Foreign Minister Israel Katz denounced Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders on Wednesday for what he called his "horrifying comment" about Jerusalem, saying that those who support Israel would not back Sanders' presidential candidacy after such remarks.
At a contentious Democratic debate on Tuesday night in South Carolina, Sanders labeled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "reactionary racist" and said he'd consider reversing U.S. President Donald Trump's move of the American Embassy to Jerusalem and return it to Tel Aviv.
In a daring foray into American domestic politics, Katz said there was not a Jew in the world who "hasn't dreamed of Jerusalem" and that Sanders' words were so severe that he had no choice but to retort.