Gorka says liberal American Jews ‘basically anti-Israel’

Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka is accusing the “liberal elements” of the American Jewish community of becoming “anti-Israeli.”

Gorka, a senior security adviser to President Donald Trump before leaving the White House last week, has told conservative radio host Michael Savage he believes the left wing has attacked him in the media because of his support for Israel.

Gorka says that liberal American Jews are “doing so much to betray [America’s] great friendship with Jerusalem.”

“This is one of the saddest phenomena of American politics now that liberal, the liberal elements of the American Jewish population, has basically become anti-Israeli. It’s the greatest saddest paradox,” he says.

Gorka notes that “some great Jewish Americans came to my defense,” naming specifically Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America. In March, Klein called Gorka a “great friend of Israel.”

Gorka also complains about the Forward Jewish newspaper for writing about his alleged membership in an anti-Semitic Hungarian group, calling it a “smear campaign.”

“You know there are key people such as at the Forward, at the Forward, who are pro-BDS, who are pro-Iran deal. It’s this very tragic phenomena that the people who should be supporting Israel and US-Israel relations the most have really done so much, done so much, to betray our great friendship with Jerusalem.”

— JTA