{"id":1465666,"date":"2022-05-05T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T22:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465666"},"modified":"2022-05-05T18:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T22:15:17","slug":"biden-taps-anti-israel-activist-cnn-spouse-as-white-house-press-sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-anti-israel-activist-cnn-spouse-as-white-house-press-sec\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u00a0Taps\u00a0Anti-Israel Activist, CNN Spouse\u00a0as\u00a0White House Press Sec"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fbiden-taps-anti-israel-activist-cnn-spouse-as-white-house-press-sec%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=1465666&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Karine Jean-Pierre takes the podium after stints with MoveOn.Org and Kamala Harris<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tKarine Jean-Pierre \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 May 5, 2022 6:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The White House announced on Thursday that\u00a0Karine Jean-Pierre, a veteran anti-Israel activist who is married to CNN correspondent\u00a0Suzanne Malveaux,\u00a0will replace outgoing press secretary Jen Psaki,\u00a0raising potential ethical quandaries.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement\u00a0drew celebratory headlines in the mainstream press:\u00a0Jean Pierre is\u00a0the first black woman and openly gay person to serve in the role.<\/p>\n<p>But her\u00a0relationship with CNN reporter raises ethical questions about her new role.\u00a0The White House did not respond to a request for comment about whether Jean Pierre would recuse herself in dealing with CNN.\u00a0Malveaux&#8217;s colleagues include Valerie Jarrett&#8217;s daughter, CNN justice correspondent Laura Jarrett, and Israel ambassador Tom Nides&#8217;s wife, Virginia Moseley, who serves as CNN&#8217;s senior vice president of news gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre\u2019s anti-Israel past\u2014which includes\u00a0a stint\u00a0as senior adviser and national spokeswoman for MoveOn.org, a far-left anti-Israel group that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/influential-progressive-pac-criticizes-us-bill-targeting-israel-boycotts\/\">advocates for<\/a>\u00a0boycotts of the Jewish state\u2014is raising red flags in the pro-Israel community. The selection of an Israel critic is also likely to further strain ties with the pro-Israel community and Israeli government, which already is strongly opposed to the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to ink a new nuclear deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre has been open about her animosity towards the Jewish state. She has accused Israel of committing &#8220;war crimes&#8221; and has backed efforts to boycott the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the United States&#8217; most prominent pro-Israel lobbying shop,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/aipac-2020-election-democrats-israel-1375697\">cheering Democrats in 2019\u00a0<\/a>for boycotting the group&#8217;s annual gathering in Washington, D.C., for &#8220;boldly [chose] to prioritize diplomacy and human rights over the power of a lobbying organization.&#8221; AIPAC, she claimed, helped the Trump administration &#8220;sabotage&#8221; the Iran nuclear deal and also &#8220;supported the group that&#8217;s credited with inspiring President Trump to enact the Muslim Ban and has been known to spread anti-Muslim racism.&#8221; She accused the group without evidence of trafficking in\u00a0&#8220;severely racist, Islamophobic rhetoric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One veteran pro-Israel community leader expressed shock that the president decided to hire Jean-Pierre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jewish Americans will get slapped in the face every time they turn on the television\u00a0and see someone standing at the podium who has said such vile things about Israel,&#8221; said the source, who would only speak candidly on background. &#8220;Just days after the [Anti-Defamation League] boldly declared anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, the forces of radical left anti-Semitism got a boost from the President of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MoveOn, the far-left group that Jean-Pierre worked for from April 2016 until August 2020, also pressed Democratic lawmakers to boycott AIPAC\u2019s annual conference, as well as the organization itself. &#8220;[Democratic] candidates should be prepared for push back regarding their involvement with AIPAC,&#8221; a MoveOn spokeswoman told\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/20\/moveon-2020-democrats-aipac-1229865\">Politico<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>MoveOn also has championed anti-Israel leaders in Congress, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), who were the organization\u2019s first endorsements in the 2020 election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The group also ran interference for Omar and Tlaib when they were accused of making anti-Semitic statements and stoking hatred of Jews. Democrats, the group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoveOn\/status\/1162037148058574848\">said<\/a>\u00a0in 2019, &#8220;must stand strong in solidarity with Reps. Tlaib, Omar\u2014stand up to Israel right-wing government for doing Trump&#8217;s racist, political dirty work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And when far-left activist Linda Sarsour was criticized for anti-Semitism, MoveOn came to her defense,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoveOn\/status\/1296168480790605825\">tweeting<\/a>\u00a0that she &#8220;is a leader in the fight for justice for all of us.&#8221; MoveOn also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoveOn\/status\/1086413453487681537\">defended<\/a>\u00a0Angela Davis, the notorious communist activist, as a &#8220;civil rights leader&#8221; after an award was revoked due to her anti-Semitic past.<\/p>\n<p>Biden praised Jean-Pierre as a &#8220;talent&#8221; in a statement on the new hire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Karine not only brings the experience, talent and integrity needed for this difficult job, but she will continue to lead the way in communicating about the work of the Biden-Harris administration on behalf of the American people,&#8221; the president said in a statement. &#8220;Jill and I have known and respected Karine a long time and she will be a strong voice speaking for me and this administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Karine Jean-Pierre takes the podium after stints with MoveOn.Org and Kamala Harris  Karine Jean-Pierre \/ Getty Images  Adam Kredo \u2022 May 5, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465666","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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}