Tag: Israel-Firster

Pat Leahy’s Bad Faith

Vermont Democrat suggests his colleagues support Israel’s interests over the United States’ during debate over status of Palestinian refugees

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Sen. Patrick Leahy / AP

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) last Thursday criticized a hotly contested proposal concerning Palestinian refugees for not putting “the United States’ interests first”—a charge that critics said evokes the “Israel firster” slur at the center of the Middle East debate.

Career-Firster

Faiz Shakir, editor of ThinkProgress blog accused of anti-Israel, anti-Semitic bias, headed to Nancy Pelosi’s office

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Faiz Shakir appears on Iranian state television

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has hired the controversial editor of a blog recently engulfed in scandal over its use of language that Jewish groups have described as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. Faiz Shakir, the editor in chief of the Center for American Progress’ ThinkProgress blog, is set to become a senior adviser to Pelosi and her office’s director of new media, according to reports.