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‘Cheersing in Bar to Ending Occupation of Palestine’: Biden Admin Official Has Long History of Anti-Israel Comments
Tyler Cherry. Photo: Screenshot
A White House communications official who the Biden administration just promoted has a long history of provocative anti-Israel comments and has compared law enforcement to slave patrols.
Social media users revealed that Tyler Cherry, who was promoted to associate communications director for the White House last week according to his LinkedIn, has an extensive record of controversial comments, especially regarding the Jewish state.
In July 2014, amid an escalation between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that controls the Gaza Strip, Cherry tweeted, “Cheersing in a bar to ending the occupation of Palestine — no shame and f—k your glares #ISupportGaza #FreePalestine.”
The war began after Hamas terrorists kidnapped three Israelis in the West Bank and murdered them.
Cherry has also suggested he supports cutting off US aid to Israel. In response to news of workers for UNRWA, the UN agency dedicated solely to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, being killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the 2014 war, Cherry lamented that the US “continues to let Israeli forces restock their arsenals with US ammunition and weapons.”
He also wrote, “No words can come close to the ever-increasing disappointment of the US’s omnipotence and complicity in this massacre #Free Palestine,” referring to the 2014 Hamas-Israel war.
Cherry has also been a strong defender of anti-Zionist activist and Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour. After scrutiny of Sarsour rose due to what some consider to be antisemitic statements by her, Cherry wrote, “The right can’t STAND to see a fierce Muslim woman at the helm of the resistance and thus have to make s–t up to smear her #IMarchWithLinda.”
With Cherry’s new job, these posts have raised questions among pro-Israel supporters about the extent to which he agrees with the policy of US President Joe Biden when it comes to Israel — and whether the administration is allowing far-left views among its staffers to go unchecked.
At least one watchdog group dedicated to combating antisemitism has called on the administration to fire Cherry.
“We’re hoping this is the quickest hire and fire scenario in President Biden’s administration to date,” StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez told Fox News Digital. “For the Biden administration to either A, not vet properly, or B, to vet and then approve an inner circle appointee like this … is just horrifying.”
In response to his posts being revealed, Cherry commented, “Past social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views. Period. I support this administration’s agenda — and will continue my communications work focused on our climate and environmental policies.”
Posts regarding Israel were not the only ones that resurfaced. Cherry also called to “Abolish ICE,” referring to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement government agency, also writing “police = slave patrols” and “Voter ID = poll taxes.”
This is not the first time a staffer in the Biden administration has been revealed to have strong anti-Israel views.
In January 2021, The Washington Free Beacon reported that the person who Biden tapped for the role of senior director for intelligence programs at the US National Security Council was a longtime activist and supporter of the boycott, divest, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The BDS movement seeks to isolate the Jewish state on the international stage as the first step toward its eventual elimination.
Before being named to the National Security Council, Maher Bitar was a student leader of his campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group that expressed support for Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel.
In the 2006 yearbook from Georgetown University, Bitar is seen holding a sign reading “Divest from Israel Apartheid.” His involvement with the anti-Israel movement did not stop when he left college.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) told The Washington Free Beacon at the time: “Appointing him for an integral role on the National Security Council is a slap in the face to our important ally Israel, and it sends a terrible message to the rest of the world. I strongly urge the Biden administration to quickly retreat from this dangerous decision and to appoint someone who is better aligned with our allies and less divisive.”
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Treasure Trove: How a Polish-Jewish artist told Canadians about the horrors of Nazi Germany and produced beautiful illustrations
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a Polish-Jewish artist whose work reflected the historic times he lived: the two world wars, the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and the birth of the State of Israel. In 1940, with the support of the British government and the Polish government-in-exile, he visited Canada to popularize the struggle against Nazism. […]
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Biden hits Fundraising Trail in Show of Strength after Dismal Debate Performance
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., June 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
President Joe Biden embarks on a series of fundraising events across two states on Saturday as he works to stamp out a crisis of confidence in his re-election campaign following a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats.
Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit the upscale New York beach enclave known as the Hamptons for a campaign fundraiser hosted by hedge-fund billionaire Barry Rosentein. Later in the day, he will travel to New Jersey for a fundraiser hosted by wealthy New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat.
Fellow hedge-fund founder Eric Mindich and his Tony Award-winning producer wife Stacey, celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, and actor Michael J. Fox are all listed as members of the host committee at the New York event, according to an invitation seen by Reuters.
Biden told a rally in North Carolina on Friday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would heed calls from Democrats who want him to drop out of the race.
Biden‘s verbal stumbles and occasionally meandering responses during Thursday night’s debate heightened voter concerns that the 81-year-old might not be fit to serve another four-year term.
The Biden campaign on Saturday boasted it had raised more than $27 million between debate day through Friday evening, but questions remain about whether the debate performance will hurt fundraising, at least in the short term.
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Arab League Rescinds the Classification of Hezbollah as a Terrorist Group
Mourners carry a coffin during the funeral of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces who according to Lebanese security sources was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon, in Khirbet Selm, Lebanon, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Taher
i24 News – The Arab League no longer defines Hezbollah as a proscribed terrorist group, an official said on Saturday.
Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Shiite militia and a proxy of the Islamic regime in Iran, boasts the world’s largest rocket arsenal of any non-state actor. It is animated by the antisemitic ideology of jihad and is committed to the destruction of Israel.
“In earlier Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was designated as a terrorist organization, and this designation was reflected in the resolutions,” Hossam Zaki, the assistant secretary-general of the Arab League, was quoted in Arab media as saying.
“The League’s member states concurred that the labeling of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization should no longer be employed,” Zaki said, adding that the regional body “does not maintain terrorist lists and does not actively seek to designate entities in such a manner.”
Hezbollah has unleashed numerous rockets, mortars and drones on northern Israel in the past eight months starting on October 8, a day after the Jewish state suffered the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust at the hands of the Palestinian jihadists of Hamas.
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