As antisemitic riots have rocked dozens of college campuses leading to millions of dollars in damages and over 1,000 arrests, Joe Biden has been silent. Peter Ducey pointed this out in a White House press briefing that led to a nonsensical answer from Karine Jean-Pierre.
But after Donald Trump reiterated the point on the campaign trail last night, President Joe Biden was forced to make a statement today. Instead of flatly denouncing antisemitism like he denounced White Nationalism after riots in Charlottesville, Biden called on all Americans to denounce Islamaphobia, discrimination against Arab Americans, and discrimination against Palestinian Americans… in addition to antisemitism.
I would like for the White House to show the American people the videos of genocidal chants against Muslims. Where is the mass number of Americans who are physically assaulting and verbally abusing Arab Americans simply because of their ethnicity? Have more than 1,000 people been arrested for violently demanding that Gaza be leveled and for universities to divest from companies working with Muslim countries in the Middle East?
The Biden press conference was the perfect snapshot of a man who is beholden to the radicals in his party. Instead of showing the moral courage he so vigorously claims to possess by opposing Trump and the racists on the right, he attempted to pacify the antisemites on the left to keep his coalition of voters happy ahead of November. This is not leadership. This is a bullied man who operates out of fear of upsetting the radicals on his side. Watch:
Yet, it sure seems like we are a lot closer to WWIII than anytime that Trump was in office. Iran says they could test nuclear weapon within a week of given the go ahead by their supreme leader... North Korea, Chinese Sabre rattling on a nearly daily basis. Yep, I'm totally impressed by the lifetime statesman, but oddly with the amazingly inept administration of his august skillset.
Yes he can and he must. There is no choice in this matter. Just as there would be none in terrorism against Muslim’s if the shoe was on the other foot. To not denounce is simply cowardice on the part of our President and his administration.