{"id":1266401,"date":"2022-02-02T16:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266401"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:24:22","slug":"exclusive-michael-oren-report-of-antisemitism-at-state-department-no-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-michael-oren-report-of-antisemitism-at-state-department-no-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Michael Oren: Report of Antisemitism at State Department &#039;No Surprise&#039;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fexclusive-michael-oren-report-of-antisemitism-at-state-department-no-surprise%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=1266401&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren said the bombshell revelation by former Trump envoy to Israel, David Friedman, that he was told by the State Department to \u201ctone down\u201d his Jewishness came as \u201cno surprise,\u201d but was like telling a Muslim ambassador to Cairo, \u201cdon\u2019t be too Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his new memoir,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sledgehammer-Breaking-Brought-Peace-Middle\/dp\/0063098113\/?tag=breitbart035-20\"><em>Sledgehammer: How&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sledgehammer-Breaking-Brought-Peace-Middle\/dp\/0063098113\/?tag=breitbart035-20\">Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East<\/a><\/em>, Friedman reveals how&nbsp;State Department officials, including then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, opposed several pro-Israel measures, including fulfilling a campaign promise made by Donald Trump to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>When it emerged that Friedman wanted to make a stop at the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, after arriving in Israel, he was warned by his colleagues at the State Department, \u201cMr. Ambassador, don\u2019t be so Jewish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedman cites one senior official as saying: \u201cDon\u2019t be so Jewish. You represent the United States of America. Tone down the Judaism in your work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oren, who was Israel\u2019s envoy to the U.S. during the rocky Obama-Netanyahu years, said the remarks made to Friedman \u201ccame as no surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19726874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-167122309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19726874\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-167122309-1024x696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"673\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (R) is greeted by Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense Udi Shani (2nd R), Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren (C), U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro (2nd L) and Israel\u2019s Defence Attache to the U.S. Maj. Gen. Yaakov Ayash (L) after disembarking from a plane on his arrival on April 21, 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Matty Stern\/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI worked with the State Department for years. And before that, I studied it, I even wrote my thesis on it,\u201d Oren told Breitbart.<\/p>\n<p>Oren went on to say that for many years, the State Department was \u201cjudenrein,\u201d referencing a Nazi term to mean free of Jews. Former President Harry Truman even called out the State Department for its antisemitism, Oren noted.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, even though Jews have a much stronger representation at the State Department \u2013 even disproportionately so \u2013 espousing openly Jewish loyalties would not be something to be readily abided, Oren said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State Department wouldn\u2019t be sympathetic to David, who\u2019s an orthodox Jew who speaks openly about God,\u201d Oren said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid broke the mold.\u201d Oren added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut telling him to tone down his Jewishness? Well that\u2019s like telling the ambassador to the Holy \u2018See in Vatican City, \u2018don\u2019t be too Catholic.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr else telling the Muslim Ambassador to Cairo, \u2018Don\u2019t be too Muslim. It would never be said,\u201d Oren concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman recollects his angry response to the unnamed official: \u201cDo you think I am under any disillusion as to who I represent? I\u2019m not a politically correct person but I have to ask you, why do the laws of political correctness not apply to Jews?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren said the bombshell revelation by former Trump envoy to Israel, David Friedman, that he was told by the State Department to \u201ctone &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":1897651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}