US ambassador to Israel condemns attack on Washington Post photojournalist

Mike Huckabee, the United States Ambassador to Israel, condemned an attack on a Washington Post photojournalist in the West Bank, according to reports by The Hill and The Jerusalem Post. CNN reported that the journalist was hospitalized following an attack by Israeli settlers during a Palestinian olive harvest. The Jerusalem Post identified the photojournalist as Heidi Levine. [1][4][5]

The Hill reported that Huckabee shared a statement on X calling the assault vicious and cowardly, and called for a full investigation into the incident. The Jerusalem Post reported that Huckabee described the attack as despicable and demanded arrests. The Washington Post reported that European diplomats were also attacked in the West Bank one day after the photographer was beaten. [1][3][5]

Huckabee has served as the United States ambassador to Israel since 2025. He previously served as the governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007 and ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2016. The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. [6][7]

As FTMQ Politics reported earlier, an advisor to Huckabee was alleged to have suppressed a United States embassy memo that criticized Israeli settlement expansions in the West Bank. [9]