Bernie Sanders Warns Joe Biden's Israel Policy Will Cost Him Votes

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) warned that President Joe Biden will suffer politically until he changes course and stops sending military aid to Israel unconditionally.

During a Tuesday interview on MSNBC, the Vermont progressive reiterated that the United States needed to put more pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to stop its bombing campaign and allow more humanitarian aid to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Not doing so, he added, would continue to hurt Biden’s standing within the Democratic Party, particularly with younger voters and voters of color, ahead of a matchup in November against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“The polling is very clear ― the Democratic base wants to stop funding for Netanyahu’s war machine,” Sanders said in a Tuesday interview with MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera.

“So, if your question is, is it going to hurt the president unless he turns this around? Yes, it will,” he added.

Sanders said Netanyahu’s government has the right to go after Hamas following its brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israel, but it “does not have the right to kill ― to create a situation where they’re stopping humanitarian aid from getting in.”

“The result of it is children are starving to death right now,” Sanders added. Do we want to be complicit in that? The answer in my view [and] and what the polling shows us [is,] most Americans do not want to be complicit.”

Polls have shown Americans souring on Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in recent weeks. According to a Gallup survey, 55% of Americans disapprove of Israel’s actions, while only 36% approve, a significant drop in support since it polled the same question in November.

On Monday, an Israeli bombing killed seven aid workers