Top Biden offi­cial col­lab­o­rat­ed with anti-Israel group linked to embat­tled fed­er­al nom­i­nee

A top Biden admin­is­tra­tion offi­cial shares ties to an anti-Israel think tank that is fac­ing a con­gres­sion­al inves­ti­ga­tion and was advised by an embat­tled fed­er­al judi­cial nom­i­nee.
Sho­ba Sivaprasad Wad­hia, the offi­cer for Civ­il Rights and Civ­il Lib­er­ties at the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty, was a fac­ul­ty affil­i­ate in 2023 at the Rut­gers Law School Cen­ter for Secu­ri­ty, Race, and Rights, the Wash­ing­ton Free Bea­con report­ed.
The anti-Israel Rut­gers cen­ter has been under the spot­light in recent months amid Repub­li­can law­mak­ers rais­ing con­cerns over its events with ter­ror­ist allies, includ­ing Sami al Ari­an, a pro­fes­sor con­vict­ed in 2006 for aid­ing the Pales­tin­ian Islam­ic Jihad ter­ror­ist group. That scruti­ny from Capi­tol Hill orig­i­nal­ly stemmed from the fact that Adeel Man­gi, the White House’s seem­ing­ly doomed pick for the 3rd U.S. Cir­cuit Court of Appeals, was on the center’s advi­so­ry board until 2023.
That W …