy of Israel ever in the White House.

…I am absolutely convinced, and I will guarantee you, that if Bernie Sanders is the nominee, and really regardless of whether Bernie Sanders is the nominee, whoever the Democrats nominate, President Trump will do significantly better among Jewish voters in 2020 than he did in 2016.

Sanders has characterized Israel as racist and the American Jewish community that supports Israel as bigots. The RJC fired back at Sen. Sanders’ remarks. Israel Hayom quotes RJC spokesman Neil Strauss: 

Bernie Sanders, the now de facto leader of the Democrat Party, does not support Israel and our alliance with the only democracy in the Middle East. That Bernie Sanders doesn't care about advancing bipartisan support for Israel is unsurprising and shows that he will complete the Democrat Party's abandonment of bipartisan support for Israel.

This all goes to show how important it is that Jews come out strongly to support the Republican Party, the only pro-Israel party.

RJC’s Neil Strauss also commented on Tuesday night’s Democrat debate: 

The Democrats finally decided to talk about Israel … and promptly fell over themselves to tear down our closest ally in the Middle East. Bernie Sanders speaks glowingly of Fidel Castro’s Communist Cuba, and [Mike] Bloomberg is afraid to criticize Xi Jinping, the leader of China who is currently engaged in ethnic cleansing, but neither had a kind word for the Middle East’s only democracy.

Not a single person on that stage stopped to recognize the fruitful US-Israel relationship that produces intelligence and defensive weapons, that safeguards the American people and our allies. The leaders of the Democrat Party that we saw tonight are a shanda [‘embarrassment’ in Yiddish].

FURTHER READING:

• Refusing to Attend AIPAC Underscores Bernie’s Reliance on People Who Hate Jews  
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• The Democrat Jewish Presidential Candidates are a Disgrace
  RJC Leader Lynne Lechter takes both Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg to task for stabbing Israel and global Jewry in the back at the Democratic debate in South Carolina this week.
  
  
• Bernie Sanders, AIPAC, and Israel
  Alexander Joffe warns that by labeling Israel and support for Israel as "racist," Sanders delegitimizes the Jewish state and disenfranchises its supporters among moderate Democrats, deepening the divide over Israel in this country.