A staffer working on the presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is under fire over a recently-surfaced tweet from 2013, in which he wrote that he “would totally be friends with Hamas.”
The staffer, Max Berger, is the cofounder of IfNotNow, an American Jewish group that advocates against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He joined the Warren campaign as Director for Progressive Partnerships in June.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Washington Free Beacon that the Warren campaign should make it clear that she does not agree with Berger’s comment.
"Anyone who wants to be friendly with Hamas has no business being in a presidential campaign," he said. "It's very straightforward."
"If that's the message that Elizabeth Warren wants to send to Jewish progressives and the rest of the American Jewish community, that the person she put in charge of outreach wants to be friends with Hamas, no way," Cooper said, noting that he thinks Warren would be uncomfortable knowing that someone on her staff had said something like this. "She's going to have to deal with this right now."
The Warren campaign did not respond to the Free Beacon’s request for comment, and Berger has not commented publicly on the now-deleted tweet.
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