WASHINGTON (JNS) – The new press secretary at the White House—appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden this week and set to take over for current press secretary Jen Psaki next week—is raising concerns with some in the pro-Israel community for her previous work with anti-Israel organizations.
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Karine Jean-Pierre, who currently serves as principal deputy press secretary, will be the first black and LGBTQ person to hold the position.
After the president’s announcement on Thursday afternoon, Jean-Pierre, a Haitian American, was brought to the White House’s daily briefing by Psaki. Jean-Pierre will assume the role after Psaki’s exit on May 13.
“Karine not only brings the experience, talent and integrity needed for this difficult job, but will continue to lead the way in communicating about the work of the Biden-Harris administration on behalf of the American people,” the president said in a statement.
News of her appointment also came with criticism about her role as national spokesperson and senior adviser with the left-wing political group MoveOn.org from April 2016 to August 2020, a group that supported the boycott of AIPAC and challenged anti-BDS laws.
In a 2019 op-ed in Newsweek, Jean-Pierre said that candidates cannot call themselves a progressive if they supported AIPAC.
“Unfortunately, AIPAC’s policy and conference speaker choices aren’t its only problems. Its severely racist, Islamophobic rhetoric has proven just as alarming,” Jean-Pierre wrote. “The organization has become known for trafficking in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric while lifting up Islamophobic voices and attitudes.”
“As a child of Holocaust survivors and as an American Jew, I am appalled and frightened that Biden has chosen Ms. Jean-Pierre, who has shown essentially anti-Semitic hostility towards Israel, and is willing to lie about and vilify Israel and Jews to promote her Israelophobic agenda,” Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, said in a statement. “Americans should be deeply concerned that this outrageous, incomprehensible anti-Israel, pro-terrorist and pro-Iran appointment indicates the dangerous direction the Biden administration is going to take against America’s greatest ally Israel and U.S.-Israel relations.”
Others have raised questions of conflict of interest due to Jean-Pierre being married to CNN correspondent Suzanne Malveaux.
A CNN spokesman told The Washington Free Beacon that Malveaux “will continue her role as CNN national correspondent covering national/international news and cultural events but will not cover politics, Capitol Hill or the White House while Karine Jean-Pierre is serving as White House press secretary.”
The last eighteen months since the current demented occupant of the White House has resided therein, goods, including food, gasoline, and every other household item as well as, cars, homes and everything in between has risen dramatically in price. I even strongly suspect that Russia would have thought twice, if not thrice, about invading their neighboring country, Ukraine, had there been someone other in the WH, then this current incompetent ‘nebech’ case !!!
To add to all this, his appointments of key positions couldn’t have been chosen by a sane individual. This poor sick person needs to be IMPEACHED before he destroys our country and her people even worse !!!
She is just one of the many anti Israel biden appointees in his admin. Being an anti Israel, terrorist and Jew hater supporter is almost a prerequisite to be hired in this admin.
There is a conflict of interest between her and the p
osition she is taking and that is very dangerous
Everyone should understand that the President’s press secretary or spokesperson does not speak of their views or set policy. This is a fuss about nothing.
The quote from her doesn’t seem offensive to Jews. So that American Zionist should not be accusing her of anti-Semitism unless she has actually espoused such positions.
But, as expected, the Zionists wail and moan if she doesn’t support the Zionist AIPAC. But there is a very, very, very major difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.