Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’

US senator says Israeli prime minister is using antisemitism to distract attention from extremist and racist government' policies

Bernie Sanders has hit back fiercely at Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli prime minister's claim that US universities were being overrun by antisemitism on a scale comparable to the rise of Nazism in Germany.

In a video posted on X, the progressive senator from Vermont - who is Jewish - accused Netanyahu of insult[ing] the intelligence of the American people" by using antisemitism to distract attention from the policies of his extremist and racist government" in the military offensive in Gaza.