Rep. Jared Moskowitz (R-FL) took aim at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday over the progressive leader’s ongoing call to cut off aid to Israel amid its campaign against Hamas in Gaza, which has left tens of thousands dead.
Sanders reiterated his call to cut off U.S. funding for “Netanyahu’s war machine” on Tuesday, sharing a statement online and adding, “It is a dark day for democracy when the Senate will not even allow a vote on whether U.S. taxpayer dollars should fund Netanyahu’s war against the Palestinian people.”
Moskowitz replied to Sanders’s tweet, writing, “Bernie, now do AntiSemitism. Why so quiet?” Moskowitz was one of several Jewish Democrats who toured Columbia’s campus on Tuesday amid protests that have been widely condemned as anti-Semitic. He later joined CNN on Tuesday night and slammed Columbia’s lack of action in cracking down on the protesters and compared them to the Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia who chanted to rid the U.S. of Jews.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hit back at Moskowitz, writing: