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Pentagon’s chief Israel planner sacked after ‘death cult’ comments

Colonel Nathan McCormack called the Jewish State America’s ‘worst ally’ and claimed its government was loaded with ‘Judeo-supremacist cronies’

June 19, 2025 13:38
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The Pentagon's chief Israel planner Colonel Nathan McCormack (left) has reportedly been sacked from his role after making incendiary posts about the Jewish State on social media (Image: Sergeant Kani Ronningen/US Army photo)

By

Andrew Bernard,

Jewish News Syndicate

2 min read

The US’ chief Israel planner at the Pentagon has been sacked from his role after referring to the Jewish state as a “death cult”.

Colonel Nathan McCormack has been removed from the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s J5 planning directorate after making a number of incendiary posts on a semi-anonymous social media profile.

McCormack, who served as the directorate’s Levant and Egypt branch chief, referred publicly to “Netanyahu and his Judeo-supremacist cronies,” to Washington having “overwhelmingly” enabled Israel’s “bad behaviour” and pro-Israel activists in the United States prioritising “support for Israel over our actual foreign interests.”

JNS has learned that McCormack, who according to his LinkedIn account had held his current role since June 2024, has also bashed Israel as a “death cult” that is America’s “worst ally”.