{"id":1794031,"date":"2023-01-03T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794031"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:50:19","slug":"biden-renominates-board-member-at-anti-israel-group-to-small-business-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-renominates-board-member-at-anti-israel-group-to-small-business-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Renominates Board Member at Anti-Israel Group to Small Business Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fbiden-renominates-board-member-at-anti-israel-group-to-small-business-administration%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=1794031&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Senate Republicans blocked Dilawar Syed&#8217;s nomination in 2021 over affiliation with anti-Israel group Emgage<\/p>\n<p>    President Biden and Dilawar Syed \/ Twitter   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 January 3, 2023 2:35 pm  <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration will renominate a board member at an anti-Israel group to help lead the Small Business Administration, one year after the nominee was blocked by Republicans, according to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dilawar Syed served on the board of Emgage Action\u2014a group that describes Israel as an &#8220;apartheid state&#8221; and defends the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement\u2014until at least 2021, when President Joe Biden nominated him as deputy administrator at the SBA, according to federal disclosure <a href=\"https:\/\/extapps2.oge.gov\/201\/Presiden.nsf\/PAS+Index\/296B27BBF96FE97F85258693003446C8\/$FILE\/Syed,%20Dilawar%20%20finalEA.pdf\">records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Syed is one of 85 failed nominees whom the Biden administration is resubmitting for confirmation by the new Senate, the <em>Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-to-renominate-his-picks-for-judicial-and-diplomatic-posts-11672718861?mod=e2tw\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Syed\u2019s affiliation with Emgage raised concerns among Republican legislators and pro-Israel leaders, who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/senate-republicans-block-biden-small-business-administration-nom-over-ties-to-anti-israel-group\/\">blocked<\/a> his nomination in September 2021. Since last February, Syed has served as a special representative for trade at the State Department, a position that doesn\u2019t require Senate approval.<\/p>\n<p>Emgage has accused the Jewish state of instituting a &#8220;racist, undemocratic Israeli apartheid rule that steals [Palestinian] land and destroys their homes to make way for illegal Jewish settlements&#8221; and said it &#8220;support[s] the right to boycott, divest, and sanction, as well as the Right of Return of Palestinians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group also lobbied against legislation that would penalize boycotts of the Jewish state and called the BDS movement a &#8220;constitutionally protected nonviolent response that seeks to end the occupation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Syed told legislators during his unsuccessful confirmation process that he doesn\u2019t support the BDS movement. But Republicans questioned his affiliation with Emgage and his refusal to commit to recovering $100 million in federal COVID relief funding that they say was illegally distributed to abortion provider Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Jones, the founder of the American Accountability Foundation watchdog group, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> in September 2021 that Syed\u2019s involvement with Emgage, &#8220;paired with his lack of a commitment to recover PPP funds illegally allocated to Planned Parenthood, should immediately disqualify him as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other failed Biden administration picks who will be renominated include former Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti as ambassador to India and Danny Werfel as IRS commissioner, according to the <em>Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration will renominate a board member at an anti-Israel group to help lead the Small Business Administration, one year after the nominee was blocked by Republicans, according to the Wall Street Journal.<br \/>\nThe post Biden Renominates Board Member at Anti-Israel Group to Small Business Administration appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1794034,"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":[544],"tags":[4106,5845,4092,3620,3664,4284,13083],"class_list":["post-1794031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-administration","tag-anti-israel","tag-beacon","tag-biden","tag-board","tag-business","tag-renominates"],"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\/1794031","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}