Biden and Klobuchar will speak via video at pro-Israel AIPAC conference after Sanders and Warren say they won't attend

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Amy Klobuchar plan to address via video the 2020 AIPAC Policy Conference, while former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is expected in person, despite calls from progressive groups to boycott the event.

) Policy Conference, while several other candidates pledged to stay away after calls from progressive groups to boycott the event.

Progressive Jewish group IfNotNow lashed out at Biden's decision, characterizing the former vice president's campaign as"out of touch." "After the courageous choices by Warren, Sanders, and Buttigieg to skip AIPAC, his decision is disappointing though unsurprising," added Moscovitch."We know that he has spent his entire career backing AIPAC's pro-occupation agenda by protecting Israel from any meaningful consequences, even against the efforts of the Obama administration."

The group recently came under fire after launching advertisements that labelled Democratic members of Congress who do not support them as"radicals" that compared unfavorably to groups like ISIS. AIPAC later issued anSanders is one of several critics who have accused the group of bigotry, which the senator cited as a reason he would not be attending the conference in a tweet on Sunday.

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