Kamala Harris’ New ‘Jewish Liaison’ Led Biden’s Effort to Sanction IsraelisJoel B. Pollak 12 Aug 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has named Ilan Goldenberg, who spearheaded the Biden administration’s sanctions against Israel, as its new liaison to the Jewish community Monday.
Michael Doran documented in Tablet magazine on Sunday how Goldenberg, a left-wing Israeli-born peace negotiator, helped lead an unprecedented effort by the Biden administration to hunt and target Israelis for sanctions — in the middle of a war against Hamas terrorists.
Doran wrote:
President Biden recently achieved a historic first for which he has received no credit. He is the first president to form an interagency team dedicated to imposing sanctions on an ally, namely, Israel.
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The White House has established an interagency initiative to produce sanctions against Israeli entities and individuals. The International Economics Directorate at the National Security Council (NSC) leads the effort. Ilan Goldenberg, who until April worked for Vice President Kamala Harris and has now moved to the Strategic Planning Directorate in the NSC, also plays a very enthusiastic role. In the State Department, the Office of Economic Sanctions Policy has the lead. It works closely with the Office of Foreign Assets Control at Treasury. Together they prepare evidentiary packages.
These “evidentiary packages” are frequently based on one-sided information supplied by anti-Israel groups like Jamal Khashoggi’s Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). The sanctions boost the cause of the anti-Israel “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” (BDS) movement. The sanctions often target ordinary protest activity; they have occasionally targeted the wrong people. They are currently the subject of a lawsuit that claims they violate the First Amendment.
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