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Uzra Zeya nominated for undersecretary of civilian security, democracy, and human rights President Joe Biden's nominee for a top State Department position played a key role in assembling a book on the nefarious influence of the "Israel lobby" while working for an organization that promoted claims about Jewish media control and dual loyalty to Israel. As a staffer at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Uzra Zeya compiled research for a book that argues that "the Israel lobby has subverted the American political process to take control of U.S. Middle East policy" by establishing a secret network of "dirty...

The recent publication of Nazi-era propaganda posters by Center for American Progress (CAP) policy analyst Matt Duss has cast a spotlight on the writer’s controversial views of Israel. Duss, a blogger at the CAP Action Fund’s ThinkProgress website, was criticized earlier this month when he published Nazi propaganda posters in an article critical of a leading pro-Israel group. When reached for comment, Im Tirtzu, the Zionist group Duss criticized, struck back. “If the cartoon was actually anti-Semitic, wouldn’t Duss be praising it, or at least justifying it?” Ronen Shoval, Im Tirtzu’s founder, told the Washington Free Beacon. Duss is a...