NEW: The Senate votes 97-3 to keep the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Israel.
Sens. Carper, Sanders, Warren vote no.— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) February 5, 2021
Why they voted U.S. embassy in Jerusalem?
Senate is just useless idiots.
Reports: Anti-Israel Activist and Bernie Advisor Matt Duss May Join State Department
“Matt Duss, Sanders’ foreign policy adviser who has become a well-known figure among progressive activists, is expected to depart for a position in the Biden administration’s Department of State,” the Politico reported citing sources. “If that scenario materializes, it will be viewed by many on the left as a victory for progressives,” the news outlet added.
In a recent tweet, Duss equates Israel to an “apartheid” state. He also supports the antisemitic Israel boycott movement, or the BDS. “Anti-BDS hysteria is a con and Democrats need to stop playing along,” he tweeted in April 2019. But his obsession with the Jewish State goes back a long way.
While smearing the Jewish State, Duss defends the anti-Semitic BDS movement. In a 2015 congressional hearing on this matter, he claimed that “it is a mistake to focus on the BDS movement while ignoring the main reason for its continued growth, which is the failure to end the occupation.” Duss failed to mention that the Arabs citizens of Israel enjoyed equal rights as their Jewish compatriots, while the Palestinian’s in the West Bank and Gaza suffered at the hands of the tyrannical PLO and Hamas leadership.
In 2013, Duss came under fire for blogging Nazi-era propaganda posters. “Duss, a blogger at the CAP Action Fund’s ThinkProgress website, used the Nazi posters to substantiate his accusation that a political cartoon published by a right-leaning Israel group was “blatantly anti-Semitic,” The Washington Free Beacon reported at the time of the controversy.
This notorious track record did not prevent his political rise within the Democratic Party, and he became Bernie Sanders’ chief foreign policy advisor in 2017. The D.C.-based Foreign Policy journal credits Duss for “crafting” Bernie’s foreign policy. This much-feted policy includes Sanders’ support and admiration for Communist dictators, from Cuba’s Fidel Castro to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.
The speculations over Duss’ appointment comes as the Biden administration named another Sanders foreign policy advisor, Robert Malley as the new U.S. envoy to Iran. Malley is regarded as the architect of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and served as the ‘ISIS czar’ in President Barack Obama’s administration.
Who proposed moving it from Jerusalem-one of the three stooges?