US Senator Chris Van Hollen said that US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee must resign, accusing him of repeatedly turning a blind eye to the mistreatment of American citizens by Israeli authorities and becoming an apologist for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist government.
“It’s time for our American ambassador in Israel, Mike Huckabee, to resign. The job of an American ambassador is to defend and protect the interests of the United States of America. Ambassador Huckabee has failed to do that. He’s become an apologist for the extremist government in Israel,” the Democratic Senator for Maryland said in a video message posted on social media.
He added that American citizens have faced arbitrary detention and mistreatment at the hands of Israeli security forces, while Ambassador Huckabee has continuously refrained from condemning these practices or demanding accountability for those responsible.
Huckabee attacked Huckabee over the Israeli detention of Sama Safi, 20, and Adam Karakrah, 16, who are both American citizens.
“On his watch, we continue to see American citizens mistreated, wrongfully detained. In fact as we speak we have a 20-year-old American student who is being wrongfully detained, a 15 year old American boy wrongfully detained. We witnessed an 82-year-old Palestinian-American man beaten bloody by the IDF.”
