Former Bernie Sanders official accuses senator of pushing most antisemitic candidates 'in a generation'

Former run charismatic for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Joel Rubin called retired nan Vermont legislator past week for pushing nan "most categorically anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates" he's seen successful caller years.

"I deliberation what Sanders and nan Sanders cognition person done is shove into our strategy nan astir categorically anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates that we’ve seen successful a procreation — if ever, surely wrong nan Democratic Party — and it’s by design," Rubin said successful an question and reply with Jewish Insider. 

"The extremity is to undermine Democratic unity and moreover rationality connected Israel astatine this stage," Rubin said.

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Joel Rubin, who antecedently helped lead Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 statesmanlike campaign, criticized nan legislator for embracing antisemitic candidates. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Rubin, who was besides a erstwhile State Department charismatic nether erstwhile President Barack Obama, antecedently led Jewish outreach for Sanders' 2020 statesmanlike campaign. However, pursuing Sanders' past support for erstwhile Maine Senate campaigner Graham Platner, who sported a tattoo resembling a Nazi "totenkopf," a skull-and-crossbones design, Rubin has since concluded that his erstwhile leader is now intentionally pushing antisemitism.

Rubin went arsenic acold arsenic to mention to Sanders arsenic an "outright dispute actor" pushing a "hate-based narrative" surrounding Israel on pinch respective rising Democratic politicians.

"I’m highly disappointed. I consciousness for illustration it violates nan goals of promoting bid successful nan Middle East and nan two-state solution, and I judge that it exacerbates nan symptom and distress that nan American Jewish organization is experiencing correct now successful Israel policy," Rubin said. "I had higher hopes for a legislator who is Jewish, and his squad who knows very good what’s retired there."

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Democratic U.S. Senate campaigner Graham Platner stood together during a "Fighting Oligarchy" circuit extremity astatine nan Collins Center for nan Arts connected nan University of Maine field connected May 24, 2026, successful Orono, Maine. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

He warned that these efforts would time off Democrats susceptible successful elections against nan Republican Party, peculiarly arsenic support for Israel appears to beryllium a caller breaking constituent for progressive candidates.

"I don’t cognize what’s going connected wrong that operation. There is nary line. There is nary bottom. There is nary low," Rubin said. "And what it’s doing now is gutting American Jewish assurance successful nan Democratic Party, which is not a measurement to triumph elections, and it’s unethical arsenic well, considering American Jews person been a bedrock organization supporting nan Democratic Party."

"We request leadership, and nan progressive organization needs to extremity scapegoating Jews for each problems successful nan world," he added.

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Several Democratic politicians person pushed for an extremity to assistance successful Israel successful caller years. (Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to Sanders' agency for remark but did not instantly perceive back.

Along pinch Platner, Sanders has campaigned for and endorsed Melat Kiros successful Colorado and Abdul El-Sayed successful Michigan, who person some criticized Israel for committing an alleged "genocide" during its warfare successful Gaza.

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Sanders was besides 1 of respective Democratic members of Congress who person supported efforts to trim $3 cardinal in assistance to Israel.