President Biden gave a short statement this morning about the violent protests on college campuses that have been directed at Israel and the Jewish people. Someone timed the speech at being 3 minutes and 15 seconds in length. While I did not vote for Biden, and I am not a fan, I did give him credit for supporting Israel with funding and armaments in Israel's war against Hamas. But now, we are talking about events occurring here - in the United States of America. I was hoping for a substantial speech, during prime time, from the oval office. Not 3.25 minutes in the morning, when people are busy at work.
What about the substance of the speech? First, he defended peaceful protest, as part of our First Amendment rights. Biden: "Dissent is essential to democracy." Then he said violent protests, however, are unlawful. Fine, but that is simply stating the obvious. What about the rising tide of antisemitism, of actual Jew hatred, of calling for the deaths of Jews?
Biden: "There should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students." Wait...that's it? That's all the moral outrage you can muster, Mr. President? Are you kidding me?
What about all the students wearing keffiyehs? They say they support Hamas. Some say "we are Hamas." Hamas is a terrorist organization, so designated by our country. Hamas is still holding American citizens as hostages. Some of these students say that the events of October 7 will be repeated thousands of times. They call for intifada here, in the USA. The intifadas against Israel resulted in the deaths of well over 1000 Israelis.
These protesters call all Jews colonizers and supporters of genocide, when it is Hamas that has openly committed itself to the genocide of the Jewish people. These protesters support Hamas, therefore they support the genocide of the Jewish people. And you have nothing to say about that, Mr. President? Because you are concerned that these evil, immoral people may not vote for you if you condemn them? You know damn well, Mr. President, that if these kinds of threats were being made against blacks, gays, trans or any other minority, we would have seen an angry Joe Biden.
In fact, we would have heard how you have directed Attorney General Merrick Garland, along with FBI Director Christopher Wray, to pursue civil rights violations against some of these protesters. Because we know that, unlike local DAs, who often will not even charge these people, federal offenses carry a potentially lengthy prison sentence. You directed the DOJ and FBI to investigate parents who showed up at school board meetings, because those parents objected to some of the nonsense woke teachings being pushed on their children. But threats against Jews? You couldn't be bothered?
Here is the rest of what Biden said: "There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it's antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab-Americans or Palestinian Americans. It's simply wrong. There's no place for racism in America. It's all wrong. It's un-American." There it is. The left's need to always include every other conceivable type of "hate," because for some reason hate against the Jews can never stand by itself. "Islamophobia...discrimination against Arab-Americans or Palestinian Americans...racism."
There are nationwide protests against Israel, with hatred being directed against Jewish students and the Jewish people. It is organized. It is clearly well funded. Have you directed your DHS, DOJ and FBI to investigate the source of that funding, Mr. President? There are no such nationwide protests against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans. Jews are 2% of the US population, yet we are the victims of religious hate crimes in over 50% of the cases. Stop pretending there is some type of equivalency, Mr. President. It's disgusting, and demeaning to the Jewish people.
When I heard that Biden may be bringing people from Gaza here to the USA, I was rather shocked. I mentioned to one left-wing fellow Jew that Biden may bring "more Jew haters here." I was rebuffed. How dare I suggest that all Gazans are Jew haters. Over 70% of Gazans said they supported Hamas and the October 7 attack. Generations of Gazans have been taught in UNRWA schools to hate Jews. This left-wing Jew is living in a dream world. If only 50%, nay 25%, of the people of Gaza support Hamas and hate Jews, why would any sane person want them here? Why would any Jew?
A final note. In my last post I asked "Where Is The Outrage!" I sense that some people question why I do what I do. The blog. The letters to the editor. The letters to left-wing professors. I cannot explain it any better than this quote by Edward Hale: "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
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