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The label applied inside the U.S. government to diplomats and analysts who knew Arabic and Middle Eastern history, and which John Kiriakou confirms functioned as a dismissal — the assumption being that anyone who understood the region was blindly prejudiced against Israel, or antisemitic.
Arabist was the term used inside the U.S. foreign-policy establishment for officials who knew Arabic and the history of the region. Put to John Kiriakou that the label worked as a dismissal — that respected State Department officers were written off as blindly prejudiced against Israel, or as antisemitic, simply for knowing the language and the history — his answer was: “Yes. Absolutely true. Absolutely true.”[1][2]
The example he reaches for is Ambassador Chas Freeman, under whom he served in Saudi Arabia and whom he describes as “one of the most brilliant minds I’ve ever encountered.”[2]
The institutional context he sets around it is that sympathy for the Palestinians was, in his experience, the ordinary view among people who worked the region: “there was a deep admiration just among the rank and file for the Palestinian people. Not for the Israelis, but for the Palestinians” — the same at the State Department — and that it stopped counting once a decision reached the White House.[3][4]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
