Biden administration temporarily changed US ambassador to Israel’s Twitter description

Published January 20, 2021 8:32pm ET



In one of its first acts on social media since the inauguration, the Biden administration changed the Twitter description of the United States ambassador to Israel to include the West Bank and Gaza, but it then immediately reverted to the page’s original description. It remains unclear whether the temporary change signaled a departure from the pro-Israel policies of the Trump administration or was a technical glitch.

The name change, which momentarily read, “U.S. Ambassador to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza,” may have implied that President Biden, unlike his predecessor, does not recognize these regions as belonging to Israel, returning the U.S. to an Obama-era view of limited Israeli control in the Middle East.

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