President Biden's New Israel Betrayal

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Jordan Sekulow

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March 21, 2022

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The Biden Administration is trying to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state of Israel – America’s number one ally in the Middle East.

The U.S. State Department has reportedly created a new funding opportunity to “strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza.” In other words, the State Department is going to use your taxpayer dollars to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement – a horrific anti-Israel, antisemitic movement.

ACLJ Senior Counsel for Global Affairs and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo detailed in his new article how this funding is an effort to undermine Israel and added what this grant would actually do: 

This is something that the previous Administration . . . would never have done. It basically is an effort to undermine the central thesis of the nation of Israel as the rightful homeland of the Jewish people. So, it is promoting efforts to support the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) which will talk about apartheid, and oppression, and occupation. When we know this is the lone democracy in the Middle East and we know that Arabs, Christians, and Jews live alongside each other inside of Israel. . . . To think that the United States taxpayers should be underwriting efforts to undermine the Israeli government . . . is a 180-degree reversal from where we were four years ago. And it is dangerous for the state of Israel and frankly, to the Abraham Accords, which is such an important thing for the United States of America.

Sec. Pompeo added what it will take to stop this move by the Biden Administration:

It will take a lot of loud voices and it will take hard work by organizations like the ACLJ who makes the case for why this is so evil, so desperate, and so progressive. It’s absolutely the case that someone is going to have to vote, Members of Congress all across America, will have to vote for this money, these appropriated funds to be spent in this way. They could block it, and they ought to . . . and they ought to stop anybody who President Biden puts forward who is thinking about Israel in this way that undermines the neutrality of the relationship between the United States and Israel and Israel’s right to exist. Those people should not occupy positions of power in the United States government. . . . We should make sure that the United States – the American people – are deeply aware of what is taking place. I am confident that the vast majority of Americans would see that this is not in America’s best interest to head down this progressive Left, anti-Zionist path.

This comes at a time when Russia is negotiating the Iran nuclear deal between the United States and Iran, and the State Department is reportedly considering dropping the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from the foreign terrorist organizations’ list.

ACLJ Senior Military Analyst Wes Smith explained in a new article how the Biden Administration is desperate to reenter the flawed Iran nuclear deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Wes pointed out the danger of reentering this deal at a time like this:

This is insanity, it makes no geopolitical sense. . . . I can’t figure out if it's desperation on the part of the Biden Administration for a political win or it is a dangerous naïve take concerning who they are dealing with. . . . As crazy as it sounds, we are using Russia as one of the lead negotiators in this deal with Iran. Russia, which is now committing terrorist acts on Ukraine, is our negotiator . . . our mediator between us and Iran – which of course it’s the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. This JCPOA, the Iran deal, was flawed and horrible from the get-go. But now as a part of that, two new conditions have come up. Russia wants to be exempt from any sanctions against them for invading Ukraine if they are buying Iranian oil. And of course, now Iran also wants the Revolutionary Guard Corps taken off the terror blacklist. This is a . . . military group in Iran that has the blood of thousands of people on its hands, including American soldiers. And yet the Biden Administration apparently is thinking about not only lifting sanctions on Iran, which will give them billions of dollars towards their development of a nuclear weapon. But also taking the Revolutionary Guard Corps off the terror blacklist. . . . Meanwhile . . . all military bases under this renewed agreement . . . are exempt from inspections about nuclear weapons from the IAEA. Also, this JCPOA that they are so desperately trying to reenter, it actually sunsets in a few years. It goes away. And at the end of that sunset, Iran is free to pursue a nuclear weapon and yet they want to reinstate this.

This is extremely dangerous for America, so we are taking action. This week, we are going to file a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request over these funding efforts to delegitimatize Israel and will file another FOIA about the Biden Administration considering removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the foreign terror list. We will continue to monitor these efforts by the Biden Administration and provide you with updates.

Today’s full Sekulow broadcast is complete with even more analysis of the State Department’s new grant opportunity and negotiations between the U.S. and Iran to reenter the JCPOA.

Watch the full broadcast below.