Biden administration engagement with Iran yields violence in Israel
The timing of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket attacks on Israel and on Israeli population centers is no accident. Just over 100 days into office, President Joe Biden has drawn America’s enemies — Iran and its terror proxies — close to the U.S. administration, all while distancing from U.S. allies Israel, Saudi Arabia and the peacemaking Gulf Arab states. The more than 3,313 rockets fired by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from Gaza toward Israel exemplify Biden’s failed foreign policy.
It was not until almost one month after he was inaugurated, that Biden finally placed a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While Netanyahu was his first call as president to a Middle Eastern leader, the call only took place after Republican outrage was expressed at Biden’s seeming neglect of America’s closest ally in the Middle East.
Last month, Biden restored U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority even though this funding may be at odds with the bipartisan Taylor Force Act, which makes illegal any funding, whether direct or indirect, to the Palestinian Authority that may be funneled to terrorists. Biden has also pledged millions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which has been documented indoctrinating Palestinian children to hate Jews and Israel.
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Ms. Cohanim was the State Department’s first Iranian-born Envoy, and led diplomatic initiatives which resulted in forging groundbreaking partnerships in the Arab world to combat anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and Islamophobia. Ms. Cohanim also persuaded the first-ever Muslim faith group to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism, all as part of the Abraham Accords efforts. As Deputy Envoy, Ms. Cohanim was the lead official for the State Department in creating and implementing policy on countering anti-Semitism in the Near East and Western Hemisphere regions. She worked closely with Jewish communities in Venezuela, Chile, Argentina and Colombia in confronting local issues of anti-Semitism.
Ms. Cohanim can often be seen on Fox News and Newsmax; and is a contributor to National Review, Newsweek, The Hill and Washington Examiner.
Ellie Cohanim arrived as a child refugee to the US, after she and her family fled the escalating anti-Semitism in Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Previously, Ellie Cohanim was Senior Vice President and Special Correspondent for the Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) and was an executive at Yeshiva University; The Jewish Theological Seminary; and UJA-Federation of New York. She serves on the boards of the Iranian-American Jewish Federation of NY and Latino Coalition for Israel; and has previously served on the boards of the American Jewish Committee (AJC-NYR), the New York Jewish Community Relations Council, and the Ester Chapter of Hadassah.
Ellie Cohanim received her B.A. in Political Science, Cum Laude, from Barnard College, Columbia University; and conducted graduate study in International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is fluent in Hebrew and Farsi, familiar with German, Arabic and Spanish.
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