Center for American Progress president Patrick Gaspard, known for praising an anti-Semitic black nationalist who called Hitler “the greatest white man,” is leading the charge to urge President Joe Biden to secure a “robust ceasefire” in Israel.
Gaspard last week published a CAP article that accused Biden of handing Israel “a blank check for collective punishment that brutalizes innocent civilians” and called on the president to “urge an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.” Days later, when Israel’s government approved a deal with Hamas that will free 50 women and children hostages held in Gaza in exchange for a four-day fighting pause, Gaspard praised the deal as “vital” but lamented that it did not go far enough.
“President Biden and Secretary [of State Antony] Blinken can build on this progress to urge a more robust ceasefire to alleviate the humanitarian crisis,” he said in a Tuesday statement.
[Progressives are doubling down across the board on their anti-Israel agenda. Perhaps this will be instructive to Jerusalem the next time Biden demands that they cut a deal for more “pauses” rather than finish the job Hamas started on 10/7. Israel will never get any credit from the American hard Left, no matter how many cease-fires they adopt and no matter how soon Hamas violates them with more atrocities. — Ed]
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