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Cory Booker dispels myth that Blumenthal influenced Hillary Clinton on Israel

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker on Thursday defended Hillary Clinton’s position on Israel in spite of the advice she has been receiving from her once-close advisor Sid Blumenthal.
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March 25, 2016

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker on Thursday defended Hillary Clinton’s position on Israel in spite of the “>confronted the New Jersey Senator Booker about Clinton’s “>BuzzFeed News. “And I think that Hillary Clinton, I would not support her, frankly, this would be a deal-breaker for me, if she did not have a very pro-Israel stance and a vision for our alliance.”

Instead of directly responding to the caller’s question, the New Jersey Senator sharply condemned the BDS movement, calling them “anti-Jewish.”

“I’m gonna go even further,” said Booker. “I think, what I’m seeing now in the BDS movement that’s going around this country. What I’m seeing now in the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. These are things that have to be condemned for what they are, which in my opinion are efforts to undermine America’s most significant ally, specifically in that region. And call it for what it is. And I really do think it is an anti-Jewish movement.”

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