Ambassador Huckabee has betrayed his duty to protect Americans; he must be removed from his position immediately Dear Email, Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s recent secret meeting with convicted traitor and Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard is a profound betrayal of the United States and the office he is supposed to hold. Pollard is a former U.S. intelligence analyst who sold American secrets to a foreign government, spying against his own country for cash and gifts. By embracing this spy within the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, and without any transparency with the American people, Huckabee has disgraced his post and insulted every American.  For context: in 1987, Pollard was sentenced to life in prison for violations of the Espionage Act. Successive U.S. officials from both political parties, as well as leaders within the defense and intelligence communities, consistently opposed any form of clemency. They maintained that the damage Pollard inflicted on U.S. national security through his espionage was far more severe, wide-ranging, and enduring than publicly acknowledged. Pollard was released from prison on November 20, 2015, in accordance with federal sentencing guidelines. Five years later, on November 20, 2020, his parole expired, lifting all remaining restrictions. Shortly after, on December 30, 2020, Pollard and his second wife relocated to Israel, settling in Jerusalem. Since moving to Israel, Pollard has publicly aligned himself with far-right political figures, including Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. He has also advocated for extreme measures, such as the forced population transfer of Palestinians from Gaza to Ireland. Huckabee’s meeting with traitor Pollard presents a grave question: whom does Mike Huckabee represent? Is he the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, or is he a representative of Israeli interests embedded deep within the American establishment? His actions consistently suggest the latter. He has actively lobbied a U.S. President to enter a foreign war, recklessly endangering American lives and regional stability within the Middle East for the benefit of another nation, which is Israel. In a breach of diplomatic protocol, he wrote a message to President Trump in June framing an attack on Iran as an act of "divine providence," openly urging a conflict that would serve Israeli, not American, interests. Furthermore, he is a vocal proponent of Israel's illegal annexation of the West Bank, deliberately using the term "Judea and Samaria" to signal his endorsement of an expansionist agenda that directly undermines official U.S. policy and international law. Meanwhile, Huckabee has neglected his most fundamental duty: to protect American citizens. While he fraternizes with a traitor, American citizens like Mohammad Ibrahim (16 years old) have been left to deteriorate in Israeli prisons for nearly ten months without due process. This was followed by Israeli soldiers shooting and killing a 14-year-old Palestinian-American teenager, Amer Rabee, in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya in April. No justice has been granted to Amer’s family. Huckabee also offered no meaningful justice or accountability for Mohammed's cousin, Sayfollah Musallet, also an American citizen, who was murdered by Israeli settlers this past July. Justice has been denied in both cases, and Mohammad remains imprisoned despite reports of his declining health and the documented abuses within the Israeli detention system. These victims represent a brutal pattern of American citizens being killed and detained by a foreign entity with zero accountability. An ambassador's primary duty is to be their shield; Huckabee has instead been an accomplice to their suffering. There is something profoundly corrupt about an administration that consistently aligns itself with, enables, and protects criminals, from convicted traitors like Pollard to the Israeli state and settler forces who kill and imprison Americans with impunity. Mike Huckabee has demonstrated that he is unfit to serve as a representative of the United States. His conduct is an insult to our nation's security and its citizens. He must be removed from his position immediately and expelled from his post. A valid "America First" policy means putting American interests and American citizens first. It cannot be a hollow slogan used to mask an "Israel First" agenda that excuses the embrace of traitors and abandons our own people to injustice. Huckabee’s actions are not just an embarrassment; they are a subversion of American sovereignty, and they must end now.
In solidarity, Americans for Justice in Palestine Action |
