{"id":535461,"date":"2026-07-10T23:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535461\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:34:04","slug":"sanders-compares-israel-with-sudan-and-russia-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535461\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders compares Israel with Sudan and Russia &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (July 10, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has long accused Israel of \u201cgenocide,\u201d compared the Jewish state with Sudan and Russia in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne might have hoped that, after thousands of years of war, humanity could have come up with a better way to resolve conflicts than killing and mass destruction,\u201d the Jewish senator said. \u201cUnfortunately, that is not the case. There is now more war and bloodshed raging across the world than at almost any point in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/press-releases\/news-sanders-statement-on-civil-war-and-genocide-in-sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">statement<\/a> ostensibly about \u201ccivil war and genocide in Sudan,\u201d Sanders noted Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine \u201cwithout provocation\u201d and what he said is \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn October 2023, Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 innocent people and taking 251 hostages,\u201d he said. \u201cIn response, Netanyahu and the Israeli military did not simply wage war against Hamas. They waged war against the entire population of Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He accused the Jewish state of destroying \u201cvirtually the entire physical infrastructure of Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamas is known to embed deliberately among the civilian population and to use it as human shields.<\/p>\n<p>Five paragraphs into the statement about genocide in Sudan, Sanders finally mentioned Sudan, before pivoting to U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 10, 2026 \/ JNS) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has long accused Israel of \u201cgenocide,\u201d compared the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-535461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}