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"Netanyahu is not right all of the time," Bernie Sanders said. Sanders suspends Jewish coordinator for profanity-laden diatribe against Netanyahu

"Netanyahu is not right all of the time," Bernie Sanders said during Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate, making an impassioned case for considering the plight of the Palestinians when making U.S. policy.

But his presidential campaign suspended a newly hired Jewish outreach coordinator for making more or less the same argument on social media — though she criticized the Israeli prime minister in more vulgar terms.

The coordinator, Simone Zimmerman, was suspended on Thursday over a Facebook post where Zimmerman called the Israeli leader an "arrogant, deceptive, cynical asshole" and wrote, "Fuck you, Bibi."

"He does not speak for me as a Jew, an American, and as a thinking person," her post concluded.

"She was suspended while we investigate further," Sanders communications director Michael Briggs said in an email Thursday night.

The post was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, which said that Zimmerman later replaced the profanities with more polite words.