Vice President Kamala Harris made a profound yet unintended statement during her Passover Seder with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, by serving wine produced in the West Bank in Israel.
A bottle at the vice president’s residence had a label from the Psagot Winery, which made international headlines when it named one of its wines after then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he declared that West Bank settlements don’t violate international law.
James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, slammed Harris for serving the wine, saying that “Psagot’s vineyards are on stolen Palestinian land. It’s not cool.”
Thus began a swift damage control effort from the vice president’s office, with a Harris communications adviser writing that “the wine served at the Seder was in no way intended to be an expression of policy.”
In practice, Harris has not been much of a friend to Israel as vice president. Last year, she listened to a student at Geoge Mason University who accused Israel of committing “ethnic genocide” against Palestinians.
She responded to the student by saying: “Your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth, should not be suppressed. And it must be heard.”
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If חלול יום-טוב which carries מלקות isn’t bad enough, this year taking those pictures at the סדר tragically involved חילול שבת which carries חיוב סקילה
Impeach her and her demented and senile boss.
I’m certain this dumber than a box of rocks woman had some geshmacke divrei Torah.
How can Reb Doug make a Bracha?! There is erva all over the place. Uncovered hair, exposed arms and elbows. Is the wine mevushal?
For once she is telling the truth when she says that it “was in no way intended to be an expression of policy”.
good for her ! kol hakavod !
She’s not a friend to Israel or the Jews because as a non-Jew she was determined to marry a Jew. Intermarriage with a non-Jew is about as destructive to one’s neshama as you can get
She probably used an old empty bottle & filled it with manischewitz.
A vial pig, surrounded by biggest Jewish libs in town!