How progressive! WH press secretary

Joe picked another winner

https://newsmax.com/newsfront/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-aipac/2022/05/06/id/1068745/

President Joe Biden's next press secretary once called on Democrat presidential candidates to boycott the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual convention.

Karine Jean-Pierre, a former official of the activist MoveOn group, on Thursday was named to replace Jen Psaki as White House press secretary. Jean-Pierre will become the first Black woman and first openly LGBTQ person in the job.

In 2019, Jean-Pierre endorsed pressure by MoveOn on Democratic Party presidential candidates to boycott the annual AIPAC conference.

"When it comes down to it, AIPAC's policies are not progressive policies. AIPAC's values are not progressive values," Pierre wrote in a Newsweek opinion column at the time. "It's time to call a spade a spade."

Jean-Pierre wrote that AIPAC and the Trump administration had "sabotaged" the Iran nuclear deal crafted by former President Barack Obama, and she slammed the group for asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be its headline speaker.

She also said the AIPAC's "severely racist, Islamophobic rhetoric has proven just as alarming. The organization has become known for trafficking in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric while lifting up Islamophobic voices and attitudes."

AIPAC, historically non-partisan, recently launched a PAC to directly support pro-Israel candidates for the first time. The PAC has given money to more Republicans than Democrats, and has drawn criticism for giving to GOP lawmakers who backed objections to certifying Biden's 2020 election victory, The Times of Israel reported.

However, the PAC also is supporting the House Democrats' leadership and nearly half of the party's progressive caucus.