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Robert Tait in Washington

Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’

Bernie Sanders speaks with reporters as the Senate prepares to advance the $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan at the Capitol, on 23 April.
Bernie Sanders speaks with reporters as the Senate prepares to advance the $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan at the Capitol, on 23 April. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

Bernie Sanders has hit back fiercely at Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli prime minister’s claim that US universities were being overrun by antisemitism on a scale comparable to the rise of Nazism in Germany.

In a video posted on X, the progressive senator from Vermont – who is Jewish – accused Netanyahu of “insult[ing] the intelligence of the American people” by using antisemitism to distract attention from the policies of his “extremist and racist government” in the military offensive in Gaza.

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