With Job Safe For Now, Gorka Works To Rehab His Rep In The Jewish Community

[DonViejo]

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MAY 8, 2017 2:06 PM

With his job reportedly safe for the time being, White House staffer Sebastian Gorka on Sunday addressed the annual conference of the Jerusalem Post as part of an ongoing effort to improve his reputation in the Jewish community.

According to a report in the Atlantic, the self-styled counterterrorism expert was met with a friendly reception at the event, where he spent the bulk of his on-stage interview with editor Yaakov Katz discussing the threat posed by “radical Islam.”

Katz opened the conversation with a question about Gorka’s ties to a Hungarian knightly order founded by a Nazi collaborator, which have fueled rumors that the Trump White House planned to remove him from his post as deputy assistant to the President. But he did not push back when Gorka gave the same, indirect answer that he’d previously provided to other publications, according to the report.

“I have spent my life fighting against totalitarian ideologies and so did my father,” Gorka said, as quoted by the Atlantic, adding that no one has “ever found one sentence that I have said in the last 46 years that is anti-Semitic or anti-Israel.”

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[Gothmog]

1. Good luck-the Jewish community is no fan of nazis