Reema Dodin, who was announced on Monday a deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs for the incoming Biden administration, once praised suicide bombers during the Second Intifada.
In 2002, Dodin, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with residents of Lodi, Calif., saying that “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people,” according to the Lodi News-Sentinel.
The Biden Transition did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Dodin, who was named to her new position alongside Shuwanza Goff, will be the first Palestinian-American to serve as a White House staffer, according to Palestinian media. She currently serves as deputy chief of staff and floor director to Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.).
So what does she say now ???
The problem with your story is a complete lack of analysis! The lady in question was a ‘girl’ attending college when she said what she did. Since when do we judge the statements of college students with the same criteria we judge adults. In case you have read nothing about adolescents in your lifetimes, a college student isn’t an adult. Judge the lady upon what she says now, not what she said almost 20 years ago. When that kind of material and analysis has been produced I will believe your
right to write a commentary about this lady. As for my position on Israel consult Tehillim #137.