{"id":155041,"date":"2020-02-24T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=155041"},"modified":"2020-02-24T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T08:23:14","slug":"bernie-sanders-to-skip-aipac-conference-on-political-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/02\/bernie-sanders-to-skip-aipac-conference-on-political-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders to Skip AIPAC Conference on Political Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>The Vermont senator made it clear that he will not attend the AIPAC event for political, not agenda-related, reasons.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_155042\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-sanders.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155042\" class=\"wp-image-155042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-sanders.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-sanders.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-sanders-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanders won the New Hampshire and Nevada Democratic contests, after winning the popular vote in Iowa.\u00a0 | Photo: Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>23 Feb 2020 &#8211;<\/em> United States Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced Sunday that he would not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) conference this year, marking his stance against the pro-Israel lobby in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after becoming the undisputed favorite in the Democratic race with a solid victory in Nevada&#8217;s caucuses, the Vermont senator made it clear that he will not attend the AIPAC event for political, not agenda-related, reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the Palestinian people,&#8221; Sanders wrote on Twitter on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I remain concerned about the platform that AIPAC offers to leaders who express intolerance and oppose the basic rights of Palestinians. For that reason, I will not be attending your conference.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the Palestinian people. 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. 1\/2<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1231709010430189570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >February 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0progressive candidate\u00a0renewed his pledge to support the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis, saying he would do &#8220;everything possible&#8221; to bring peace to the region if elected president.<\/p>\n<p>AIPAC\u00a0issued a very direct response for Sanders, noting the attendance of many of his Democratic colleagues as well as other participants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By participating in such an odious attack on this American political event, Senator Sanders is insulting his own colleagues and the millions of Americans who support Israel. Truly shameful,&#8221; the group said in a statement, adding that\u00a0Sanders has &#8220;never attended&#8221; the\u00a0pro-Israel conference.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders won the New Hampshire and Nevada Democratic contests, after winning the popular vote in Iowa, and has proposed foreign policy lines outside the mainstream of U.S. politics, including a promise to pressure the Israeli government to end the occupation and improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/teleSUREnglish\/videos\/2439440272753338\/<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Related<strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Bernie-Sanders-Wins-Big-in-Nevada-Democratic-Vote-20200223-0001.html\" >Bernie Sanders Wins Big in Nevada Democratic Vote<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/bernie-sanders-would-skip-aipac-conference-on-political-reasons-20200223-0016.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 telesurenglish.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 Feb 2020 &#8211; The Vermont senator made it clear that he will not attend the AIPAC event for political, not agenda-related, reasons. &#8220;I remain concerned about the platform that AIPAC offers to leaders who express intolerance and oppose the basic rights of Palestinians. For that reason, I will not be attending your conference.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":155042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1859,392,88,85,109,70,886],"class_list":["post-155041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-aipac","tag-elections","tag-israel","tag-palestine-israel","tag-politics","tag-usa","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}