Biden condemns ‘antisemitic protests’ — and absence of Palestinian empathy, too
Biden condemns ‘antisemitic protests’ — and absence of Palestinian empathy, too
Yes yes everything critical of the Israeli genocide machine is antisemitism, we’ve heard that one before Joe.
How about you stop funding genocide instead of trying to paint people as racist for resisting.
Earlier in Israel's Genocide that's exactly the way his spokesperson used the "antisemitism" accusation in a White House press conference so it makes sense to conclude that's still exactly how Biden and his Adminstration use it.
Edit: I was a bit incorrect. She's been doing it by saying that using "from the river to the sea" is antisemitic up until the point in a briefing in December when she was confronted with how Netanyahu's son himself had used that sentence and "does that mean he is an antisemite", by which point she fumbled and suddenly discovered they were "out of time".
Also at least until that point (in mid December) the Biden Administration would talk about "antisemitism in demonstrations" because people had chanted "From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free".
It wasn't in "a" White House Press Conference, it was in multiple White House Press Conferences and went on at least until mid December and that specific question from a journalist of "so would you say Netanyahu's son is antisemite", so already well into the point when Israel had already murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians including over 10 thousand children.
Notice how "from the river to the sea" has no meaning in the Jewish Religion, so it's entirelly about Israel, so things which were about Israel and not about the Jewish Religion were being deemed "antisemitism" by this Administration.
Except there have been antisemitic incidents, namely verbal harassment. You can condemn antisemitism and condemn Israel. You can also protest Israel without spewing epithets at any Jew you come across.
And god forbid Biden condemn Palestinian hate, right?
Right and the BLM protests were all about causing violence and looting?
I’m sick of this right wing tactic of focusing on some inconsequentially insignificant portion of multiple events, many with zero instances of the priority complaint even occurring and using that to frame the entire movement to discredit it.
“Oh but Biden also wrapped it up with a throw away comment saying he’s totes mcgotes not okay with the happening right now genocide that he is materially supporting”
Yes yes everything critical of the Israeli genocide machine is antisemitism, we’ve heard that one before Joe.
Can you point me to a time, specifically, where he labelled simple criticism of Israel "antisemitism?"
Basically every protest supporting Palestine. It's not new. Here's an article from 2021.
A couple of months ago his spokesperson did exactly that in a White House press conference though they stopped doing it as that specific propaganda trick started working in reverse.
I can't be arsed wasting my time Googling it for what sounds suspiciously like a hasbara sockpuppet. Anybody genuinelly interested can find it him/herself.
As in he condemns both antisemitism and he condemns apathy for Palestinians. That makes sense. Antisemitism is bad. Pro-Palestinian is good. I hate that we're still funding Israel. But I'm glad he's been openly critical of Netanyahu and has been constantly been pushing for aid to Gaza.
Found the DNC staffer
The Israeli lobby and PR machine is going into overdrive over these protests. It must be working. How can we support them?
Republicans and Democrats are united on this too.
What news are you reading? Republicans want more funding for Israeli defense. They tried to draft legislation for Israel aid independent of Ukraine and Taiwan. You’re joking, right?
Edit: And Trump has encouraged the eradication of the Palestinians as long as Israel “doesn’t record it”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/politics/trump-israel-comments/index.html
So he's saying there's very fine people on both sides?
Sounds more like he's saying there's assholes on both sides.
This out of touch old man will deliver us a fascist in November.
Are the antisemitic protests in the room with us Joe? Can you point to one of them for us?
Just more finger pointing without substance to try to discredit protests. Yesterday's CNN article specifically about antisemitism at Columbia protests didn't provide any more specifics than one Jewish student saying how scared he was because someone confronted him. Doesn't say about what or offer any specifics of the confrontation, just that he was scared.
Blanket accusations of antisemitism continue to undermine efforts to call out legitimate antisemitism, which is still a problem.
What a complete asshat
Another day passes, and amid further deflections from world leaders the genocide continues onward.
This weekend, Israel bombings in Rafah killed 22 people. 18 of them were children. How many more Palestinian children will be bombed to death before the next weekend?
Recognizing genocide as deplorable isn’t antisemitism - it’s morality.