Of course they are.
I’m having a hard time thinking of a major American news institution at the moment that doesn’t deserve to have a sledgehammer taken to its goddamn knees.
He refused to say in the debate that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state. That is probably enough for AIPAC to drop the knife on him.
If you don’t accept their religious-nationalist colonialist ethnostate’s genocide you clearly disagree with their religious or ethnic right to exist, instead of the fact they are a religious-nationalist colonialist ethnostate who is committing genocide!
“Does Rhodesia have the right to exist?”
Actually that’s not even quite it. He refused to say Israel has a right to exist “as a jewish state” and continued with “Israel has a right to exist as an equal state for all”. He also refused to say the first thing he would do if he got elected was to go visit Israel.