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‘He Was Easily the Most Antagonistic to Israel’: Anti-Israel Activist Who Advised Biden, Schiff To Head Influential Democratic Foreign Policy Group Designed To Staff a Future White House
Adam Kredo
May 4, 2026

An anti-Israel staffer for Sen. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) who was once pictured wearing a keffiyeh and dancing in front of a banner calling Israel an apartheid state is slated to head an influential Democratic foreign policy group designed to staff the next Democratic presidential administration, Axios reported on Monday. Maher Bitar, a Palestinian American who served as a senior official on former president Joe Biden’s National Security Council and who most recently served as chief counsel to Schiff, has been selected to lead a reconstituted version of National Security Action (NSA), a Democratic foreign policy vehicle…Bitar spent years leading anti-Israel organizations that promote the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and, as a college student, led his campus’s branch of the anti-Semitic Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) advocacy group. READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Direction of Dem policy group raises red flags after hiring of new leader with history of anti-Israel activism National Security Action named Maher Bitar, a former Biden official and Students for Justice in Palestine student activist, as its new leader