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Hi @RoKhanna! Bummer that you don't remember me. We actually have met in green rooms at MSNBC/NOW. And I've known/worked with your staff throughout the years. We also both were Deputy Assistant Secretaries in the Obama Administration, but didn't cross paths then. I doubt you knew every staffer on the Bernie 2020 campaign, and as far as I recall, you never made an effort to engage the Jewish component of the campaign back then, for what it's worth. I wish you would have. On the substance, I also didn't say that Sanders is an antisemite. What I did say in my @TheFP OpEd is that he is "... pushing the party to absorb the most radical fringe voices in its midst, who will actively fuel antisemitism in the halls of Congress and in society as a whole." I also made my role on the campaign clear, saying: "I spent three and a half months on the Sanders campaign back in 2020, attempting to chart a path that would make American Jewish supporters of Israel feel welcome in the Sanders coalition—and in the Democratic Party as a whole. I won many small battles back then, but it’s clear I lost the war. Today, the noxious shoots I saw emerging have become deeply rooted. Now, the movement is fully grown, and it threatens to smother the Democratic Party." Do you have views on the substance of this point?