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LD to Rep. Joe Wilson moves to AIPAC

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 4, 2021

A GOP staffer has traded his extensive Middle East policy experience for a job with the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Oren Adaki is now associate director for policy and government affairs to AIPAC, which spent north of $2.6 million on federal lobbying last year. He comes from the office of Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), where he was legislative director. Wilson has traveled to Israel twice on AIPAC's dime.

Adaki has also served as staff director to the now-defunct House Foreign Affairs Committee's Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee and worked as a research analyst and Arabic specialist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a neoconservative-leaning think tank. He holds a master's in Middle East studies from Columbia.