On Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has a long history of antagonism toward Israel, claimed on “Face The Nation” that the United States should “develop an even-handed approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He insisted that “over the years the [Benjamin] Netanyahu government has become extremely right-wing and that there are people in the Israeli government now who are overt racists.” Sanders also snapped that the United States has been “simply supplying weapons to kill children in Gaza,” and “Our job is not simply to put more and more military support for Israel,” and claimed that “in West Jerusalem people are being evicted from their homes.”
If Sanders was referring in that “eviction” comment to Sheikh Jarrah, not only did he get his geography wrong, as it lies in East Jerusalem, but the often claimed notion that Palestinians have been unfairly evicted from their homes there does not take into account the complete history of the area. As Micha Danzig has written in The Jewish Journal:
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