Also-- We All Know How Slimy Senators Are, But It's Not Allowed To Say So Aloud
It’s not a secret in DC or New York that Hakeem Jeffries is a 100% AIPAC puppet. He has been for virtually his entire political career and last year he worked with scumbag AIPAC consultant Mark Mellman to forge an anti-progressive primary blitzkrieg that put together Republican money from AIPAC and Mellman’s Democratic Majority For Israel plus Sam Bankman-Fried’s stolen FTX millions which proven effective in preventing primary victories for progressive candidates from coast to coast, including Andy Levin (MI), Marie Newman (IL), Donna Edwards (MD), Nina Turner (OH), Erica Smith (NC), Cristina Garcia (CA), Daniel Lee (CA), Amy Vilela (NV), Nida Allam (NC), Attica Scott (KY), Sarah Klee Hood (NY) and Melanie D’Arrigo (NY).
Dozens of progressives in Congress are trembling that what Jeffries and AIPAC did to progressive incumbents Andy Levin and Marie Newman— smothering them in limitless negative ads— could as easily be done to any of them. It certainly played a part in Jeffries’ unopposed bid to become top House Democrat— despite no discernible accomplishments or qualifications… other than being able to control all that GOP AIPAC money and all that stolen crypto loot.
Yesterday, Biden bowed to AIPAC/Jeffries sensibilities by withdrawing James Cavallaro’s nomination— made last Friday— to serve on the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. Democrats are not allowed to refer to the apartheid state of Israel as an apartheid state and not to mention publicly that Hakeem Jeffries is an AIPAC whore. Cavallaro committed both sins and he will now be smeared as “anti-semitic.”
An AIPAC media ally, Algemeiner, destroyed Cavallaro’s chances on Tuesday by reporting that he had told the truth about Jeffries, AIPAC, Israel and other odious characters. He had once tweeted— correctly— that Jeffries has been “Bought. Purchased. Controlled” by AIPAC. AIPAC fed their deep, copious opposition-research on Cavallaro.
Cavallaro, a co-founder and Executive Director of the University Network for Human Rights, was described as a “leading scholar and practitioner of international law with deep expertise in the region as well as the Inter-American human rights system,” in a State Department release.
However, a survey of Cavallaro’s social media activity by The Algemeiner revealed a multi-year history of incendiary posts critical of US foreign policy, Israel, and pro-Israel elected officials.
In one Dec. 2022 tweet, now deleted, Cavallaro invoked language and imagery often associated with antisemitic claims of pro-Israeli political and financial control over US domestic politics.
“Bought. Purchased. Controlled,” Cavallaro wrote alongside a link to an article about the funds raised for Rep. Jeffries by AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups.
In other tweets, Cavallaro characterized Israel as an “apartheid state” and accused the US and Israel of “atrocities.”
Cavallaro began deleting the offending Tweets from his timeline on Monday after The Algemeiner reached out to him for comment. A reply had not been received by press time.
Cavallaro teaches courses on human rights law and practice at Wesleyan University, Yale Law School and UCLA Law School, and he has previously taught at the law schools of Harvard and Stanford. The University Network for Human Rights supervises “interdisciplinary engagement in human rights practice at universities across the country and beyond,” according to its website.
Announcing him as the US candidate for the IACHR seat on Friday, State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel said Cavallaro would “would bring valuable expertise to the Commission’s work,” but other posts from Cavallaro’s social media feed express views consistently at odds with Biden administration positions.
In February 2022, responding to Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-CA) visit to Ramallah where he met with Palestinian students, Cavallaro asked “did they say anything about high-level, US congressional delegations legitimating and praising the Israeli apartheid state?”
Cavallaro has also promoted the views of Rhania Khalek, a journalist and prominent anti-Israel activist who is also a supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In April 2021, he tweeted at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes that she should watch one of Khalek’s videos to “help you figure out *what* and *how* [sic] is going on in Palestine.” While the video is no longer available on Twitter, it appears that Khalek was promoting her video “Two-State Delusion: Israel Is A Racist One State Nightmare,” in which she claims that Israel is committing ethnic cleansing, is not a democracy, and “does not belong in the f—ing 21st century.”
The IACHR is an organ of the Organization of American States (OAS), a regional body headquartered in Washington, DC, that promotes security, democracy, and economic development in the Americas. While it focuses on the Western hemisphere, in May 2021 Cavallaro asked why the OAS was labelling Hamas a terrorist organization and suggested that support for human rights was contrary to US foreign policy.
“Substance aside, why does the OAS (Organization of *American* States) have a position on Hamas?” he wrote. “If you’re promoting global solidarity, how about supporting human rights instead of US foreign policy?”
While the IACHR commissioner role is not a Senate confirmed position, he has also made inflammatory comments about the character of both Democrats and Republicans, calling Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) “bought and paid for” and labeling Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) as “pedantic, self-righteous and pompous,” urging her to “learn from the Palestinian people,” and to resign over her “repeated moral failings.”
In November 2021, he wrote of Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) that “I don’t know whether to call you Senator or Shameless Motherf*cker [sic]. Actually I do.”
Cavallaro sounds like an awesome guy! The second this was brought to Biden’s attention-- if it even got that far-- he, of course, withdrew the nomination. A State Department spokesperson said they had not been aware of Cavallaro’s statements and writings. “His statements clearly do not reflect U.S. policy, they are not a reflection of what we believe and they are inappropriate to say the least.” No shit!