JEWISH MINI MIKE BLASTS JEWISH CRAZY BERNIE

Mike Bloomberg says it's 'deeply disturbing' Bernie Sanders called pro-Israel group AIPAC a 'racist platform' and is boycotting its conference in clash between Jewish 2020 contenders

Daily Mail
March 2, 2020

Mike Bloomberg went on the attack against Bernie Sanders during his remarks at a pro-Israel conference Monday, slamming his fellow Democratic candidate for calling the non-profit 'racist.'

While touting the bipartisan nature of the U.S.-Israeli relationship and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Bloomberg bashed Sanders for skipping out on the conference, which the Vermont senator has never attended.

'The relationship between our two countries has been so strong precisely because it transcends partisan politics both here and in Israel,' Bloomberg said during his remarks. 'But in recent years, we've begun to see cracks in that bipartisanship, and that is deeply disturbing.

'Unfortunately, not all of my fellow Democrats in this race have attended an AIPAC Conference,' he continued. 'One of them, Senator Sanders, has spent 30 years boycotting this event. And as you've heard by now, he called AIPAC a 'racist platform.' Well let me tell you, he's dead wrong.'

The two Democratic presidential candidates are Jewish, but hold very different views on the relationship between the U.S. and the world's only Jewish state.

Bloomberg received several rounds of applause during his remarks, and even garnered some standing ovations when voicing his support of Israel, including keeping the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, where President Donald Trump moved it toward the beginning of his presidency.

The billionaire also said he joined Trump in recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Sanders, who represents Vermont in the Senate and is a Democratic socialist, announced last Sunday in a tweet that he would not be attending the conference in Washington, D.C.

'I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights. For that reason I will not attend their conference,' the Vermont senator wrote on Twitter late last month.

'As president, I will support the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians and do everything possible to bring peace and security to the region,' he posted in a second tweet.

'This is a gathering of 20,000 Israel supporters of every religious denomination, ethnicity, faith, color, sexual identity and political party. Calling it a racist platform is an attempt to discredit those voices, intimidate people from coming here and weaken the U.S.-Israel relationship,' Bloomberg said in his continued assault on the frontrunner 2020 candidate.

'The reality is: AIPAC doesn't fuel hatred, AIPAC works to combat it and the violence it can produce. And if more elected officials spoke to the people here, they'd understand that,' he asserted to a cheering crowd at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.