Tony Blinken, Accepting Biden’s Secretary Of State Nomination, Notes Jewish Roots

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Secretary of state nominee Tony Blinken speaks at a Cabinet announcement event in Wilmington, Del., as President-elect Joe Biden looks on, Nov. 24, 2020. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (JNS) – Tony Blinken vividly described his stepfather’s Holocaust-era rescue in accepting President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination to be secretary of state on Tuesday.

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Blinken also noted other Jewish ancestors who were refugees near the outset of his acceptance speech in Wilmington, Delaware.

The remarks served to signal the incoming administration’s commitment to reverse two signature policies of Donald Trump’s presidency: drawing down America’s profile overseas and drastically cutting refugee intake.

“For my family, as for so many generations of Americans, America has literally been the last best hope on earth,” Blinken said. “My grandfather, Maurice Blinken, fled pogroms in Russia and made a new life in America. His son, my father Donald Blinken, served in the Air Force during World War II and then as a U.S. ambassador. He is my role model and hero.

“His wife, Vera Blinken, fled communist Hungary as a young girl and helped future generations of refugees come to America. My mother, Judith Pisar, builds bridges between America and the world through the arts and culture. She is my greatest champion.”

His mother’s second husband was a Holocaust survivor, author and memoirist.

“And my late stepfather, Samuel Pisar, was one of 900 children in his school in Bialystok, Poland, but the only one to survive the Holocaust after four years in concentration camps,” Blinken said.

“At the end of the war, he made a break from a death march into the Bavarian woods. From his hiding place, he heard the rumbling sound of a tank. Instead of an Iron Cross, he saw a five-pointed White Star. He ran to the tank. The hatch opened. An African-American GI looked down at him. He fell to his knees and said the only three words he knew in English that his mother had taught him: God Bless America. The GI lifted him into the tank, into America, into freedom. That’s who we are.”

At the same ceremony, Biden introduced his designated national security Cabinet, including Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban-born Jew he nominated to be Homeland Security secretary.

Mayorkas, whose mother was a Romanian-born Holocaust survivor, in his acceptance remarks spoke of his parents’ flight from communist Cuba.

“My father and mother brought me to this country to escape communism,” he said. “They cherished our democracy and were intensely proud to become United States citizens.”


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Democrats support Jew haters and terrorists.
Democrats support Jew haters and terrorists.
3 years ago

Married to a christian and has no problem with the obamanaion pivot away from Israel and towards the iranian terror regime, what got him upset was a low level bureaucrat announcing the permit to build some houses.

Earl
Earl
3 years ago

Bought and paid for by Soros.

TRUMP IS PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS PRESIDENT
3 years ago

It’s an illegitimate “win”.
America was robbed.
Where’s Barr & Wray ?
We have corrupt deep state . 75 million will not allow this criminal ticket entry to the WH.

#Joenotmypresident
#Joenotmypresident
3 years ago

This guy has zero right to be anything. He’s cheat and a fraud.

Last edited 3 years ago by #Joenotmypresident
Democrats support terrorists.
Democrats support terrorists.
3 years ago

Typical democrats move, put a Jew in charge of pressuring Israel to kow tow to the terrorists, so you can claim you aren’t anti Israel or anti semitic. Like the obamanations jkewish ambssodor to isrsel who never said one word agaisnt his anti osrael pro iran policies because they are JINOs who don’t care about Israel or Jews, they claim to but when ot comes to doing something, they will always side with the democrat party, party before country, party before religion, and party before anything, if a democrat does it it must be right, taht is why no democrat ever relaly condemns tlaib or omar no matter what jew hatred they spew, sometimes they will say a few words against it, but never call for them to be condemned or even punished with being kicked off a commitee or censored by congress, nope all some of them do is put out a mealy mouthed statement. When the Jew hater sarsour spoke at a panel at the DNC, the biden campaign put out a statement condemning her afterward, and the next day privately apoligized for the condemnation. Bidens administratoon will be a miclx of JINOs who wont stand up for Israel or religious freedom and anti Israel jew haters like iranain terror regime supporter lurch kerry.

Coup d'etat 2020
Coup d'etat 2020
3 years ago

Media & Dems know very well what we know.
This was a robbery .
Fraud.
We pray for open justice soon.
There will be no luck for this team.
WE DEMAND FAIR JUSTICE FROM THE COURTS.
BIDEN IS AN ILLEGITIMATE USURPER !