Karine Jean-Pierre, former official for activist MoveOn group and openly gay, will replace Jen Psaki as White House press secretary. In 2019, Jean-Pierre urged Democrats to boycott the annual AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) conference, saying the organization is severely racist and Islamaphobic. Jean-Pierre wrote in an opinion piece in Newsweek, “When it comes down to it, AIPAC’s policies are not progressive policies. AIPAC’s values are not progressive values.”
