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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research and Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
President Biden’s promotion of Israel-hater Tyler Cherry to become Associate Communications Director at the White House has expanded Biden’s huge circle of anti-Israel appointees in high-level positions. (See ZOA’s Biden Hostile-to-Israel Appointments Watch webpage.) ZOA urges Biden to promptly fire Cherry, instead of promoting him.
Cherry’s tweets called to eliminate Israel, ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) and the “police state,” and to block arms sales to Israel. Cherry’s years of tweets were also full of false, vitriolic, antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-U.S., anti-Republican, anti-white and anti-police accusations. Cherry also defended and praised uber-antisemite Linda Sarsour.
On Sunday and Monday (June 23-24), Cherry hurriedly deleted 2,500 incriminating tweets, and posted an unconvincing general disclaimer on X, saying: “Past social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views. Period. I support this Administration’s agenda. . .” It is simply implausible that Cherry has suddenly changed his extremist and longstanding hateful antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-police, etc. views. And it is sickening that White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates stated: “We’re very proud to have Tyler on the team.” The White House should be firing Cherry instead of lauding him.
Cherry’s hateful anti-Israel tweets included:
- “Cheersing [sic] in bars to ending the occupation of Palestine – no shame and f*** your glares #ISupportGaza #FreePalestine.”
- “Shameful voidance and disregard for civilian casualties in Palestine from ‘champions’ of Dem ideals.” [Cherry’s response to a tweet about then-Senator Barbara Boxer’s support for Israel]
- “The right can’t STAND to see a fierce Muslim woman [Linda Sarsour] at the helm of the resistance and thus have to make s*** up to smear her #IMarchWithLinda.”
- Complaining in 2014 that the U.S. “Yet continues to let Israeli forces restock their arsenals with US ammunition and weapons…”
Ironically, Tyler Cherry minored in college in gender studies, and is gay. Yet his tweets supported (and he likely still supports) the positions of the very same groups (Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, terror-sponsor Iran) which would mete out a grisly death to Cherry simply because he is gay if he visited Gaza, the PA or Iran.
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