Bernie
Sanders, who has announced his intention to run in the Democratic
primaries ahead of the 2020 presidential election, posted a campaign
video featuring a supporter praising him for his condemnation of the
“apartheid-like” conditions imposed on Palestinians by Israel.
“He
spoke out against apartheid in South Africa when crazily that was an
unpopular thing to do and even today he speaks out against
apartheid-like conditions in Palestine even though it’s not
popular,” Shaun King said in the clip posted on Monday on the
presidential campaign’s Facebook page.
King, “a
columnist and activist”, was speaking at the formal launch of
Sanders’ campaign on 2 March.
The
video then breaks away from King’s speech to a highlighted online
CNN headline, “Bernie Sanders smashes the Israel status quo”.
Sanders
was “the first Jewish candidate to win major nominating contests
when he ran for the Democratic nomination in 2016”, and has
also “been among the Senate’s most trenchant Israel critics,
releasing multiple videos last year decrying Israel’s use of lethal
weapons to end protests”.
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