freebeacon.com Maher Bitar’s appointment is the latest sign that Democratic Party elites are leaning into growing hostility to Israel in their party
By Adam Kredo
An anti-Israel staffer for Sen. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) who was once pictured wearing a keffiyeh and dancing in front of a banner calling Israel an apartheid state is slated to head an influential Democratic foreign policy group designed to staff the next Democratic presidential administration, Axios reported on Monday.
Maher Bitar, a Palestinian American who served as a senior official on former president Joe Biden’s National Security Council and who most recently served as chief counsel to Schiff, has been selected to lead a reconstituted version of National Security Action (NSA), a Democratic foreign policy vehicle that offloaded many of its members into the Biden administration. Founded in 2018 by Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Obama foreign policy guru Ben Rhodes, the organization is expected to peddle “similar influence in the 2028 election and the next Democratic administration,” Axios reported.
“Of any of the significant staffers who could impact the White House’s foreign policy, he was easily the most antagonistic to Israel and in direct opposition to the President under which he served—sometimes in obvious ways and more often sub rosa,” one former senior foreign policy adviser to Biden told the Washington Free Beacon. “There was the Biden/Jake wing and the Maher/Pod Bros wing. NSA is clearly betting on the latter prevailing in 2028.”
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