Opinion
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas takes part in a virtual meeting with Palestinian faction heads, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sept. 3, 2020. Photo: Alaa Badarneh / Pool via Reuters.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been playing a double game for the past few weeks. It has touted its decision to obtain COVID-19 vaccines from Russia as proof that it is able to take care of the needs of its people, while also claiming Israel is harming Palestinians by refusing to give them vaccines.
It is perfectly reasonable for the PA to decide to obtain vaccines from Russia. Article 17 of the Oslo Accords states specifically that “Powers and responsibilities in the sphere of Health in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will be transferred to the Palestinian side” and “the Palestinian side shall continue the vaccination of the population.” The result is that the Palestinian Authority is in charge of vaccinating the people it governs.
Israel hater appointed to NSC where he gets top secret info
President Joe Biden selected Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestinian lawyer Maher Bitar to be the National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence affairs.
Bitar has served as general counsel to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee and as a top legal adviser to its chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) since 2017.
In 2020, Bitar served a major role during then-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, serving as a senior member in the Democrats’ House impeachment team. The Senate eventually voted to clear Trump on two articles of impeachment since it was a hoax.
Biden puts anti-Israel BDS activist in charge of NSC intel
Biden puts anti-Israel BDS activist in charge of NSC intel
How did an anti-Israel activist go from helping host a conference for an organization whose speakers have supported Islamic terrorism to a top intelligence job?
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Washington Post.
The group in question was the Palestine Solidarity Movement, a BDS anti-Israel hate group whose conferences had a history of anti-Semitism, supporting Hamas and the murder of Jews. Maher Bitar, one of the executive board members of Students for Justice in Palestine, was one of the principal organizers of the 2006 conference, which was being hosted by Georgetown University’s SJP hate group.
From calling for the destruction of Israel to the National Security Council. Tue Jan 26, 2021
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Why Is Georgetown Providing a Platform for This Dangerous Group? an op-ed in the Washington Post had asked. The group was the Palestine Solidarity Movement, a BDS anti-Israel hate group whose conferences had a history of antisemitism, supporting Hamas and the murder of Jews. Maher Bitar, one of the executive board members of Students for Justice in Palestine, was one of the principal organizers of the 2006 conference which was being hosted by Georgetown University s SJP hate group. A photo appears to show him dancing in a keffiyah in front of a banner reading, “Divest from Israel Apartheid”.
When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether or not Israel is truly an apartheid state. These days, of course, the debat.