President Donald Trump’s ousted chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has urged pro-Israel conservatives and American Jews to join his war on the Republican establishment.
Bannon, who blames Republican leaders for Trump’s lack of legislative progress, appealed to the Zionist Organization of America on Sunday to “work as partners” in his crusade against the GOP establishment.
“We’re leading an insurgency movement against the Republican establishment,” Bannon said in a fiery address at the organization’s annual awards dinner in New York.
“That’s how you get the Iran deal,” he said. “That’s how we still allow the American government to finance people that have blood on their hands of innocent Jewish civilians.”
The Zionist Organization of America has largely embraced Bannon, while other Jewish leaders in the country have raised concerns about the far-right editor of Breitbart News, which is popular among some white supremacists.