Vice President Kamala Harris has appointed Rev. Jen Butler as her campaign’s new “faith outreach” director — amid criticism from Jews who not Butler’s radical anti-Israel views and her past support for antisemite Linda Sarsour.
StopAntisemitism, a watchdog group, posted its concerns on social media on Thursday:
Butler has deleted some of her old posts, but not a post hailing some of Harris’s other hires, including Jewish liaison Ilan Goldenberg, who has helped lead efforts to sanction Israelis; and Muslim liaison Nasrina Bargzie, who has taken radical anti-Israel positions and rejected the idea that extreme anti-Israel protests on campus are also antisemitic.
Other Jewish critics have also raised the alarm:
Butler continues a pattern of anti-Israel, and even antisemitic, hires by the Harris campaign.
She also holds other radical views and is a veteran of radical protests. She was arrested during a protest at the Capitol in 2017 against a Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. (Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) helped defeat that bill.)
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