Apr 29, 2021
“There’s a word for holding Jews to a higher standard than everyone else: It’s called anti-Semitism,” said Newsweek’s Batya Ungar-Sargon, commenting on John O. Brennan’s remarks on Israel.
By United with Israel Staff
Obama-era CIA director John O. Brennan was blasted this week for a tweet in which he expressed shock that Israelis are not the “empathetic champions” of Palestinians.
Brennan’s tweet read, “I always found it difficult to fathom how a nation of people deeply scarred by a history replete with prejudice, religious persecution, & unspeakable violence perpetrated against them would not be the empathetic champions of those whose rights & freedoms are still abridged.”
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While serving as National Security Advisor from 2009 through 2013, John Brennan oversaw America’s unmanned aerial vehicle program. Dubbed the Obama administration’s “drone warrior” by CNN, Brennan wasn’t just the chief architect of the country’s deadly campaign of strikes overseas, but also its most visible champion. While others sounded alarms about hundreds of civilians believed to have been killed under his watch, Brennan defended the strikes as legal, ethical, just, and wise. And as the
Atlantic‘s Conor Friedersdorf noted, he had also “been willing to lie about those drone strikes to hide ugly realities.”
It might seem surprising, then, or even improbable, that this same Brennan was so galvanized by the depiction of Palestinian actors passing through an Israeli checkpoint “twice in a single day,” Brennan lamented that he rushed to write an Op-Ed in the
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He writes, “the United States needs to tell Israeli leaders to cease provocative settlement construction and … oppressive security practices.”
Brennan proposes “a two-state solution,” but the
Times contextualizes his article with a link to a Peter Beinart
Times article headlined, “I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State.” That’s a way to make sure that no innocent or impressionable
Times readers are permitted to take away from Brennan’s article the idea that Israel be allowed to continue existing as a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian one.
Former CIA Head Criticized for Tweeting That Jews Should Be âEmpathetic Championsâ of Palestinians
Brennan was promoting his April 27 New York Times op-ed arguing that the Biden administration needs to focus on ensuring that the Palestinians receive statehood and blamed Israel for the lack of progress on that front.
Aaron Bandler is a staff writer for the Jewish Journal, mainly covering anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias. Originally from the Bay Area, his past work experience includes writing for The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller and Townhall.
Former Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill, May 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)