U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) drew fire Wednesday for denouncing Israel’s attacks in Lebanon without bothering to mention a fact more enormous and more salient than the proverbial elephant in the room: Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel, which the terror group initiated.

In a post on X, the famously crotchety old senator wrote “It’s not just Iran. It’s Lebanon. In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are being bombed with no warning.”

“The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in Netanyahu’s wars,” Sanders declared.

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, noted that the very moment that Sanders penned his denunciation, Hezbollah rockets were flying toward an Arab town in Israel.

“While Senator Sanders was treating us to his racist stupidity, Hezbollah rockets from Lebanon were raining down on al-Ba’ina, an Arab town in Northern Israel,” Menken wrote on X. “Sanders does not value Arab lives. He simply detests Jewish ones.”

Yair Zivan, an adviser to Israel opposition leader Yair Lapid, fired a shot at Sanders while sheltering from rocket fire with his family.

“Senator, I work for the Leader of the Opposition in Israel and I’m writing this from a bomb shelter with my children,” he posted on X. “Israel is under attack by fanatical terrorists who want to murder us. It never ceases to amaze that your humanity never seems to extend to Israeli lives.”

Nadav Pollak, a Middle East lecturer at Reichman University in Herzliya, also took to X to express his outrage, calling Sanders’ remarks “insane.”

“It’s insane!” he fumed. “Just insane, that the Senator is tweeting on the war without even mentioning the name Hezbollah. It’s like the war started out of thin air.”

“Hezbollah started it!” he reminded Sanders.