SELF-HATING JEW: Bernie Sanders: I Will Not Attend Netanyahu’s Congress Speech

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sharply criticized the decision by congressional leaders to invite Prime Minister bIBI Netanyahu to speak before Congress and declared he would boycott the address.

In his statement – on Shabbos, of course – Sanders did not hold back, referring to Netanyahu as a “war criminal.”

“It is a very sad day for our country that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited – by leaders from both parties – to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress,” said the self-hating Jew.

While acknowledging Israel’s right to defend itself following the horrific Hamas terrorist attack on October 7th, Bumbling Bernie emphasized that “it did not, and does not, have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people.”

“Israel does not have the right to kill more than 34,000 civilians and wound over 80,000 – 5% of the population of Gaza. It does not have the right to orphan 19,000 children. It does not have the right to displace 75% of the people of Gaza from their homes. It does not have the right to damage or destroy over 60% of the housing in Gaza. It does not have the right to destroy the civilian infrastructure of Gaza, to obliterate water and sewage systems, and deny electricity to the people of Gaza. It does not have the right to annihilate Gaza’s health care system, knocking 26 hospitals out of service and killing more than 400 health care workers. It does not have the right to bomb all 12 of Gaza’s universities and 56 of its schools, or deny 625,000 children in Gaza the opportunity for an education,” Sanders said.

“It most certainly does not have the right to block humanitarian aid – food and medical supplies – from coming in to the desperate people of Gaza, creating the conditions for starvation and famine. It does not have the right to condemn hundreds of thousands of children to death by starvation. This is a clear violation of American and international law,” Sanders continued.

“The International Criminal Court recently announced that it is seeking warrants for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas. The ICC is right. Both of these people are engaged in clear and outrageous violations of international law,” he declared.

“Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. He should not be invited to address a joint meeting of Congress. I certainly will not attend,” Sanders concluded.

Sanders has consistently been a vocal critic of Israel’s government, labeling it as “racist” and advocating for the US to make its aid to Israel conditional.

He has previously urged Congress to reject the $10.1 billion in unconditional military aid proposed for Israel, arguing that the funds would enable the Israeli government “to continue its brutal war against the Palestinian people.”

Even though Sanders has intensified his criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza, he has not supported a permanent ceasefire, arguing that it could lead to more attacks by Hamas.

{Matzav.com}