Stephen Bannon, named by Presidentelect Donald Trump has his top White House strategist chief, has denied the charges of anti-Semitism leveled against him, in an an interview published in The Wall Sreet Journal.

“Breitbart is the most pro-Israel site in the United States of America,” Bannon told the newspaper, speaking of the conservative news site where he was CEO until this summer when he joined Trump’s election campaign.

As executive chairman of Breitbart News from 2012 to 2016, Bannon pushed a nationalist agenda and turned the publication into what he called “the platform for the alt-right,” a movement associated with white supremacist ideas that oppose multiculturalism.

In the interview, Bannon pointed to the website’s Jerusalem bureau, its stance against the boycott movement and rising anti-Semitism in Europe, as well as his Jewish partners and employees, as proof that he is not an anti-Semite.

Jewish groups in the US, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Reform movement, have not denied the pro-Israel posture of Breitbart and Bannon, but have focused on echoes of anti-Semitic theory and cant found elsewhere on the site and in Bannon’s messaging for the Trump campaign.

Some critics have called out Bannon for at least two recent uses in Breitbart of “Jews” or “Jewish” that some saw as pejorative, and for claims by his ex-wife that he was hostile to Jews. Bannon has vigorously denied his wife’s claims, and the writers of the articles denounced as anti-Jewish have noted they are Jewish and say their use of the terms was misconstrued.

Bannon has also, more substantively, been criticized for advancing, through Breitbart and in the Trump campaign’s final weeks, conspiracy theories that involve international bankers, secret meetings and a servile media – all elements of classic anti-Semitic propaganda.

Israel’s ambassador to the US Ron Dermer met last week with President-elect Donald Trump and declared that Jerusalem was looking forward to working with his entire team, including Steve Bannon.

“Israel has no doubt that President-elect Trump is a true friend of Israel,” Dermer told reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

“We look forward to working with the Trump administration, with all of the members of the Trump administration, including Steve Bannon, and making the US-Israel alliance stronger than ever,” he said.