347 rabbis of all streams attack Democratic candidate for remarks against AIPAC Conference • A well-known Jewish journal has written a column against "Uncle Bernie's Anti-Semitism Problem"

US Jews embark on offensive against Bernie Sanders, currently the Democratic Party's leading candidate, after calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "racist," announcing that he would waive participation in the AIPAC conference and said he would consider returning the US embassy to Tel Aviv.

347 rabbis from all walks of life and from all parts of the United States, men and women, conservatives, Orthodox and reformers, on Wednesday signed a petition staunchly attacking Sanders and urging him to withdraw from his decision not to attend the AIPAC conference. "As significant supporters of the US-Israel relationship, and the role of AIPAC in promoting this relationship, we reject Senator Bernie Sanders's outrageous response, which accuses AIPAC of fostering extremism. Its mission is to support our Democratic ally and to strengthen the long-standing bipartisan support of a partnership that benefits the two countries.

"AIPAC is one of the last remaining conferences in American politics that seeks to proactively bring together Americans from across the political spectrum to achieve a common goal. We saw presidents and prime ministers, members of Congress and Knesset members, military analysts and experts, religious leaders and cultural icons come to the conference. We take the opportunity to challenge the system and think constructively, and appreciate that people on the other side of the political barricade are doing this sacred work alongside us, "the rabbis wrote.

At the same time, in the Jewish Journal, Asra Nomani, a former journalist in the Wall Street Journal, and now an anti-Semitic investigator, published a particularly poignant article entitled "Uncle Bernie's Anti-Semitism Problem" in which she went against the AIPAC boycott and claimed that he did indeed want to boycott Enthusiastic and extremist groups "must look closer to his home - to his anti-Semitic cheerleaders," she said.

"As voters for Sanders in the 2016 election, these anti-Semitics have a growing influence, and build a troubling coalition along with anti-Israeli groups like IfNotNow and Code Pink who claim to be 'just anti-Zionist.' Sanders denies his allies are anti-Semitic A plan to destroy the Jewish state is anti-Semitic. The hatred of the Jewish state is anti-Semitism. "

Nomeni counted anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic activists backed by Sanders, including Congresswoman Linda Parsor, who calls Sanders' David Burney, and who supports Louis Farhan who in turn called the "Satanic" Jews. She claims that "Sanders also enjoys the growing support of Ali Abunima, the founder of the Electronic Intifada - a propaganda machine against 'the inherently racist Israeli regime'." She says, "When Uncle Bernie throws words like bigotry and extremism, he needs to look a little closer at the anti-Semitic society that is close to him."

On the other hand, the Forward Jewish Web site, which is affiliated with the Democratic Party, provided a position supporting Sanders. "American Jews should be reassured that they may be offended," Joel Swanson wrote. He said Sanders' decision to forgo the AIPAC conference was correct. "The truth is that IIPAC has not been bipartisan in a long time," he noted. Among other things, he argued that activists at iPak helped fund ads against Sanders so "it takes a bit of audacity to fund valid ads against a leading presidential candidate, then accuse him of 'he started' when he refuses to talk to you."

"How can we ask the world to say 'never again' to our murders, and then attend conferences alongside other genocide supporters? How can we ask other communities to condemn anti-Semitism and then turn a blind eye to Islamophobia?", He wondered. "Bernie Sanders doesn't offer it, but maybe we need something new," he added.