Bernie Sanders

May 21, 2018, 6:51 pm

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announces re-election bid

76-year-old Jewish independent, considered possible contender for 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, says 2018 midterm election would be pivotal

By AP and TOI staff

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on a question during a town hall meeting on April 4, 2018 with Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

May 18, 2018, 9:36 pm

After issuing video, Sanders won’t say if he backs Palestinian ‘right of return’

Senator this week released clip highlighting Palestinian demand, which would end Israel as a Jewish state; his office says video neither endorses nor rejects it

By Eric Cortellessa

Senator Dianne Feinstein (California-Democrat) speaking to members of the media in Washington, DC, on February 15, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

May 16, 2018, 6:12 pm

Dianne Feinstein blasts Nikki Haley for blocking UN Gaza investigation

Senator slams US Jerusalem embassy opening as a 'serious mistake'; Bernie Sanders tweets video which says Palestinians have 'right to return to their former homes inside Israel'

By Ron Kampeas

Natalie Portman (L) has said her reason for skipping the Genesis Prize ceremony involves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Getty Images via JTA)

April 25, 2018, 3:08 am

Does Natalie Portman’s snub of Netanyahu make her the face of liberal Zionism?

In a celebrity media environment, 'It means a lot more for the debate when Natalie Portman says it,' says J Street's Jeremy Ben Ami

By Ron Kampeas

J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami addressing the group’s annual national conference in Washington on April 15, 2018. (Courtesy, J Street)

April 19, 2018, 10:30 pm

At AIPAC, a Trump-Netanyahu marriage made in heaven. At J Street, in hell

The two recent conferences show more than just competing ideologies or political goals; they reflect starkly different interpretations of this moment in the US-Israel relationship

By Eric Cortellessa

US Senator Ben Cardin speaks April 16 2018 at J Street’s conference in Washington DC. (courtesy, J Street)

April 17, 2018, 3:06 am

At J Street, pro-Israel stalwart Cardin lashes out at Netanyahu, Trump

In rare rebuke of foreign leader, lawmaker slams PM-backed plan to deport African asylum seekers as 'inconsistent with our Jewish and democratic values'

By Ron Kampeas

Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) addresses J Street's 2018 national conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC on April 16, 2018 (Screen capture).

April 17, 2018, 12:51 am

Bernie Sanders to J Street: Israel has ‘massively overreacted’ to Gaza protests

'To oppose the reactionary policies of Prime Minister Netanyahu does not make us anti-Israel,' Vermont senator declares

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative: Palestinians try to retrieve items from the rubble of a house after it was destroyed by IDF tractors near the West Bank village of Susya in 2011. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)

April 15, 2018, 2:32 am

Democrats to ask Netanyahu not to raze Palestinian villages

Ahead of J Street confab, House members craft letter saying evicting communities would abandon two countries’ shared values

By Eric Cortellessa

US Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, March 6, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

April 12, 2018, 11:36 pm

Elizabeth Warren urges Israeli restraint toward Gaza protesters

Senior Democrat is 'deeply concerned' and calls on IDF to 'respect the rights of Palestinians to peacefully protest'

By JTA and TOI staff

In this April 4, 2018 photo, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, left, applauds as US Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., answers a question during a town hall meeting examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

April 6, 2018, 6:53 pm

Bernie Sanders struggles with new path to black voters

Weighing 2020 run, Sanders is still searching for the right way to attract more of the voters who denied him the nomination last time

By Bill Barrow

Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speaks to a crowd of supporters at a Democratic unity rally at the Rail Event Center on April 21, 2017, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images via JTA)

April 1, 2018, 9:35 pm

Bernie Sanders calls the killing of Palestinian demonstrators ‘tragic’

Vermont senator tells CNN he does not believe Israeli claims that rioters threw rocks and firebombs and opened fire at soldiers

By JTA and TOI staff

Entrance sign at the northwest corner of the University of Minnesota (CC BY-SA Alexius Horatius, Wikimedia Commons)

March 22, 2018, 4:17 am

Anti-Semitic fliers blame US Jewish lawmakers for gun control

Headlined 'Why Are Jews After Our Guns,' circulars pointing to Sanders, Schumer and others posted at University of Minnesota

By JTA

Yemenis check the damage in the aftermath of a reported air strike by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on March 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mohammed HUWAIS)

March 21, 2018, 1:02 am

Senate rejects bid to end US support for Saudi-led campaign in Yemen

Lawmakers vote down bipartisan effort to overrule presidential military authorization in Riyadh's 'unauthorized war' against Iran-backed rebels

By Michael Mathes

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speaks to a crowd of supporters at a Democratic unity rally at the Rail Event Center on April 21, 2017, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images via JTA)

March 20, 2018, 12:19 am

Bernie Sanders helps launch global peace movement

11,000 callers from around the world, including Israel, participate in talks focusing on Iraq war 'blunder' and US-North Korea relations

By JTA

Carina Driscoll (YouTube screen capture/WPTZ news)

March 7, 2018, 5:41 am

Bernie Sanders’ stepdaughter thwarted in US mayor race

Independent Carina Driscoll fails to unseat Democratic incumbent Miro Weinberger in Burlington, Vermont

By AFP