Sanders: President's Israel support amid campus pro-Palestinian protests 'may be Biden's Vietnam'

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said that President Joe Biden is putting himself in a politically weak position by supporting Israel in the Israel-Hamas war.

Sanders made the remarks in an interview Thursday on CNN. He explained that former President Lyndon Johnson chose not to run in 1968 because of the opposition to his views on the war in Vietnam.

"I worry very much that President Biden is putting himself in a position where he has alienated not just young people, but a lot of the Democratic base in terms of his views on Israel and this war," Sanders said.

"This may be Biden's Vietnam," also said Sanders, who is Jewish and a democrat-socialist.

Sanders urged the president to stop “giving a blank check” to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.