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Former FBI official Bongino defends support for Israel

The podcaster, who is not Jewish, said antisemitism is behind accusations that he took $6 million from AIPAC.

Dan Bongino
Podcaster Dan Bongino speaks with attendees at the 2021 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Fla., July 17, 2021. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons.

Dan Bongino, who announced a podcast after leaving his role as deputy FBI director, responded to online accusations that he is a “traitor” who received $6 million from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. That’s not “even remotely true,” he said.

When one exposes the liberal agenda, the “demon savages” scream back about the Jews, he wrote.

“Of course, none of what’s included below in this pile of human waste’s post is even remotely true,” he said. “Demon savages are so moronic they don’t realize campaign finance records are public.”

Anti-Zionism has become a “cultural norm,” Yonathan Arfi tells JNS.
Imad Hassan Hussein Aslim commanded the Zeitoun Battalion’s infiltration into Israel during the Oct. 7 slaughter.
“This is what antisemitism looks like when people get comfortable,” said an Arizona state representative, who sits on the same school board. “This is what hatred looks like when it finds a seat at the table.”
“No student in Nebraska should ever have to hide their faith, their heritage or who they are out of fear,” Jim Pillen said.
“Congregations have to consider the unthinkable and prepare for the worst,” Sen Rick Scott said, noting a nearly 900% increase in Jew-hatred nationally over the last decade.
“The secretary reaffirmed that the U.S. fully supports the government of Lebanon as it works to seize a historic opportunity to deliver peace,” said State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott.