{"id":216607,"date":"2026-09-05T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/216607\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:42:09","slug":"palestinian-journalist-calls-house-minority-leader-jeffries-aipac-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/216607\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian journalist calls House Minority Leader Jeffries ‘AIPAC monkey’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palestinian journalist and author Rula Jebreal received backlash after calling House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> an “AIPAC monkey,” while criticizing Jeffries’ support for Israel on a podcast on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He is a bought-and-paid-for AIPAC<\/a> monkey,” she said of the black lawmaker. “With all due respect – and I don’t mean it in a racist way. He is just basically an errand boy, and we’re done and tired.”<\/p>\n

Additionally, the podcast host stepped in to clarify that the term “monkey” has “terrible racial connotations, but I think you caught yourself and said you didn\u2019t mean it with any racial animosity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jabreal responded that she had been referring to the image of three monkeys, one who cannot see, one who cannot hear, and one who cannot speak.<\/p>\n

“It reminds me of these three monkeys,” she said.<\/p>\n

The Congressional Black Caucus rejected Jebreal’s defense in a post on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n

“To be clear, there isn\u2019t a non-racist way to call Leader Jeffries\u2013a Black man\u2013a ‘monkey’ or ‘errand boy,'” the caucus wrote.<\/p>\n

New York Representative Richie Torres echoed the sentiment on X, writing that “calling a Black man a ‘monkey’ is racist. Full stop.”<\/p>\n

Jabreal wrote her own post on X, writing first that she was “disgusted and horrified that Hakeem Jeffries is taking money from AIPAC<\/a> amidst Israel’s genocide in Palestine,” before adding “that said, a term that I used to describe him was inappropriate and offensive and should never have been used.”<\/p>\n

“I apologize unconditionally,” she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palestinian journalist and author Rula Jebreal received backlash after calling House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries an “AIPAC monkey,”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[144],"tags":[477,485,491,546],"class_list":["post-216607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hakeem-jeffries","tag-congress","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-racism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117220379615369879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}