Karine Jean-Pierre was tapped this week to interchange Jen Psaki as White Home Press Secretary.
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New White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as soon as urged Democrats to skip a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, claiming it was “severely racist.”
The bipartisan gathering has lengthy been an uncontroversial a part of American public life, however in recent times has turn out to be extra divisive as Democrats have drifted away from America’s closest ally within the area over the unresolved Israel-Palestinian battle.
“When it comes right down to it, AIPAC’s insurance policies usually are not progressive insurance policies. AIPAC’s values usually are not progressive values,” Jean-Pierre wrote in a Newsweek Op-Ed in 2019. “It’s time to name a spade a spade.”
Within the piece, she blasted the convention as “severely racist” saying it has “turn out to be recognized for trafficking in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric whereas lifting up Islamophobic voices and attitudes.”
“You can't name your self a progressive whereas persevering with to affiliate your self with a corporation like AIPAC that has usually been the antithesis of what it means to be progressive,” she added, whereas additionally taking a shot at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
She wrote the Newsweek piece whereas serving as a Senior Advisor and Nationwide Spokesperson to MoveOn, a Democratic advocacy group. Jean-Pierre has additionally labored as a lecturer at Columbia College’s Faculty of Worldwide and Public Affairs since 2014.
Jean-Pierre, 44, grew up in Queens and started her profession working for the Heart for Group and Company Ethics, a nonprofit devoted to analyzing the affect of enormous firms on societies.
She is a veteran of President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Through the Trump years she often appeared on NBC and MSNBC as a political commentator.
Jean-Pierre’s article dovetails with a Democratic drift away from Israel led by the Squad and different left wing lawmakers in Congress. In 2007 each Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama attended the AIPAC convention.
In March, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted AIPAC for donating to Republican elected officers.
“It’s extra OK to dismantle US democracy than it's to query if US tax dollars ought to fund detention & abuse of Palestinian children,” AOC stated in a tweet.
Jean-Pierre, who has confronted battle of curiosity issues over her relationship with CNN reporter Suzanne Malveaux, was tapped this week as White Home Press Secretary.
She is the primary black lady and the primary brazenly homosexual particular person to step into the highest communication job, and can change Jen Psaki, whose final day is Might 13. Psaki is reportedly in talks to affix MSNBC.
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