Biden’s NSC Intel Director, Maher Bitar, Is a Former Radical Pro-Palestinian Activst

Daniel Greenfield wrote about Bitar’s background in a 2021 article published by the Jewish News Syndicate:

At the PSM [Palestine Solidarity Movement] convention in Georgetown [in 2006], Bitar had run a session describing how one can finest demonize Israel. Next yr, he facilitated a Palestinian Student Society summit addressed by Joseph Massad, who had referred to as Israel a “Jewish supremacist state” and praised terrorism.

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A couple of years later, Bitar may very well be found presenting at a Sabeel convention that includes among the worst bigots like Rebecca Vilkomerson of JVP, who had invited a terrorist to handle the BDS hate group, and Richard Falk, who had endorsed a guide which puzzled whether or not “Hitler might have been right after all.”

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Bitar went to work for UNRWA, interned on the misnamed and militantly anti-Israel Foundation for Middle East Peace and studied at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, writing papers on the so-called “Nakba” and on “Palestinian” activism. He appeared to explain Israel’s safety barrier as a “segregation wall.”

UNRWA has been implicated within the October 7 assaults, and Massad, who teaches at Columbia, praised the assaults.

Columnist Caroline Glick wrote in Israel Hayom on the time of Bitar’s appointment:

This week the White House introduced that Maher Bitar has been appointed to function the senior director for Intelligence on the National Security Council. The place is likely one of the strongest posts within the US intelligence neighborhood. The senior director is the node to which all intelligence from all companies flows. He decides what to share with the President. And within the title of the President, he determines priorities for intelligence operations and assortment.

The senior director of intelligence additionally determines what info the US intelligence neighborhood will share with overseas intelligence providers. Likewise, he decides how one can relate to info that overseas intelligence companies share with the Americans.

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Usually, the delicate place is reserved for a CIA officer who’s detailed to the National Security Council. Bitar, nevertheless, isn’t an intelligence skilled. He is an anti-Israel political activist.

Glick famous that Bitar’s grasp’s thesis at Oxford University was concerning the so-called Palestinian “Nakba,” which is how Palestinians now discuss with the displacement of 700,000 individuals as a result of a warfare wherein Arab states tried to destroy Israel at its founding.