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Brad Lander: “Israel has to step up to recognizing that what's necessary…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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Dem candidate Brad Lander on why he calls himself a 'liberal Zionist'

Published | Video Starts at 11:41

I think saying we're not going to continue to provide the 2,000 pound bombs that destroyed Gaza, that we're going to insist on human rights and international law compliance and we're going to stop aid until that happens. And that Israel has to step up to recognizing that what's necessary is self-determination for Palestinians and Israelis. a horizon of political mutual recognition and peace. Look, and I'm happy to explain to any of them why I think Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor who developed the term genocide, the Lemkin Institute considers what's happening there a genocide. (11:41–11:56)

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Asserts that Israel needs to recognize the necessity of self-determination for both Palestinians and Israelis.

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