Biden Appointments and Israel

President Biden has appointed a number of people with anti-Israel, pro-Iran track records to senior positions in his administration. Read more below about what this might mean for Israel.
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RJC: Biden nominee with anti-Israel ties ‘makes mockery’ of human rights
May 4, 2021
The group said Sarah Margon will be bitterly opposed by Republicans, but also urged pro-Israel Democrats to reject her nomination.
Sarah Margon. Source: Screenshot.
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Daniel GreenfieldMay 2, 2021
Biden picks BDS activist as assistant secretary for human rights
Sarah Margon’s idea of human rights is cheering the destruction of Israel.
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Daniel GreenfieldApril 19, 2021
Biden’s anti-Israel ‘point man’ is behind plan to fund Palestinians
America must “regain the trust and goodwill” of terrorists with taxpayer money.
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Biden nominee Colin Kahl, opposed by some pro-Israel groups, moves to Senate vote
March 24, 2021
Christians United for Israel and the Zionist Organization of America urged the Senate to reject the nomination.
Colin Kahl, 2012. Credit: Ralph Alswang/Flickr.
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Memo: Biden administration aims to ‘reset’ relations with Palestinians
March 17, 2021
According to the memo, the goal is to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace under a two-state solution framework “based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps and agreements on security and refugees.”
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on March 9, 2016. Photo by Flash90.
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Daniel GreenfieldFebruary 4, 2021
The problem with Hady Amr
Biden’s new Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israel-Palestine isn’t just another policy expert with a history of hostility to Israel.
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Daniel GreenfieldJanuary 27, 2021
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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Biden nominee called US recognition of Golan Heights ‘blatant political move’
January 25, 2021
Neera Tanden said former President Donald Trump used "the American Jewish community as a pawn and treats anti-Semitism as a political weapon."
Neera Tanden. Source: Screenshot.
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Biden appoints Palestinian American to key intelligence role
Netta BarJanuary 25, 2021
Maher Bitar served in the National Security Council under former President Barack Obama, as director for Israeli and Palestinian affairs.
Maher Bitar (center), his wife, Astrid Dorelien, and year-old daughter, Alya Dorelien Bitar, with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Sept. 21, 2015. Photo: Pete Souza/White House.
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Jonathan S. TobinJanuary 22, 2021
What would hiring Robert Malley say about Biden’s plans on Iran?
The foreign-policy establishment favorite and Arafat apologist would be just another Obama alum in the new administration, but one that would particularly encourage Tehran.
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Jonathan S. TobinJanuary 13, 2021
Is there a statute of limitations on racism and anti-Semitism?
Biden’s choice to run the civil-rights division of the Department of Justice engaged in public racial incitement as a student leader at Harvard. Should that disqualify her for high office now?
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Biden nominee for Justice Department invited anti-Semite to Harvard University
January 12, 2021
Kristen Clarke was involved with a 1994 event featuring the late Wellesley College professor Tony Martin, who self-published “The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.”
Kristen Clarke. Credit: Biden-Harris Transition website.
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Jewish and pro-Israel groups, policy experts react to Biden national security picks
Jackson RichmanNovember 23, 2020
Michael Makovsky of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America said “given the foreign-policy rhetoric during the Democratic primary, [Tony] Blinken and [Jake] Sullivan are from the more moderate wing of the party, and that is reassuring. They’re thoughtful and experienced experts.”
Then-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 16, 2016. Credit: David Azagury/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv.
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Biden’s foreign-policy appointments and what they might mean for Israel
Israel KasnettNovember 23, 2020
While Middle East analysts say Biden is building a team of people in whom he trusts, can rely on and can work together as a team, a good deal of concern centers on whether U.S. foreign policy will look too much like it did during the Obama administration.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Source: Joe Biden/Facebook.
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Daniel GreenfieldJune 28, 2020
Biden’s foreign-policy boss called for an anti-Israel DNC platform
Even as Democrats try to sell pro-Israel Jews on Joe Biden, the campaign has already sold them out.
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