Maher Bitar, the White House Coordinator for Intelligence and Defense Policy at the National Security Council (NSC), is a radical pro-Palestinian activist and former leader of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
SJP is one of the most prominent groups involved in the pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic “camp” protests that have occupied dozens of university campuses. Its parent organization is also the subject of a lawsuit by survivors and families of victims of the October 7 terrorist attacks, who claim that SJP is a propaganda front for Hamas in the United States.
Vitale’s record has come under intense scrutiny as President Joe Biden takes unprecedented actions, including withholding weapons from Israel, to undermine Israel’s war against the Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel on October 7. is subject to.
On Wednesday, Biden’s decision to support the radical protests and his daughter’s Paused He was awarded a doctorate from Barnard College for his role in radical protests at nearby Columbia University.
Daniel Greenfield wrote about Vitale’s career in a 2021 article published By Jewish News Syndicate:
In PSM [Palestine Solidarity Movement] conference in georgetown [in 2006]Bitar is session It explains the best way to demonize Israel. The following year, he moderated the Palestinian Student Association Summit. Joseph MassadHe called Israel a “Jewish supremacist state.” was praised terrorism.
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A few years later, Bitar found give a presentation at a Sabir conference attended by the worst bigots like rebecca bilcomerson JVP and Richard Falk invited terrorists to deal with BDS hate groups approved This book made me think, “Perhaps Hitler was right after all.”
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Bitar worked for UNRWA, interned at the misnamed radical anti-Israel Middle East Peace Foundation, studied at Oxford’s Center for Refugee Studies, and wrote papers on the so-called “Nakba” and “Palestinian” activism.He appeared to be explaining Israel’s security wall. as “Isolation Wall”.
UNRWA has been implicated in the October 7 attack, which Massad, who teaches at Columbia University, praised.
Columnist Caroline Glick I have written in Israel Hayom At the time of Mr. Vitale’s appointment:
This week, the White House announced that Maher Bitar has been appointed senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council. This position is one of the most powerful in the US intelligence community. The Senior Director is the nexus through which all information from all agencies flows. He decides what to share with the president. And in the name of the president, he determines the priorities of intelligence operations and collection.
Senior intelligence leaders also determine what information U.S. intelligence agencies share with foreign intelligence agencies. Similarly, it determines how foreign intelligence agencies should interact with the information they share with Americans.
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This delicate position is usually held by a CIA official familiar with the National Security Council. But Mr. Vitale is not an intelligence expert. He is an anti-Israel political activist.
Glick pointed out that Bitar’s master’s thesis at Oxford University was on the so-called Palestinian “Nakba.” Nakba is the term used by Palestinians today to refer to the 700,000 people displaced by the war in which Arab states sought to destroy Israel at the time of its founding.
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States, also warned At the time of Vitale’s appointment, he said Vitale’s rise to a prominent position in the White House meant that “anti-Israel hatred will occupy the top ranks of foreign policy circles and define the foreign policy of the Biden administration.” Ta.
Mr. Vitale also worked for Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on the House Intelligence Committee and played a key role in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment. politiko He described Mr. Vitale as Mr. Schiff’s “best legal advisor,” adding:
He served as [National Security Council] He served as director of Israeli-Palestinian affairs during the Obama administration and served as Samantha Power’s deputy during his tenure at the NSC. He also worked as a foreign affairs officer for the State Department. Vitale has been friends with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan since their days at the State Department.
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Vitale served as a senior member of the House impeachment team, along with Dan Goldman, who served as the impeachment manager’s top lawyer during Trump’s first impeachment. Goldman called Vitale an “excellent lawyer” and said his experience on the committee will give the new NSC insight into changes in the intelligence community over the past four years.
The Office of the Senior Director of Intelligence receives incoming classified information from the intelligence community, especially when it is in hard copy form, and coordinates covert action operations between the White House and the intelligence community. It is also where the NSC maintains servers that store its most sensitive classified information.
Vitale’s current high-level intelligence position on the National Security Council does not require Senate confirmation.
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