News of a shocking masked antisemitic attack on the New York subway that reached all the way to The Times of Israel1 should elicit a red line in the sand response from every American and particularly a White House that not only stakes its claim to racial and ethnic tolerance, but wields the power of federal hate crime laws.
Instead, while Jewish Americans are subjected to unprecedented antisemitic hate, the Biden administration unveiled a plan to battle Islamophobia:
We know that for far too long, Muslims in America have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks. We have witnessed an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, antisemitic, and Islamophobic incidents across America over the last eight months.2
Do the math. It’s been eight months since the October 7, 2023 genocidal attack on Israel.
Biden sends Jewish Americans to the back of his bus
Biden and Harris released separate statements on Sunday decrying an alleged surge in U.S. Islamophobia. Whoever wrote the president’s remarks made it very clear where Jewish Americans stand with his administration:
That’s why I’m committed to addressing the scourge of Islamophobia in the United States. Hate has no place in America, whether it is targeted at American Muslims, Arab Americans including Palestinians, or anyone else.3
Presumably, “anyone else” includes Jews and sends Jewish Americans targeted for hateful, antisemitic attacks to the back of the Biden tolerance bus.
Make no mistake. If what is happening in New York and other cities, on college campuses, and across America was directed at Black, Asian, Latino, or transgender Americans or even Biden’s illegal immigrants, the response would be very different. Instead, the White House FACT SHEET on Biden-Harris anti-Islamophobia initiatives makes clear who and what matters:
As Muslims in America and around the world commemorate Eid-al-Adha this year, the holiday arrives at a time of deep pain for communities at home and abroad. In addition to the devastating humanitarian impacts of the ongoing fighting in Gaza, there has been a rise in harassment, bigotry and horrifying violence towards Muslim, Arab and Palestinian Americans.4
Imagine the White House unveiling a policy to protect white people from hate after an attack on a Black American or a pro-hetero agenda after an attack on a gay or transgender man or woman. The administration response to rabid U.S. antisemitism is little different. The president and vice president opted to marginalize American Jews in a cynical play to preserve their dwindling hopes for a November win. This is disgusting, antisemitic, anti-American Joe Biden White House politics at its absolute worst.
It is incumbent on every decent American to stand up for our Jewish friends, neighbors, and fellow Americans. The Biden administration will not. Joe and Kamala’s repellent, antisemitic vote-seeking propaganda scheme proves it and at its most extreme endorses the radical terrorist ideology that slaughtered Jews in Israel last October.
1“Governor proposes mask ban on NYC subway to combat antisemitic incidents.” The Times of Israel.” June 14, 2024. https://www.timesofisrael.com/governor-proposes-mask-ban-on-nyc-subway-to-combat-antisemitic-incidents/, retrieved June 17, 2024.
2“Statement by Vice President Kamala Harris on the Occasion of Eid al-Adha.” The White House. June 16, 2024. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/16/statement-by-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-the-occasion-of-eid-al-adha/, retrieved June 17, 2024.
3“Statement by President Joe Biden on the Occasion of Eid al-Adha.” The White House. June 16, 2024. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/16/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-occasion-of-eid-al-adha-3/, retrieved June 17, 2024.
4“FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Action to Counter Islamophobia.” The White House. June 16, 2024. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/16/fact-sheet-biden-%E2%81%A0harris-administration-takes-action-to-counter-islamophobia/, retrieved June 17, 2024.
*Image: Student encampment at the University of Oregon. Spacemace1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Student_encampment_at_the_University_of_Oregon.jpg on June 17, 2024.
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