An antisemitism watchdog group is calling for the Biden administration to fire a recently promoted White House official whose anti-Israel social media posts resurfaced this week.<\/p>\n
StopAntisemitism said Tyler Cherry, who was promoted earlier this month as an associate communications director at the White House, called for the elimination of Israel and promoted anti-Israel viewpoints on social media going back years, as well as anti-police commentary.<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019re hoping this is the quickest hire and fire scenario in President Biden\u2019s administration to date,\u2019 Stop Antisemitism founder Liora Rez\u00a0told Fox News Digital. \u2018For the Biden administration to either A, not vet properly, or B, to vet and then approve an inner circle appointee like this\u2026 is just horrifying.\u2019<\/p>\n
Cherry, who spent three years at the Department of Interior working for Secretary Deb Haaland, deleted almost 2,500 posts on X between Sunday night and Monday morning, according to the Social Blade analytics website.<\/p>\n
White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the White House was \u2018very proud to have Tyler on the team.\u2019 Fox News Digital reached out to the White House again on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Cherry responded to the backlash following his promotion and his past tweets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Past social media posts from when I was younger do not reflect my current views,\u2019 Cherry, who was in his 20s when he made the posts, wrote on X. \u2018Period. I support this Administration\u2019s agenda \u2013 and will continue my communications work focused on our climate and environmental policies.\u2019<\/p>\n
Some of his social media posts include a 2014 anti-Israel post that went viral and echoes a lot of the rhetoric currently heard on college campuses.<\/p>\n
\u2018Cheersing in bars to ending the occupation of Palestine \u2013 no shame and f\u2014 your glares #ISupportGaza #FreePalestine,\u2019 Cherry wrote on July 25, 2014.<\/p>\n
\u2018Praying for #Baltimore, but praying even harder for an end to a capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial biases,\u2019 Cherry posted in 2015 amid riots that were sparked following the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man, in police custody in Baltimore.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Cherry called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anti-Israel rhetoric has increased following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists on Israeli communities. The Biden administration has supplied Israel with military aid but has also been criticized for trying to dictate its military response in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018The Biden administration is forgetting that it took 10 years for us to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden, so it is highly, highly unappealing and misfortunate that President Biden is pressuring Israel after just nine months to get out of Gaza and stop Israel\u2019s attempt to remove Hamas terrorists from power,\u2019 Rez said. \u2018Talk about not being proportional. Ten years, we took our sweet time versus nine months. It doesn\u2019t make sense to us.\u2019<\/p>\n
Rez noted that the Biden administration has appointed people with anti-Israel views to prominent positions. She cited Maher Bitar, who serves as the special assistant to the senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council (NSC).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bitar has been accused of spreading hatred of Israel in the past and promoting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions (BDS) movement.<\/p>\n