(JTA) Last month, Bernie Sanders wrote about his support for Israel, calling the nation an “enormous achievement” and “a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.”
A few weeks later Linda Sarsour, a prominent Arab-American activist and an official Sanders campaign surrogate, said that support for Israel as a state is unacceptable in the progressive movement.
The contrast is sharp and, one would think, irreconcilable.
Neither Sarsour nor the Sanders campaign has answered the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s request for comment.
Let’s review some recent statements on Israel by Sanders and Sarsour.
