National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has accused US President Joe Biden of preferring Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7 massacre, and progressive Democratic “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib over Israel.

“Presently, Biden prefers the line of Rashida Tlaib and Sinwar to the line of Benjamin Netanyahu and Ben Gvir,” the far-right minister told The New York Times in a story published Tuesday. “I would have expected the president of the United States not to take their line, but rather to take ours.”

Ben Gvir also charged that Biden was “enormously mistaken” in his attempts to pressure Israel.

Biden “constantly sought to impose restrictions on Israel and talks about the rights of the other side, who include, I remind you, many terrorists who want to destroy us,” he said.

Last month, Ben Gvir harshly criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the war against Hamas in Gaza, charging that it benefitted Hamas and arguing that Israel would have been better off dealing with a second Trump administration. The far-right minister’s comments were subsequently repudiated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The New York Times did not say when the interview with Ben Gvir took place, but it was published as ties between Netanyahu’s hardline government and the US were at their lowest point in years.

Since the beginning of the war against Hamas in the wake of the terror group’s onslaught, the Biden administration has fast-tracked the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of munitions to Israel, bypassing congressional review.

However, at the same time as it provided Israel with weapons and diplomatic backing, the White House has also pushed Jerusalem to allow more aid to reach Gazans and is reportedly weighing the use of weapons supplies as leverage to pressure Israel to reduce the intensity of its operations in the Gaza Strip.

And on Monday, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, after the United States withheld its veto and abstained from the vote.

Tlaib is an outspoken critic of Israel. In December, she called Netanyahu a “genocidal maniac.”

The congresswoman has been clear in her criticism of Biden, the leader of her party, for his support of Israel in its war against Hamas, triggered by the terror group’s shock assault on Israel on October 7 when terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 253 hostages.

She has also accused Biden of supporting what she alleged was a “genocide” of Palestinians by backing Israel’s offensive against Hamas.

Tlaib is a Palestinian-American member of Congress, representing Michigan’s 13th district, which includes Dearborn, home to the largest per-capita Muslim population in the United States and a large Palestinian-American community.