{"id":121088,"date":"2021-02-08T14:51:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121088"},"modified":"2021-02-08T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:57:22","slug":"anti-zionist-left-rallies-to-defense-of-controversial-biden-state-dept-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-zionist-left-rallies-to-defense-of-controversial-biden-state-dept-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Zionist Left Rallies to Defense of Controversial Biden State Dept Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanti-zionist-left-rallies-to-defense-of-controversial-biden-state-dept-pick%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121088&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/duss-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Democratic Party\u2019s anti-Zionist wing is rushing to defend the Biden administration\u2019s possible selection of a top Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) aide to serve at the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Following a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> report last week on Matt Duss\u2019s anti-Israel history, anti-Zionists including Peter Beinart,&nbsp;the Jewish writer beloved by anti-Israel activists, are coming to his defense. Beinart wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/peterbeinart.substack.com\/p\/why-matt-duss-matters\">self-published<\/a>&nbsp;piece on Monday that Duss is being unfairly maligned by the pro-Israel community and Republican leaders because he is a Christian who cares &#8220;about the powerless and the abused, whatever their race, religion, or nationality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Biden Administration<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/anti-zionist-left-rallies-to-defense-of-controversial-biden-state-dept-pick\/\"><strong>Anti-Zionist Left Rallies to Defense of Controversial Biden State Dept Pick<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-dems-plot-murder-of-1-4-million-jobs-with-minimum-wage-hike\/\"><strong>Biden, Dems Plot Murder of 1.4 Million Jobs with Minimum Wage Hike<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/illegal-immigrants-guilty-of-dui-assault-will-not-be-deported-under-biden-plan\/\"><strong>Illegal Immigrants Guilty of DUI, Assault Will Not Be Deported Under Biden Plan<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;In Washington today, it\u2019s more perilous for Matt to talk about how his Christian faith compels him to care about human rights in Israel-Palestine than it is for [former secretary of state] Mike Pompeo to talk about how his Christian faith compels him not to,&#8221; Beinart opined without directly disputing Duss\u2019s critics.<\/p>\n<p>The possible selection of Duss, a defender of the anti-Semitic Israel boycott movement,&nbsp;has become a flashpoint between pro- and anti-Israel activists. Both groups see Duss&#8217;s potential elevation as a signal about what direction the Biden administration&#8217;s foreign policy will take. The possibility of a Duss appointment is being cheered by<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>the Democratic Party\u2019s far-left flank, which is pressuring the Biden administration to hire nearly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/progressive-groups-push-biden-to-tap-accused-iranian-lobbyist-for-top-national-security-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/progressive-groups-push-biden-to-tap-accused-iranian-lobbyist-for-top-national-security-role\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612899491596000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEvPJbdurYrsHP-bvuUYZ1GkV8nNQ\">100 people<\/a>, including Duss, who are skeptical of the close U.S.-Israel alliance and want to see decreased cooperation between the two countries.&nbsp;Critics, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/report-anti-israel-activist-heading-to-biden-state-dept\/\">including<\/a> the former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley and<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>freshman Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,&nbsp;say<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Duss\u2019s &#8220;disdain for the Jewish people and the American-Israel alliance would be a cancer on the U.S. State Department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what position Duss is under consideration for, but he would join a growing roster of Biden administration hires who&nbsp;have displayed animus toward Israel,&nbsp;promoted boycotts of the Jewish state, and advocated for a Palestinian &#8220;right of return&#8221; that would destroy the country&#8217;s Jewish composition. This includes Robert Malley, the administration&#8217;s new Iran envoy who once held unauthorized talks with Hamas, and Maher Bitar, a White House National Security Council member who spent his youth organizing in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.<\/p>\n<p>Beinart&#8217;s praise for the Sanders aide was well-received by Trita Parsi, vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an isolationist think tank bankrolled by billionaires George Soros and Charles Koch. Parsi, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/progressive-groups-push-biden-to-tap-accused-iranian-lobbyist-for-top-national-security-role\/\">faced accusations<\/a> of acting as an unregistered lobbyist for the Iranian regime, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tparsi\/status\/1358823620211073028\">said<\/a> Duss\u2019s critics are being led by war &#8220;hawks trying to prevent the best in Washington from getting into the Biden administration.&#8221; Parsi also was included on the far-left&#8217;s list of 100 foreign policy hands they hope to see hired by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Beinart also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterBeinart\/status\/1357527435818991617\">took to Twitter<\/a> last Thursday to defend Duss from criticism leveled by the pro-Israel community. Beinart also demanded that a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> reporter who wrote about Duss\u2019s views stand &#8220;in a [Palestinian] village slated for demolition&#8221; and perform &#8220;teshuvah,&#8221; the Jewish ritual of atoning for one\u2019s sins. Beinart argued that Duss is qualified to conduct U.S. diplomacy because &#8220;he has been to the West Bank repeatedly and seen the inhumanity of denying millions of people basic rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Semitic cartoonist Eli Valley also came to Duss\u2019s defense online. Valley, whose cartoons have <a href=\"http:\/\/daledamos.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/forwards-eli-vally-draws-cartoon-for.html\">depicted<\/a> Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu raping Barack Obama, took issue with the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>\u2019s reporting on Duss, which included a critical quote from former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who said the selection of Duss &#8220;is another indication that the only unity in Biden\u2019s foreign policy is between the far left and the extreme left.&#8221; Valley referred to Haley as a &#8220;MAGA anti-Semite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duss has repeatedly come under fire for his rhetoric on Israel, which includes accusing the Jewish state of terrorism. He also was a key player at the left-wing ThinkProgress blog when it was engulfed in an anti-Semitism scandal that the Obama administration described at the time as troubling. Simon Wiesenthal Center, a watchdog group,&nbsp;described Duss&#8217;s writing as &#8220;infected with Jew-hatred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party\u2019s anti-Zionist wing is rushing to defend the Biden administration\u2019s possible selection of a top Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) aide to serve at the State Department. 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