En imam som talte på et Sanders-valgmøte i Michigan, har uttalt at det er en forbindelse mellom Israel og IS.

«ISIS somehow is connected to Israel,» the imam said, according to an archived video posted to Twitter by the Middle East Media Research Institute. «And ISIS is playing the role of the arm of the Zionists in the Muslim world to kill more Muslims and non-Muslims so it can define the name of Islam, so people can blame Islam for its atrocities, so people will be alienated from this religion.»

The imam went on in the comments to claim that Muslims in the United States and Europe were being put in danger by the actions of ISIS and that «the number one beneficiary of all these atrocities, I tell you, is the Zionists, and it is the Zionist regime.»