The President Finally Speaks

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."

Where Is The Outrage! Part II

So just where are our leaders?  While some Democrats have stepped up, others have been woefully disappointing.  Former President Barack Obama graduated from Columbia.  I haven't seen or heard anything from him condemning the hate speech and threats against Jews?  Has anyone?  Recall that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently called for elections in Israel, suggesting it was time for Netanyahu to go?  Aside from the obvious election interference in another country's elections, the clear inference was that Israel, not Hamas, was the impediment to peace.

Now we have comments from former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.  "We recognize Israel's right to protect itself.  We reject the policy and practice of Netanyahu.  Terrible.  What could be worse than what he has done in response...he should resign."  She also said Netanyahu has been a "block" to peace "for years."   She now thinks that Biden should halt weapons transfers to Israel.  In the middle of a war Israel is fighting for its very existence!  I guess it's a good thing she was not an adviser to Roosevelt or Truman during WWII.  She would not have approved of the attacks on Germany and Japan.  

Pelosi:  "...he (Netanyahu) has been an obstacle to the two-state solution, and I emphasize the word, 'solution.'"  She is either ignorant or lying.  Time after time the Palestinians have been offered a state...going back to 1947.  Time after time they have refused.  They have made it clear that they will not accept a state as long as Israel exists.  What Hamas does say is "from the river to the sea" will be  "Palestine."  In other words, no Israel.  What Hamas does say, is that they will repeat the events of October 7 "over and over and over again."  Why isn't she talking about the hostages, some of whom are American?  Why isn't she talking about the growing Jew hatred in her country?

Remember how Biden said he was motivated to run in 2020 after Trump said there were "very fine people on both sides," with regards to Charlottesville?  (Trump belatedly explained that he was talking about the issue regarding the confederate statue, not the Neo-Nazi protesters.)  Well, here was Biden when he was asked about the protests on college campuses nationwide:  "I condemn the antisemitic protests.  That's why I've set up a program to deal with that.  I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians."  WHAT?!!

Did Biden just draw a moral equivalency between Israel and Hamas?  You bet he did!  There is no possible justification for the events of October 7...for the rape, mutilation and torture of women, and the murder and torture of innocent men, women, children and babies.  That is what Hamas did.  There is plenty of justification for Israel fighting back.  We repeatedly hear that 33.000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israelis.  I do not know if that is an accurate number, as it undoubtedly is provided by Hamas.  Even assuming it is correct, how many of those were Hamas terrorists?  Whatever the number, how does it differ from other wars?  For many years I have pointed out that for the D-MSMC (Democratic-Mainstream Media Complex) it's always a numbers game.  They never seem to be happy unless more Jews are also killed.   

But here is one political leader who has not lost his moral compass - Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.  Speaking at Columbia this past week, here is some of what Speaker Johnson said.  "Today, Hamas issued an endorsement statement of the protesters on this campus.  They called them the future leaders of America.  It is detestable."  Detestable!  Some outrage!  Finally!  Johnson:  "Antisemitism has been growing in America and it's clear why.  Powerful people have refused to condemn it, and some have even it peddled it themselves."  Indeed.

Here is the problem for Biden and the Democrats.  They feel the need to make the moral equivalency argument, or just stay silent, so as not to offend their base.  But how despicable that they would want any of these anti-Israel, anti-American, Jew hating protesters to be part of their party.  Why did Biden have to wait to be asked to make a comment?  He's the President!  Why wasn't he out there making a strong statement condemning these Jew hating protesters?

This line about Columbia being private property is bull.  The police go onto private property all the time in order to protect people.  And if the police are outnumbered, call in the State Police.  If still outnumbered, the Governor of New York should call out the National Guard.  They would clear the area.  And if the Governor refuses, then Biden has the right to federalize the Guard, and order them to clear out the campus from these obstructors.  But he has to worry about the two-state solution - Michigan and Minnesota.  

(Oh.  You want to know what Trump said?  "What's going on at the college level and the colleges - Columbia, NYU and others - is a disgrace.  And it's really on Biden.  He has the wrong signal.  He's got the wrong tone.  He's got the wrong words.  He doesn't know who he's backing.  And it's a mess."  And:  "What's going on is a disgrace to our country."  I could not agree more.)   

Where Is The Outrage! Part I

Honestly, I don't know what it will take.  What will it take for our political leaders, and university presidents and professors, to speak with one voice.  This is no longer antisemitism.  This is Jew hatred!  When they say "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," they are calling for the end of Israel at best, and genocide of the Jewish people at worst.  When university presidents were unable to state that calling for the genocide of Jews "might" violate university speech codes, depending on the context...where is the outrage?  

Has everyone seen what is happening at Columbia University in NYC, Columbia being one of the elite Ivy League schools.  While pro-Hamas obstructors have seemingly taken over the university, the Jewish students were told to stay home and attend class remotely.  WHAT?  This is how it works?  Pro-Hamas thugs intimidate and threaten Jewish students, but instead of removing the thugs from campus, the Jewish students are told to vacate the campus.  Where should Jews be excluded from next?  

How lovely to see students yelling "we are Hamas," and a sign that says "Final Solution."  That was Hitler's idea.  So, maybe not unreasonable to refer to these young storm troopers as Hitler youth.  At the University of Texas, in Austin, one student yelled "Fuck you, Zionist Nazi bastard (might have been bitch)."  And "Go back to Germany."  Then we had the student at Columbia with her YouTube or TikTok video saying this:  "Zionists don't deserve to live."  And:  "I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for those people to die."  

Remember when conservative speakers were not allowed to speak at many college campuses because it made the left-wing students feel "unsafe."  Those speakers weren't invited there to threaten anyone.  But the left-wing students, and some of the professors, said that conservative speech equated to violence.  Now, we have actual threats of violence against Jewish students, and even calls for the genocide of the Jewish people, and that's okay?  That has to be tolerated as "free speech?"  Where is the outrage!  

You don't think that young people at colleges across the country are being brainwashed?  How else do you account for the sick, evil comments made be these students?  How else can you account for seeing all the Hamas flags and Hezbollah flags?  How else can you account for all these students wearing the Arab keffiyeh scarf?  And how else can you account for one student saying that the events of October 7 will happen "10,000 more times."  They want to see men, women, children and babies raped, tortured and murdered, 10,000 more times!  Where is the outrage, dammit!

You doubt that these students are being brainwashed?  MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute) has documented the connections between Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis - with these college students.  They brag about how many young people now support Hamas.  They brag about how many adults are also buying into their propaganda, with the expectation that it will result in a change of American policy (and other countries' policies) towards Israel.  

You need to understand that these terrorist organizations are in contact with student "leaders" here.  One Hezbollah leader encouraged these Western "activists," students and non-students alike, to stand "together, one front" against Israel, and against the U.S. and "Western hegemony and imperialism."  

Our country is at a crossroads.  Will we tolerate the shutting down of our universities?  Will we tolerate threats to Jewish students?  Will we tolerate community "activists" blocking highways, bridges, airports and train stations?  Make no mistake...they expect the American people to tire of it...and to turn on Israel.

Where are our leaders?  Are they defending Israel, our main ally in the Middle East, and one of our main allies in the world?   Israel is the sole democracy in the Middle East.  Israel is the only true multicultural and multi-religious country in the Middle East.  Israel is the only country to have a yearly Gay Pride parade in the Middle East.  So, where are our leaders?  See Part II.