Israel’s ambassador to the United States said Thursday that his country was looking forward to working with the Trump administration, specifically bringing up Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior adviser who has been accused of anti-Semitism.
“Israel has no doubt that President-elect Trump is a true friend of Israel,” Ron Dermer said to the President-elect’s transition pool reporters gathered at Trump Tower, according to a pool report.
“We look forward to working with the Trump administration, with all of the members of the Trump administration, including Steve Bannon, and making the US-Israel alliance stronger than ever,” he continued.
Asked why he mentioned Bannon by name, Dermer did not respond, and was then led to the Trump Bar by Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, according to the pool report.
As executive chairman of Breitbart News, Bannon oversaw the site’s transformation into the “platform for the alt-right,” referring to the loosely affiliated anti-establishment movement that relies on white nationalist, anti-Semitic and misogynist tropes.
On Wednesday, 169 congressional Democrats sent a letter to Trump asking him to fire Bannon, citing his role “repeatedly and aggressively push[ing] stories that promote anti-Semitism.”
One Breitbart column during the Republican primaries called “Never Trump” conservative Bill Kristol a “Renegade Jew” for his refusal to support Trump’s campaign.
During divorce proceedings in the late ’90s, Bannon’s ex-wife alleged he didn’t want to send their children to a school with a large Jewish population (a spokesperson for Bannon said that was untrue).
Dermer is expected to accept an award next month from the Center for Security Policy, an anti-Islam think tank. Frank Gaffney, who founded and currently leads that group, on Wednesday denied reports that he had advised Trump’s transition team following an outcry against his record of Islamophobic conspiracy theories.
That makes sense considering what a fucking Nazi this piece of shit is.
Current Israeli policy looks no different than South African Apartheid (and is in some ways worse) did in the 1980’s.
All of Netenyahu’s acolytes LOVE the idea of a single, easily manipulated “Strongman” to deal with instead of an actual Democracy with an actual President.
Nuclear War with Iran is only 6 months away now.
My Jewish kid is going to grow up in an America where antisemitism has been re-mainstreamed for the first time in a half-century or so, and that fact owes much to Jared Kushner, Ron Dermer, his boss Bibi, Sheldon Adelson, the RJC, etc. Fucking idiots. Destructive fucking idiots.
Ron Dermer may be the biggest sleaze in international politics, literally empowering an anti-Semite in order to ensure that Israeli apartheid continues unabated. The shameful ways people debase themselves for money and power never ceases to amaze me.
Of course he said this. Israel has been sliding into neo-fascism like it’s a greased latex bodysuit and couldn’t be more pleased that Murikkka is finally catching up.
BTW, was Israel not sent the memo about these peoples’ underlying anti-semitism?
Trumpmerica would like nothing more than to copy it.