CAIR Calls for Ousting of "Notoriously Orientalist" Biden Middle East Adviser

Advocates are calling for the ousting of a top Biden administration official who has acted as the "shadow president" on Middle East policy, directing much of the administration's decisions in the region as the US has enabled Israel to plunge it into chaos and destruction. On Tuesday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said that Middle East adviser Brett McGurk "must go" after Politico reported that he's been encouraging Israeli officials to escalate their fighting against Hezbollah and Lebanon. McGurk is relatively unknown to the public, but he has been instrumental to Biden's policies on Israel and, broadly, the Middle East. McGurk has been heavily involved in the US's policy toward Israel, and earlier this year had been pushing a plan to allow wealthy countries like Saudi Arabia to reconstruct Gaza after the genocide. Progressives in Congress had tried to get a campaign to oust McGurk off the ground earlier this year, seeing him as a primary source of the US's fueling of unrest and tensions in the Middle East. (Reprint 2024)