{"id":2209094,"date":"2024-03-29T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-biden-official-collaborated-with-anti-israel-group-linked-to-embattled-federal-nominee\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:42:43","slug":"top-biden-official-collaborated-with-anti-israel-group-linked-to-embattled-federal-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-biden-official-collaborated-with-anti-israel-group-linked-to-embattled-federal-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Biden administration member worked with anti-Israel organization associated with controversial federal nominee"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ftop-biden-official-collaborated-with-anti-israel-group-linked-to-embattled-federal-nominee%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=2209094&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 senior Biden official has ties \u2063to \u2064an \u2063anti-Israel think tank involved in a congressional investigation and advised by an embattled federal \u2063judicial nominee. The officer, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia at the Department of Homeland Security, was linked \u200bto a controversial Rutgers Law School center. This connection \u200draises concerns \u2062among lawmakers, prompting scrutiny and opposition to the nominee. A high-ranking Biden administration official is affiliated with an anti-Israel organization currently under congressional scrutiny and associated\u2062 with a controversial federal judicial nominee. Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, \u200dserving at the Department \u2062of Homeland Security, has connections to a contentious center at\u2064 Rutgers \u200bLaw School. Lawmakers are expressing concerns and opposition to the nominee due to these affiliations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A top Biden administration official shares ties to an anti-Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2854016\/soros-fellowship-anti-israel-center-terrorism-sahar-aziz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>think tank<\/a> that is facing a congressional investigation and was advised by an embattled federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/2929588\/biden-judicial-nominees-chances-wane-senators-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>judicial nominee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, the officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security, was a faculty affiliate in 2023 at the Rutgers Law School Center for Security, Race, and Rights, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/dhs-official-worked-with-anti-israel-group-tied-to-embattled-biden-judicial-nominee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-Israel Rutgers center has been under the spotlight in recent months amid Republican lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2850471\/senate-biden-judicial-pick-anti-israel-group-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>raising<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2941697\/house-committee-launches-antisemitism-investigation-into-rutgers-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>concerns<\/a> over its events with terrorist allies, including Sami al Arian, a professor convicted in 2006 for aiding the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group. That scrutiny from Capitol Hill originally stemmed from the fact that Adeel Mangi, the White House\u2019s seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/2944157\/biden-nominee-vulnerable-senate-democrats-defense-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>doomed<\/a> pick for the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was on the center\u2019s advisory board until 2023. <\/p>\n<p>That Wadhia was a faculty affiliate of the Rutgers center is cause for concern to some lawmakers \u2014 including Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/josh-hawley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Josh Hawley<\/a> (R-MO), who sits on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. When it comes to Mangi, several Democratic senators have said they oppose his nomination, meaning he will need GOP support to get confirmed. Senate opposition is due to Mangi\u2019s role for the center and for Alliance of Families for Justice, a left-wing legal group. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEither the administration isn\u2019t vetting its employees and nominees, or it simply doesn\u2019t care about their anti-Israel connections,\u201d Hawley said.<\/p>\n<p>According to an archived version of the Rutgers center\u2019s website, Wadhia joined the group in early 2022. That was just months after the center\u2019s event with Arian in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the heels of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel last year, the center equated condemnation of the terrorist group with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2850471\/senate-biden-judicial-pick-anti-israel-group-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>attempts<\/a> to \u201cignore over 75 years of colonial violence and the horrific consequences born out of these decades of oppression and attempted erasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wadhia also worked closely in recent years with Sahar Aziz, director of the Rutgers center and a recipient of a paid fellowship from the philanthropy of Democratic megadonor George Soros, the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2854016\/soros-fellowship-anti-israel-center-terrorism-sahar-aziz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reported<\/a>. In 2018, Aziz thanked Wadhia for dishing out \u201cinsightful feedback\u201d in connection to Aziz\u2019s article, \u201cA Muslim Registry: The Precursor to Internment?\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In late March, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) <a href=\"https:\/\/edworkforce.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/rutgers_letter_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>sent<\/a> letters to top Rutgers officials on the center, which she said has a \u201cpattern of deeply troubling incidents.\u201d The Republican included mention of the event with Arian, among others. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have grave concerns regarding the inadequacy of Rutgers\u2019 response to antisemitism on its campuses,\u201d Foxx wrote to the school\u2019s president, Jonathan Holloway, as well as other campus leaders. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Biden administration official has connections to an anti-Israel think tank under congressional scrutiny, advised by a controversial federal judicial nominee. Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, the officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security, served as a faculty affiliate at Rutgers Law School in 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":2209095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP20253703571989-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP20253703571989-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209094","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\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}