Republican senators, led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, are threatening to delay President Joe Biden’s State Department nominees over policies prohibiting U.S. scientific research aid to certain Israeli-held territories in what the lawmakers refer to as an “antisemitic boycott of Israel.”
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides claimed in an interview Monday that Israelis wanted America to interfere in its internal politics, as he criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides drew widespread criticism for a tweet responding to the deaths of four Israelis in a Palestinian terror attack on Tuesday, as he appeared to equate them with the deaths of terrorists.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides has come under intense scrutiny for dictating to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on how to run his government, and in particular, his — and the Biden administration’s — open contempt for the proposal to reform Israel’s left-leaning judiciary.
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he was “not angry” at U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides over the latter’s call to have him “thrown off a plane,” which were made in response to the Israeli minister’s own comments calling to “wipe out” a Palestinian village of Huwara, the site of a terror attack in which two Israeli brothers were killed.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said he spends the majority of his time helping Palestinians, an unusual remark from a diplomat purporting to serve as the U.S. envoy to Israel.
Thomas Nides, the former State Department official who is reportedly President Joe Biden’s choice for U.S. Ambassador to Israel, shared anti-Trump conspiracy theories on Twitter, including the claim that Trump wanted to go to war with Iran.
