Sanders campaign calls imam supporter’s Israel comments ‘offensive and toxic’

By Mike Brest

Published March 10, 2020 8:07pm ET

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Sanders campaign calls imam supporter’s Israel comments ‘offensive and toxic’ — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pauses while speaking at a campaign event Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. | (Cheryl Senter/AP)

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign condemned comments by an imam who accused Israel of working alongside the Islamic State a day after he spoke at an event for the Vermont senator.

Imam Sayed Hassan al Qazwini, founder of the Islamic Institute of America based in Michigan, praised Sanders ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Michigan, but the campaign has since rebuked him for previous remarks.

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