Original sentence: In 1976, he briefly re-entered the public spotlight and engendered controversy with anti-Zionist statements (that were also widely seen as anti-semitic, though Agnew denied this)calling for the United States to withdraw its support for the state of Israel
Edited sentence: He briefly re-entered the public spotlight and engendered some controversy with some blatantly anti-Semitic statements and a call for the United States to withdraw its support for the state of Israel