In Monday's White House press briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked whether President Joe Biden is concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism, but she didn't want to talk about the instances of college campuses, big cities, and public figures declaring support for Hamas terrorists or attacking Jewish Americans.
As Townhall has documented, there has been an alarming outpouring of support for Hamas terrorists and an accompanying number of attacks on Israelis and Jewish Americans in the wake of the barbaric attacks carried out by Iran-backed Hamas terrorists earlier in October.
Still, Karine Jean-Pierre decided to pivot to who she — and apparently the White House — view as the real victims in the aftermath of Hamas terrorists' slaughter of innocent Israelis.
"So a couple of things, look, we have not seen any credible threats, I know there's been always questions about credible threats and so just want to make sure that that's out there but look, Muslim and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks," Jean-Pierre answered, ignoring the question about the rise of anti-Semitism. "And certainly, President Biden understands that many of our Muslim, Arab- Arab-Americans and Palestinian-American loved ones and neighbors are worried about the hate being directed at their communities," she said.
"What is [Biden's] level of concern right now about a potential rise of antisemitism?"
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KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks" pic.twitter.com/q1WYkpbKmn
So, after Hamas terrorists carried out the deadliest attack in Israel's history and killed the most Jews in any single day since the Holocaust, Karine Jean-Pierre thought concerns about rising anti-Semitism ought to be turned into a conversation about attacks on Muslims? Evidently that's the narrative the Biden White House is trying to construct now — and it's not the right one. While there may not be "credible threats" against Jewish Americans, that doesn't mean there hasn't been an alarming uptick in anti-Semitism.
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Guy noted recently, in a piece on members of Congress such as Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, how "[u]nder their poisonous worldview, it's always a lose-lose for Israel, which just happens to be the lone, tiny Jewish state on earth. That's another manifestation of adherents' obsessive anti-Semitism. It's striking how backwards these people are, and how so few of the impassioned demands of Israel should really be directed at Hamas," Guy emphasized.
In a piece on the rise of "Jihadi scum buckets" running their anti-Israel mounts, Vespa noted other examples from the world of business and other governments:
We all knew the Left’s bellowing about white supremacy being an existential threat was nonsensical. It seems anti-Semitism was the real culprit, hidden by years of left-wing hyperbole about other phantom threats. It masked the obvious: there are a lot of Democratic Party supporters who support an Israeli genocide. And it’s not an exclusively American problem—Britain’s Labour Party is awash with antisemites.
A banker for Citibank was fired for her atrocious posts about Jewish people and Hitler. Now, a lawyer for the Illinois comptroller's office has been terminated over social media posts where she mentioned throwing Jews in gas chambers.
Meanwhile, supposedly "elite" universities in the U.S. have become sites of more rising anti-Semitism as student groups band together and release statements supporting Hamas terrorists and their actions against Israel — going so far as to blame Israel and its people for the rape and murder of their own.
Other demonstrations around the U.S. have been open shows of sympathy for Hamas, including one over the weekend in Minneapolis, where protestors appear wearing Hamas gear, waving the terrorists' flag, and openly voicing their opposition to the sovereign homeland of the Jewish people.
If the White House really wants to support Israel and Jewish Americans as Joe Biden has said he does, someone should probably let Karine Jean-Pierre know that pivoting on a question about anti-Semitism to emphasize how Muslims are the victims is not the way to show that support.
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