Anti-Semitic Incidents Triple as Biden Decries ‘White Supremacy,’ ‘Islamophobia’
Even as the Biden administration screeches about alleged MAGA “white supremacy” and “Islamophobia,” anti-Semitism is sharply on the rise in America.
While the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which provided the data, is a radical leftist organization, it is at least one of the few producing statistics on anti-Semitism in America. Furthermore, I don’t need ADL to tell me anti-Semitism is a serious problem in the U.S. right now; I hear it and read it on a daily basis, from leftists and even conservatives, from college students calling for “intifada” (genocidal war against Jews) to politicians falsely claiming Israel is guilty of apartheid and genocidal occupation. Tragically, many Westerners appear to have learned nothing from the recent history of the Holocaust.
From Jewish Insider, Jan. 10:
‘Antisemitic incidents in the United States tripled in the three months since Oct. 7, compared to the same period a year ago, according to newly collected data from the Anti-Defamation League released exclusively to Jewish Insider.
The ADL’s preliminary data found that there were 3,283 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7, 2023, and Jan. 7, 2024 — nearly as many recorded incidents as there were in the entire calendar year of 2022.
The 3,283 recorded examples of antisemitic activity include: 60 incidents of physical assault, 553 incidents of vandalism, 1,353 incidents of verbal or written harassment and 1,317 rallies that included antisemitic rhetoric, expressions of support for terrorism against Israel and/or anti-Zionism.’
In November, Biden announced a national strategy to combat alleged “Islamophobia.” While Democrats and the White House love to babble about “Islamophobia,” the only solid example they all seem to come up with is the murder of a young “Palestinian”-American boy; and with the politicization of the incident it is impossible to know if it was really an Islamophobic hate crime. In any case, with only one cited example of “Islamophobia,” one wonders if this supposed epidemic of anti-Muslim hate exists mostly in the fevered imaginations of woke leftists.
It is interesting that the Biden administration does not appear to have announced a national strategy to combat anti-Semitism since the Hamas atrocities launched the ongoing war with Israel on Oct. 7. True, the administration released such a strategy earlier this year, but since it immediately started off with deceptive leftist propaganda about the years-old Charlottesville rally, and almost immediately gibbered about “LGBTQI+ individuals,” it would seem that strategy was hardly being honest about anti-Semitism (which is a prejudice far more violent on the left than on the right).
Biden also just gave a speech at a black church, blathering about the “poison” of “white supremacy” and indicating he thought Trump embraced racist views, just the latest of a long effort by Democrats to pretend that Trump supporters are eeeevil white supremacists. Biden even accused Trump supporters of trying to steal an election, even though Biden is the one who took office by stealing the 2020 election! “[Y]et, an extreme movement in America, the MAGA Republicans, led by a defeated president is trying to steal history now – they tried to steal an election. Now they’re trying to steal history,” announced this brain-dead Democrat tyrant, under whom the peaceful Jan. 6 political prisoners have undergone horrific deprivation and torture in jail. Yes, I have seen instances online of anti-black hatred (including, sadly, from conservatives) within the last few weeks, just as I’ve seen instances of anti-white hatred, but it’s not a mainstream problem, and certainly not the biggest ideological threat facing Americans: that would be leftist Marxism, as practiced by Biden and co.
Biden wants to mutilate children in the name of transgenderism, murder unborn babies, trample our Constitutional rights, pander to our existential enemy (Communist China), erase our national borders, and crush all political dissent, but we’re supposed to be the extremists? Of course, Marxists always accuse their opponents of the crimes they themselves are committing…
Ultimately, the Biden administration isn’t interested in combatting anti-Semitism, anymore than it is really interested in strong support for Israel (else why would Biden keep sending aid to the jihad-loving Gazans, benefiting Hamas, and endorsing the two-state solution that “Palestinians” have refused for decades in favor of jihad?). The Biden administration only wants to engage in woke virtue-signaling while spreading propaganda that it can weaponize to target its political opponents.
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