Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

And I just think it's really critical for all of us to be willing to

to have a clear, direct, and specific engagement with the notion that yes, it is okay to criticize a foreign government that engages in genocide.

And no, it is not okay to criticize a whole group of people simply because some people want you to think that one is the same as the other.

They are not.

The Jewish people are a light onto the world.

Antisemitism is wrong.

Judaism is a beautiful faith.

I got to experience it myself on Saturday.

The state of Israel has done terrible things, is engaged in doing terrible things, and is dragging our country alongside it by way of AIPAC, which is spending huge amounts of money to silence people like me.

All of those things are true, and they need to be kept separate.

if we're serious about actually empowering people, because that's the whole goal here.

Whether they're Jewish people in America or in Israel, or they're Palestinians, or they're Iranian folk, or they're Americans just trying to afford their groceries and their healthcare, all of us would do better if we stopped pretending that some violence inflicted on the part of a foreign government somehow has to be defended by everybody who shares a particular faith.

You know who my pick for leader would be?

It would be Senator Chris Van Hollen.

I really, really hope he's running.

And I've said clearly, I do not agree with Senator Schumer on almost anything when it comes to the question of continued support for Israel, when it comes to the question of continuing to take corporate money into our politics.

And at the same time...

I also understand that my critique is bigger than one individual.

A lot of folks who don't actually want to level a serious critique on the party about our willingness to take corporate money to pass corporate policy want to blame it all on the feet of one person.

And I'm just saying that I don't know who the alternatives are.